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SC BOOK GAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAY 8PM EST |NEED A PROFESSIONAL BOOK REVIEW YOU COME BY THE RIGHT PLACE......... · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, lay, I have your attention. Please. The
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  Speaker 1: show starts in ten nine eight seven, six, five four
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  Speaker 2: Cool. Hey everyone, this is your Girl sci Book eight
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  Speaker 2: four three, and it is another Tuesday night. But it's cold.
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  Speaker 2: I can't take this cold, y'all. Y'all know me. I
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  Speaker 2: don't do cold. I don't do cool. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've been sitting around here logging this big old cold.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm already a big girl. Why I need
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  Speaker 2: a big coach for that's even worse? You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Okay, I had to get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: But how are you guys doing on this beautiful cold toes?
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  Speaker 2: Say that? So, of course I'm bringing you another author
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  Speaker 2: in another book, you guys, how y'all this book right here?
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  Speaker 2: What can I say? What can I say? It's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit out of out of my y'all already know
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  Speaker 2: the type of books that every all I can say.
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  Speaker 2: We're about to go and a ride together, okay, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. I do want to read out of my
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  Speaker 2: comfort zone because my comfort zone is shooting my bang
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  Speaker 2: bang insert If y'all know the rest of it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I think this is going to be a great
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  Speaker 2: book to open up into a new world. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: I had the liberty of actually doing a ball post
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  Speaker 2: about her before, but now I actually had her on
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  Speaker 2: my show. I am going to bring them author Shuana Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Now I might have said her name wrong. Y'all know
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  Speaker 2: that I'm bad at but your names. And we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: ask her to forgive me soon as she gets up. Okare, okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right, y'all ready for her. She's gonna be up
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. Were gonna make it do what
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  Speaker 2: to do with our friend?
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  Speaker 3: Hey Gurly, Hey, Petre Salry you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? Now? Did I say it correct? You did?
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  Speaker 3: You said just fine? Shewuana Hall aka her h.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, y'all and her whole thing. She just said, it's
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  Speaker 2: this author s H. Corg m. All right, but don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all have all these links to follow her on Facebook
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  Speaker 2: and Instagram. But before we go there, tell us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, okay, So I am a theater artisan. I'm stage management,
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  Speaker 3: production management, and because I live in the live entertainment world,
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  Speaker 3: specifically theater, I'm all about the fantasy, the magic, the theatrics,
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  Speaker 3: and so, of course, fantasy is my genre of choice
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  Speaker 3: to write. I've been doing that for since I was twelve,
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  Speaker 3: really always making up names that sounded similar to my name,
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  Speaker 3: or names that people could say aside from my name,
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  Speaker 3: but characters that were, you know, full of life, more grounded,
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  Speaker 3: more like me, but still within that fantasy art.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'm my ex. Okay, how do you
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  Speaker 2: feel about Hamilton? Hmm?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I love I love the story, and I love
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  Speaker 3: the music, but the theatrics m and I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: something missing there, you know, like they've been going for
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  Speaker 3: it but didn't quite reach it.
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  Speaker 2: But what of the music?
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  Speaker 3: One of the best, no doubt, no doubt, best sound
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  Speaker 3: tracks for musical theater ever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't know much about musical theater. I just
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  Speaker 2: love Hamilton. Don't know why. I just really okay, despite
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it took me a week to look
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  Speaker 2: at it the first time. My attentions play is that
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  Speaker 2: of a fly. So it took me and it was
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  Speaker 2: during COVID and I remember asking my boss. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: so if I look at Hamilton, will discount as worktime.
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  Speaker 2: She said, yeah, play. So why theater? What what drew
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  Speaker 2: you to theater? Oh, I'm from.
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  Speaker 3: A very very small town in southeast Georgia where it
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  Speaker 3: was unheard of, let alone thought to do anything theatrical.
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  Speaker 3: When you graduated from high school, you were you were
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  Speaker 3: a stay at home mom, went to nursing or went
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  Speaker 3: to teaching. But theater and music that was a no go.
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  Speaker 3: You did that as an extracurricular, but not as your thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're major. And for me, I've always been
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  Speaker 3: enticed by the theatrics of it all. When you see
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  Speaker 3: a play, when you see a movie, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you see a concert. I wanted to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that. And so, actually my major wasn't theater when
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  Speaker 3: I went into college.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually.
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  Speaker 3: But our arts departments, like all the arts departments in
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  Speaker 3: my college, were in the same building, so you'd have
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  Speaker 3: to walk by the scene shop in order to get
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  Speaker 3: to the music department. And I had no idea what
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  Speaker 3: the scene shop was.
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  Speaker 2: I just noticed that they.
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  Speaker 3: Were making cool, pretty things. So I walked in one
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  Speaker 3: day and said, what's going on here? And the props
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  Speaker 3: master literally said, you want to know, come work with us.
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  Speaker 3: Let's show you I twitch my major the next week.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. So okay, now, so how does theater in your
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  Speaker 2: love of fantasy come together?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we just like with fantasy, theater is something
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  Speaker 3: that you see in your mind, you can make up.
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  Speaker 3: It can be about any and everything. It can be
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  Speaker 3: about a single event. It could be about a place
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  Speaker 3: and time in history. It can be about your neighborhood,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it is literally something that comes from
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  Speaker 3: the creator's minds is put onto the paper, and from
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  Speaker 3: the paper it is built onto the stage for the
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  Speaker 3: audience to see. That's for me and fantasy, it's coming
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  Speaker 3: from my mind, the way I see things, the way
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  Speaker 3: I see an event and characters, putting them on paper
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  Speaker 3: and so that everyone else could see what's in my mind,
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  Speaker 3: what was coming out of my mind in real time?
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  Speaker 2: Dang you go girl. So you said you started writing
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  Speaker 2: at twelve. What was your motivation for writing?
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  Speaker 3: Is?
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  Speaker 2: It was I got some thoughts, these people in my
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  Speaker 2: head keep talking to me, or it's just something I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do. So what means you want to start
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  Speaker 2: writing when you were at twelve years old?
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  Speaker 3: I would say it was the mix of these people
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  Speaker 3: in my mind keep talking to me and I have
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  Speaker 3: thoughts about people in my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh lot time out. Are you one of those
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  Speaker 2: authors that kills the neighbor down the street because they
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  Speaker 2: hit your dog?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, no, it wasn't about really the adults. It
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  Speaker 3: was more about the teens in my neighborhood more so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I wasn't the popular person. I was the
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  Speaker 3: one that the smart person, you know, well spoken, so
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  Speaker 3: I got to always observe what everybody else did, and
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  Speaker 3: to me, I was like, hmmm mmmmmm writing it down.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta put this in a book. It's not They
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  Speaker 3: won't believe unless it's in a book.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So you use the things around you for your books.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's where all inspiration comes from, right, Something
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  Speaker 3: someone says, something someone does, an event you watch on TV,
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  Speaker 3: a song you hear on the radio, and you get inspiration.
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  Speaker 3: So my inspiration was literally that that moment, that that
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  Speaker 3: area around me. Because before I was before I went
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  Speaker 3: to graduate school, I had never left Southeast Georgia. So
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  Speaker 3: being able to have that view of what's there, what's
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  Speaker 3: in front of me, and using that experience and putting
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  Speaker 3: it on paper started my whole trajectory into writing.
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  Speaker 2: Now you are working with one of the most Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, and we're going to speak from African Americans.
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  Speaker 2: In our book industry, one of the most growing genres,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, other than I call it rom com
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  Speaker 2: or romance, fantasy is getting up there with us. How
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  Speaker 2: does it feel to be in the field in that
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  Speaker 2: genre of one of the upcoming How does it feel?
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  Speaker 3: It's I wouldn't say it's surreal. It's very much a
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  Speaker 3: realistic goal for me. It's what I've always imagined myself
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  Speaker 3: doing from the time that I actually started getting out
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  Speaker 3: into the world and seeing the world. So being able
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  Speaker 3: to say there are others, especially authors of color, black
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  Speaker 3: authors of color, that also have this mindset of changing
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  Speaker 3: the way people view fantasy because you know, mainly when
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  Speaker 3: you think of fantasy, you'll think of white girl, white heroine,
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  Speaker 3: or white hero and you know, fairies and all that,
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  Speaker 3: but you never see it from the black side. But
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's like being agreeolt. You know, West African Griot.
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  Speaker 3: They use their words verbally. I'm just now telling those
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  Speaker 3: same stories, but on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Interview over y'all, she did that, she did that because
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what it is, exactly what it is. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna bring up your book covers, y'all know me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a cover girl, y'all these covers. That's all I
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  Speaker 2: can say. That's all. Like I said, I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 2: her describe, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, okay, perfect. So Luna's Revenge in Beta Lima's Revenge,
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  Speaker 3: as you can see, the covers are vastly different. And
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  Speaker 3: the reason being is because when I wrote Little's Revenge,
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  Speaker 3: which is the first one in the Luna's Revenge series,
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  Speaker 3: there's probably gonna be about three or four right now.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what's coming in my mind. Within this Luna's
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  Speaker 3: Revenge series, it starts out as depressing to hopeful, to
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  Speaker 3: a heroine. So that's why it's full of color, full
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  Speaker 3: of light. And with Beta Luna's Revenge, it's literally taking
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  Speaker 3: this person a different character within the same story, within
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  Speaker 3: the same realm and showing the darker sides how instead
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  Speaker 3: of rising to the ranks, they were downtrodden, and how
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  Speaker 3: they had to get even get back into the world
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  Speaker 3: to see themselves again. So it's very dark, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Where there's hope with Luna's Revenge, there is depression and
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  Speaker 3: hopelessness within Beta Luna's Revenge. It's literally I don't think
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  Speaker 3: of the covers before I write the story. I write
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  Speaker 3: the story, let the story tell itself, and then as
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  Speaker 3: I'm reviewing reading over it, I'm seeing it puts into
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  Speaker 3: place like what type of feel the cover should have.
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  Speaker 3: That's how I come.
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  Speaker 2: Up with it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, is it something where the lower cast rises
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  Speaker 3: up in the ranks or is it something where someone
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  Speaker 3: from the middle class drops farther than they think. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the two things with the Ballun's Revenge and made
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  Speaker 3: of Luna's Revenge. So I wait to let the story
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  Speaker 3: to tell me what the cover is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, So I'm sitting in the bookstore, Why should
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  Speaker 2: I choose your book to read? Then all these other
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  Speaker 2: things on the shelf?
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  Speaker 3: A question? Okay, okay. I would say that there's two reasons.
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  Speaker 3: One with my book because with my books, I tend
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  Speaker 3: to write them for young adults to adults, because that's
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  Speaker 3: when I've really gotten to the fantasy genre from when
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  Speaker 3: I was a young adult to an adult. And so
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  Speaker 3: with this it gets a I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 3: a family friendly vibe. You know, you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: like hide your book from your children if you're reading this.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's the other reason is
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling the story of a group of ragtag pac
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  Speaker 3: members and they're not from the same class or the
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  Speaker 3: same race. Anyone could see themselves as these characters. So
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  Speaker 3: as you can see Luna, the Luna is black, the
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  Speaker 3: Beta Luna is white. You know it's you. These these
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  Speaker 3: are truly a pack, not just of the same culture
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, but literally they made themselves into a pack
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  Speaker 3: based off of their circumstances, based off of their beliefs,
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  Speaker 3: based off of where they want to be in life. Aura, yes,
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  Speaker 3: the Luna. So Cora comes from this family of warriors.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're powerful, they're strong, They're like the head
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  Speaker 3: warriors of the pack under the gamma. It's her family.
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  Speaker 3: And however, unlike the rest of her family, who are
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  Speaker 3: all these powerful, strong warrior wolves, Cora is an omega.
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  Speaker 3: And I just don't mean like a sweet little oh
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  Speaker 3: you're scared wolf. She has no wolf, point blank period.
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  Speaker 3: She was born to a family of were wolves who
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  Speaker 3: she herself has no were wolves, no wolf in her
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  Speaker 3: at all, whatsoever. And so she goes from being in
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  Speaker 3: this high upper class status to becoming the dishwasher of
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  Speaker 3: the pack. Because she has no you, they have no
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  Speaker 3: use for her. She's no better than a human in
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  Speaker 3: their eyes. But this broken down, downtrodden person was able
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  Speaker 3: to buy the fate of the Moon goddess find her
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  Speaker 3: mate at the eleventh hour, and her mate just happened
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  Speaker 3: to be the Alpha. So that's how she starts rising
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  Speaker 3: in Rain. Now with Beta Luna's Revenge, it's completely different
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  Speaker 3: from that. Misty is the main character in Beta's Luna's
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  Speaker 3: Luna's Revenge, and Misty is one of the servant.
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  Speaker 2: Wolves.
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  Speaker 3: She's an omega, but she's an omega that has a wolf,
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  Speaker 3: unlike Cora. However, because her wolf basically it was like
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  Speaker 3: a fluffy puppy, she's not seen as she can't be taken. Seriously,
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  Speaker 3: she's not of the warrior class, so the only use
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  Speaker 3: they have for her is her brains. You know, she
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  Speaker 3: is highly intelligent. She's a computer whiz. She can find
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  Speaker 3: out information about anyone at any given time, and so
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  Speaker 3: that is her leverage. Even though she is of a
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  Speaker 3: lower class of wolf, her mind, her intelligence, her place
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  Speaker 3: in this society helps her save this pack.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, see look look here, how are you going to
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  Speaker 2: already start my twenty twenty six reading? Listen, come on, man,
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  Speaker 2: come on. So I'm about to give you a real
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  Speaker 2: hard question, all right, between Cora and oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: you just said her name, Ministry, which character is the
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  Speaker 2: closest version of you?
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  Speaker 3: Cora all the way?
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  Speaker 2: Why Cora?
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  Speaker 3: Because my if you're going back to how I write
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  Speaker 3: from your things around me and everyone around me within
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  Speaker 3: my family, but in my pack, I'm the quiet one.
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  Speaker 3: I am the still dunner, the learned one, the educated one,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody counts me out, you know, like, oh, if
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  Speaker 3: we're an fight, you wouldn't picture you want to, you
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  Speaker 3: know type thing. And so I'm like okay, And so
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  Speaker 3: I observe everything around me, you know, and I let
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  Speaker 3: my observations become my knowledge to becoming a better person
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  Speaker 3: in some sort of way. You know. I was able
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  Speaker 3: to devide the odds like Cora. I was able to
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  Speaker 3: defy the odds by doing being something completely different from
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the family. So yes, that's why I
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  Speaker 3: relate to Coorra more.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. I like that because you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a wholesome quiet ones to be the one to get you.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you remember before we came
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  Speaker 2: on air that I told you I had these fun questions. Right, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time for you, my friend, to be in the
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  Speaker 2: hot seat. Oh are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Since you said your Cora is the closest
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  Speaker 2: to you, all right, what we're just going to be broad.
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  Speaker 2: What African American actress would play Cora? And why to
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  Speaker 2: get there?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? No, that one that is hard because I never
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  Speaker 3: think of it from a film aspect.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Zoe Saldonna, Oh okay, okay, why her?
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  Speaker 3: Because she has this versatility and most people know her
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  Speaker 3: from her you know, her Marvel error.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I.
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  Speaker 3: Remember her from her rom Cam error. You know, the
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  Speaker 3: the uh not so popular character that rises and ranks
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  Speaker 3: just by being herself, being charming and loving everyone. And
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  Speaker 3: so that when I see Cora, I can see Zoe.
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  Speaker 2: So Donna in that? Okay? Cool? So we got Zoruis
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  Speaker 2: and Donna. Now we never really talk about the love
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  Speaker 2: interest in your book, So can we have his name?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? And Luna's Revenge, the love interest is the alpha
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  Speaker 3: alpha mark and in Beda Luna's Revenge, the love interest
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  Speaker 3: is the beta. Who's Donovan?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh? That named Donavan? Okay, so we're gonna pull Donathan
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  Speaker 2: and now we have to cast him. But now Donathan
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  Speaker 2: has to be in our and be singer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, who would Donathan be?
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  Speaker 2: And why? Oh mmm?
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  Speaker 3: I want to say Tyrese, but with hair.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can picture Tyresee with hair?
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  Speaker 2: Want me try?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I can't picture it. Oh God knows. Okay, Tyree's with here, y'all? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So two things I want to ask why Tyres First?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Well, Donovan is this this muscular, fit, athletic type,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this swave. He's so sure of himself type
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  Speaker 3: of guy. But at the same time he could be
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  Speaker 3: a charmer. And that's Tyres all the way, you know. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Now why does he have to have hair? Well, Donovan
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  Speaker 3: has this this this hair thing that he does, the
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  Speaker 3: pulling of the hair when he's frustrated, or smoothing it
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  Speaker 3: back or letting the coils go.
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  Speaker 2: You know who was that they had power in the hair?
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  Speaker 2: It was in the Bible. Who was it? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: How am I Sampson?
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  Speaker 3: Sampson?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, so we got Tyree's with here.
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  Speaker 3: It's only because you said singer. And if you just
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: said black actor, I got I got, I got you there,
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  Speaker 3: But singer.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the black actor. Who would it be?
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  Speaker 3: So many of them, but now.
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  Speaker 2: You choose, we'll give you two. You just say one,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll give you.
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  Speaker 3: You Okay, he could be see now now I can't
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  Speaker 3: stop picturing Chymis with their But I would say Morris Chestnut.
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  Speaker 2: Mh, I'm sorry, apologize.
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  Speaker 3: Or oh wait, I got another R and B. I
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: got another R and B. I can see that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I can see that. Yeah, I can see that.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: First came out when Yeah, I can see it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, But that's that's that's who that that's the
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: kind of character Donovan is. You know, he's that that cool,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: that suave that I got this, you know, Okay, it
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to try at it, It just happens for him.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So we got Zoe's Nada, and we got ty Tyree's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: wood he here and More's Chestnut. But of course every
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: movie has to have a soundtrack. What a song would
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: be the soundtrack for your books?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: For Niche, I would say that this is very off
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: if you don't know this, because I listen to everything
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: but the Civil Wars soundtrack, their last soundtrack before they
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: split up. If you don't know who the Civil Wars are,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: if you watched uh, mocking Jay, that movie, that franchise
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: they are, that was on that when she was running
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: away trying to save Peter. That song and going back
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: to Marton Holler, that was that was like, Oh, the
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: devil gonna find me wherever I go, won't do me
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: no good. Washington, the River, ain't no preacher man gonna
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: save my soul.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: That okay. I remember the part when she went back
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: to see Peter. I didn't like you for her, But anyway,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I have no control over the book. I'm waiting for
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the next movie to tie it all together.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Anyway, For for Beta Luna's Revenge m the soundtrack would
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: have to be the soundtrack for Waiting to Excel because
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of that when she's okay, y'all.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: That is the soundtrack of all soundtracks. I don't care
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: what nobody see. You can sit up there and listen
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to that weeting Hel's Waiting Exhale soundtrack, be in love
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: with your man, and be like I love you, but
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I gotta hate you while I listen to the song
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that is the soundtrack. So we have your actress, we
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: had your actor, we got your soundtrack. But guess what
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: lifetime is on the line. And they loved it, and
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: they want to do a bio pic of you. Who
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: would you give the honor of playing you? Oh see,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: and I'm his person? Can be anyone.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I hate talking about myself, so I never envisioned anyone
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: playing me. Uh, you have to come back to that one.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, then you know you have to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: have an act director.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: So which director? They can either write your biopic or
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: they can direct your biopit. But who would it be?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I told you these questions would be kind of hard,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: really is?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, it could be your favorite author who you would
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: like the co write with. Or it can be someone
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: who you've seen their TV shows and you enjoy it
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and you would like them to, you know, be the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: director of your bio pick.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, Now, if we're talking about authors that I love,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: then it has to be. My biggest inspiration is Patricia Briggs,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: her her series Amazing Fantasy Writer and her series The
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha and Omega series.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: They are so.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Their exact genre that I write, the modern day fantasy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it's not high fantasy, it's not urban fantasy.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: It's literally taking what's in the day, what's in the present,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: in a realistic place and just adding were wolves and
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: vampires and things to it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: All right, y'all, y'all heard her? So Patricia Briggs is
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: going to be the one director bio pick. Her actors
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: are going to be Morris chestnut tyres would hears always.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Saying all tonight, so but now you got it in
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: your head, it ain't going to move.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm just still trying to picture him with hair, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I keep looking forward like I just I don't know
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: if he would have corn rolls or would he just
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: have a low cut. And then one part of me
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: is will he have locks? You know, it's just los locks.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: It's something by the person with locks. Then not never.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: So we are getting close to that time. Can you
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: give us the well first? Before we get the rundown?
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: What would you like to say to your new readers,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: your existing readers, and the readers you will gained that
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: will catch this podcast.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: What would you like to say to them, I would
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: say that if you're not a fan of fantasy or
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: high fantasy, but you are, you are caught into the
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: world of Twilight, or into the world of Hunger Games
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: or things like that. These books, this series hits the mark.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It has no fairies or distant lands that you can't
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: name or anything like that. It is literally in the
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: real world, but with fantastical characters. So these this series
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: are for those who want to get into fantasy because
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: of some of the movies they've watched that way. But
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: this can't do the high fantasy. You can't do too
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: much of the unrealistic, but still wanting some magic in there.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Love it. I mean that's simple, powerful and engaging. Love it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: So give us the rundown at the bottom of the screen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: We've been sharing your social media links and you can
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: tell us where we can get your books from anything
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: you have coming up in twenty twenty six. How about
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: you go ahead and give us a run down.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Absolutely so you can get both of my books right
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: now on demand on the Dream platform that is d
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: R E a m E. The d R E a
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: m E Dream Platform is where you can buy Luna's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Revenge and Beta's Lunars Revenge. And the reason why I
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: like these platforms is because the authors can write in
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: real time and the artist audience can read them in
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: real time and can give feedback in real time. But
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: these books were also by January twenty twenty six, they're
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: also going to be on Barnes and Noble and Google Books,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: so for major platforms like that, you can also get
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: them there starting in January. My next book, which is
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: one I actually written in between Luna's Revenge and Beta
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Luna's Revenge, but Beta Luna's Revenge just took me away
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: from it. It's called wherewoof Widow for a Year, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: that one is going to be set to come out
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: in March. If you're on the Dream Platform. It is
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: still in progress on the Dream Platform, so if you
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: want to read a bit of it now you can
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: and give me any feedback. If you want to see
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: how we can shape the story together before it gets
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: put in Barnes and Noble and Google Books, well you
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: know what you gave us.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: The rundown, you guys. If you missed anything, of course,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: you can go back on all of our networks and
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: catch the replay and then tomorrow we'll have it uploaded
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: into the other seventeen platform to be about. So there's
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: no way you can miss this author and this book's
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: and the one she has and the ones that's coming
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: out next year. Some fantasy listen. I'm gonna try and
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I did last time. You guys, remember I had the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: offer the who challenged me to read her thriller book.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I did. I read two chapters and I wasn't scared,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: but she told me don't go beyond that. I was like,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I take her part, but I did and I read
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: it and it was like, yo, this is kind of good.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of I feel good that I'm stepping
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: out of the comfort zone. You know, us as an
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: African Americans, fantasy is not one of those genres that
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: we really pay attention to. But like I told you
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: guys earlier, it's one of those up and cooming ones.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of I have a cousin who reads
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: books about who is like beasts and people with heads
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and legs, and they're doing stuff in the book and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: she enjoys it and it's on Coopla, so she's like
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: an audiobook person. I'm sitting up here like what and
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: she took the yeah, and I was like, nah, that,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: but I am going to expound my brain in my
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: reading palette and I am going to grab this one.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I think I might have the second book. I don't
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: think I have the first one. I do think I
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: have your second book.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I will say that whatever whichever one you start with,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: the other one bleeds into the same story, so you
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: won't get lost either way.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I love one off to do that. They
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: give me enough steak of potatoes so I can carry
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: over to the bread on the table.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Please don't make me go back and read four or
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: five different novels just to catch up with the one
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I really want to read. I appreciate that. Thank you.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: As a as a reader, I thank you.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I'm the same way.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: But as all we really do. Thank you for being
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: with us tonight. Thank you for bringing us your book,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: your genre, your smile, a great personality. You guys, go
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: grab the book, all the informations at the bottom, and
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: like I said, if you miss it, catch the replay
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: and let me ask you a question. Do we have
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: them on paperback? Because I do have some paperback readers.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: No, not yet, but once they get on Barnes and
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Noble in January February, look for them in stores and paperback. Well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: of course, you know, when she gets them on it,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: I will share the information with you guys, because guess what,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I follow her on social media.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Y'all need to go ahead and do the same thing.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us tonight, Miss Hall.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Patriesa. It was great. Thank you You're
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: an amazing host.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you so you guys, guess what, it's another Tuesday night.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: But before we leave, did you get your nomination in?
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: You still have it? Right? Okay? How are we going
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: to show the recognition to our office and our podcasters
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: and our collaborators. How are we gonna show them the recognition?
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: If you guys don't get your nominees in, you have
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: one more week. You have until Christmas night to get
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: your nominees in for the twenty twenty six Aspiring Author
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Book Yall Awards. Remember it's all over social media. If
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you want me to sing you the link personally and
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: box me and I'll sing you the link. Okay. Remember
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: all nominees have to be in by Christmas Day, okay,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: and then when January roads in around, I'm gonna have
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: a special podcast where I will announce the final list.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: You can nominate your nominee as many times as you
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: want in the category that they pertain to. Now, I
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: think we have at least fifteen to twenty categories. If
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: you don't have anyone for that category, that's absolutely fine.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Put that INNA or slash and move on to the
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: next I understand it's okay, but let's give these authors,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: these podcasters and everybody the recognition that they deserve. Okay,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: another Tuesday Night in the book again. We thank author
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Sherwana Hall for bringing her Loness for us tonight. Okay,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: you guys, remember there's no such thing as an old
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: book because not everybody has read every book. Have a
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: good night everyone.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Bye.