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I CAN_T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING · CelinaSpookyBoo

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  Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Selina Myers, and I'm probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: say some things in this video that are not considered PC,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just how it was said to my parents
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  Speaker 1: in the early 2000s. That was a different time. If
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  Speaker 1: you were not alive then, apologize if you were. I
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  Speaker 1: also apologize. Not only was that the worst, but the
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  Speaker 1: best time to be alive. You see the title of
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  Speaker 1: this video. We're going to get to it. But I
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  Speaker 1: need to lead with something very important. I need to
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  Speaker 1: explain how I got to this situation. Let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to JK. I promise we're not going back that far,
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  Speaker 1: but we are for just a millisecond. Notes were sent
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  Speaker 1: home to parents. It said, read with your children. Read
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  Speaker 1: books with your children. My parents thought, yes, we will
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  Speaker 1: read to our children. They didn't think, hey, we should
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  Speaker 1: probably teach our kid how to read. I was the
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  Speaker 1: first child. They can't be expected of much. You read that,
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  Speaker 1: you think, yeah, I got it. It's fine. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Public school systems served as it does, and nobody realized
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't read anything until I was in grade two.
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  Speaker 1: Not even cat, dog, and then, no. At the same
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  Speaker 1: time as this, other teachers thought, Hey, Selena seems a
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  Speaker 1: little different. Different wasn't an interesting word. They also thought, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: she can't read. She must be, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm afraid to say, slow. My grade two teacher, Mrs. Darby,
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  Speaker 1: went to my mother and said, hey, I think Selena
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  Speaker 1: might be a CAP kid. So CAP kids were this
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  Speaker 1: phenomenon that happened in the early 2000s. And it was
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  Speaker 1: children's with, in the word CAP, central, honorary, processing issues.
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  Speaker 1: Every single kid, that they sent to test for this
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  Speaker 1: was positive for this. Oh my God. And the way
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  Speaker 1: they explained it to my parents, this is what they,
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  Speaker 1: they sat them down. They said, okay, this is, This
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  Speaker 1: is how this works. This is how central artery processing
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  Speaker 1: issues work. If you talk about butterflies and you switch
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  Speaker 1: to bears, Selena will still think you're talking about butterflies
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time. It's going to take her a
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  Speaker 1: long time to process and get to that finish line
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  Speaker 1: that we have changed subjects. And the way they explain
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  Speaker 1: to my mom is, again, she's just a little slow,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting. And you know what's weird?
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  Speaker 1: They said that it had to do with how I
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  Speaker 1: could hear out of different ears. So... I spent the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my school career, at least until high school,
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the front left side of the classroom. Tell me. Explain.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And they would set up a Bristol
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  Speaker 1: board because I was having attention deficit issues. Here's the thing, though. Nobody,
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  Speaker 1: not a single soul, diagnosed me with ADHD until I
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  Speaker 1: sought it out in college. Anyways, that was the least
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  Speaker 1: of my problems at this point. They sat me at
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  Speaker 1: the front of the classroom. In the left seat, and
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  Speaker 1: get this, I was not allowed to copy notes from
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  Speaker 1: the chalkboard. No, I was a cap kid. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. That was too hard for me. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: too hard to copy things from the board onto paper. So,
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  Speaker 1: my friend Stephanie, she took the best notes. they would
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  Speaker 1: photocopy her notes and they would give them to me.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, and this is another thing that I'm afraid
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  Speaker 1: to say because you're gonna get mad at me, but
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  Speaker 1: this is just what my mom said to me in
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  Speaker 1: the early 2000s. She sat me down and she said, Selena,
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  Speaker 1: all we want you to be is average. You are
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  Speaker 1: a cap kid. The world needs burger flippers too. It's okay,
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  Speaker 1: don't try too hard. that okay maybe that's changed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit but that is pretty much exactly what my
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  Speaker 1: mom said to me and i just wasn't held to
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  Speaker 1: a higher standard like my brother my brother the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: wonderful i love my brother joel he's a golden child
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  Speaker 1: i love him called him the golden child our lives
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  Speaker 1: like they say two kids can grow up in the
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  Speaker 1: same family and be raised completely different we were my
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  Speaker 1: parents did their best with me but they also didn't
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  Speaker 1: set their intentions very high with me but I got confused, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because it was very clear that once I learned to read,
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  Speaker 1: in grade two, they taught me how to read, I
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  Speaker 1: picked it up instantly. Not only did I love to read,
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  Speaker 1: I became obsessed with books. I would go to the
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  Speaker 1: Woodstock Public Library, and I would get a stack of
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  Speaker 1: chapter books this high, and I would read them all
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  Speaker 1: in a week, and I would do it every single week.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. Then I started to write, and by
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  Speaker 1: the time I got into grade, I'd say 10, I
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  Speaker 1: was taking academic English, I was getting fantastic marks in English,
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  Speaker 1: and I absolutely loved it. I loved writing stories, I
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  Speaker 1: loved learning about different pieces of literature through time, and
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  Speaker 1: I was obsessed with books. This was about the same
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  Speaker 1: time Audible was around, I was listening to books, I
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  Speaker 1: was pirating them from the internet. All I knew is
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  Speaker 1: that I loved books, and I loved to write. My
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  Speaker 1: head was full of stories. But, again, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't taken that seriously. Even though, get this, in
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  Speaker 1: grade three, in grade three, I had my first poem
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  Speaker 1: published in a book that was sold nationwide. And it
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  Speaker 1: was called, What is White? It was not a racist poem, okay?
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  Speaker 1: It was not. It was about snow and paper. Explain
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  Speaker 1: that to me. I don't know. My brain did it.
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  Speaker 1: So now here's an interesting fact. A lot of you
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  Speaker 1: guys know me for sleepwalking. Dad jokes. I remember something
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  Speaker 1: important to tell you. What's up? I want to get
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  Speaker 1: a job cleaning mirrors. It's something I really can see
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  Speaker 1: myself doing. Sorry, I can see myself doing. And tie-dye.
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  Speaker 1: It's tie-dye time, brothers! You guys know me for comedy
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  Speaker 1: that I do on the internet, but what you guys
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  Speaker 1: don't know is before all of that, I was writing
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  Speaker 1: books nobody read because no one knew who I was.
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  Speaker 1: Clue number one, The Home Reader. I wrote this in
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  Speaker 1: my early 20s, and this was a book about being
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  Speaker 1: a home reader, which is, to other people, best way
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  Speaker 1: I can explain it is partially a medium slash psychic
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  Speaker 1: slash something. It's terribly written, but hey, I wrote this
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  Speaker 1: when I was practically a teenager. Over the years, I
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  Speaker 1: wrote a couple more books. We had Clandestine House and
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  Speaker 1: we also had Blackwick Falls. We got ghosts, we got witches.
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  Speaker 1: But once I got popular on TikTok, I knew that
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  Speaker 1: there was a story that had lived inside of me
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  Speaker 1: my entire life that I wanted to bring out. Because
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  Speaker 1: like many of you, raise your hand in the comments
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  Speaker 1: if this is you, I am obsessed with Twilight. I
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  Speaker 1: am obsessed with vampire diaries. I just love all the
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  Speaker 1: tropes in those books. And I had a story that
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  Speaker 1: had been building inside of me for years. The thing
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  Speaker 1: with vampires is they're always cut down to a certain
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  Speaker 1: kind of people. I wanted there to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of inclusivity here, but I wanted to write something that
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  Speaker 1: was so juicy. And instead of a girl falling in
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  Speaker 1: love with two boys, we have a girl that's falling
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  Speaker 1: in love with a guy and a girl. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Is it just bisexual panic inside of me? It probably is.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not going to lie. For the first time
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  Speaker 1: in my life, out of all the books that I
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  Speaker 1: have ever written, Hollow, let me get through the first edition.
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  Speaker 1: Hollow is the best book I've ever written. And I
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  Speaker 1: love it. And I'm already working on the second one.
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  Speaker 1: I had self-published this. This is the vibe that it
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  Speaker 1: gives off. Very ho-wa-ho-wa-ho-wa. It was out for a bit
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  Speaker 1: when I got an email. So I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: so freaking honest and clear here. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: sound a little selfish. But I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: my three biggest dreams of my whole entire life. I
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  Speaker 1: have done a lot of things. I've done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of really cool things and I have achieved a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my dreams, but I have a top three. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here they are. First one was to have a family,
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  Speaker 1: you know, husband, baby. It finally came true. Incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I'm so thankful. And that would not have
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  Speaker 1: happened without you guys. Next up, I really want a screenplay,
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  Speaker 1: which I am writing now. I've been working on them
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  Speaker 1: to become a movie. To be not just a movie
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  Speaker 1: that like I produce, like a movie that somebody picks up.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm talking something big like Blumhouse or A24 or Neon,
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  Speaker 1: something huge like that. Because I love to write and
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  Speaker 1: I think I can write them something they like. But
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  Speaker 1: if you were to ask me, hey, Selena, what is
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing you want to be taken serious
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  Speaker 1: for in your life? What would it be? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: I want people to love my writing. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be taken seriously as a writer because here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: What comes here and comes out of my mouth, not
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  Speaker 1: the same. What comes out of here and comes out
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  Speaker 1: of my fingers, eloquent as heck. See, I don't write
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  Speaker 1: like I sound. I promise you that right now. I
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  Speaker 1: got an email last summer. We were actually filming House
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  Speaker 1: on Eden and it was from, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now, I almost freaking passed out. It
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  Speaker 1: was from HarperCollins, one of the big three huge publishers
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  Speaker 1: in in the whole entire world, and they said, we
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  Speaker 1: love hollow, pull it, let's make it better, let's put
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  Speaker 1: it back out in the world. So this is just
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  Speaker 1: a proof, okay? This is a proof, but this is
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  Speaker 1: what the book's gonna look like. It's going to be hardcover.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna have sprayed edges with blood. It looks so good.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
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  Speaker 1: These have been going out to people. Lots of people
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  Speaker 1: have read this, but my dream... is to be on
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  Speaker 1: the New York bestseller list. That is out of all
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  Speaker 1: my dreams, other than family, like I have my three
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  Speaker 1: top dreams. That is my three top dreams. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to be on the New York bestseller list, which
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  Speaker 1: I know is going to be hard because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have bought this book back in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: but it is going to be such a collector's piece.
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  Speaker 1: But along with that, I have to tell you the
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  Speaker 1: absolute craziest thing that happened in the whole world, but
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  Speaker 1: I must preface with this. I have a front bathroom
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  Speaker 1: in my house, okay? And when I moved in three
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I cut pages out of Hollow, I cut
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  Speaker 1: pages out of Twilight, and I cut pages out of
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  Speaker 1: Vampire Diaries. And I did the wallpaper in this bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: just in these three books pages. And I mixed my
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  Speaker 1: book with these vampire books because in my head, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to get me up there with the
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  Speaker 1: greats because I love this story. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: it's such a quick, fun, spooky, delicious kind of read.
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  Speaker 1: And the next book, like this is a teaser. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see this? It's not a small book, but like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: the next one's going to be huge, bro. Anyways, I
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  Speaker 1: would poop in there and I would manifest That this
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  Speaker 1: book would be taken seriously and it would get there
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  Speaker 1: and somebody would notice it and it would be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then HarperCollins emailed and it was amazing. And then
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  Speaker 1: an even better thing happened, okay? Vampire Diaries books. Read
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  Speaker 1: them all 10 times. Not gonna lie, I love the
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  Speaker 1: Twilight movies. The books, they're great. But I will choose
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  Speaker 1: the Vampire Diary books over Twilight any freaking day of
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  Speaker 1: the week. Apologies, sorry. I love LJ Smith. I love
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  Speaker 1: all the series. Daughters of Darkness. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've read all of LJ Smith's books, but they are incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I said, please, can you reach out and see if
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  Speaker 1: she will read my book and say anything about my book?
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  Speaker 1: And she did. They emailed me and said, wow, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect to get this much. LJ Smith had written
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  Speaker 1: a letterhead of magic about my book. And I bawled
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  Speaker 1: and I bawled and I bawled for days. And I
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  Speaker 1: ended up emailing her back. And a week later... I
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  Speaker 1: got the email that LJ Smith had passed away. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: that my book was probably one of the last things
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  Speaker 1: she ever read and endorsing my book was one of
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  Speaker 1: the last things she did. Well, forever be the most
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  Speaker 1: honored I have ever felt in my entire life. We
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  Speaker 1: have a little blurb here that's on the front, which
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  Speaker 1: is crazy, and it says, Brilliant new vampire lore. Spine tingling. L.J. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to share like the entire thing, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you another sentence that she had said. A
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  Speaker 1: fresh look at the vampire scene was some brilliant new
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  Speaker 1: vampire lore. Myers has a lean, deft way with words
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  Speaker 1: that engrosses you all the way to the end. Spine-tingling. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: it is a great and unpredictable ride. It features a
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  Speaker 1: look at the dark underbelly of vampire politics and betrayals,
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  Speaker 1: but also of strength and goodness. The lore reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of Anne Rice's interview with the vampire. You will be
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly entertained. She literally put moments that she liked in
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  Speaker 1: the book. Like, yes, the liquid looked like blood. Wow, spine-tingling.
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  Speaker 1: Other great moments when Mia wakes up in her coffin
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  Speaker 1: after dying and the introductions afterwards. Double wow. Mia's first
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  Speaker 1: kiss with a certain high school sweetheart, touching and heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 1: Hollow has so many meanings, so creepy, and no spoilers,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some doozies in the end. I just
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  Speaker 1: have goosebumps thinking about it and knowing that she's not here.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel this unbelievable urgency that, like, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like a predecessor and I need to create things and
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  Speaker 1: not let these tropey vampire delicious moments die. And I just, um,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you a favor. That's all that
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  Speaker 1: this leads to and that is the truth. And the
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  Speaker 1: favor is pre-order my book. Pre-order it. I want Hollow
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  Speaker 1: to live on. I want to write so many versions
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  Speaker 1: of it. I want this story to live. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want it to be two books, three books, four books.
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  Speaker 1: I want this vampire universe to go on. It bleeds
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  Speaker 1: with real life. That's the one thing that I do
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  Speaker 1: with vampires that I feel other people don't do. I
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  Speaker 1: make my vampires feel like it could be your next
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  Speaker 1: door neighbor. I make it feel like it could be
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  Speaker 1: that person in school. I make it really believable. And
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  Speaker 1: there are reviews out there that are so freaking good.
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  Speaker 1: There's reviews out there that are so bad. And I
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  Speaker 1: need to understand that as a writer that people are
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  Speaker 1: going to hate it and people are going to love it.
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  Speaker 1: But what I love most is that people gave it
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  Speaker 1: a chance. And people read it. Which is... It's absolutely awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope you love it. I have links everywhere
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  Speaker 1: where you can go and you can pre-order Hollow, but
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  Speaker 1: my dream is to be on the New York bestseller list.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be number one, I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be two or three or four,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that's being greedy, but I believe in Hollow.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely believe in the next Hollow book. This I
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  Speaker 1: wrote five years ago. I'm barely that person anymore. Four
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  Speaker 1: years ago, almost five. I'm barely her anymore. And I
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  Speaker 1: read this and I love it. But knowing what's happening
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  Speaker 1: in the second book right now gives me freaking goosebumps.
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  Speaker 1: So if you love me and if I've ever made
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  Speaker 1: you laugh and you want to get yourself a little
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  Speaker 1: Christmas present or get it for someone else, the pre-orders
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  Speaker 1: are happening now and the books are going to be
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  Speaker 1: coming out soon. on January 13th. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be going on a freaking book tour. So I am
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: going to be going to some locations. You are going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see them right here. And there
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  Speaker 1: are going to be QR codes beside them for you
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  Speaker 1: to scan. I'm not sure if the Canadian dates are
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  Speaker 1: up yet, but you will be able to buy tickets
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  Speaker 1: for the Canadian dates coming up pretty soon. It's also
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  Speaker 1: crazy to go on a book tour because I've never
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  Speaker 1: done anything publicly that wasn't with like Chris or something.
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  Speaker 1: So going out all by myself, I'm so scared people
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  Speaker 1: aren't going to show up. I want to hug everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And love everyone and kiss everyone. And I just, um,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for giving me a chance.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have read Hollow, please drop down below.
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  Speaker 1: what you thought of it you guys built this life
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  Speaker 1: with me together we all worked hard for everything that
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  Speaker 1: i've achieved and i would love to see hollow on
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  Speaker 1: the big screens i would love for hollow to fill
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  Speaker 1: the hole that we have all felt since there's been
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  Speaker 1: no twilight movies and no new vampire diaries let's have
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  Speaker 1: hollow be the next thing and no it's not chris
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  Speaker 1: on the cover everybody thinks it is and i totally
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  Speaker 1: see it now but if you want to know chris
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  Speaker 1: is a character in this book so there are going
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  Speaker 1: to be some familiar names in here and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to know exactly who they are i love you guys
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for giving me a chance. Until next time. Bye,
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  Speaker 1: Boo Crew! I'm a vampire, get it? Bye!