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BONUS SHOW ON DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2 _ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 7: Everyone is your girl Scie book out eight four three?
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  Speaker 7: And you guys, it is a Saturday night and.
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  Speaker 2: We are here this tonight.
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  Speaker 7: It is gonna be a little special because I'm gonna
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  Speaker 7: tell y'all about something that's going to be happening here
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  Speaker 7: in Charleston, South Carolina. You guys, I personally have never
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  Speaker 7: seen African American authors in one place. Okay, Now, I
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  Speaker 7: am just so excited for AA LAC and the crew.
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  Speaker 7: Aspiring authors are going to be here in North Charleston,
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  Speaker 7: South Carolina. So that means y'all, the crew is coming
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  Speaker 7: to the Chuck Yo. And yes, we call Charleston Chucktown.
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  Speaker 7: So if you're a native from Charleston, we all know
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  Speaker 7: it's called Chucktown. So you guys have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 7: come and talk about your book.
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  Speaker 6: What we talk about health, what we be talking about.
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  Speaker 7: Literacy, we will be networking, we will be together, all
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  Speaker 7: in one spot.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So let's give you a little.
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  Speaker 7: Line up of what's going on, a little timeline, as
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  Speaker 7: we may say. So right now you have the chance
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: If you look at any of our social media those
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  Speaker 7: who are in the South Carolina crew, you have Trivida Harris, Latayan,
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  Speaker 7: Michelle little John, and you have me Patrese Grimble, and
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  Speaker 7: then you also have the Queen of Collaborations herself, Angela
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  Speaker 7: Thomas Smith. So that fly has all the information you
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  Speaker 7: may need to want to be a part of this event.
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  Speaker 7: Now you're thinking, why in the world would I want
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  Speaker 7: to be a part of this event?
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  Speaker 6: Because this is going to be life changing people.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not a group.
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  Speaker 7: That's just coming to one spot. We are knocked down
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  Speaker 7: two cities. Okay, let's say two states. By say we
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  Speaker 7: knocked down we knocked down California, and we knocked down Texas,
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  Speaker 7: and now we bring it to South Carolina. Okay, so y'all, no,
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  Speaker 7: it's about to be lit. Okay, you could be a vendor, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: we are looking for vendors Let's say you always wanted
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  Speaker 7: to get out there and put your business in the spotlight. Well,
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  Speaker 7: here is your opportunity to do just that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: You can get your venitable right now. It is seventy
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  Speaker 7: five dollars okay, but later on in September that price
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  Speaker 7: is gonna go up. But also remember that space is limited. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: So you got it. You gotta get it together, okay.
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  Speaker 7: And let me tell you one more thing before I
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  Speaker 7: bring on my children's person, because you know, August were
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  Speaker 7: all about the kids, and this is the last day
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  Speaker 7: of August, so you know we gotta end it right you.
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  Speaker 7: We are also looking for those who are branders, okay,
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  Speaker 7: because this is event. We also want you to learn
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  Speaker 7: how to market yourself, market your brand, promote your brand,
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  Speaker 7: and then also be able to so should network and
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  Speaker 7: networking person. So we're gonna have people that are gonna
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  Speaker 7: be there having panel discussions. So I'm telling you, if
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  Speaker 7: you want this opportunity to come up to another level,
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  Speaker 7: just to get that little push, you want to be
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  Speaker 7: there October nineteenth at the Mino Crosby Building off a
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  Speaker 7: Piedmont Drive here in North Charlseta, South Carolina. Okay, so
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  Speaker 7: on not a Saturday night. So you know, I have
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  Speaker 7: to bring.
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  Speaker 2: A new author.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, it's all about the kids this month. And she
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  Speaker 7: has a serious called young Janie. Okay, you guys. She
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  Speaker 7: has the beautiful smile and she's so sweet, and I
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  Speaker 7: am honored to have her with us tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I am introducing author Cassandra Charles.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, my sweetie, Hello, how are you? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me tonight. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 7: So first, you know, you got to tell us a
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  Speaker 7: little bit about yourself, So go ahead and give us down.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So I know we're we're talking about children,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll circle back a little bit. So I am
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  Speaker 4: author Cassandra Charles. I am an urban romance and erotica author.
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  Speaker 4: And I have about twelve books published books, and I
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  Speaker 4: have six journals and when I and and I have
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  Speaker 4: a line of novelty items. And I noticed that no
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  Speaker 4: one under eighteen could read any of my stuff or
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  Speaker 4: really appreciate it. And my stuff, I have nieces, I
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  Speaker 4: have nephews, I have you know, I have all these
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  Speaker 4: kids around me.
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  Speaker 2: And I came up with this idea to do.
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  Speaker 4: A spinoff of my just a backstory, my full catalog
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  Speaker 4: is sent her around, looks the wrong way, sent her around.
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  Speaker 4: This character here, Jamie Reynolds. So it's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like the seven the Kevin Bacon Game
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  Speaker 4: of books. So you have Jamie Reynolds, she's the main character,
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  Speaker 4: and everyone interacts at some point in.
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  Speaker 2: The book about her.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's a sixth book series or if it's a standalone,
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  Speaker 4: it's some kind of interaction with her. X of an
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  Speaker 4: ex of a friend of a friend knew her kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing. So I was like, where do I go
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  Speaker 4: if I try to get into the children's world. So
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  Speaker 4: I came up with the concept of young Jamie. So
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  Speaker 4: before she before she became Jamie Reynolds chronicles in the
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  Speaker 4: urban romance and erotica, she was a young girl from
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  Speaker 4: Brooklyn that Jesse used to be really curious and.
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  Speaker 2: Just enjoyed life and kind of doing kid things.
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  Speaker 4: So I always make a joke and say, so I
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  Speaker 4: was raised in Brooklyn and born and raised in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of loosely based on like things that
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  Speaker 4: I did growing up, what I used to love. I
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  Speaker 4: used to love Tony's Pizza, which was my favorite pizza shop.
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  Speaker 4: I love going to the park. I love, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just kind of playing on the stoop with my sisters
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  Speaker 4: and just doing those kind of free, you know, free
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  Speaker 4: things that we did growing up.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what this book is about.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's a little different because it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of interactive. So it asks questions because I want kids
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  Speaker 4: to be able to learn about themselves. So it says, Hi,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jamie. What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: So it's allowing the kids to respond back saying, my
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  Speaker 2: name is Cassandra Charles. You know I'm four. How old
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  Speaker 2: are you? I'm four? So it just allows the kid
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  Speaker 2: to kind of go back and forth.
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  Speaker 4: And I always try to do things a little bit
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  Speaker 4: different in my in my world as an author, so yes,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of my story again.
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  Speaker 2: Born and raised in Brooklyn, is an avid reader.
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  Speaker 4: I've been reading for a very very long time, and
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  Speaker 4: I said, why not try this whole writing journey. First
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  Speaker 4: book came out in twenty fifteen, and here I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still in the business and I still love reading
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  Speaker 4: and writing, and I'm really excited to continue my journey
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  Speaker 4: and see, like how what's what I do next in
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  Speaker 4: my life.
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  Speaker 7: So okay, so let me stop you first of all,
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  Speaker 7: talk about well brownded.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know what. No, I love that.
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  Speaker 7: I love that that you take the whole family in consideration. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I think that is beautiful. I really love that. You
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  Speaker 7: know me, you gonna have to have a talk down
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  Speaker 7: about your Robert books. But that's a different show exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 7: So what I understood that you wrote these books for
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  Speaker 7: the little people in your life. What was their reaction
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  Speaker 7: to Auntie writing a book for them?
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  Speaker 4: I think since they don't know Auntie writes books for adults,
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  Speaker 4: they don't know that side of me, they just thought
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  Speaker 4: it was really really cool.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember connected with my.
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  Speaker 4: Niece and and she's eight, so she's not exactly in
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  Speaker 4: the age range. My age range is from like five
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  Speaker 4: and under. And I was like, do you like this character?
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  Speaker 4: Can you this the young the little Jamie? I said,
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  Speaker 4: can you can you relate to this character? And I
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  Speaker 4: sent her like two different kids, and she was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I like her, She's pretty, she has here like me,
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  Speaker 4: like you know.
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  Speaker 2: It was like little key things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like, I'm you know, I'm writing a
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  Speaker 4: book and they were like, oh, that's so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I want to write a book. So I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they understood like what I was doing.
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  Speaker 4: They kind of made it seem like I'm just writing
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  Speaker 4: the coloring book and you can write my two kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing. But yeah, so once they got done and
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  Speaker 4: I showed them the finished product, and I'm like, remember
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  Speaker 4: when we talked about this little girl here and they
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  Speaker 4: was like, oh, she's so pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I like her shirt I told you to do.
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  Speaker 2: Think I told him I was gonna do pink anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: but like, oh, I told you to do pink. And
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  Speaker 2: so I mean, I don't really think they grasp what
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 4: And I think I have a lot more family and
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  Speaker 4: parents like appreciate, like kind of take me serious as
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  Speaker 4: an author because now they can physically see something in color.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess I'm not offending the family.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really know, but but you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: been fun, and you know, I try my best to
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  Speaker 4: open up for feedback and ask questions and like how
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  Speaker 4: long would the book be? And you know, would you
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  Speaker 4: read a book like this? And what do you like
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  Speaker 4: to do when you read a book? What do you
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  Speaker 4: like to see?
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  Speaker 2: And they're like colors and a lot of little things.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, so I kind of followed, I guess
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  Speaker 4: the advice of like a six year old.
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  Speaker 2: And a nine year old trying to write this book.
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  Speaker 7: So you had a little mini focus group.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 7: But that's great because you actually took their their input
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  Speaker 7: and I love that that shows them that, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 7: someone's listening. And the fact that your character and y'all
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  Speaker 7: know me. I say this every week since I've been
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  Speaker 7: doing children's authors. I have a twenty one year old
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  Speaker 7: son and a nine year old daughter. So when my
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  Speaker 7: twenty one year old was nine, the books were The
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  Speaker 7: Dog and the Little White Boy. Yeah, as all of
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  Speaker 7: us were, you know, as we had to work with.
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  Speaker 7: But I am so proud to be able to give
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  Speaker 7: my nine year old daughter these little girls who look
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  Speaker 7: just like her. Yeah, and the fact that some of
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  Speaker 7: the characters have My daughter has locks, the characters have locks.
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  Speaker 7: I am so honored to be able to read her
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  Speaker 7: her book and she's able to relate that better than
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  Speaker 7: my son. I usually have to get him books that
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  Speaker 7: was comedy because he likes it made him laugh. But
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't able to give him the books that I
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  Speaker 7: felt that he would enjoy being an African American male.
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  Speaker 7: So how does it feel to be a part of
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  Speaker 7: this diverse error.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean representation absolutely matters.
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  Speaker 4: I think that is absolutely key, and I agree with you,
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  Speaker 4: just to be able to see or have my books
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  Speaker 4: along the shelves of like other authors and other black
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  Speaker 4: and brown faces that looks like us. And I actually
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  Speaker 4: saw a book recently with a black character with you
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  Speaker 4: know when you have like the pigment, like your your
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  Speaker 4: oh my goodness, like.
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  Speaker 2: The spots and it was just so beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: That it was like, you know, like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I can't think of what they're what they're called a bino.
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  Speaker 4: It's like atino. It was just such another one had spots.
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  Speaker 4: It was just such a beautiful and it was the
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  Speaker 4: Imperfection book. So I love the fact that this is
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  Speaker 4: a safe space for us to be unique and to
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  Speaker 4: be different, and for us authors too.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was excited to see that. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: even though you know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know anyone in my circle that looks like that,
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  Speaker 4: but that is a look that is normal for us
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  Speaker 4: to see on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just so beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: When you talk about representation. It's so beautiful to see
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  Speaker 4: that because, yes, growing up, we did not have that
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  Speaker 4: at all. I know you're talking about from your son's
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  Speaker 4: point of view. I'm talking about from my own point
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  Speaker 4: of view. I didn't have that, you know, I mean honestly,
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  Speaker 4: And I do believe me personally, and I don't think
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  Speaker 4: I have low self esteem, but I do believe personally
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  Speaker 4: I have a false perception sometimes of what beauty is.
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  Speaker 4: And that's because growing up, I didn't see black and
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  Speaker 4: brown faces as beautiful. I saw Barbie's and I saw
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  Speaker 4: these other characters that you had to be skinny, or
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  Speaker 4: you had to have long hair, or you know, you
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  Speaker 4: couldn't really see your authentic self. So I love the
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  Speaker 4: fact that we're pushing such a positive narrative on this
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  Speaker 4: generation to be yourself, to be and black is beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm telling my nieces and my nephew, I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: at this little character and I'm just like, she's so
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  Speaker 4: cute to me, Like she's beautiful, she has natural hair.
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  Speaker 4: You know, she has representation. My parents are from Trinidad
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  Speaker 4: and Tobago, so for the Trindadian's out there, hello, happy
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  Speaker 4: Independence Day today. But she has on a Jidney bead
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  Speaker 4: So for those who are from the Islands, you will
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  Speaker 4: know the reason why a little black girl will wear
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  Speaker 4: a Jitney beads or you know, little things like that
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  Speaker 4: that represents a culture. Even in her bedroom she has
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a like a Trinidad. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: flag in her bedroom. It's like little things like that.
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  Speaker 4: I want people to look back and start pulling out,
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  Speaker 4: Like my room looks like that. Oh I have a
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  Speaker 4: flag too, And I just I think representation twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: four is as crazy as this world is.
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that.
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  Speaker 4: These are some of the positive things that we can
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  Speaker 4: definitely pull out because we didn't have this. We didn't
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  Speaker 4: have natural back then. We have less fast and fair
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  Speaker 4: as hard we have think so and we had red skill.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we didn't have nude. So it's like to
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  Speaker 4: see this now is a beautiful thing. So I'm super
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  Speaker 4: excited to be a part of that journey with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we had what do we.
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  Speaker 6: Have back then?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Lord, I'm aged myself.
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  Speaker 8: I had Sweet Valley High YEP and Babysitters Club now
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  Speaker 8: even the babysitters Club Now I work at a public library,
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  Speaker 8: so it's so cool to see the Babysitters Club with
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  Speaker 8: all the different skin types this week.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and they even took it a step further. For
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  Speaker 7: those of our kids that are reluctant readers readers, we
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  Speaker 7: have crapping novels.
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  Speaker 6: My daughter with tear about four or five of those
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  Speaker 6: things up.
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  Speaker 7: It is ridiculous how she does it, but she likes it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one of the characters name is Mia.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Mia.
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  Speaker 7: That's that's one of her favorite characters. So what how
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  Speaker 7: do you describe your ideal book reader.
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  Speaker 2: For my children's book?
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  Speaker 7: Of my book, I would be the adult book, but
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, honestly, I say zero to five because
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  Speaker 4: really and truly the book is designed for a child
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  Speaker 4: to learn about themselves. So I said zero to five
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  Speaker 4: because I feel like the spectrum of learning styles are
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  Speaker 4: so so different now. So you know, you may have
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  Speaker 4: a two year old that knows how to say their
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  Speaker 4: first and last name, they know what city they live in,
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  Speaker 4: they know what state they live, and they know how
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  Speaker 4: old they are. You may have a one year old
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  Speaker 4: does stem and then you also may have not have
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  Speaker 4: a person until they're four or five that know this
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  Speaker 4: So my ideal applicant who can read, my ideal reader
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  Speaker 4: is really a mom who wants to have their child
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  Speaker 4: learn about themselves and the best way possible. And it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter what age that is, because again, you can
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  Speaker 4: start incorporating this book as early as a one year old,
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  Speaker 4: even though they may or may not be able to speak.
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  Speaker 4: They can relate to the colors on here, they could
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  Speaker 4: relate to the character that looks like them. And again
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: it starts off with basic stuff like this book belongs
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: to and then the child will write it in. So
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a two year old may not be writing, but a
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: five year old could be writing. So you'll write your
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: name in here, and then again it just goes and
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: it goes into she's introducing, so she's saying, hey, this
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: is my bedroom, and it says why am I keep
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: doing this? It says, Hi, my name is Jamie and
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I'm four years old?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: How old are you? So as a parent, you're reading
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this to your child and you can say you're two.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: And then when the child is able to write in too,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: whether you spell a two, write in the number two,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: they can write it in. So it literally will grow
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: with you as you from like a one year old,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: two year old all the way up to five, because
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: then they will be like they will read for you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: There's also sight words in here that students will learn.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: How loose, so there is I am those are sight words, yes,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: so like little things like that are kind of incorporated.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: And then I changed the colors from page to page.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: And this is if you were born and raised in Brooklyn.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: This is supposed to be like a Brooklyn stoop. It's
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: not exactly, but it's nice and colorful and it represents
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: a city that I am born and raised in. It's
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: just like the colors the Brownstone. This is supposed to
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: be like a Brownstone, and then it it and I
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: feel like even for parents, if you're.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Born and raised in Brooklyn, or you're a little.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Bit older like my like us, there's always that random
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: lady on the stoop.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, it kind of just grew up on the block.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: She's reading her papers, she's drinking some tea. So it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: like a little kind of like funny characters. So my
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: idel reader is going to be a mom that is
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: excited to have her his or her daughter or son
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: learn about themselves, but also excited to pull out sight.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Words or have them reading and have them writing. So
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: it's all kind of fun things in here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: And then you know I did incorporate you know, like
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I like pizza. It's my favorite thing to eat. Why
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: because most kids that's their favorite things to eat. But
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: you know it couldn't be. But then they go to
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: the park and she makes friends at the park and
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: she asks her friends like, Hi, my name is Jamie.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: What's your name? So she's really.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Going up and she's learning about herself. She's excited. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: even have like a there's a part in here where
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: she was about to eat something and her mom said, wait,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: you didn't wash your hands, So her and her sister
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: go into the bathroom and they sing a washing hand song.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Since I didn't have the ability to copyright washing hand song,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I just say on here, you and your child read,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: read your favorite, sing your favorite wash your hand song together.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: So it's also teaching them how to wash their hands.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It's teaching them how to interact with you. Try to
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: build that relationship between mom AND's daughter or son and
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: you know, father and son, et cetera. So if you're
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: a good reader and you want a child to learn
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: and be excited about themselves and again, you know, we
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: are in twenty twenty four and I hate to have
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: to even mention this, but it's really important for kids
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: at the earliest age to learn God. Forvid they get separated,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: they know their full name, they know what city they're in,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: they know who they live with.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: You know, you're not.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Supposed to just say I live with my mom and dad. Well,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: what's your mommy's name. You can't just say mommy. You
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: got to say, oh, my name is Cassandra Charles. So
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: those kind of things are in here as well, like
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: just kind of like elaborating what's your name, how old
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: are you?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite color?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I mean they're introductory questions, but as a parent you
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: should continue building on it. Like it says I live
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: in the state, it says the state I.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Live in New Jersey. I mean I live in New York.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Where do you live?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: And then the parents supposed to be responsible to say, well,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: this is a city we live in, this is how
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: addressed we live in.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: But things like that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: So so you I could see that you were very
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: intentional with this book. I was yes, even to the
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: handwriting lines that this seems like this would be a
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: great gift for someone who is a great Christmas gift,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: great Christmas kiss.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Reason being because.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: There's so much educational links in this book.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: I see the color changes that you spoke of, very
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: intentional helping learn how to color, the writing part, especially
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: the lines, very intentional, the the scenes, the interaction with
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: the I mean, they can still writing this book.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I mean I don't want to.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want to damage your book. But if I
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: was a parried.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: And you gave that book to me, I would literally
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: take that book and get elaminated, because that is a
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: book that can roll with your child. Yeah, they're he'll
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: change one minute, they would like the part. Next minute,
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: I could like the part who knows they might even move?
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: And if they're five, they're gonna change the name of
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: fifty million times. But I love the fact of how
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: intentional you are with that book. So have you Well
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: let's save that question for later. What was the hardest
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: part about doing a children's book?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: The illustration? Because you have a vision.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: So the character that was how I you know, for
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: for those who are looking, that's how I kind of
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: like found my designer. I gave them like a mock up,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: like I'm looking for an African American girl, pigtails, hoop bearings,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you know, kind of like semi rounded face, like did
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: it up?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So?
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: And then I just I paid like a few artists,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: very around four artists, just to see what their vision was.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: If I can just physically describe she needs to be
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: you know, she's four and she's you know, so I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: physically described, and I was trying to see what they
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: came up with. And then I sent them some generic
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: like oh, someone like this is cute or I like
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: her here, but I don't like her cheeks, so and
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I was curious to see what someone came up with.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: So the design aspect was probably the most challenging part
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: because even if you got the main character the visualization
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: in your head, and then when you see it on paper.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh no, it wasn't supposed to look like that,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: And it's just it's.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Hard because you don't have anything to go off outside
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: of saying, I mean the New York scene. I was like,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: it needs to be a New York a New York block,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, you know, what is that? And then
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, so it needs to be So it's
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: like these kind of elements was really difficult. But then
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I sat with this and I'm like, you know, to
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: make a New York block into a cartoon like this
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: is good.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: You know, this is great. So I really liked it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You know, a purple hydrant.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: You know. I added like pigeons in here, like sores
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: those I feel like once he did the mock up,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I think it just needed those elements of like, you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: the a tree stump or a bird or a pigeon
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: or a trash can thinks little.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it took about I mean, I'll probably say.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: And it was also my first book, so I plan
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: to use the designer for the rest of the series.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: But I do want to make it just like how
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: the Jamie Renal Chronicles has twelve books around the adult version,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I want the children's book to have a similar thing
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: where I'm making a series of it, so it's always
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: gonna be within the zero to five age and it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: just going to be more serious. So the next one
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do, which hasn't haven't started it yet,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: but it's gonna be a night time book. It's gonna
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: be like her routine at night, so it's gonna be
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: obviously brushing her teeth and saying her prayers or you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: putting her bonnet on, you know, reading a bedtime story,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and and it would be even like a checklist inside,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: like a mental checklist did you did you?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Did you brush your teeth? Check did you?
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: You know, just kind of like that, And I think
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I'm always going to keep it kind of hands on
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: or kind of like interactive between people. But I think now,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: so obviously the scene will be in her bedroom. We
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: already have the bedroom ironed out, so I feel like
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: the designer will be like, all right, we got.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: The bedroom scene already.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: All we now need to do is like a bathroom
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: scene or maybe switch up the angles a little bit.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping it's easier to continue moving on with
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: them with the journey.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and then this in my mind, cause I
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: try to do things different, I think this is going
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: to be a double sided book.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And let me explain.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: One side of the book is going to be a
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: morning and then when you flip it over, the other
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: side of the book would be a night.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: A morning read of like good morning, let's wake up,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: let's brush our teeth, let's get breakfast, let's get up,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: and then the night book the night side, so good night,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: so it'd be like a good morning, Hi, my name
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: is Jamie. Good morning, or good morning, my name is Jamie.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Good night, my name is Jamie.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: So like that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Again, I haven't figured out all of it, but that
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: is kind of like the direction that I'm gonna go,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and it's gonna drop next year because I'm working on
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: a big project this year and.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I just want it to be done.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: So once that's done, I can put my I can
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: get my head wrapped around. All right, let's focus back
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: on the kid's journal.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: I love the double concept.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I've seen it several times, but I've never seen it do.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Good at night.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: I've seen it the character does this.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: And then the character turns around that does another thing.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: So I love the double concept books.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: How do you you have this very much on point
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: adult book? What would literary success look like for your
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: children's books?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I mean, I feel like you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: and a lot of people may or may not agree
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: with this. It's not defined by the number of sales.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: For me, it's not defined by a number of sales.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be the impact it actually has on the community.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Like I want people to be excited that there's another
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: book coming out. I want people to when I do
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: book reads, I usually when I do children's reads, I
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: will pull a cat, like a little girl or a
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: little boy up there with me.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And I will ask some HOI my name is Jamie,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: what's your name? My name is so and so so.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I like that, to me is a good level of
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: success because I'm teaching young.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I'm doing what the book is supposed to do.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: And I still love meeting fans, I still love going
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: doing book reads.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: So those kind of things.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: If I can enhance it a little bit more, I'll
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: be happy with it and say it's successful.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: But most people will not agree with this.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: But like, I definitely don't come into the author's space
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: to be like rich, Like that's not my goal. I
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: really do this because I really love writing. I love
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: to express myself and it's such an outlet for me.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: It's like a stress reliever for me that I accomplished something.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I did something and people are and I say impressed,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: not that I need people to be impressed, but to
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: hear people hear that you have a series of children's
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: book they're like, wow, like that's inspiring, that's really really cool.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And you know, so I.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Don't really have like a like a true way to
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: say I've made it. I think doing podcasts like this
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: is enough for me selling, you know, having book sales,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: having people buy it for Christmas, or being able to
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: sell it at my table and actually sell out those
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: things in itself. And I often bring anywhere between six
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: to ten books of the children's books, and it's usually
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: right next to the adult books. And it's cool to
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: see that adults who pick up a book at my
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: table has everything for everyone. And now I have children's books.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: So that in itself is a level of success that
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: I did not think when I started this journey in
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: twenty fifteen that I will be here to say that
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I have.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: A whole line of books and journals and now with
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: children to see you.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: So I'm not saying I'm successful already, but I feel
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: like I'm at a good level of success with my journey.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: You are, you literally are successful because you you're an author
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: that I may not read any of your books, but
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: I will share every single time because you have that
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: genuine love for the art. I met an author and
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: it was not a good interaction. And she is a
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: New York bestseller. I will never read a book again.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: I will never promet her book. But you have a
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: genuine love for it, so you're already successful. Somebody said,
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: do you have a book to wake up for work
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: on Monday morning?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I need that book? I need that book. Can I
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: get the book that I had a program today and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I'm sleepy? Book? Because that would be for me. So
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: here's my fun questions.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: I send you guys questions all the time, and I
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: know you got your questions, my fine questions.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I did not send you all because I want you
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: guys to think on your feet.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: So you have your character. Your young character is a person.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: What children's actor or actress would be the character?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Children's
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm trying to She's not a child anymore,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: but she would have been perfect.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Okayoo, the little girl from Blackest. What's that little girl's.
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Name, Marseille Marchay.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know her last name?
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just because she was and I say
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: quirky very loosely. This is not I consider myself to
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: be quirky. So that's not an insult by any mean.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: She had this quirkiness of huh and a little bit
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: of a sass, but she was you know what I'm saying,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: and I feel like my and she was so genuine.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I mean yes, in the.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Very beginning she was very genuine, and towards the end
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: they kind of made her like she was you know,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: she was like threatening Charlie and stuff.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: But when she was really really young, she had this.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Pure innocence to her, And I feel like that is
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: definitely my character. Is just pure and innocent and just free.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: And she had very supportive parents and she was like
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: they fostered learning and growing. And I liked her in
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: that whole character, that whole who she was as the
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: individual on the show.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I like her. I'm trying to think, do
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Of any other youngish characters I like her?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I think I mean when she was like a young
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: kid and not she's a grown woman. Jo your money game.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: See if I could have choose a care a child star,
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: who I would have chosen? Oh God, what's the It's like,
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: I'm looking at the show. I'm looking at the show
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: right now as we speak. I'm looking at the show
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: Good Times, a younger version of Thelma.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, I chose that.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: And then it was another one. I was looking at
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: the daughter off of Bernie Max Show, the Youngest One, Brianna.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good one. And then also raving someone
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: when she was on the Cosby Show.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one that It just came to
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: me that would have been to go on. She was Olivia,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Olivia on the Olivia.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Yes, so of course you know your character she needs parents. Okay,
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: who would her parents be? Hey, mom was an actor
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: and her mom was an R and B singer.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: See my mind automatically goes to my favorite, my favorite,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: my favorite R.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And B artist is Mary day Blige.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: But I just can't see her in that motherly girl. Okay,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: so it would be so her mom is an R
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: and B singer.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, Oh lord, child, you brought me to the test today.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Who is I was gonna see all these questions.
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Saying let me see so somebody say flex for the mail.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I can see that. Flex, I can see him, Okay,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I can I can see that. Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: And then who would be the female? All right, guys,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: come on, chime in. Who could be the female singer
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: R and B singer, Well, I feel like I'm dating myself.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Huh, we could you choose Flex's wife.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Not now Denise Denise? Yes, I don't know. I like him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I feel like.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I'm dating myself because I mean.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Sadly, is R and B really the same? So I'm
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: when I think of R and B, I think of like,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: but it's R and B really the same? Like this
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: generation R and B, No, shame, just same.
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  Speaker 2: My head was a thinking kind of like older, you know,
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  Speaker 2: more season, but you know I'm here with you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still here with you because they do nowadays.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I can't keen.
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  Speaker 4: So what I was saying, I was like, who is
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: an arm By singer in twenty? Like, I mean, I
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: couldn't even I couldn't like, yeah, it's like, do y'all
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: even have r Andy a toy Toy four? Like?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: So?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: But you know who I like? Oh my goodness, what's her? Now?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I got nobody's name in my head. She's so pretty though,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Oh man, she's chocolate cocoa something.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: The one she's doing the live remake of The Princess
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: in the Coco Jones.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, he is. Yeah, I like, I like.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I just like her voice.
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  Speaker 4: He's very so for I think she's beautiful complexion, she's
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: very really pretty complexion wise, I'm always based on someone's
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: beauty of their complexion. I like a nice chocolate person
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: men and female. I'm like, I think you're just because
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I feel like again, we're in a world where now
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: like we're embracing like our our natural skin, like the
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: brownness of skin. So I love like beautiful dark chocolate,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: you know, like I think it's such a beautiful way
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: to represent beauty now.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's amazing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: So we're when we grow up, you know, light skin
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  Speaker 4: and long again.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: The rice skin. But oh I love Monica. I love Monica.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 7: And so you got two boats Monica, I wouldna I like.
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  Speaker 2: Though, you know, I rock with Monica.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I know the whole Monica Brandy. I'm sorry. I am
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: team Monica all the way. So I'm sorry, guys, but
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Rock with Monica. Though.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: So if Monica to Mama, we ain't got no choice
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: but to make Usha the daddy we want to make.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Look at you.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: This is the the daddy, child, Lord child.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Listen, this is a children's version of the conversation, so
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: we're gonna keep it that way.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: It is somebody playing the usher the Monica music. You're
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: so wrong for them.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: So we are winding down and we're getting to the
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: end of the show. But guess what, and this is
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: a surprise for you too, you guys, We're gonna be
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: giving away one of her books. Sc Bookouts. A friend
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: is going to purchase a book to give away to
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: one of.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Our cute little babies. But in order to.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: Try to win the book, you have to read the blog.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: Okay, So this interview and her personal interview that we
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: did is going to be on our blog at www
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: dot scbookgousandfriends dot com.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: And let me tell y'all something. Can y'all give me
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: to Wednesday? Please? It's a holiday. I want to eat
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: a hot dog or something.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: But the blog will go live on Wednesday, will have
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: a replay of this interview and we'll.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Also have those crazy questions that we asker you guys.
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: And this is for our little kids. So parents, aunts
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: of teth, grandparents, whoever. If you have a little person
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: in your life, you make sure you sign up and
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: we will enter you to win the book.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, so before.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: We go, you gotta give us a rundown or how
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: we could follow you on social media, how we can
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: purchase your books. Someone says, awesome, we love you, queen,
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: keep impacting lives.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, so I'm I'm sorry.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: Also tell us about your other lines please, well we
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: get them.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: I am author Cassandra Charles, is actually Cassandra.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: With one S.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: However, I did buy the I did buy the website
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: domain name for both says because everyone's going to spell
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: it wrong, but it's author Cassandra Charles dot com. Is
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: my direct website. You can get my book on there
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: is author Cassandra Charles dot com.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm just.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Gonna throw you a curve ball because you threw me
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: a curve ball. I will also be gifting another children's
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: book too. If you have a second winner on there,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: just let me know and I will gift a book
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: to that winner as well. So again, you go to
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: my website as Authorcassandra Charles dot com. You can follow
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: me on all social media platform is also author Cassandra Charles,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: and it's Cassandra with one S. You will see a
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: purple logo and you can see my whole Jeorge. I'm
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: seeing my whole Jamie Reynolds collection. So we have everything
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: from twelve books, which is stories.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: And then we also have five journals.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: I'm really big on just self reflection, so I have
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: like a self care journal for men and women. I
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: also have a gratitude journal which sells well at the
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: top of the year, and I also have sports journals
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: for sporting people. And I also have some adult journals.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: I will have to go to my website to figure
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: out what adults is on there and so you can
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: get all my information on on my website or my
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: social media platform. Author Cassandra Charles acasanatrells dot com. Our
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: next book event where will be in New Jersey. If
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: anyone's in the Union, New Jersey, come on out to
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: the Independent Author's Book Experience. It's me October nineteenth. And
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: then if you are in Atlanta, this is the adult side.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Go to my website or goems, go to my social
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: media page because I will have an adult event going
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: on next weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. So it was a
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: pleasure to be here. I'm so excited. Thank you guys
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: so much for the love and the support. Again, check
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: out my book. The Young Jamie series is available on
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: my website or even Amazon as well. And again the
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: keyword will be Cassandra Charles.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: With one us.
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: Thank you for joining us tonight. It was fun. You know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go find a man adult.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You said.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, I've never heard of nothing like that. Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I will be the one to sit up there
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: and buy the journal, be like what the real quick?
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: And then I had somebody who I could work what
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: it went. So we're gonna make it do what it do.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Yep. The kids will be at this time, but that's fine.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: We can talk about the rest.
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: You know, you're gonna come back because we gotta have you. No,
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: I'm thinking I might be having something for Valentine's Day
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: for the lovers, you know, so we gonna have you
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: come back. Thank you Charles for joining us tonight, and
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: you have a great evening.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Likewise, bye, guys, thank you, Happy Labor Day. Bye.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: So you guys, it's another Saturday night. But of course
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to end without you telling make sure
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: you join AAA LAC the Crew, se Book, Gallas and Friends,
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: Wings of Transformation. We're gonna be here in North Charleston,
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: South Carolina, on October nineteenth at the Minor Crosby Community Center,
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: which is offer p Mart drive here in North Charleston. Authors, vendors, Hey,
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: if you would like to present or be on any
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: of our panel discussions, contact me, Contacts some one and
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: the crew.
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: We got flyers all over the place.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: Another Saturday night, another author in another book.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, we thank you.
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: Have a great night and happy Labor Day.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: Thank you for joining us for another episode of the
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: sci Book Out and first check.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: You met a new author and you saw a new book, allow.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: To grab it.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Make sure you join us next week Saturday for a
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: new author and a new book. And remember an old
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: book is always an