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SEASON 1 EPISODE #166 NOVEMBER 2023 _ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  us. We're ready, are you as I day? Hey you guys,
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  this is your girl, Patrice sci Book y'all eight four three, Yes,
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  this is Tuesday night and of course I am here to talk to you guys
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  about a new author. This is for the kiddles in your life. So
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  I told y'all I always believe in giving my daughter and my nephews a book
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  every Christmas. That's just something that Auntie does, Okay, A gift that
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  gives and gives and gifts. So, parents, here's your chance to meet
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  an author, a children's book author. I think this might be my first
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  one ever. Here we are about to meet missus Stacy Willis. Come on
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  up, girly, ah, how are you. I am doing well.
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  Thank you for asking, Thank you, thank you, Oh woile great to
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  hear. Thank you for joining us tonight. So tonight we are talking children's
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  books, one of my favorites because the teen books I don't have time for
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  them emotional means, in the in the the middle grades, they're a little
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  bit too adventurous for me. So the children's books, it's beautiful. I
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  can read thirty six pages and be the happiest person in America. Yes,
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  that's how I feel too. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Okay. So my name is Stacy Willis. I my profession. I'm a
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  case manager. I work with the elderly and disabled waiver population here in Georgia.
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  I'm also hoo I wear so many hats. I used to be a
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  teacher. Okay, hold on, you said teacher. Yeah, well a
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  teacher A. I used to work with teacher A with special needs, special
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  needs, I say, elementary, elementary, elementary. Yeah, So I
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  did that early intervention with babies. That was me, did that. And
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  so I love, love, love love working with children. That is my
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  heart. I love it with a passion. And so here I am children's
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  author. This is actually the anniversary of our first book. Yay, congratulations,
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  happy anniversary, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so
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  excited. But then on top of that, I'm gonna tell you to thank
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  you. Okay, okay, One, thank you for working with special needs.
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  My sister Brittain, God bless her in Heaven has special needs and she
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  was the strongest person I've ever met, all the surgeries, everything, she
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  has cerebral policy. So one, I thank you for that. Two,
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  thank you just for being a teacher period that little bit of time during the
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  pandemic. I didn't get my matter of fact, I need to talk to
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  my daughter because I didn't get my teacher appreciation gift. So I gon neither.
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  When we get off here of me and her need to have a conversation
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  with that. But I saw how hard it is for you guys, and
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  you guys deserve way more of everything that we can give. Yeah, because
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  I mean truly, you guys are a part of so many villages. My
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  hat goes off to you guys. So yeah, double thank you, thank
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  you. So this book, my friend Bigfoot, it is the cutest little
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  book, thank you one. I love the title my friend Bigfoot. I
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  called my daughter big head all the time I got three, I called all
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  them big heads. And to see the little title said Bigfoot, I said,
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  I might have to change it around. Call bigfoot I think would work
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  for all of them. But tell us, how did you come up with
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  that title? Well, I as a child growing up, I used to
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  reading sci fi books and one of my favorite one was about my friend Bigfoot.
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  And you know, because I was a mystery novel I was a diehard
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  Nancy Drew and HARDI Boys fan and all that stuff. I was just all
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  of that. And then one of the most important thing was I love making
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  people laugh and doing COVID. People you know was dying. Kids were just
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  going through a rough time, and all I wanted to them, wanted to
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  do was make people laugh, learn a lesson, but make them laugh at
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  the same time. Awesome. Yeah, because during COVID we really didn't need
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  that. I remember at one point in time, I was in sleeping because
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  I was so uncertain what was going to happen. And when I did return
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  back to work, my kids would I would call them on my way home.
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  They were literally running their rooms, close the door and my my son
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  would have a candle light saucing at the step. Wow. And I was
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  like, this is really what our life has become. But I started to
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  take it as a chance to really get to know my kids and really get
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  to be around them more, and we got creative. So you you were
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  a piece of the puzzle that we needed to get through that. Yes,
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  children's books. Ooh, that's a whole world. Yes, it is myself
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  and then it's a whole different entity when we're talking about black and brown authors.
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  Yeah, and like we were talking about off camera, like this is
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  really like a whole world of black and brown authors. It is what needs
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  you want to step into it? Well, I wanted to challenge myself.
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  You know, people kept telling me, well, now it's not the time,
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  No, you can't afford to do it. Don't do it. Wait,
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  you're not hearing God correctly. And I just was like, you know
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  what, if I don't do it, I'm never going to do it.
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  And I just decided to go ahead and step out on faith. And just
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  like Mike White Girl said, just like like he says, just do it,
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  Let's do it. Just do it. And that's what I did.
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  I was I got connected with the right person. Okay. Just that helped
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  me, and that mentored me, that was there for me, and before
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  I knew it, my fam Brickfoot was born, you know. And the
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  thing about it I sat down in for I think it was what I wrote
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  this book within two days, wow, two days. I was done with
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  it. Within two days. I wasn't working really and so it was like,
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  okay, go ahead and do it. And that's what I did.
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  So, like he said, I'm gonna give you what you need to get
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  it done. All you gotta do is come to me. Mm hmm.
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  Yeah, listen to them. And he says, because if you're listening to
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  them, you might have some sies issues, but you listen to God and
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  you stepped out on faith. And now we had a whole anniversary of my
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  Little Bigfoot look wrote that one last year, being turned around and wrote the
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  affirmation book this year, and then I did another affirmation book for women.
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  So I have been busy. See, I've been I've been busy. My
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  mind is like going, going, going, and I'm like, okay,
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  okay, okay, what can what can I create next? What can I
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  do next? Don't worry? Yeah? And I'm like, wow, look
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  what Look what I gave birth to. You know what, God's funny.
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  When he ready to show out, he is going to show out. You
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  know, he ain't coming with it. Little You're like, all right,
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  you want me to do something? Here You're going You're like, hold up,
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  God, Now, I know I wanted you to do this, but
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  I'm gonna need you to step back a little bit. I ain't ready for
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  all that. Don't tell me what you ain't ready for, because you already
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  said you wanted this, so he gonna make it do it? Yeah?
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  So and and when you see him put it together. Mm hmm, all
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  you can do is say thank you. Yes, that's all you can say
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  is thank you. Yeah, that's it. Publishing this book, what was
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  your least favorite part of it? Hmm it will sometimes having to go back
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  and forth with the editor okay, okay, yeah, sometimes it was you
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  know, you know, because we we're having to do the emails and stuff
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  like that. So I would say it was just having you know, like,
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  Okay, this is how I see it mm hmm, and they may
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  have sawt a different way. So it was like, let's work together.
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  How can we you know? So it was the It was the It could
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  have been the editing, the editing part as well. It was the main
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  was one of the main things. As far as the illustrations. Oh my
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  god, illustrations on point. So I guess that might have been the most
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  favorite part. Huh. Yes, the most favorite part was the illustrations.
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  And and to sit there and at the end, I go, what wow,
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  I actually you know, I actually I actually kept my promise to my
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  dad, kept my promise to myself, and I did it. That is
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  is what is up? So how did you find an illustrator? I mean,
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  this is my first time speaking to the children's off there. Do you
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  give them the book and they read it and they present the illustrations or you
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  gave them? What I did was the person who did the publisher he did
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  the editor. He was able to find the editor. He was able to
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  find the illustrator as well. So it was like, you know, people
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  thought it was gonna be like like it was gonna call a whole lot of
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  money. Mm hmmm. And I thought so as well until he told me.
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  He was like, no, we're gonna do a payment plan and it
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  only gonna cost you two thousand dollars. Are you serious? I am serious.
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  Your illustrations, your editor, and your publishing for children's book book fully
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  colored. We need to talk of some black and white. We talk about
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  some colored. Only calls me two thousand col that's that. Look, that's
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  favor. That is truly favor. I've seen it, and I've looked at
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  things because it's just national authors writing Nana ram a month and s and looking
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  at price figures and stuff like this. I've seen the cheapest as five thousand
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  dollars and that's just for the illustrations. And for you to get all of
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  that with two thousand dollars, are you I'm telling you two thousand? God
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  loves that is. That's what he did. That's awesome. So tell us
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  a little bit about don't give us much, but tell us a little bit
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  about my friend Bigfoot. Well, my friend book Foot is kind of based
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  a little bit on my a little bit about my son. Okay, my
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  son has specially well he's autistic. So it's kind of like some things that
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  he would do that was like, okay, let's make let me put a
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  little bit of his personality in the story. And it kind of it kind
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  of at the end towards the like the end of it, it's kind of
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  like it would make you want more, like where is this book leading to?
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  Like what what? What's the you know, it takes you through a
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  journey of his of of of the guy, the little boy name is Alex.
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  It takes you through a journey of how Alex views his surrounding, his
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  environment, his social uh circle, his friends, his family, and even
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  Bigfoot. And it takes you through a journey of okay, is Alex ever
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  going to hold himself accountable? Who? You know, is Bigfoot gonna hold
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  Alex accountable? Who's gonna hold who accountable? So it takes you through a
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  journey of how Alex and for you know, how they kind of work together.
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  And then at the end, it's like okay, what next? What
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  what? What? What? What? Is next, because you don't laugh
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  through the book and you're like, what is next? Well, what is
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  next? It's the affirmation book. See, that's what I'm talking about.
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  That that's that's what's next, is the affirmation book. And it's like wow,
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  okay, and it just shows you all the the things that you know
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  you can do, how you can process accountability, how you can process your
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  feelings. You know, because my background is in psychology, so coloring is
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  very therapeutical. Yes, yes, so, and having these affirmation I am
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  creative. A lot of kids need that. I got purpose, a lot
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  of kids need to understand that. Alex needed to understand that about himself.
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  So you have a question from someone in it that's viewing. They said,
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  that's sweet, how does your How does your son feel about being a part
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  of your book? Oh? He loves it. He's nineteen now. And
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  he was like, you know, because I made him the co author as
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  well, so and y'all he is so cute and handsome. Yeah, he
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  absolutely loves the fact that he's a part of the story, you know.
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  And he looks back and he goes, you know what I did do that
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  then? And I'm like, yeah, you did, you did that and
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  that was hilarious. So you know what, we ain't even gonna take no
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  break tonight. I hope you don't mind. We just so enjoy speaking to
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  you. But you know, nobody told you before we got online that the
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  second half or usually have those fun questions. Uh huh. So here are
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  our fun questions. Okay, if you can choose any Disney character, please
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  thankful? Who would it be? And why? Oh, let's see any
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  Disney character. You know, we had to do Disney because we talking about
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  the Kittles tonight. I know, Oh my gook this so Disney has so
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  many Oh but I personally thought the genie from a Latin Oh, you know
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  what, that would be good because he taught it was a lot of lessons
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  learned in that, right, A lot a lot of lessons learned from him,
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  because yeah, because he took Aladdin through a series of okay, you
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  do this, this is what's gonna happen, and at the end it was
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  all about acceptance. Yeah, so that's why I thought. So who do
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  you think I was thinking about? The Princess and the frog? Oh?
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  Yeah, which one are you talking about? The Prince? The Prince Prince
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  Nabi? Oh, I can see that. Mm hmmm, I can see
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  that. I can see Yeah, I thought about him. You know.
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  So let's see if you can have any of the Disney characters be because you
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  know, all Disney characters have that little sidekick. Everybody has a side yea.
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  If anybody can be a sidekick for your son, or the character that
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  your son portrays in the book, or the character that is similar to your
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  son, who would it be? Oh, or you can make up one,
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  you can create your sidekick. Well listen, that would be but my
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  son Donald Duck. Why Donald? Even though I think Donald was the coolest,
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  I wasn't the big Mickey Mickey Mouse fan. I thought Donald was the
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  man. Yeah, it will, it will kind of be done. It
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  will kind of be done. Duck. It was because I I it was
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  just something about that duck that made me just I mean I just guess what
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  the joy and laughter? He yeah, that's yeah, Like I'm not the
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  duck to play with. But then at the same time, he was the
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  duck to play with. It was his the emotions that he always portrayed,
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  they got se Mickey was always happy and like Donald was true Donald, I
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  don't like you quack quite quack what you're about to do about it? You
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  know what I'm saying, right right, right right. It was like,
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  okay, this, this is where I stand. But it was justhilarious because
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  it was like it was like, really, you know, like why are
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  you so hate? Okay, Donald, I understand what you know. I
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  don't understand, but I see where you're coming from. Me and you we
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  can hang out together. Yes, I'm telling you. So, it would
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  be. It would be that I was a big when I was going on,
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  I was a big Disney thing. I read all the Disney books.
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  Really, yes, when I I mean I started reading Disney when I was
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  like four years old, that is what's I uh? And like I and
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  and then you know, of course I grew out of Disney. But and
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  and because I started wanting the mystery the novels the I started, I'm like,
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  oh, Nancy Drew by so what time I game to fourth grade?
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  I was into Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Okay, okay, So
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  it was never the love novels. Oh I couldn't stand there. But then
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  I always found myself going back to the imagination of little kids, like oh
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  wow, you know, going going back to that now they there's not that
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  much Nancy Drew, you know, like what we do have the books,
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  I would say that it's not that much of a Nancy Drew drive. Now
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  it's Maddic Treehouse. What's the other one, the comedy one that my daughter's
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  like, it's called the Weird School series that it has about maybe thirty to
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  forty books in it, and now it's coming back because the Hardy Boys all
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  their covers are being reinvented. I think Nancy Drew is going to be next.
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  I haven't seen them yet. By the Hardy Boys, all the covers
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  are being remade, so they're being reintroduced to the younger generation. Now,
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  just along with the Babysitters Club, they're being reintroduced to a younger generation.
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  So guess what, years years, years years down the line, your book
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  is going to be reintroduced to you. Yes, yes, And that's I'm
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  just so excited because and and and and me. I'm diverse, right,
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  I love uh, I love to read different things, and but one of
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  my favorite topics was always really going back reading about us, you know,
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  may Angela lifest and huge those people, and my all time favorite novel was
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  Roll of thunder here my cid. Oh my god, I remember that.
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  Yeah, be Unbroken. Oh we've read that in school together, and my
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  teacher had these reading comprehension questions. So every time you read a book now
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  you just problem shouts out to missus Newton, who still comes to the library
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  today, and miss Randall. Thank you guys for installing that love of books
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  and me, oh my god. Well, we are coming to the end
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  of our segment, but before we go, you are coming back because we
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  got to talk about these affirmations. So I think the Week of a Young
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  Reader is sometime in February. I will look that up tonight and we're gonna
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  set up some dates. Okay, that sounds great, but before we do
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  any of that, tell us how we can contact you follow you. And
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  they had a copy of that book and that affirmation guy twoks. So yes,
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  yes, my friend Bigfoot and the affirmation book, so you can you
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  can follow me. My name is Stacy Willis. You can follow me on
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  Facebook and then you can also follow me to see on Instagram. I think
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  i've Risen Risen something and Instagram Yeah, Risen twenty twenty twenty one, so
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  you can follow me. There you can also find the books on Amazon.
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  You can find them on there as well. I have if you if if
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  you want a copy, sign I have physical books here now that I was
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  signed for you, and if you was to buy one from me, I
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  got a special prize. I have a special prize that I am doing this
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  month for people who buy my book. So here's what we're gonna do.
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  I want you to send me all that information. Okay, we're gonna do
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  this freeplay. We're gonna send it out there. Send me all your links,
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  and we're gonna get some people to come and visit you on your site
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  and get that me being number one, Okay, seeing email sc book Gallonpriends
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  at gmail dot com. Go ahead and send me that information over and we're
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  gonna make it. Do what to do, y'all, Let's go ahead these
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  kids back because if you remember the status that I sent H think was last
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  Saturday about the how a lot of our kids high schools are reading on the
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  fourth grade level. Let's go ahead and start these kids back reading. How
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  I tell my daughter, just like we used to say back in the day,
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  you better know your books as well as you know them lyrics. Yes,
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  yeah, I don't listen to a bunch of milthy cyrus. So yes,
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  but I want to thank you for coming out with us tonight. Being
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  an African American children's author that is from the South, that is we are
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  yes girl. I want to thank you, thank you, thank you,
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  and you guys check the repay replay is going to have all our information.
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  I am going to make get my best to put out it tomorrow with the
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  links also on how you can purchase and get that special prize, because I
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  know that this will be the book that I get my daughter for this Christmas.
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  So again, miss Willis we thank you? And what's your son's name?
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  And my son name is Daniel, Hey Daniel, thank you for sharing
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  your mom with us tonight. You guys have a wonderful night. Again,
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  another show, another author, a new book might not be for you,
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  but for that little person in your life. Also, you guys remember December
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  one, we are starting to take the nomination for the twenty twenty three Aspiring
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  Author's Award. I know we had some problems last time with the actual broadcast,
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  but I redid it and with my producer we had it. If you
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  would like to, I will post a link out on the first, but
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  I will upload the actual presentations. You can see all the categories Wink wink.
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  We do have a children's author that you can nominate Wink Wink. Nominations
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  begin December first. We have so many categories. You guys, show your
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  literary heroes some love again. Thank you again, Miss Willis for being with
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  us another night in the books. You guys have a wonderful night, good
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  night bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a
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  new book to read or a new author to explore. Join us again in
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  two weeks for sc book. Gads and friends chat M. Have a good eating