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The SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST, hosted by librarian specialist and literary advocate Patrice Grimball| live on the Da Crew Podcast · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Legs and gentlemen, may I have your attention leaks to
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  Speaker 1: the show starts in set my.
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  Speaker 2: Shool.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, this is your girl sci Bookyard eight four three,
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  Speaker 3: And it is another Tuesday night and it is freezing
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  Speaker 3: hand jelusn y'all. It's like I want to say, it's
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  Speaker 3: like maybe forty five degrees outside. Last night it was
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine heat full blast and I'm so cold. But
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  Speaker 3: I gotta book the night. It's gonna warm you up
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  Speaker 3: to get ready, y'all. I am so honored to have
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  Speaker 3: this guest with me tonight. See, y'all know, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: cover girl, but there is something by a black and
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  Speaker 3: white book cover. I'm not saying that it's like black
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  Speaker 3: and white outline, but the essence of I'll let y'all
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  Speaker 3: see for y'rself. I'm sorry, I'm a coup of girl.
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  Speaker 3: If your cover draws me in, that is it I have.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that she said that I'm her first podcast,
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  Speaker 3: and I am so honored to have her. So tonight
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  Speaker 3: we are going to bring up miss Creasia little come
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  Speaker 3: on up, Girley, come on up, Hey, Hey, how are
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  Speaker 3: you good? That's good? That's good. Welcome to Ssie Book,
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  Speaker 3: Gallas and Friends, and we are so honored to have
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  Speaker 3: you here tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: So before we go any further, you gotta tell us
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So my name is Quash. I'm from Bridge Work, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 4: I've been writing urban fiction about six years now. I
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  Speaker 4: work full time, full time college student, mom of three girls,
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  Speaker 4: and then I have my fiance here helping me out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I just been, like I said, writing stories, bringing relatable
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  Speaker 4: stories to life and seeing like sometimes I add like
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of myself into into the character. So
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  Speaker 4: you read about some of my like mishaps as a teenager.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, cool, you have three girls? How do you do it?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Old this is very helpful. She's she's gonna be twelve,
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  Speaker 4: and then I have my middle child, who's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: nine December thirteenth. And then I have my little one, Cameron.
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  Speaker 4: She's we call our sunshine, but she's like a tornado.
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  Speaker 4: She runs through this house. It's her road, word is
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  Speaker 4: living in it. So she keeps me busy. But like
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  Speaker 4: they're they're pretty good girls.
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  Speaker 3: So you're a full time i'm student. You also said
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  Speaker 3: you you work correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, forty hours and your mom.
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  Speaker 3: And you have your beautiful tea Onceay, how in the
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  Speaker 3: world do you find time to write?
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  Speaker 4: I'm always just like so I work at home, so
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  Speaker 4: my laptop's here, or like sometimes I'll have my phone
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  Speaker 4: and just taking notes and wherever I'm I'm in a
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  Speaker 4: car writing and just trying to get it done like whenever, whenever,
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  Speaker 4: like something pops into my head, like I have to
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  Speaker 4: write it down or I'll forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you like other authors and they have their characters
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  Speaker 3: like talking them in the head?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, So, like sometimes it takes me a while to
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  Speaker 4: finish a book because it's like I'm going back between
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  Speaker 4: two and three different characters from different books. So it's
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  Speaker 4: always something going on in my head.
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  Speaker 3: Understandable. So what started your journey to becoming an author?
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  Speaker 4: So I've always loved reading, Like as a child, my
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  Speaker 4: mom would bring me to the bookstore every Friday and
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  Speaker 4: pick out a book. So from like the age of four,
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  Speaker 4: I've always had my head in a book. And then
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  Speaker 4: I wrote my first short story in twenty nineteen, no,
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  Speaker 4: not twenty eighteen, in high school, so like twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 4: just a short story for my teacher. And then twenty
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  Speaker 4: nineteen is when I started taking it serious.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so let's see, as a young child, what would
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  Speaker 3: you say was one.
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  Speaker 4: Of your favorite books. I would say maybe like Junie B. Jones,
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  Speaker 4: like one of those like I've read so much books
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  Speaker 4: like I can't like pick a favorite, but I want
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  Speaker 4: to say, like I started reading urban fiction when I
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  Speaker 4: was like ten eleven, so I started like What Ride
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  Speaker 4: with Me? I think that's by Joy Deja King.
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  Speaker 3: Was like.
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  Speaker 4: It was like wards younger, like a younger generation. So
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  Speaker 4: I started off with that and then I just went
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  Speaker 4: straight to like Keisha Irvin, Guns and Roses and torn.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh so you were in that Triple Crown area. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. My godmother had like a whole library, so I've
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  Speaker 4: been speaking at her in her in her stacks of books.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I see it. I see. I remember my one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite children's book where I have to and
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  Speaker 3: I still read them for I used to read them
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  Speaker 3: to my kids was the Monster in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the book. And then it was the Five Chinese Brothers.
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  Speaker 3: I was weird. But when I started working at the library,
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  Speaker 3: Triple Crown is where it started. Yeah, it was I
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  Speaker 3: had a conversation with a lady and she was looking
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  Speaker 3: for the book B and I thought she was calling
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  Speaker 3: me that she was the title of the book. So
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: you know, we had a little interruption. So yeah, we
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: would go back and forth to tell the manager I
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  Speaker 3: needed to get this moment. She explained it to me.
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  Speaker 3: So what caught your eye? Is it the fact that
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  Speaker 3: African Americans were writing or the fact that, oh god,
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  Speaker 3: they actually put this in books? What made you go
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  Speaker 3: in that direction?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's noticing the different genres of books. So
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  Speaker 4: it's not just reading, you know, like The Babysitters Club
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  Speaker 4: or something like that. This is reading about stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm growing up in this not like not
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  Speaker 4: so much of the like the drama of it, but
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  Speaker 4: this is like I grew up in the urban area,
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  Speaker 4: so this is what I hear, so I want to
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  Speaker 4: read about it. So that's what kind of drawing me
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  Speaker 4: to the genre and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Totally understand. So you said you started when we were
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  Speaker 3: talking on stage, you said you started writing or you
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  Speaker 3: started writing this one in twenty twenty one. During that
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  Speaker 3: COVID period, I started to notice that there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of books that were either created thought about published during
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  Speaker 3: that COVID error. So I've always wanted to ask authors,
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  Speaker 3: how did COVID affect your writing? Was it, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: I have all this time on my hand, or hey,
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  Speaker 3: I think I can write a good book if I
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  Speaker 3: put these thoughts on paper.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was more so of the time. So
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  Speaker 4: like when I first started writing, I was still working
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  Speaker 4: full time, so from and then I was working in
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  Speaker 4: a busy office. So from the time I clocked then
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  Speaker 4: from the time I clocked out, I was like working
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  Speaker 4: and then I was still going to school like back then. Still,
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  Speaker 4: so during COVID, someone have put led to do like
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  Speaker 4: a writing challenge, like see if you could do ten
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  Speaker 4: thousand words to day. So with me having all this time,
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  Speaker 4: I was writing ten thousand birds a day. And then
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  Speaker 4: like I like earlier I mentioned that I released one
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  Speaker 4: book a month for four months straight. So that was
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  Speaker 4: all during COVID.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. So what is the biggest challenge of being an author?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's the writer's blog because sometimes I can
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  Speaker 4: just sit and write for hours. But like if I'm
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  Speaker 4: like going through something in life, then it's like a
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  Speaker 4: kind of like I'm like I'm burnt out, and I
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  Speaker 4: can't write, so like I feel like that's the only
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  Speaker 4: challenging thing. But you don't have like such a big imagination.
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  Speaker 4: And like I go through things, and my friends and
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  Speaker 4: family go through things, so it's like I could put
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  Speaker 4: this in a book, and it's like I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I could write for like and when I'm in a
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  Speaker 4: good mood and everything's going good, I could write for
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  Speaker 4: hour for hours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so you're the opposite of some authors because some
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  Speaker 3: authors say, well they're in a good mood, they they
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  Speaker 3: don't write as much as if they're in a bad mood,
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  Speaker 3: like I do. Hear a lot of authors say that
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  Speaker 3: writing is their therapy. Do you consider that for you?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it depends. But when I write, I like to
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  Speaker 4: like light a candle, maybe have like a glass of wine.
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  Speaker 4: I then my lights and I'm just like vibing listening
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  Speaker 4: to like R and B, burnt fis whatever, So like
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  Speaker 4: I like to just I don't know, like that's right
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  Speaker 4: is my happy place and it's more of like I
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  Speaker 4: like to do it when I'm happy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Remember that R and B part that you say,
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  Speaker 3: because you don't want to need that later on in
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  Speaker 3: the show, just keep that in the back of your mind.
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  Speaker 3: So this book of yours. First of all, I have
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  Speaker 3: the access question. I'll use you like every off of this.
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  Speaker 3: Do you publishing house or independent? Which role did you
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  Speaker 3: take and why?
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  Speaker 4: So I signed with the publisher because like I didn't know,
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  Speaker 4: like back then, I didn't know about like editing and
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  Speaker 4: where to find your covers and things like that. So
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  Speaker 4: I had sent the first four chapters of my manuscript
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  Speaker 4: to a few publishers. It was when jock Quel had
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  Speaker 4: her Urban Chapters publications, and then I sent it to
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  Speaker 4: Keisha Irvin and I ended up signing with Jacquel. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like signing helped me understand the writing
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  Speaker 4: process because I knew how to open up Microsoftward and
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  Speaker 4: pype it out, but I didn't know like the editing
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  Speaker 4: part and how to publish through KDP at the time.
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  Speaker 4: But if I knew what I knew, like if I
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  Speaker 4: knew what I knew now, I would probably just stay
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  Speaker 4: independent maybe, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So starting out with a publishing house to have
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  Speaker 3: all those questions answered that you didn't know, but do you?
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  Speaker 3: And then you said that if you knew what you
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  Speaker 3: knew now, you would go an independent route. Do you
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  Speaker 3: ever think about publishing something independent or you're like, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I'm just going to stay in the publishing house.
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  Speaker 4: So I think eventually I do want to branch out
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  Speaker 4: and be independent. So I said, just want to finished
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  Speaker 4: that my series up now. So I do have the
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  Speaker 4: book I'm working on now, and then I have one
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  Speaker 4: that I released a few years ago. So I just
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  Speaker 4: want to finish those up and see you know how I'm
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  Speaker 4: feeling after that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So let's bring up this book cover of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Please tell me about this book.
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  Speaker 4: So I just wanted something like, just something simple because
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  Speaker 4: the story's soface is wild and crazy. So this just
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  Speaker 4: captures the two characters, Choe and Killer. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I just told my publisher just something nice and simple.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice and simple. Oh no, no, no, I see,
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  Speaker 3: I see passion. I see.
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  Speaker 4: So for my other book covers, it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 4: little simple.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So tell us Legal Love and Street Ties.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, So the story is about Chloe. She's an inspiring attorney.
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  Speaker 4: So one night out she meets a guy and they
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  Speaker 4: have like this one night and she just leaves it
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  Speaker 4: at that because of what happened during their encounter, and
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  Speaker 4: a few years later there they run into each other
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  Speaker 4: and they just have to It's just I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I just can't really explain it without giving to much. Ways,
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  Speaker 4: she just gotta take some risk and it might interrupt
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  Speaker 4: her career, her current relationship, and it's just a lot
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  Speaker 4: of secrets in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: So in the book, who has more to lose?
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  Speaker 4: Chloe definitely does because she did blame the college working
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  Speaker 4: at you know, one of the most prestigious law firms
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  Speaker 4: in Connecticut, So she has as everything to lose.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So what is what is your book trope always
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  Speaker 3: saying good girl, bad guy or it's good girl, good girl,
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  Speaker 3: bad guy? So why you gotta be a bad guy? Tattoo?
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  Speaker 4: Back when I was writing the story, that's just where
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  Speaker 4: like my head was at. I was listening to like this,
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  Speaker 4: like this mixtape. I'm like, I want to write a
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  Speaker 4: book about about that, something different than what I wrote,
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  Speaker 4: like wrote before, because I think before this I wrote
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  Speaker 4: like more of like a romance. It has something to
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  Speaker 4: do with like domestic violence and the LGBT. So I
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  Speaker 4: just wanted to do something like a little different this time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you don't want to be placed in the
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  Speaker 3: box and known as I only write this type of trope.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like the fact that branching out and you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying other different subject matters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just like I have another book it's called The
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  Speaker 4: Face Life of Looks. It's like a female assassin. So like,
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  Speaker 4: I just do all different types of stories. Oh I
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  Speaker 4: like that a female assassin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay. So if I saw your book on
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  Speaker 3: the shelf and it was screaming at me to pick
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  Speaker 3: it up, what would it be streaming?
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  Speaker 4: If you want to read about secrets and betrayal, just
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  Speaker 4: read this, like that's just what the book gives. It's
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  Speaker 4: just I don't know, Like I send the book to
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  Speaker 4: my best friend and so she's reading it like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe you did this, or I know. It's
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  Speaker 4: just a good book. It's just different than anything that
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  Speaker 4: I've ever written. I'm so excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: So you got a lot of twists and turns in it?
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  Speaker 4: So, yes, a lot?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she said, yes? Okay, So does she have that
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  Speaker 3: best friend on the side who is her rideed Die,
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  Speaker 3: who's trying to give her information? Because I know every
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  Speaker 3: book you got that female who can either be your
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  Speaker 3: best friend or your worst enemy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she has a best friend. She had two best
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  Speaker 4: friends at the beginning of the book, but one of
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  Speaker 4: them like kind of like fell back and then during
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the book you'll find out why and
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like a like a betrayal.
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  Speaker 3: So oh snap, okay, So tell me about your male
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  Speaker 3: main carriage. So tell me a little bit about him.
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  Speaker 4: So his name is Killian, his street name is Kila.
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  Speaker 4: He was just like your neighborhood dope boy. And then
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: he eventually moved away and started like dispensary and other,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: you know, other businesses, and then he the night that
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  Speaker 4: they you know, met or whatever, that brings him back
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  Speaker 4: to Connecticut and so that's when they run into each
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  Speaker 4: other again.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so your book is actually based on where you live?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. I read a book about author and
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  Speaker 3: it was based where I lived. I would say I
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: enjoyed the book much more because I can literally visualize
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  Speaker 3: the places that they were talking about in the book.
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  Speaker 3: Is that something that you wanted to do, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: something I do with pretty much all my books. So,
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  Speaker 3: like my first book is called a Bridgeport Love Story
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  Speaker 3: and that's where I live, Bridge Working, Well that's where
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  Speaker 3: you know I'm from is Bridge Work, Connecticutte. So like
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  Speaker 3: I always like to, you know, focus my books around
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  Speaker 3: places I know, because it makes it flow better because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not stopping to Google this and google that. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: then like I noticed too, like with the readers, if
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: you write a book somewhere and if it's not like
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the lingual that they use and they're from there, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't you know, it doesn't really make sense. So
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  Speaker 3: that's why I just write what I know. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I see it. I see it. So who would you
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  Speaker 3: say is your biggest fan? Who is your Now I
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  Speaker 3: want to say fan, who's your biggest cheerleader? Shot out
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  Speaker 3: your biggest cheerleader?
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  Speaker 4: So I would say my biggest cheerleader would be my
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  Speaker 4: best friend Patrice, because like it could be three o'clock
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, I'm like sending her voice notes like
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, I can't believe I'm going to write
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  Speaker 4: that this character didn't and you know your respond right back,
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  Speaker 4: so like she's through every step of the way. It's
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  Speaker 4: definitely my best friend.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So let me clarify y'all, it is not me Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I just honored. Her name is Patrice, It's not me.
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  Speaker 3: So remember I told you we had some fun questions
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  Speaker 3: we were going to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember, I.
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  Speaker 3: Told you remember eighties that the R and B theme
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  Speaker 3: that we were talking about. I don't here it comes sweetheart?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So we are reading your book and the radio is
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  Speaker 3: playing what nineties R and B thong song would be?
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  Speaker 3: The would be the would be on the playlist of
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  Speaker 3: your book A nineties song, A nineties R and B song,
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  Speaker 3: which would be the title track? That's the word I
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  Speaker 3: want to use, would be the title track of the
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  Speaker 3: book Legal Love and Street Ties.
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  Speaker 4: Nineties. I would have to say I'm breaking my heart
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  Speaker 4: something like that, because there's just a lot of by
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  Speaker 4: Tony Braxton.
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  Speaker 3: She hitting it with the Tony. Now, that's a that's
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  Speaker 3: a strong song. You know, we've been singing that when
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  Speaker 3: we've been young and they ain't even know what a
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  Speaker 3: true heartbreak. Ben.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so that's definitely that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh lo, that's a that's strong right there. Okay, great,
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  Speaker 3: so now that songs on the radio. I have your
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: book in my hand y'all know the candle sales this
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: past weekend, she said, she was like candle in a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: glass of wine. Now I don't drink wine like I
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: used to. I can burn a candle. So what candle
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: flavor or scent would be for your book?
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  Speaker 4: Fun fact, I make my own candles too.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 4: Girl, it would be like a casual like a vanilla cashmere,
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  Speaker 4: something nice and warm.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so why would we have that one? Why what
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  Speaker 3: part of your book makes that candle the perfect one?
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  Speaker 4: It's just like, uh, I don't know. The smell is
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  Speaker 4: just like so natural and like relaxing. I just think
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  Speaker 4: like that book is I don't know, it's just I
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  Speaker 4: don't know at that that's just like the flame, like
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the sin that I would burn playing like writing that
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  Speaker 4: book or reading the book.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Well, someone said that's a perfect song. I can't wait
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  Speaker 3: until you release this book. It is so good, Patrice.
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  Speaker 4: That's Patrice right there.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Patrese.
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  Speaker 3: Girl, Okay, we might have to do a book discussion
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  Speaker 3: on the book. Girl. When does the book come out?
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  Speaker 4: So, I'm just working on the ending now, so pop
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: probably December, the beginning of December.
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  Speaker 3: The beginning of December.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm hoping for like I'm trying to get it
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  Speaker 4: off to the editor. This weekend, so it could be
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: any time before then.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if it's December fifth, it would be beautiful. Okay,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: it's my birthday, but it'd be beautiful. So we got
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the vanilla Cashmere candle. Unbreak my Heart, Tony Braxon, guess
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: what I took your book? I call a lifetime. They say,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: you know what, we love this book. We want to
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: turn it into a little mini series. Okay, who would
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: play Killer? And they have to be a nineties rap artist?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Who would play him? And why would they be the one?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I would have to say, like method Man or something. Oh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know, that's what he like. He gives like
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: light skin tatted like that's just him. I could picture him.
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  Speaker 4: I could picture that method Man. Y'all, y'all know me.
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  Speaker 3: I love me myth Man, meth Man. Okay, well, guess
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: what we gotta have that leading lady. Let's make her
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  Speaker 3: a two thousand.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: R and B artist.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Who would she be? And why?
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  Speaker 4: I would say maybe Kelly Kelly Rowland. So she's ninety
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: two thousands, but I like just like the because Chloe,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: she's like a nice, like chocolate petite, like that's just
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I could picture Kelly Rowland playing her.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: That would be an interesting mix Kelly Rowling and Method Man,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and I could see bad boy and meets good I
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: can see that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you that I like. I like that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So guess what Lifetime said? You know what, this went
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: through the roof. So now we're going to give a
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: chance to do a biopic on you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Who would you.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Give the honor of playing you? And this can be anyone?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: And why did you give them that honor?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I would probably say, And.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be a star. It could be
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: a family member, it could be a friend, old school teacher. Hey,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: it could even be one of the kids.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Then I would probably have to say my daughter, Gaby.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: That's made me right there, because oh yeah, she got
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: like my movement to unpack. She mocks me anyways, so
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: she knows.
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  Speaker 3: And which one is that? Is she that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Gabby, I see you, I see you. So we
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: got method Man, Kelly Rowland, Tony Braxon, I break my Heart,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Vanilla Cash Mayor and Gabby Kurr. You just got it
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: going on. But now one last thing. You have the
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: opportunity to write a book with any other author. Who
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: would it be and what would you guys write?
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: About could it be like dead or alive, dead or alive,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: whoever's you want? Okay, I would say Maya Angelo, Okay.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I love her like a phenomenal woman. I love her.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I would love to write a book with her about
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: just the black woman experience growing up, going through life.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I love that. And then you brought it
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: full circle. I love that. So we're getting close to
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the end of the show. Can you tell us what
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: we could follow you on social media? Any of your
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: other books, we should grab any event you have coming up.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Just give us the rundown.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Okay. So thank you for all the support. Thank you
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: for having me on the podcast. I was so excited
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: to join. My books can be purchased on Amazon. My website,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: quajaa dot com will be back up in twenty twenty
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: six with books, merchandise all that. And I would say
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: check out my Destiny and Destiny and Bashars Silly of Me.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: That's like a fan favorite. That was a great series.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: And then Legal Love and Street Ties is coming out
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: pretty soon. And just make sure to follow me on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Twitter at quaja Ita.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: So you got if you notice and look at the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: bottom of the Streen. We have all our information out there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: She will announce when her books come out, okay, so
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I would go check out all her plages. Make sure
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you following her stay up to date. So when Legal
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: eleventh Street Ties come out, you can get it after me.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Well for the other patrisa get it hurst in me
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and then if y'all can get it, y'a don't get
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: a copy before me. I'm just let you know right now, okay,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: But we thank you for being with us tonight. Is
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: there anything you would like to say to your old readers,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: your new readers that you again and the readers you
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: again once.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: They do the replay. So I just want to say
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: thank you again for having me. Thank you to all
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: the readers. I wouldn't like keep going because it's just
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: one reader. Her name is that Sunshine. She keeps me
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: like she always checking on me. So thank you to her,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: and I hope you get my catalog and Troy it's
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: available on Amazon.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Well, we thank you for being with us tonight. You
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: guys should go grab Street Love. I'm sorry Legal Love
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: and Street Tides wants to come out. Find out what
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: killer method man man? Now, when I read that book,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I'm a bcing method man. Yes, that would be a
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: good reason read the book. You know what I'm saying.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: But thank you for being with us tonight. You guys,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: it is another Tuesday night in the books, and I
• 29:43
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• 29:57
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• 30:03
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  Speaker 3: form will go live on November fifteenth. Again, we thank
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: this little for being with us tonight and telling us
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: about her book, Legal Love and Street Ties. Remember, you guys,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: there is no such thing as an old book because
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: not everybody has read every book. See you next Tuesday,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: you guys. Bye,