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SC BOOK GAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST | SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST| HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL| EPISODE #201 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Keep a joining us for another episode as some tell
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  Speaker 1: a book, gall and friends chat and let a new
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  Speaker 1: Authormi's talk about the late side of the graves and
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  Speaker 1: make sure you joined us and enjoya We're ready you off.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a new book?
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  Speaker 3: And remember an old book is always a new book
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  Speaker 3: because nobody has read every book.
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  Speaker 2: See Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for another Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining us for another episode of the SC Welcome to.
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  Speaker 2: The Scdoll and French Shatton had a new author. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about the lady book reviews.
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  Speaker 3: Go out and reviews and make sure you join us.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in and join us. We're ready, new author.
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  Speaker 4: Are you in a new book?
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  Speaker 3: And remember an old book, it's always a new book
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  Speaker 3: because nobody has.
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  Speaker 2: Read every book. See Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for another episode of the SC.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the SC Chack. Hey guys, you know we
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  Speaker 2: got those technical difficulties, but we still gonna make it
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  Speaker 2: do what it do again. It's another Saturday night and
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  Speaker 2: this is your girl Scie book out eight four to
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  Speaker 2: three Patrece grumble And I know you guys are wondering
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  Speaker 2: where have I been? Well, you guys, the past two
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  Speaker 2: weeks have been a battle. I did lost my aunt
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  Speaker 2: at one period of time, and I love you Auntie,
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  Speaker 2: rest in peace. And then I got sick. You guys,
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  Speaker 2: I could barely talk. But I am here now, I
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  Speaker 2: am here. I am here and you, guys, I got
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  Speaker 2: a new author for you on this Saturday night. This
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  Speaker 2: is author author Olivia Kinnes. Let me give you all
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  Speaker 2: the run down on her okay. She is a USA
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  Speaker 2: Today's best selling Emma Award author well multiple award winning books,
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  Speaker 2: who she loves to laugh, coupled with some then mixed
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  Speaker 2: it with a man and a woman finding it where
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  Speaker 2: past the words of I love you? Y'all know them
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  Speaker 2: three hard to say words, especially when they getting on
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  Speaker 2: your last nerve and you want to chalk them in
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  Speaker 2: their right eyes, sing them in the left okay. And
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  Speaker 2: author of contemporary romances, she writes heartwarming story that a
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  Speaker 2: blossoming relationship fills with heart and humor. When Olivia's not writing,
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  Speaker 2: she's joined quotingly playing scrabble. Now I'm miss Olivia. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a spell check type girl. I'm sorry you will win
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  Speaker 2: against me every day. She is an avid world traveler,
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  Speaker 2: so may might have to ask her where she's been.
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  Speaker 2: Who writes many mice, writes many of her locations and
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  Speaker 2: their stories. So let's bring up missus Olivia Jaines. Come
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  Speaker 2: on up, Gary, come on up.
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  Speaker 4: I am on stage. Kenny.
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  Speaker 2: You got a little thing going on here. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get that things for you were gonna get that. She
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  Speaker 2: got a little lean going on.
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  Speaker 4: It's all good, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We got a little lean. Okay, tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more about yourself other than what I've already read
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  Speaker 2: about your wonderful bio. And you're a beautiful personality.
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  Speaker 4: We go, we're straighten Okay, Okay, the glasses are given
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  Speaker 4: a glass. I'm gonna just put those up top, so
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  Speaker 4: don't think I'm just trying to be cool or anything. Glare. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: there we are. Okay. I am a journalist by trade,
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  Speaker 4: so I am a I am. I am a writer.
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  Speaker 4: I have been a writer all of my life. I
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  Speaker 4: started writing romances after I had stopped teaching. And my
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  Speaker 4: husband's like, you've been teaching people to write for so long,
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  Speaker 4: won't you write yourself? And I sat down one day
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  Speaker 4: and I found this image of this half dressed woman
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  Speaker 4: and she was being nibbled on and I said, this
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  Speaker 4: look like something that happens in Vegas. And I had
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  Speaker 4: my son do me a cover, and I put it
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  Speaker 4: out there, just a little novella. Put it out there,
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  Speaker 4: and I had typos in it, just to see she
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  Speaker 4: had at allergy allergic reaction to peanuts and I had
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  Speaker 4: her eagle snickers and yeah, I put it out there.
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  Speaker 4: Came back two days later and had sold five hundred copies,
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  Speaker 4: and I was what, And then I was scrambling. I
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  Speaker 4: did a one page, one page website and people start
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  Speaker 4: writing me, well, what happens next? What happens next? And
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  Speaker 4: then I started getting the reviews, those bad reviews, Well
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  Speaker 4: she's no sea in a minx, she's no pepper paste.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, they, who is who is seeing a mix?
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  Speaker 4: And I had to go look them up. And then
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  Speaker 4: somebody make this comment that they're okay, they've got too
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  Speaker 4: much sex?
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  Speaker 2: Was it fine?
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  Speaker 4: So I began to write a different series with a
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  Speaker 4: man and a woman. They ended up with a ten
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  Speaker 4: book series, and I'll never forget. I was at a
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  Speaker 4: conference and I was six books into the series and
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  Speaker 4: I'm standing there and I said, the series has no
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  Speaker 4: sex and the room got quiet. I said, see, you
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  Speaker 4: can't tell me I can't write. You didn't even realize it.
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  Speaker 4: So that's how I got started a book with no sex,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely engaging. It was making the charts in Australia, you know, girl, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: So how about you go ahead and tell us the
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  Speaker 2: title of that one? So thou the Blakemorephiles. That is
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  Speaker 2: the Blakemorephiles.
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  Speaker 4: You've got Saxton and Odessa Blakemore And the series is
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  Speaker 4: available still is available unlimited, so I think the first
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  Speaker 4: book is free in the series. It's an action adventure series.
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  Speaker 4: They are uh interracial couple. They are dealing with human
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  Speaker 4: trafficking and the story starts off with her on a
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  Speaker 4: cruise to Mexico and she's nearly kidnapped and she sees
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  Speaker 4: him sitting at one of these little cantenas and she
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  Speaker 4: walks over to him and she says, okay, puck her up,
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  Speaker 4: big guy, because they're after me, and he's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: here we go, you know, And it just picks up
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  Speaker 4: from there and I'm like, well, what do you do
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  Speaker 4: if you wake up handcuffed to a big white guy
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  Speaker 4: wearing a wedding ring and covered in some sticky yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, she got you on that one.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, the series is so much fun to read.
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  Speaker 4: It deals with some serious issues, but the characters are
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  Speaker 4: so beloved that I've done spin offs and people are
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  Speaker 4: after me now to do a spin off on one
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  Speaker 4: of the brothers of the bad Guy because the bad
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  Speaker 4: Guy ended up being so likable and so loveable.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, Now you know you got a good book. When
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  Speaker 2: the bad guy becomes a likable character. That's when you
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  Speaker 2: know you sitting on a gold mine right there. So
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  Speaker 2: you said you were a teacher. I like to guess
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  Speaker 2: what age, what group I'm thinking. I was going to
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  Speaker 2: see college freshman.
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  Speaker 4: I was teaching at a two year college, okay, And
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  Speaker 4: what we found was that we had to actually resocialize
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  Speaker 4: them in order to prepare them for the career changes
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  Speaker 4: that they were doing. So yeah, so my public speaking
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  Speaker 4: and English classes were simple things. They walk in the door,
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  Speaker 4: how are you, I'm good. No, I'm doing well, and
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  Speaker 4: one of the students I ran into her. Years later,
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  Speaker 4: she says she was at the hospital and one of
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  Speaker 4: the doctors asked me. She asked, one of the doctors,
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  Speaker 4: how are you doing? He said, I'm doing well, and
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  Speaker 4: she said I'm glad to hear it. And she just
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  Speaker 4: starts out still grinning all day long. She said, because
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  Speaker 4: I never thought that I would actually use that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now that is something that can be used today. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: every day. I've got a ten year old you could
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  Speaker 2: speak to. How was your day? Fine?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it's just fine. It's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well, just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, You're not allowed to stay fine
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 4: And she said, okay, I would make them finer than
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  Speaker 4: what are you finer than Meek? Are you finer than
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  Speaker 4: cat Hare? How fine are you? Darling? Oh god, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 4: give me some adjectives to go with that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: come on, expand that.
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  Speaker 2: So you hit the ground running with this novella and
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  Speaker 2: you have such a welcoming or crazy or however you
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  Speaker 2: want to say, reaction. What's going through your mind? Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be I'm gonna do this off the thing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do this full time. Ah, I'm gonna actually
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  Speaker 4: do this full time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit down and I'm gonna go past the
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  Speaker 2: novella and I'm gonna write a novel and I wrote
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  Speaker 2: a novel and then I got a notice from somebody
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  Speaker 2: that I have won the twenty fifteen Swirl Author of
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  Speaker 2: the Year or Book of the Year or some award,
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  Speaker 2: and I even know what that was. And I'm like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good at this time, I can do this.
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  Speaker 4: And then I wrote the next one and everybody hated it,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, they hate me, but you know what,
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  Speaker 4: you kept going, because how many books do you have
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  Speaker 4: published now? I really I don't know. I think on
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  Speaker 4: my fifty fifth birthday, I was at fifty five and
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  Speaker 4: I just did fifty nine last week, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Because I will do two to three novels a year,
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  Speaker 4: but then in the summer I'll do like a novella series,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes it is just like this year, I did
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  Speaker 4: like a three book novella. It was all Scooby Dewish
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  Speaker 4: and stuff. They had a mystery to solve and the
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  Speaker 4: readers had clue pas to see if they could solve
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  Speaker 4: the mystery. And it was just three books. It was
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  Speaker 4: June July August and that was it, just three and
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  Speaker 4: they were just back to back, and you know that
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  Speaker 4: way the readers were engaged and they was trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out the clues, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just it was just fun, you know. And I
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  Speaker 2: love those novellas because I work at a library. I
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  Speaker 2: really don't have time to sit down here and engage
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  Speaker 2: in a whole book. I love when I could sit
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  Speaker 2: on that desk. You don't hear me say this, but
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  Speaker 2: I sit on that desk. I go help my patron
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  Speaker 2: whatever they need to do. But then I can come
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  Speaker 2: back and be like, oh, yeah, I was here, and
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  Speaker 2: I keep going and maybe by the end of the
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  Speaker 2: day I've already read a novella and feel like I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten breakfast, lunch, and dinner of the literary broken. You know,
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  Speaker 2: So I, as a reader who really need them drop
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  Speaker 2: it to me real quick. I appreciate it. I really
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  Speaker 2: do appreciate it. Some authors are totally against it, but
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  Speaker 2: I love that. And the fact that you three books
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  Speaker 2: a year and then you turn around and you still
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  Speaker 2: do novellas. I love it. I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Well. Not everyone wants the long term relationship with a novel,
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  Speaker 4: because sometimes you get I was reading one and I
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  Speaker 4: end up writing the author because I knew her, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I am sick of these people in the
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  Speaker 4: sex scene. The sex scene is twelve pages. Why I'm
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  Speaker 4: tired of them? She needs to go to bed. They
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  Speaker 4: were just carrying on way too long.
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  Speaker 2: She said, they need to go to bed.
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  Speaker 4: No bad, I'm tired for her.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hold up, man, that's my type of book. Sixty
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  Speaker 2: five she just gotta flipped twice.
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  Speaker 4: That's my type of book.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, okay, can we go to the next chapter.
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  Speaker 5: I end up writing her.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm mad at these people. I'm mad at him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm tired of his penis.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, Hey, y'all, I came back, and I came back
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  Speaker 2: with a fire crack you know what, saying. We haven't
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  Speaker 2: even talked about the book.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't even got to the technicians. How we doing.
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  Speaker 4: We're okay on time, We're okay on time.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even got to you yet. So Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is sometimes who what is your genre? If you can
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  Speaker 2: choose one genre, say this is mine, this is my baby,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I love to write. Can you do
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  Speaker 2: that or is.
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  Speaker 4: There a secretary? I am only in one genre. I
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  Speaker 4: am a I am a contemporary romance writer. Now I
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  Speaker 4: can do contemporary romance with romantic intrigue elements, or romantic
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  Speaker 4: suspense elements, or action adventure. But I I am contemporary.
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  Speaker 4: It is set right now. I'm not trying to go
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  Speaker 4: back to the past where somebody was a slave, or
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  Speaker 4: having to put on a bustle or try to figure
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  Speaker 4: out how to peel you while sitting in this chair.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to do none of that. But what
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  Speaker 4: I can do, I can give you a history lesson,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: all right, because you get a history lesson a moral
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  Speaker 4: dilemma in every book. And I'm going to take you
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  Speaker 4: to the best place in this town to get whatever
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  Speaker 4: this is. Because usually my modern mail order brides, they
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  Speaker 4: are each in a different state and some little podunk town,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm usually there. I actually go to the state.
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  Speaker 4: I listen to the vernacular, I try the food. When
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  Speaker 4: I did lobsters, bisk and berries Maine, I was in Maine.
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  Speaker 4: I went to the lighthouse. I had a lobster roll
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  Speaker 4: that tasted like chewy. I don't know what that was,
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  Speaker 4: but I had one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but I had one.
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  Speaker 2: Was it good? Was it good?
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  Speaker 4: I've never been a big lobster fan, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: just it just it doesn't have a lot of flavor.
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  Speaker 2: It's like flavored chewing gum to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But there are people who can't eat cilantro because cilantro
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  Speaker 4: tastes like soap to them. And I made to be
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  Speaker 4: one of those people. My co worker is like that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that just don't resonate. Yes, So so.
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  Speaker 2: Blind you guys stone blind. This Helen Lady, this Helen Lady.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I got, I gotta, I got to back.
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  Speaker 2: Up a little bit, Okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I was up the night before and I had
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  Speaker 4: watched John Wick. The next day I was watching Wrecked
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  Speaker 4: Ralph with my grandson, Okay, and the whole thing was
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  Speaker 4: Zan Grief and the and the and the truth circle,
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  Speaker 4: and Zan Grief saying, you know, bad guy, maybe bad guy,
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  Speaker 4: not so bad. So that's how the technicians came about.
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  Speaker 4: What if the guys that live in the in the
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  Speaker 4: Continental with John Wick actually had a chance to get
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  Speaker 4: a family. And so each of these technicians, not all
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  Speaker 4: of them are assassins, but most of them are for
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  Speaker 4: a covert arm of the government. All right, what if
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  Speaker 4: they go out to work but they come home to
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  Speaker 4: Wednesday night meat loaf and a little girl that's got
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  Speaker 4: him wrapped around his finger, the one in the center,
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  Speaker 4: one of the blinds, actually won the Emerald Award because
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  Speaker 4: that little girl wrapped him around her finger and he
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  Speaker 4: was the scariest technician in the group of ten. So
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: with that in mind, technicians are usually military or they
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  Speaker 4: have one of those bad people that have hit the
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  Speaker 4: government's radar that they're on the watch list, and so
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  Speaker 4: they give them these jobs that they oversee a state.
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  Speaker 4: And mister Exit actually lives in Hilton Head, so he
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  Speaker 4: covers South Carolina and North Carolina. Okay, Miss Helen is
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  Speaker 4: going to be the first technician that's actually in training.
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  Speaker 4: She is going to be trained, and I can't do
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  Speaker 4: it in one book, so I'm going to do it
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  Speaker 4: in four. Catch that breath, okay, Because each technician has
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  Speaker 4: a specialty, and these are the fruits of the Great Lakes.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got bad Apple in Wisconsin. He is an assassin,
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  Speaker 4: so she spends the first book Stone Blind with him,
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  Speaker 4: and then she goes to Night Blind with Lemon, who
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  Speaker 4: is a poison specialist. And Lemon is a chemist.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Passion Fruit is an Illinois and she is an accident specialist,
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  Speaker 4: and the last one sour grapes. She is cyber, and
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  Speaker 4: so Helen gets to spend three months with each one
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  Speaker 4: of them learning how to do all of that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, mm hmmm, I'm scared of here.
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  Speaker 4: You better be, because in between all of that, she's
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  Speaker 4: got this sexy, sexy man named Mustang, and they trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure it all out. Now, the funny thing about
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  Speaker 4: Helen is that she still has this naivete. So she
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  Speaker 4: learns how to do tracking. Okay, how do to track somebody?
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  Speaker 4: The first thing she did was track Mustang. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 4: When she learns how to do accidents, she's gonna stage
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  Speaker 4: this accident in the home for him to fall and
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  Speaker 4: land face first in a lap. And of course, with
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  Speaker 4: her learning chemistry, the first thing she thinks to make
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  Speaker 4: is a love potion. Writing that scene because I've already
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  Speaker 4: written the next book, So stone Blind is written night Blind,
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  Speaker 4: not night Blind. The next Blind book is with the editor,
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  Speaker 4: and so January I'll start writing the third one, so
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  Speaker 4: they're all fresh in my mind. But yeah, and Helen,
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  Speaker 4: Helen's a bad chick. She's a bad chick. So you
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  Speaker 4: wasn't for me.
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  Speaker 2: I surely wasn't, said beguil. I've been ready for this,
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  Speaker 2: so you're telling me she gets to hang out with
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  Speaker 2: all these different technicians. I like the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: call them technicians.
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  Speaker 4: They're all technicians, they all have a specialty.
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  Speaker 2: And she's this, okay, she's learning how I'm gonna love you,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm a stage of accidents, so you can give
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  Speaker 2: me the love I want. Then I'm gonna poison you
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  Speaker 2: to meet you still loving me, and I'm gonna trust
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  Speaker 2: she's not.
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  Speaker 4: She's not poisoning him. She's just figuring out how to
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  Speaker 4: make a love potion love a love potion, and his
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  Speaker 4: reaction to it is absolutely hysterical. And Helen is is
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  Speaker 4: is really she's had a rough go of it. Have
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  Speaker 4: you ever met a person that they're is just something
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  Speaker 4: about them and that people are automatically drawn to them. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 4: she's one of those people. And unfortunately some of the
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: people that were drawn to her weren't very good people,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: and she's had some bad things happen to her. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: she's stepping into this power and understanding I'm okay, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: her cousin, who has always been the silent guard, she
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: begins to understand that maybe what she was doing and
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: protecting me. She was actually damaging my self esteem.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Oh m hm, m hm. How did you come up
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: with all this when I'm a little bit of the
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: couple on the screen. You guys can get it, but
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: we'll talk and all that at the end.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: With this I wanted. Helen started in a night blind
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: she actually started in blind Spot. In blind Spot, she
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: was actually kidnapped by a guy who's called the Collector
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: who collected dolls, and he had a Mexican doll, an
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Italian doll, an Asian doll, and he wanted a chocolate
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: doll because he wanted soul food on Thursday nights. Yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: and her cousin, the Cherry on Top, had to go
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: and rescue her. So you see Helen in two books,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: but now she's getting her own. And I thought to
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: keep the series fresh, as there's already ten books, Helen
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: is number They think this is no.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Eleven.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Hell it is number twelve. And to keep the series fresh,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I'm reversing it because the first ten are all about
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: these men rescuing these women. I'm reversing it. This four
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: books is all about the women who are rescuing these men.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so now how do your readers feel about that
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: because you know, they like to keep us in that
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: role whereas we're the anthems. You're taking us out of
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: distress and you're making us like the equalizer. Stuff going
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: on here, So, I mean, is what we are right now?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: What made you wanted to reverse the rules like that?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I did get some complaints that why did these black
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: women all have to be downtrodden? Why did they all
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: have to be rescued?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Okay okay?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, did they have to be rescued or
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: were they the ones that was rescuing the men? Because
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: the men have worked for the government, you know, they
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: are you know, hired to do certain jobs. And just
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: because they work for the government still don't stop them
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: from being basically assassins and killers. And the men don't
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: consider themselves to be worthy of love. And here are
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: these women and these kids. And the kids are just
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: as dynamic as the assassins are, because some of the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: kids would just steal your absolute heart at each at
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: each kid in each book, they stay with you, They
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: stay with you. Her daughter with mister Slow, Naomi, Naomi
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: was just she the readers absolutely loved her. I had
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: to bring her back into another book because they wanted
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to know what was happening with her, you know.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know I got to put this on
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: my twenty twenty five read.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I just.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But now we get to have some fun questions at
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the the last five ten minutes of sie book outs
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and friends, we have fun questions, okay. And it always
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: brings social media or entertainment, which is one thing I
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: love entertainment, movies and TV shows and bring your book in.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So Helen is a female rapper? Who would she be?
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And why?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, why.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not afraid of a sweat. I can't.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I can't with you. I can't you not think the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: light going up? Look ah, I can't with you?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: So you would be an EMCE light. She is in
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the room. You know she's in the room. She ain't
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: even gotta say anything, but you know she's there, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: she is that power behind because you don't see mc
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: light in a lot of places, but you'll see her name.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: But you know that voice and you know that need
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: and when those.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Board shows come on, you hear her.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Know is I was thinking Queenlatifa mm hmm, But you
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: said mc light and that makes a lot of sense
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: with this character. Yes, must say he's an R and
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: B artist? Who would he be?
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Mustang? As body? Oh?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Who has a body in R and B?
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: He would be somebody like?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Would he be? Would be a tank? What do you
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Tank? Yeah, thats a nice body. I'm sorry. I apologize, y'all.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I have some thoughts. Okay, okay, he's a specimen.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Where do you see your journey with Helen going? I
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: know you you have some her and some several other books.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, I wanted to give her four books because I
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: wanted to give Helen four books because she's not only
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: learning to be a technician, she's also learning to love herself.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I was just about to see that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: She's learning to love herself, but she's also learning through
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Mustang that she's capable of loving and caring deeply. And
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: her first book, Stone Blind, she's with bad Apple, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: bad Apple is really testing her. He's really testing her
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: because he comes in and he has a plan for
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: I need you to do this, this, this, this, this,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: and she's looking at him with that sister girl look
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: like and he never laughs and the look.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: That she gives him and she's just and he can't
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: do anything but kind of chuckle because that expression is universal,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: so he knows exactly what it is that she's saying
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: that she's not saying aloud.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: And he really likes her. The kids that he has,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: the three boys that he has, he really they really
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: like her. And he gives her a task just to
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: see how her brain operates, you know, and she comes
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: back with flying colors and the contractor that he has
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: there as well. It's like, I think I love her
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: At every chapter, I think I'm falling for her. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: think where is she going? Why she leaves?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that you have all these elements
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: in the book and it seems like this something going
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: on is never a dull moment. I hate those books
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: that give me that two three chapters of you could
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: have left this out because it seems like yours just like,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: all right, cool, well we're up to next, all right, cool?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: But hold up she did that? Oh all right cool.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I'm loving that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: But she actually has to go to work, okay, because
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: in Night Blinde, she actually had to go to work
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: and she had to fill in for her cousin okay,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: and she ended up taking out two targets versus the one,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: and they wanted to know, well, why did you take
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: out the second target? We've been after him for nearly
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: a decade. How did you know to drop him? She said,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: he had on those white leather shoes with that white belt.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: And they're like what she said, are you frozen?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: No, she just got me like, the white leather shoes
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and the white belt white because he can't be blood
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, she said, I have never met a
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: guy that wasn't a pervert that didn't have on those
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: white leather shoes and the white belt, and bad Apple
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: says I would have dropped him too.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you know what, just just just yeah, please
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: tell us how we can get this book please available.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I'm putting together the paperback if you want the paperback copy.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: But it is available across all platforms Eyebooks. I don't
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: do Google Books, okay, I don't trust Google books neither.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I've never they get pirated too much on Google Books. Okay, yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: but you can get as far the Noble, Eyebooks, Cobo, Walmart,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Walmart e Books. It's available on Libby, Biblioteca, Hoop, all
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the library apps, so your library can buy it too,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: I'm an equal opportunity writer, but I love everybody to
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: enjoy their Thanksgiving.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you guys, remember it's dropping Thanksgiving night and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: what she.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Told me about midnight?
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: By midnight? Midnight?
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: When when is Thanksgiving? And Thursday morning? Thanksgiving? Thursday? Yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: twelve oh one on Thursday. It is available twelve on
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: one Thursday.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You guys, she said, let them look at the game.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: You go in the corner. What you want to dream
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: for me, it will be a bottle.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: And let me tell you something else, guys. One of
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: the things that the readers wanted in the last book
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: that they didn't get is that she and Mustang had
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: an interaction. They wanted it on the page. Okay, Chapter
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: one is on the page. All right, y'all remember that
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: at the door with his trademark, this trade mark whinny.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Y'all know, it takes a lot to make me blush. Right,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: y'all know, if you having fun following my podcast and
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: you have known some of the books that I've read,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: you know it takes a lot to make me blush.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Well, then you don't need to read the Zelda Diaries
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: or listen to it audio book. Because I was listening
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: to it on audio book, and I was blushing. I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: like I wrote that.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Hold on, what's it called again?
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: The Zelda Diaries. It is available on audiobook and it
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: is read by Chauvene Spencer.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna make a little note on note of that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: And even if you just listen to the sample first chapter,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: you already hooked. And Zelda has seven books.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Get Zelda Diaries.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Zelda has seven books.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: You can't see it, but it's in the message. Hey,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I have no problem sitting at my desk with the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: book and my mind. Boss, I know she'd been like
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: for tries. One time I was at work, type and
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: type and type and doing the work and they called
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: me to go do a notary. Forgot that I had
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: my headphones on. Came out and this was one of
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: those books that had the sounds to it. I'm still
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: walking around. My boss said, Trees, I'm gonna need you
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to Yeah, you can't. I said, look, it's in the library,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: and you shall not censor.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: What I read. Well, that one I would suggest you
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: listen to at home, because, like I said, chapter one,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: and he's right, he's a puppeteer. Oh oh yeah, he
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: runs a puppet museum.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if you have had as much fun as
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I have had tonight, we're gonna ask her to give
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: us the rundown. So we follow her on social media
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: and get those reminders about this book coming out all
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: the light growing up. I ain't no light.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: I'm embarrassed too. I'm w wait wait, wait, he's ugly.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: He ain't not wrong ugly man.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: No no no, no, no, no, no no no no.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: He popmark skin, and he's harry front and back, and
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: he's got buck teeth and he wears thick glasses. Oh
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: but Zelda loves that may.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Hmmm. And I think I threw some.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Things in there that you're not expecting. With Scott, I'm
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: telling you, over the course of the books, he does
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: take care of the skin. He does get contacts, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: he does shave some of it off his back. But
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: it's not about his looks. It's he's just that guys.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: It's just just tell us how we could follow. You
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: could see you already start to stop. Just just give
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: us the rundown, please, ma'am.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: If you're bored and you want to come over to
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Instagram and have a good laugh, I am at Olivia Wrights.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: That's Olivia w r I t e s the rest
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: of the handles. You can find me on Blue Sky
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Facebook at old games dot com.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Well, you guys, hold up blue Sky Instagram. You gotta
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: tell us your web pee if we.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Can go and look at all those norms okas dot com.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, guys, now make sure y'all go get it, because
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I already started my twenty twenty five plus. Please stick up.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: If you don't start with Helen, and you can start,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: you can start right there at Stoneblind with Helen. It
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter. I'm gonna catch you up. I'm gonna give
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: you all the information. I'm gonna give you the information
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: on the archangels, all of that stuff. But I am
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: unfolding all of that cloak around the organization.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: As we go along. Y'all are just go ahead, get
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: your copies, Get your copies. Baby ready to get it,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: go ahead and make it, do it to do. And
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: she sees she down set up here, and she down
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: got me intrigued, and I'm trying to figure out like, okay,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: so am I gonna get the turkey and read or
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: get the ham and read, or you're putting in the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: corner with my Auntie Million Dollar Pie.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: I'm really I'm really really proud of Helen. Okay, when
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: you consider her journey and where she's heading, and you
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: can feel her growing into this power, growing into this confidence.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: She's growing into this confidence with Mustang, but she's also
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: seeing Mustange as this this man that you know, some
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: women all see a guy, I want that guy, and
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: they want this guy because he's going to give me
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: this lifestyle. He's going to give me this house. I'm
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: going to live in this neighborhood, and I'm going to
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: drive this car, and he's going to give him X
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: number of kids. But they really don't think about what
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: the guy wants.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And she is thinking about what.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: He wants, oh you know, and he's so taken aback.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: With it, he's like what.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: What?
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: And so when a woman asks a man what they want,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: men are so shak and really really black men are
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: when you ask them what they want. Half of the
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: times they can't even answer you because they've never had
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: a person asking them what they want.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Because he makes the comment, you know my woman, and
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: she's like, oh, you're a woman. Does my woman want
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: to be my wife? Are you asking? Eventually she's like okay,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: and she says nothing else, and he doesn't know what
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: to do. He's just sitting there waiting on her to
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: say something else, and she doesn't and he don't know
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: what to make of it, and he just and she
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: don't say anything.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: You guys, just listen here, come fall in love with me.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving night. Just go ahead and get the book, you guys,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: stone blind, thanks none even more Thanksgiving night. Why are
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: you sitting up there at twelve oh one in the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: morning cutting up your cheese to go on your macaroni
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: and cheese or basting your turkey, because you know we
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: get up early in the morning. Go ahead and have
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: your coffee. So if you could think there's a way
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: that people say you can get kindled to read it
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: to you, yea, they got it now what people are
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: getting the kindles and they're having the books on the TV.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: The TV. I put a chair in my bedroom so
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: I could put my feet up and I could have
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: my kindle read it to me. But yeah, it is
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: it is a It is a good read. There is
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: a lot of things happening in the book that you're
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: gonna be like, Okay, Helen, all right, Helen I see,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Well, you guys, it's already gonna be on my list,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna tell y'all to go ahead and get it. Remember,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: we always do a replay of the show, So check
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: back on the SI BOOKUS and Friends website. You will
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: see this podcast show and then you will see all
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the connections on how to follow her, how to grab
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: your copy, how to go to her website and grab
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: the other books Stone.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Line, Helen, and Mustang Helen, and.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: In Heaven. I want to greatly thank you for being
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: here with me tonight. I needed this lab after the
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: past two weeks I've had. I really do appreciate you.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Right now, you just.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Sun and sit down and read read me, and you
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: will have some side splitting moments and you just.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Like so let me see.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: It's just y'all. You know.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I'm looking on Amazon right now and it's the pre
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: order with the one click three ninety nine. Go ahead
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: and grab your copy, because I actually be about the
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: press's pre click Well, gain, I got time to read
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  Speaker 2: on y'all.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: You want to hear something amazing?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: When I put it up for pre order it went
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: to number one. It's already had the number one flag
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: and it ain't even released yet.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: So in love with me Amazon Bestseller, Amazon Best Today
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  Speaker 2: Best Excuse me, excuse me, let me correct that us
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: say today's slash Amazon bestseller. Missus Olivia, Games. We thank
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: you for being with us tonight. You guys, make sure
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: you get your copy. I will see you again next
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, with a new author, a new book. Always
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: remember you, guys. An old book is never an old book.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: It's always a new book because not everybody has read
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: every book. Good night and thank you Agains with Games.
• 43:42
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