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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _19_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  y'all. So let's start this all over again. It's another Okay, we're
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  having some technical difficulties. Can you guys hear me. If you can hear
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  me, give me a thumbs up, then you can hear me. All
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  right. So we got another author in a new book, in a new
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  Saturday night you guys. She has her book that's called Entangled with Deceit.
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  So all kinds of stuff that's going on in my head with this book.
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  So we're just gonna bring the author up so we can answer all the questions
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  that are going through my hand. Welcome author, Danny Nicole. How you
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  doing, girlie? Hey, hey, girl, hey? How are you?
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  I am good? So you ready to talk this book? Because you
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  no? I just talk about it all right before we get to the book.
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  Okay, yeah, tell me a little bit about Danny Nicole. Okay,
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  well, let me tell you a little bit about me. I am
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  originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I now reside in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  So this is now where I live. I love it here. It's
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  a beautiful city and the weather is beautiful too. That's why I moved.
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  I am a mother of yeah, I am a mother of three, and
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  I am recently engaged. And so I'm writing this is yeah, thank you,
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  thank you. So this is my first novel. I'm entangled with dec
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  So I'm a first time author. Yes, we got a nebe's. I
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  love newbies. I love newbies. Why you guys just books have that raw
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  energy like you you're telling people you wanna You're gonna get my book. You're
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  gonna read my book the way you guys come off with it. I love
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  it. I love it. I love it. So Milwaukee to Charlotte,
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  that's so big in like two different worlds. Can I actually bart you all
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  the way over here? First of all, the weather, it's cold,
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  and Walt, it's cold, and there's snow. Too much snow, too
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  much snow, man, I would love snow. I'm in Charleston, South
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  Carolina. Okay, I would love snow. We have snow maybe, Okay.
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  So my daughter is she's about the nine, Happy Birthday and night.
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  Yeah you need turning nine on Monday. So we had snow about maybe four
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  years ago. It was so pretty, it was so nice. I want
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  it again. But y'all running from the snow down here, running from the
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  snow. That's that's true. That's a true statement. Okay, So what
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  brought you to become an author? Why become an author? Well, I've
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  always even when I was young, but I didn't see a lot of offers
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  of color. Of course, I'm a seventies baby, so growing up there
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  just wasn't really anyone to kind of look up to or you know, to
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  kind of emulate or gravitate too. So I kind of just you know,
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  lay it at the side and just kind of moved forward in life. And
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  then I started seeing movies and reading more stories. And then as I got
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  older and said, you know, I really can make money and really could
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  do this thing, and I started moving forward with it. But it wasn't
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  until twenty seventeen. I wrote the book in twenty seventeen, okay, okay,
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  but I didn't publish it until well until twenty twenty three. Yeah,
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  it took that, you know, even to get it out there. A
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  lot of authors are saying that, and now it's like I want to say,
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  almost every show I've done this season, everyone is saying that there was
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  no representation. And I'm gonna make an announcement tonight, you guys, and
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  I'm gonna need some accountable dey partners for this. But just remember this of
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  color, because we're now starting to pay attention where we should be, where
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  we need to be, and where we ought to be. So yes,
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  yes, yes, I thank you for becoming a part of that. Working
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  at a library nineteen years, I am now starting to see the fruits of
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  African American author's labor, starting to see more of you guys on the shelves,
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  starting to see more of you guys. Do book signings. And please
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  do book signings. Okay, go to your local library, get your books
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  in your local library. Have your community support you, just like you support
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  your community. Okay, I'm going to stop the psay and we're going to
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  go back to your book, Miss Nile. But I always want office to
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  know that your library. I always do that. I have to plug in
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  a lot, yes, because I never knew what the world. Yes,
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  I get paid by but I do see all the other benefits of it and
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  I love it. Yes, Trevita, you need to do that, need
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  to go to your library. It's one of the followers. So Entangled with
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  the Sea. Yeah, we're gonna talk about you a little bit. We're
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  gonna talk about this book. Why the cover art, the title, break
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  it down, break it down, break it down. So let's let's talk
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  about the background of this book. Yes, go ahead. Okay, Well,
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  I know I know you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. So
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  let me tell you. So this book, I guess I could say some
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  past experiences kind of led me to write this book just a little bit.
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  This a tiny bit. Hast experiences some movies because I love romantic drama and
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  some suspense and thriller in movies that I've seen lately, and so just combining
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  that and then you know, and I'm a romantic. I love romance novels
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  too, so seeing a drama in a romance is like, oh my god,
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  Like why did he do that? Or why did she do that?
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  It just all came together, and you know, like when we fall in
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  love, we want the guy to be this perfect. I mean, he's
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  perfect, he looks good, he's got the perfect job, he's got the
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  perfect demeanor. But then there's a betrayal, and then there's a deceit,
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  and then there's a lie, and then it's just like it all falls apart.
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  And that's what the book is about. See that, right there,
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  That's why I want the perfect thing a flaw. I have a gun a
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  mad when you get you know, right, right, it's too perfect.
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  When it's too perfect, it's just like it's it's too good to be true,
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  right, And in this book, he is too good to be true?
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  So who is he? So tell us about these mean characters? Okay,
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  okay? So Victoria Willis is the woman who meets Ericson Sanders, who
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  is like the man of her dreams. He is like everything. He is
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  like the guy like she's prayed about. She's got the list, he's the
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  check mark. He checks off everything on her list, right, okay everything,
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  as you can see from the cover, everything off her list, Yes,
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  yes, ma'am. But when she sees some red flash, she starts
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  to pay attention to what's going on around her and with him, and she
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  finds out he's got some things going on that he didn't tell her about from
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  the beginning. Yeah, yes, ma'am. Yes, So I'm not trying
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  to give it away. But is this enough of Victoria to know if I
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  asked that question, that is, yeah, you can't ask that question.
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  Ask I can't answer that. So okay, and his name began is Ericson,
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  Ericson. I was saying Eric, okay, so well you will.
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  It's a nickname. You know, you could say Eric because you can call
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  her VICKI. So you'll be coming up with some names for these people.
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  Sometimes they need to be A and B. I can't be pronounced and B.
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  Right, we got V and E to day. So does E see
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  any flaws in V? Or it's just B seen. No, he's the
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  villain V No. V is perfect? No she she no, she she
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  She doesn't have any flaws of course not. Oh lord jesus, no,
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  you I messed up the whole book. Say, oh my nerves. You
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  know what, We're gonna take a break, you guys, if we're gonna
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  show y'all some commercials and when can come back. I'm gonna we're gonna see
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  who E if he gonna be in some other situations. Do you guys,
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  take a break. We'll be right back. Okay. Indeed, Lord Jesus,
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  turn off the light that I can tonight. I'm gone. I'm gonna
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  imagine. Let's take a shower show together. I'll wash your bunnet, you
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  wash my some much wealth day and same. Just turn off it. Come
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  you'll want to care of you a special tweet. You're so sweet. Turn
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  on it. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm back. Yeah. If you
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  know me, you know I love that commercial. I love it. I
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  love it. I love it. I also hum hm m hm. So
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  let th candles. Yeah, who girl, I'm gonna hook you up with
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  information or I hook you up. I'm about the black guy and we're gonna
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  get you some. Don't hurt up like with the candle's on. Now,
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  you gotta light at first and then turn off. Okay, okay, okay,
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  go on. So you said that movies played a part in you writing
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  your book. Was there a certain movie or a certain character that played a
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  part. No. I I just like, so, I'm a I love
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  romantic novels. And when I started seeing like romantic dramas or like romance with
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  thriller and like romance with suspense, I was like, oh, like I
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  was intrigued by that because it wasn't like always the happy ending. It was
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  like an ending with a that wasn't happy. And I was like, oh,
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  oh, it wasn't It wasn't that. It wasn't that fairy tale ending.
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  Oh the time, something something like the movie. Uh, I just
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  saw it perfect guy, Yes, something similar to that. Okay, yeah,
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  so that intrigued me. Yes, Vicky is a character that we see
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  today. Who would she be? Yes? Would she? Mm hmm.
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  From what you're telling me, I would see like Shania Lethan or maybe I
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  don't like to use her much, but I'm seeing Carrie Washington. Yes,
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  who would be your Vicky? Who would be my Vicky? M you know
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  what you know? Hummm, that's a good question. It's so many that
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  I like. Yeah, so I put me on there like that. Okay,
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  Well, let's say I'll give you, give me a moment to think
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  about Vicky. Let's talk about it. I am seeing a Terrence Howard,
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  but I'm not seeing and this is the first time I've ever thought that skin
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  color would play a role in the character. I'm seeing the Terrence Howard attitude,
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  arrogant, But what do you see? Yes? Yes, okay,
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  okay, okay, yes, But when I think about the look Dwayne Wayne
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  from a different world. Oh okay, I can see that. And I'm
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  only going off of how you talk about the characters and I'm seeing and that's
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  why I put them two together, Dwayne Wayne and Kerrie Washington. It looks
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  awkward, but it works. Yes, yes, so who and he's got
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  the attitude of Terrence Howard. Yes that, yes, yes, okay,
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  okay, right, okay, I can see that. Hee where you're going?
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  So, now, who are you? Because you're the author? So
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  you in front of me? Well so, but the Terrence Howard and Empire
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  because he's got the swag mm hmmm, with the attitude Rance Howard and power
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  Laurent's tea for the look. Oh that's good. I see that. Y'all
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  needed me to direct y'all movies. I can give y'all. I'm gonna the
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  movie. There we go. I'm gonna write you down. I'm gonna write
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  you down right now. Thank you? Cout me down in the credit credits.
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  Yeah, yes, Na, get heady. So, how are you
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  planning on marketing your book? Because we got you here? Do we have
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  any books coming up? How are you planning to get Danny Nicole and angled
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  with the seat out there to the masses. Yes, so I have.
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  So the first thing what's coming up next is I have an article coming out
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  March fifteenth and Pretty Women Hustle. It's an online magazine, so I will
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  be sharing that link soon. And then I'll be on the Queen Collaboration with
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  Angela March twenty first, so that the other podcast NIKKD Yes, ma'am.
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  And then I'm hoping the books signing because the pre release for the book is
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  March twenty fifth, m so I'm hoping the book signing will be April or
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  May. So I got the top of my publishing company and but that's soon.
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  That's so it's it's like bam bam bam, like and the promoting won't
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  it won't stop. I mean, I'm planning to be on more podcasts,
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  more magazines right after, like every month, I want to do something to
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  promote the book, showing that book every day, talking about it every day,
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  just social media every day. Yes. Soon. Let me ask you
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  a question, you did you go independent or publishing house? So I went
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  publishing house, okay, and I went with Black Gold Publishing because because they
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  are they're black owned and but I did my homework. Believe that took the
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  long the book was done. I've heard that. I've heard it's always the
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  struggle of doing it yourself or having it done for you. And I've heard
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  the good bad in both situations. And when I usually tell my friends or
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  people who approach me with that and said to me, it seems like the
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  time you have to commit. If you know you're not going to have enough
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  time to commit to fully supporting your book or supporting your branding, you might
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  want to pay somebody into it. But always remember, I tell them,
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  what you pay somebody you can technically do is yourself if you can get the
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  right set platform. You know what I'm saying. So that's what that was
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  it, And that's exactly what I had to do. That's that's what took
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  so long. Exactly I had to decide that was the deciding factor and read
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  on ahead and went with the publishing company to do that. So and I've
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  been I've been impressed. I've been pleased ever since, and I feel good
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  about it. I feel like we got we had a good relationship from the
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  start, and I've been moving forward from there. Please rights, I'm ready
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  to get the work, put the work in. Yes, so you have
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  your family supporting you. So how does your kids feel about mommy being the
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  author and your new fiance feel about his wife being an author. They're they're
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  excited. My family has always been supportive of me. I mean, it's
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  it's I'm the one that's that's a wreck, Like I'm the nervous wreck over
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  here, right, I'm the one they got to calm me down, you
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  know, Yeah, I'm the one that's freaking out. And they're like,
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  it's okay, Like we're supporting you, Like what do you need us to
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  do? Like when when's the podcast? Like we're behind you. It's okay,
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  Like we're they're encouraging me to calm down. Like that is awesome to
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  have a supporting backbone that village. Yes, you can tell my questions are
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  all over the place. So we about to go back to this book.
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  I had to put you on the shelf, okay, and I putting you
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  next to I can read in public or who jesus, please don't let nobody
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  see this book and get me in trouble? Were in my foot? Oh?
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  Go ahead? Probably, oh Jesus, Because when I was writing these
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  scenes, I thought about my mama, I said, my mama. I
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  was like, Mama gonna be like, oh day. But there ain't nothing
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  wrong with that because one of the best authors there is, Zay, said
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  she would not let her child touch her book until she turned of age.
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  So if you if you scared to let mama reads your book, I said
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  to read you back in the day. I mean now that I'm grown,
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  But at one time, I was like, Mama gonna be like, oh,
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  listen, listen. I now understand why households have more than one kindle.
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  Okay, my daughter had a kindle. It was just sitting there and
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  I had the book. She said, Mommy, what BI matched that kindle
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  so quick? I'm trying to get you. Jesus knocking me no earlier,
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  you know, right right, pay control out of the wind, right.
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  I totally understand. So mm hmm. If we're talking music, because that's
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  another thing I love. So I told you we're gonna do book, We're
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  gonna do movies, We're gonna do music. Yes, who would be Vicky
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  and who would be e ooh music? Hm hmmm, I see e let's
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  see. No, that's not who I want. That's not I'm thinking ussia
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  I'm thinking Playboy mm hmmm, yeah, I can see that. And for
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  V I'm thinking Chante Moore. Yeah, yeah, those are good. That's
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  good. Yeah, you're gonna have to be a director. That's in your
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  in your your decks on your resume. Put that down. It's just it's
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  something that I do because a lot of people when they come to the library
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  and they get their first book, they're like, I don't like to read
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  books, And I say, your book is nothing but your TV and words.
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  Mm hmmm, mm hmm it is. Yeah, And I asked,
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  what did you look at TV last that you enjoy the lady today, a
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  young lady told me the last book she looked at and she enjoyed the movie
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  was but she said Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Okay,
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  so I gave her church the choir director. She was like, oh,
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  okay. So she was sitting down there reading the book while her daughter was
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  doing the program. She sat down there for a hour. She came to
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  me and she said, this is good. I can see this. And
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  I was like, yeah, you want her a little you want a little
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  religion, but you want a little steam on the side. So really,
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  everybody when you're reading the book. He's just TV and words. That's all
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  it is. Use your imagination and everything else. Yeah, but my friend
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  and before me in the night, you know, you got to get us
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  a rundown. Where to follow you, where to get your book, how
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  to pre order your book? So media, go ahead and run them all
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  down. Okay, Well, social media, you can follow me at so
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  on Instagram and Facebook for my book, because that's where you're gonna really get
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  the information. I'm at Danny Nicole, the author. So it's d A
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  N I N I c O l E thh e a U t h o
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  R. So anything about like the book, release, my events, that'll
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  be on that Instagram or Facebook, and that's where you're gonna find that information.
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  My book is gonna be released or you can purchase when it's ready at
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  black Gold Publishing and that'll in Amazon, those two. But that'll be on
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  my Instagram and Facebook, those handles, those social media handles, So that's
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  where you're find that. And like I said, I'm gonna be promoting the
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  book like all the time, like every day. Uh you know where I'll
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  be podcasting magazines, I'm gonna be promoting all the time, like you're gonna
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  get tired you like she posted again, yep, because I want you to
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  get the book. Let them be tired of you. Because guess what,
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  just because they saw it again, somebody might have saw it the first time,
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  right right, absolutely, and so keep on. When I see it,
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  I will share it. I habit tendency to share the author's information.
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  If you want me to do whatever, you can just say, hey,
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  Patrice, I need to help with this. I need somebody said, you
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  can never share too much? You never can, never can, yes,
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  never can. I would do that. So one last thing, what would
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  you like to leave us? What would you like to say to your new
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  readers, your followers. What would you like to say? Well, I
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  want to say to my new readers, my followers, to never give up,
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  to stay the course, to stay in your lane. Do no like
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  like stay in your lane, like do what you want to do, like
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  follow your path, don't be like anybody else, follow your dream because you're
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  never too old and it's never too late. So stay the course. Yes,
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  I can't believe you just said that. You said, did I say
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  what you said? Oh no, but I'm going to lead into that.
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  Missus Danny and Nicole. I thank you for joining me tonight. And before
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  she leaves, I told you guys that I would have an announcement to me.
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  She said, stay in your lane is never too late. I have
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  been tossed to the turney in about this idea for the longest and at one
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  point I never felt that I will be able to go and do this again.
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  And so many life issues, family issues, work issues, d da
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  da da da. But when God set you on the course, He's going
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  to show you where you're supposed to go. So there was this documentary that
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  is coming out pretty soon, you guys, and the documentary is called Are
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  You a Librarian? And I spoke about this documentary before and the crazy thing
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  about it is the biggest factor in the takeaway I took from it helped me
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  to make the decision that I made. So of all librarians in the United
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  States are African American, only seven percent, you guys, I am a
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  librarian specialist and I am going to announce the day that in the fall,
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  I am going back to school to get my librarian degree. It is because
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  of you, guys. How I have Angela, who's my bestie, pushing
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  me the crew who supports me, my family who loves me. I now
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  have a time in my life where I can say, you know what,
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  stop playing. God has put me where I'm supposed to be, and it's
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  given me all the tools. So your girl is going back the school,
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  y'all. Yes, So I need you to have some accountability partners and tell
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  me to go do my homework. Me and my daughter gonna be sitting next
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  to each other right now, ABC's. But I feel like this is a
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  commitment that I need. That's awesome. Yes, that's awesome. I feel
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  like this is a commitment that I need to make because of the journey that
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  I'm on and in the avenues and the people and and everything that God has
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  placed him out in my path. It has been such an honor. So
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  I believe that God said, look, girl, what you're planning on doing?
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  I got it all here. Time he said, think without works is
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  dead. Well guess what, they ain't gonna die here. So thank you
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  guys for another Saturday Night. Here girl is going back to school. Danny
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  the Cool Book is coming out in March. We will see you next Saturday
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  night. Love everyone, by, thank you bye, thank you, Thank
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  you for joining us tonight, we hope you found a new book to read
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  or a new author to explore. Join us again in two weeks for SC
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  book gals and French Chat. Have a good evening.