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REAL PARANORMAL ENCOUNTERS THAT SHOOK ME · CelinaSpookyBoo

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Boo Crew? It's me, Selena Spooky Boo, and
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  Speaker 1: I went to Instagram and I asked you guys what
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  Speaker 1: you wanted from me on YouTube, and the number one
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  Speaker 1: and two things you guys asked about was my scariest
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  Speaker 1: stories and how to publish a book and go about writing.
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  Speaker 1: And since my first book was about my scariest experiences,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, hey, why not smash both of these into one?
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  Speaker 1: Because I have one thing that I believe in more
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  Speaker 1: in the whole entire world, and that is that every
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  Speaker 1: single person has a book inside them, be it a novel,
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  Speaker 1: be it a poetry book, And why aren't you publishing it?
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  Speaker 1: Let me know what's in your brain. So let's rewind
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  Speaker 1: many years ago. Selena's 21 years old. 21 years old, okay? 21, 22,
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  Speaker 1: I sit down, I say, I'm gonna write a book.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: the research. I'm gonna write a book. Watch me. And
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  Speaker 1: what did I come up with? My first book. I
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  Speaker 1: had to tell... my story because the truth is some
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  Speaker 1: of the scariest things in the paranormal world had happened
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  Speaker 1: to me. And recently, while on a very spooky trip
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  Speaker 1: with some very spooky people, I got to talk in
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  Speaker 1: depth about the scary things that happened to me as
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  Speaker 1: a child, teenager, the things that I did for work
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  Speaker 1: back then. And I got to relive it. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to remember this book that I'd written because believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, there was a time when I was
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  Speaker 1: too scared to do paranormal stuff. So instead I started
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  Speaker 1: a podcast, which was The Haunted Estate. The Haunted Estate.
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  Speaker 1: And I wrote this book to go along with it.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what I am. Clairvoyant? A medium?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I'm a bits and
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  Speaker 1: pieces of all these different things. And I named myself...
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  Speaker 1: The Home Reader. And it's pretty much because I go
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  Speaker 1: into a space. I connect. I let myself feel the energy.
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  Speaker 1: I see things in different points of time. I can't
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  Speaker 1: decide to connect. What comes to me comes to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't choose it out. Sometimes when I see ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: they look like people. Sometimes when I see ghosts, they
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  Speaker 1: look like ghosts. You never know. But The Home Reader
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  Speaker 1: was the first book that I put out. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to tell you something that's in this book.
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  Speaker 1: And also all these books are available for purchase if
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  Speaker 1: you want them on Amazon and they will pop up
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  Speaker 1: during this video. And you can also find them below
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  Speaker 1: because the last one I'm gonna tell you about It's
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  Speaker 1: really fricking awesome, okay? So rewind, back in time, Selena's
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  Speaker 1: a teenager. Selena's doing weird party tricks, okay? I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: in third person, I hate this. Anyways, I'm at parties.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to people's dud relatives. Everyone's too drunk for
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  Speaker 1: me to tell them what their grandmother is saying about them.
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  Speaker 1: It comes and goes. Sometimes I can do it, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I can't. It wasn't an all the time thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a sometimes thing. So somebody thought it would
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  Speaker 1: be really, really, really, really funny to take my name
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  Speaker 1: and my cell phone number. They put it in the
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  Speaker 1: yellow pages. Are any of you guys old enough to
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  Speaker 1: remember the yellow pages? Yeah, they put my phone number
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  Speaker 1: in the yellow pages under Selena's Psychic Services. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was a joke or for true, but
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  Speaker 1: it led me to some of the craziest experiences of
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  Speaker 1: my life. People would call me in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. They would say, I have this and I
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  Speaker 1: would feel compelled to help. I ended up hooking up
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  Speaker 1: with a pastor and someone who performed exorcisms. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: stories get really, really weird. But some of those stories
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  Speaker 1: are inside this book. And I want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about the craziest one that I ever went to. And
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  Speaker 1: it is one to this day that I will always remember.
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  Speaker 1: This book could be 12 times as fat as this
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  Speaker 1: with stories. And you bet your lucky ass I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about writing another one. That's my true soul story. So
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  Speaker 1: is there numbers on the page? There's not. It's not
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  Speaker 1: well done. The story's there. We don't care about page numbers,
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  Speaker 1: do we? Because the story is there. Look at that
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  Speaker 1: front cover, right? My gosh. Selena, wait. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: into the story, how much is it to publish? Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone writes me, how do I find a publisher? How
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  Speaker 1: do I publish a book? We'll get into that, but
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  Speaker 1: first the story, all right? We're going to go back
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  Speaker 1: quite a few years, okay? This is the exorcism they
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  Speaker 1: went to, and it's not a funny story. I'm upbeat
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  Speaker 1: right now, but it was a scary story. I got
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  Speaker 1: on a call. Went with my partners to this house.
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  Speaker 1: This house was left to two college girls by their
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  Speaker 1: grandmother who had practically raised them. When they went off
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  Speaker 1: to college, they lived with her. She ended up passing away.
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  Speaker 1: They loved their grandmother so much. They fell into quite despair.
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  Speaker 1: They were going through a really, really, really hard time.
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  Speaker 1: They're partying a lot. They weren't going to class. They
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  Speaker 1: were doing all these things that they just should not
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  Speaker 1: be doing. Okay. One thing happens. They meet some guys
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  Speaker 1: at the bar. There's an Australian guy. I forget what
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  Speaker 1: the other one was. They come back to the house.
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  Speaker 1: Some really bad stuff went down. You can imagine... One
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  Speaker 1: of the worst assaults that can happen happened to one
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  Speaker 1: of the sisters. After that, she really pulled into herself.
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  Speaker 1: She stopped going out. She fell down this really deep
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  Speaker 1: depression hole, as can be imagined. But then she started
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  Speaker 1: to change. She didn't bathe. Voices that weren't hers would
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  Speaker 1: come from her. Horrible things would happen. But it manifested
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  Speaker 1: first in the house. It manifested with all of the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen dishes coming out. It manifested in smells. It manifested
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  Speaker 1: in their garden, which could not be accessed by the public,
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  Speaker 1: completely bricked in. All the shrubbery ripped to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: full of dead birds. Okay? Yeah, I saw pictures of this.
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  Speaker 1: It was literally insane. This craziest thing I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: So they ended up calling us in. I remember walking around.
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  Speaker 1: I did my home reading thing, which is, I sit down.
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  Speaker 1: I get really centered. I'm followed with someone who has cards.
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  Speaker 1: They put the name of the room on each card.
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  Speaker 1: And when I kind of click into this other realm,
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  Speaker 1: the only way that I can explain it. Okay. The
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  Speaker 1: only way that I can kind of explain what it's like,
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  Speaker 1: do you know the movie insidious when they go and
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  Speaker 1: they astral project out of their body and they're like
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  Speaker 1: in this weird other kind of realm thing. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what it's like for me. And I could see
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  Speaker 1: in the house, it was something dark because there was
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  Speaker 1: black pools on the ceiling, like, like with smoke and
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  Speaker 1: I could smell it. And I could see images of
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  Speaker 1: what had happened. And I knew that she had gone through,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these different levels of infestation, oppression, and possession.
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  Speaker 1: It all happened to this girl. We were in a
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  Speaker 1: full-blown possession state thing. And I had never really experienced
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  Speaker 1: this with a person before. But the right teams were
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  Speaker 1: called in. And I witnessed an exorcism. I witnessed a
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  Speaker 1: whole exorcism, okay? Very interesting. Definitely not like the movies
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  Speaker 1: where things are flying around, where there are crazy noises,
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  Speaker 1: where there are crazy smells. That's what got me the
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  Speaker 1: most was the crazy smells. I'm talking from the smells
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  Speaker 1: of apple trees to full sulfur to super sweet decay
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  Speaker 1: to a cold winter morning. Very strange. Seasons changing. Seasons
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves, seasons around. I don't know. I know I
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  Speaker 1: probably to you sound bonkers. You had to be there
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  Speaker 1: to experience it. But I'll never forget meeting this girl.
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  Speaker 1: I say meeting her for a second time because who
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  Speaker 1: she was when I met her and who she was
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  Speaker 1: the morning after the exorcism. was completely different. That was
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  Speaker 1: a whole new person. And in that moment, I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I knew this stuff was real, but I'm like, this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is really, really real. So that was definitely one
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  Speaker 1: of the scariest experiences that I have ever freaking experienced.
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  Speaker 1: But that's in this book right here. I also talk
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  Speaker 1: about my dreams. Lovely. A lot of the time, missing
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  Speaker 1: people come to me in my dreams, okay? And they'll
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  Speaker 1: tell me where they are or they'll give me hints
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  Speaker 1: or they'll give me absolutely nothing to go on. There's
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  Speaker 1: something really interesting in the front of this book that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk about really, really quick because someone
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  Speaker 1: did want me to touch on mental health And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's important to talk about that conversation should
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  Speaker 1: literally never end, okay? I have this in the front
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  Speaker 1: of my book, which is the semicolon. And as we
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  Speaker 1: all know, this means in writing to pause but not end,
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  Speaker 1: all right? Our little town... has suffered a large amount
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  Speaker 1: of teen self-cancel recently. If you're reading this and find
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  Speaker 1: yourself in a dark place, please reach out even to me.
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  Speaker 1: Your story is not supposed to end yet. So 2016,
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  Speaker 1: almost for a whole year in our town of 30,000 people,
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  Speaker 1: a teenager took their life, which was kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone was spiraling because we didn't know if there
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  Speaker 1: was a pact. To this day, I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: still know. I think, you know, I don't think we'd
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  Speaker 1: ever want to believe there was a reason or if
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  Speaker 1: they were connected, but it was, it was terrifying. But
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing that writing did for me in the
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  Speaker 1: darkest times of my life. Like 2016 was a dark
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  Speaker 1: time for me. I wrote this book fresh off of
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  Speaker 1: a second miscarriage and writing has saved my life. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it surprises a lot of people that I
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  Speaker 1: do write, which is crazy because writing is what I
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  Speaker 1: did first. Writing is what I did before social media.
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  Speaker 1: And when I meet people now, they'll be like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: like who's your ghost writer? Or like, You know, who
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  Speaker 1: helped you? And I'm like, all me, baby. All me.
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  Speaker 1: I had great editors. Absolutely. Because punctuation is not my forte.
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  Speaker 1: But did I write all these stories myself? I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did. And that's been kind of my namesake. And
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  Speaker 1: everyone always says to me, if you're ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be known for one thing, what is it? I'm a writer, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I want to always be a writer. I want to
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  Speaker 1: write things that make people feel. And the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to write down was my first story.
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  Speaker 1: So it's literally called The Home Reader, A Paranormal Journey
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  Speaker 1: by Selina Myers. You know what my funny thing is?
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  Speaker 1: I write a lot better than I talk, okay? I
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  Speaker 1: sound like a little twit. But this thing, this thing
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't connect to this real good. But it connects
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  Speaker 1: to these real fancy. Wow. Step back. Step back! This
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  Speaker 1: book took me about six months to write. My next book,
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  Speaker 1: which was my absolute most popular book. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the original copy of it. I need to order it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I don't have any copies. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: them all away. But it was republished last year by Indigo,
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  Speaker 1: which is like the Barnes and Noble of Canada. Okay, chapters.
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  Speaker 1: That is The Haunting of Clandestine House. So this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a novella. It's not a huge book, but
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  Speaker 1: it was always my number one seller. I wrote this book.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're ready for this, okay? I got inspired
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  Speaker 1: and I wrote this book in four days. Four days.
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  Speaker 1: I sat at the table. I didn't sleep. I typed
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  Speaker 1: and I typed. I had the story in my head.
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  Speaker 1: And right now I am working on the screenplay, the
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  Speaker 1: film adaptation of this book, which is so different than
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  Speaker 1: the book. Hidden deep in the woods on the outskirts
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  Speaker 1: of a nearly forgotten town sits Clandestine House. Rumors have
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  Speaker 1: run wild about this place for more than a century.
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  Speaker 1: It is known as the house that swallows people whole.
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  Speaker 1: What secrets reside in Clandestine House? It isn't until an
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  Speaker 1: out-of-town buyer, Hannah Watts, wins the house in an online
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  Speaker 1: auction that the dark past of the home comes to light.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the Clandestine family? What will happen to Hannah?
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  Speaker 1: In my head, even as I wrote this, Hannah is
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  Speaker 1: based off of Michelle Milet. Katie from Letterkenny. I just
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  Speaker 1: feel if it's our movie, she needs to be Hannah.
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  Speaker 1: But the screenplay is so much different, okay? I like
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  Speaker 1: the book, but the movie? The movie's gonna be so good.
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  Speaker 1: Manifest with me. We're gonna turn this into a movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's an A24 movie. It's like a neon movie or
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  Speaker 1: a Blumhouse. We're gonna manifest it. If you're from there,
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  Speaker 1: hit me up. I have your next blockbuster. Ay! So
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to publishing books, I said it was free.
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  Speaker 1: It literally is, okay? Publishing books, you use a website
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  Speaker 1: if you want to. It is kdp.com, okay? KDP is Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: As we all know, Amazon runs freaking everything. Amazon before
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  Speaker 1: it was the Amazon that you know was a book
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  Speaker 1: of company. And the most interesting thing about that is
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  Speaker 1: they have made it so you can self-publish, but still
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  Speaker 1: like own your book and stuff like that. So you
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  Speaker 1: go on there, you upload your manuscript, KDP, you get
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  Speaker 1: assigned an ISBN number, which is what the libraries use,
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  Speaker 1: and I self-published. So if you want to see the
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  Speaker 1: quality of the self-published books, there's The Home Reader, which
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  Speaker 1: was a glossy book. There was Blackwood Chronicles, Falls. This
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  Speaker 1: one is Matt. You can see I've read this one
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  Speaker 1: a couple times. Going through my notes. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: also the hardcover, which this was the original copy of Hollow,
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  Speaker 1: which is my most recent book. Let's talk about Hollow
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  Speaker 1: really quick before I head off. Hollow! Hollow! I really
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  Speaker 1: love forest vibes. That was my initial thought with this.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a very, very masculine, very masculine looking book.
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  Speaker 1: All right. But hollow is the story that has lived
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  Speaker 1: inside my head for ever. Okay. It has been writing
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  Speaker 1: itself in my brain. I'm already like halfway through the
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  Speaker 1: second book in my brain. Is it down on paper? No, but.
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  Speaker 1: it's juicier and it's so much sexier. And there's some
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  Speaker 1: sexier scenes in the rewrite. If you haven't read it,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as this went out, it was so popular.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't push it too hard, but they were like, no,
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  Speaker 1: we were going to make this crazy. So guys, I
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  Speaker 1: need you to pre-order this right now. You can pre-order
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  Speaker 1: it on Barnes and Noble. You can pre-order it. I
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  Speaker 1: think on Indigo, if you're in Canada, you can pre-order
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  Speaker 1: it on Amazon. If you just wanted to show up
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  Speaker 1: at your house, it comes in hard covers. This is,
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  Speaker 1: this is just a proof. Okay. It literally says proof.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's funny? I see it. Everyone's like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, that looks like Chris. It does kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's that awesome jawline. It's not Chris on
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  Speaker 1: the front. It's just, this is Mia Adair, okay? And
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  Speaker 1: the book is going to be sprayed edges. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to look like blood dripping down. It is a collector's item.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you freaking love it. Link is going
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  Speaker 1: to be down below. But if you guys have any
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  Speaker 1: questions about publishing, first freaking do it. You say, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where to start. Start with one sentence. Write
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  Speaker 1: down one sentence that you want in this book. Build
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  Speaker 1: around it. None of my books do I really start
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  Speaker 1: at the stop. I start by, I get all my characters, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I give them a little backstory so I can get
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  Speaker 1: to know them as people. Maybe I'll write a little
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  Speaker 1: short story to inspire it. Maybe I'll think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just like write things out. Maybe I will
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  Speaker 1: go on the internet and just save pictures of random people.
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  Speaker 1: Get it visual. Make it alive in your brain. Choose
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  Speaker 1: a chapter. Choose an event. Write a paragraph. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to work from start to beginning and you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to sit down and hammer it out. If you
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  Speaker 1: got 10 minutes, do it for 10 minutes. If you
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  Speaker 1: got 12 hours, sit down and do it for 12 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes like the body double, go on live, write while
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  Speaker 1: you're live. You know, it makes people feel like they're
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  Speaker 1: a part of it. And the truth is they end
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  Speaker 1: up being a big part of it. When I wrote Hollow,
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  Speaker 1: I read so many things back and we worked on
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  Speaker 1: that book together and it was gorgeous. Okay? I love
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  Speaker 1: writing more than anything. But now let's jump into cover
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  Speaker 1: art and formatting a book. There's chickens outside. They shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be down here. Anyways, they're here. People are gonna get really,
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  Speaker 1: really mad at me when I say this, but this
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  Speaker 1: was a long time ago and I feel like it
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  Speaker 1: was the only option then. I don't suggest it now
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  Speaker 1: as much, okay? But when it came to getting the
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  Speaker 1: format for the cover, getting the interior formatted, as you
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  Speaker 1: can see, these ones do have page numbers. They do
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  Speaker 1: a lot better now, okay? These were a very long
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  Speaker 1: time ago. I went to Fiverr. Now, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of better sites where you can get people to do things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to list them off for you right now.
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  Speaker 1: There's Upwork, where it's more structured. It's hourly or project-based.
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  Speaker 1: There is Freelancer.com, People Per Hour, Top Tell, and Guru.
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  Speaker 1: I did use Fiverr because that was the only one
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  Speaker 1: that I thought existed back then. Do not come for me.
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  Speaker 1: I was a child, and I just fully did not
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  Speaker 1: know any of the things. But I went on there.
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  Speaker 1: There was people you literally put in KDP cover art.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them the stuff that you want. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: use royalty free images. You can do that. Or there's
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  Speaker 1: people that's like 500 bucks that will design you your
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  Speaker 1: very own cover to all the specifications. But the first
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  Speaker 1: thing you do before you do cover, which doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: as fun. you get your whole entire edited project. You
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  Speaker 1: can find editors on any of these websites. You can
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  Speaker 1: get your friends to edit it. Anything that you think
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  Speaker 1: is good, I suggest getting an editor, then getting a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of family or friends to read it to see
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: if they catch anything else. Then go and find yourself
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: someone who's going to format. So on any of these pages,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: put in KDP formatting, you're going to have someone who
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: is going to be able to format for you. Then
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: when it comes your cover, you can use any of
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: these websites or go on Facebook or Instagram and ask
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: who's a graphic designer, who can create things. But yeah,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: you can have really cool, like look at this. Look
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: how cool that is. This is the third book, Blackwick Falls. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now this is a really fun one. This is me
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  Speaker 1: diving into witches. I'm more of a vampire ghost girl,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: but I'm very much a witchy girl too. Oh, all
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: my books are women-driven. I can't write as a man.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: I don't like when men write as women. I can tell, okay?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not even gonna try it. Anyways, after the
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  Speaker 1: tragic loss of her mother, 19-year-old Billie Gladstone finds herself
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  Speaker 1: in the small town of Blackwick Falls. She was raised
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  Speaker 1: thinking that she and her mother were all alone in
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  Speaker 1: the world. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Quickly,
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  Speaker 1: Billie is thrown into a whole new world that she
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  Speaker 1: could have never imagined existed. Billie never believed in witches
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  Speaker 1: or magic. So who was this new rich family? How
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: did they know about her? Why are they telling her
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  Speaker 1: she's a witch? And why did her mother never tell
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  Speaker 1: her about them? With this new life comes so many
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: questions about her past. But most importantly, what does this
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: mean for her future? And oh my gosh, this is
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: my publishing company. I created my own little publishing company.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Made this little logo called Overcast Publishing. It's cute. I
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: think it's cute. It was fun. But no, this book,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not the most popular. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you. Out of all my books, this
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: sells the least is what it is. I'm an honest girl. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: do I need to tell you another spooky story? There's
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: so many at this point. The Huntsville estate. So that's
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  Speaker 1: really cool. And it was about an hour outside of Huntsville.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a man whose mother had passed away.
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  Speaker 1: And she had left him a house. And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really know about the house. It was kept up for
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  Speaker 1: all the years. It was left in a trust from
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: his mother's parents. And they lived out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: So when he found out about this after she passed away,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: he thought, I'm gonna drive up there. I'm gonna find
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: literally garbage. Garbage. Which is, it's funny because the Huntsville estate,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I think, inspired the haunting of Clandestine House. Because it
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: was such an interesting story, okay? So this guy and
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: his wife head down to see this abandoned house. He
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: thought at this point it was probably just land. Shows up,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: there is a house, okay? And it's been in good condition.
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  Speaker 1: There was a dude, he was like a neighbor, kind
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: of kept it in good condition, cut the lawn, stuff
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: like that. They go in the house, like there's not
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  Speaker 1: really any, I don't think there was electricity or anything
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  Speaker 1: at this point, but he goes into this old farmhouse. And, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: once they get in there, it was okay for a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Some strange things happened, but they decided to open it
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  Speaker 1: as an inn, like a bed, like a bed and
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  Speaker 1: breakfast type of situation. As soon as people started staying
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  Speaker 1: at the house that weren't related to him, crazy things
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  Speaker 1: would happen. They did this one night where they had,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: they had done like some kind of contest for people
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to like do free stays. And these people had come
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: to the house and everyone had an experience that night.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Like people left. like really scary stuff water in the
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: hallway out of nowhere a kid seen in the hall
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  Speaker 1: when there was no kids there like stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: then the day after all these people left they wake
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: up every screen from every window was on the ground
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: outside the house like it had blown out but nothing
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: was ever heard anything like that so i did my
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: home reading and we came to the conclusion that the
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: house had been abandoned he didn't know why his mom
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: had left but it all came to fruition we realized
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that the spirits of this house the the people who
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: have built it they were forced to leave after a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: bunch of children had died of sickness they were trying
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to like get away from the sickness and then just
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: ended up somewhere else i don't know if it was
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: money but they couldn't come back anytime someone stayed in
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the house that wasn't a relative that wasn't like married
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: in or a relative crazy things would happen they tried
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: opening it as an inn again same stuff happened they
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: decided to stop using it as an inn and nothing
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: happened like that is horrifying they hold so much power
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: even though this house had set empty for like 90
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: years or something crazy like that was absolutely insane and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that was definitely one of the scariest things like i
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: have been and i i wanted like take this with
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: a grain of salt all right i have been out
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of out of every 50 hauntings that i go to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: one of them is crazy But like 99% of the time, okay?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, there's a little some here. There's some
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: residual energy. There's something going on. But there are the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: ones that are very freaking intense. And those are the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: ones that I write about. And I have been to,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: been to a lot. Not, not, not as much since
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I got, you know, popular on the internet. Those are
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: more with friends. And we do like the haunted locations
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But I have some really big
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: news coming soon that might blow your socks off. Okay.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Has to do with me. Has to do with Adam.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Has to do with spooky stuff. So you're gonna, you're
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: gonna shit. You're probably gonna shit your pants. But let's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: talk about Hollow really quick before I head off. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: really love forest vibes. That was my initial thought with this.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: It's definitely a very, very masculine, very masculine looking book.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: All right. But Hollow is the story that has lived
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: inside my head for ever. Okay. It has been writing
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: itself in my brain. I'm already like halfway through the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: second book in my brain. Is it down on paper? No, but.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: it's juicier and it's so much sexier and there's some
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: sexier scenes in the rewrite if you haven't read it
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: as soon as this went out it was so popular
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: i didn't push it too hard but they were like
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: no we were gonna make this crazy so guys i
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: need you to pre-order this right now you can pre-order
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: it on barnes noble you can pre-order it i think
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: on indigo if you're in canada you can pre-order it
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: on amazon if you just wanted to show up at
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: your house it comes in hardcover so this is this
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: is just a proof okay it literally says proof you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: know it's funny i see it everyone's like oh my
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: god that looks like chris It does kind of. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: think it's that awesome jawline. It's not Chris on the front.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It's just, this is Mia Adair. Okay. And the book
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is going to be sprayed edges. It's going to look
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like blood dripping down. It is a collector's item. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: hope that you freaking love it. Link is going to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: be down below. But if you guys have any questions
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: about publishing first, freaking do it. You say, I don't
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: know where to start. Start with one sentence. Write down
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: one sentence that you want in this book. Build around it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: None of my books do I really start at the stop.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I start by, I get all my characters. Okay. I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: give them a little backstory so I can get to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: know them as Maybe I'll write a little short story
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to inspire it. Maybe I'll think about it. Maybe I'll
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: just like write things out. Maybe I will go on
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the internet and just save pictures of random people. Get
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it visual. Make it alive in your brain. Choose a chapter.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Choose an event. Write a paragraph. You don't have to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: work from start to beginning and you don't need to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: sit down and hammer it out. If you got 10 minutes,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: do it for 10 minutes. If you got 12 hours,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: sit down and do it for 12 hours. Sometimes like
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the body double, go on live, write while you're live.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You know, it makes people feel like they're a part
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: of it. And the truth is they end up being
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a big part of it. When I wrote Hollow, I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: read so many things back and we worked on that
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: book together and it was gorgeous. Okay? But anyways, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: love you. guys. I love writing books and hopefully Hollow. Okay.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: This one should be a TV show. This is a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: TV show. This is a movie. Let's manifest together. We're
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: all gonna write books. Gonna be great. All right, book crew.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I love you. And until next time, stay creative. I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have to fart. So I'm gonna go. Bye. Mia was
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: always the name that I wanted to name my daughter.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And when I was writing this book was very much,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I had decided I was just never going to have children.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: This was before we started the surrogacy journey, all this,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: but Mia was always going to be my daughter. So yeah.