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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1| EPISODE #157| THE VISIONARY LIVE ON MEET DA HOST ; INTERVIEWING PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Here we go right to live. Its Hey, hey, hey,
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  hey, y'all, and welcome, Welcome, Welcome, It's show Time's show
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  time is show time? I guess shall It was probably expected, yes,
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  someone else, but it's me. It's me. It's me. I am
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  the visionary of the Crew podcast, and tonight I get a chance to interview
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  the inner if you were so. She's been interviewing all of the hosts throughout
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  this first season here on the Crew podcast, y'all, I tell you,
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  I'm excited to come from behind the scene to be able to interview this young
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  lady and get an opportunity for you guys to get up posting personal with her
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  on tonight. So I want you guys to share this in your circle of
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  influence. For those that do not know who I am, of course,
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  I am the Queen of Collaborations. I am the visionary of this amazing network
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  along with as far as an office magazine, and my whole desire is to
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  be the change that I desire to see in this world. And I am
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  so so happy to be able to present to you guys tonight this young lady
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  who's definitely being a part of the change that she wants to see in this
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  world. She's doing it in the literary world. She is, when I
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  tell you, she is stepping out of her circle, her box and exploring
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  some things. I'm excited for what God is doing for her. But I
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  want to move out the way and I'm gonna allow her to introduce herself.
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  So come on, come on, come on, eh Hi everyone, Hey,
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  hey, hey, hey, how you doing. I am good,
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  you guys. I am not doing an interviewing tonight. Yay, you get
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  to learn about me. What's going on girly? Wow wow Wow. Well,
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  I tell you there's not a whole lot going on with me. Always
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  same old, same old. I'm glad to be able to come from behind
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  the scenes and be able to do this on tonight. I tell you it's
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  an honor and a privilege to be able to share you with the world because
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  I'll sit back and I have truly watched you grow. I watched you develop
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  your gift and your talent, and you've allowed the world to see exactly a
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  little bit about yourself. But if you would if you would just start off
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  by just letting everybody that may not know you, because I'm sure we are
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  expanding, so we're getting some new some new viewers here and there. So
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  those that may not know you, if you would briefly introduce yourself. So,
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  my name is Patre Scrubble, and I am known as as C Book
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  Gal A four three and I am from South Carolina area code A for three,
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  so that's Charleston. And oh lord, what can I tell you,
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  guys? I worked for the Charlston Colley Public Library System. Love you guys,
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  my herd, Saint Andrew's family. There's so many of them for eighteen
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  years, you guys. Like when I first started, I could not find
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  a book on the shelf. But now it's a whole different ball game.
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  Like I love African American authors and indie authors because the indie authors, y'all
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  have that hunger that comes through your books. I'm a mother too. My
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  oldest sister, James, he's gonna be twenty one in December, happy birthday.
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  And my youngest one is eight, and that's that little girl of Naya,
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  my auntie to my three nephews. I called him to Giffred Crewe,
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  Eric TL and King aka Kevin. And I have two beautiful sisters who work
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  on my nerves, a host of family. I just love the world of
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  lit. I love literature. I love books. I love I love children's
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  books that show diversity. Because when I first started reading to my twenty one
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  year old, we had to read books about dogs and no inflant, you
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  guys, the little white kids, and we couldn't relate to it. And
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  now my eight year old, there is just so many books that portray her
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  as a main character. So it's a love I'm a podcaster for the crew
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  and my show on the second and fourth. But that's going to be changing
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  and it's a good thing. We'll talk about that later. What else,
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  Yeah, that's all I did. I can't think of nothing else. Wow,
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  you you you talked about diversity so as a black librarian, because y'all
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  are very few in numbers compared to the amount of liberians it is in this
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  world. Have you experienced or faced any type of represent representation as far as
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  diversity in the literary world? Have you faced any challenges personally at work?
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  I have, And Uh, it's funny because I would have the individuals come
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  to the desk and they'll be like one of them was blinking. He was
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  like, can you go get somebody back there who knows what to do?
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  Or can you go get somebody else to do it? And I'm like,
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  okay, cool, I'll go back there and get someone and to only come
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  full circle because the person I got back there actually needed me to help.
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  So it's funny because I come back out like, hey, so you need
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  help again, and they'll look at me like, oh, so, I've
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  seen it on the negative side, but I've also seen it on the positive
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  side, whereas I would go to schools and the kids be like, you
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  work at a library. I'm like, yeah, what's up. You don't
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  act like you work at a library, So what does the library and look
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  like? And they would tell me old, wrinkle lady with glasses. Well
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  I ain't old, I ain't wrinkled, but I do wear glasses. So
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  I'm one of the three. So on both ends. Yes, I have
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  dealt with it positively and negatively. So what are some insight for stories or
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  experiences you can and share with us that you have experienced being a librarian in
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  Charleston, South Carolina. Wow, one I have to ad meet. It
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  has been the people that I work with. My heard Saint Andrew's family,
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  and they're beautiful. It's literally a family, you guys, literally a family.
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  So they make every day going to work in us helping each other.
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  It's it's just like the puzzle piece together another. Well. One of the
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  biggest things that has happened so far, and why I say so far because
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  I know God has so much in store for me, is this year I
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  was the recipient of the twenty twenty three Cynthia Graham Her Award and Leyman's term,
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  it's the Employee of the Year. But it was such an honor to
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  have this award that was named after my mentor, Cynthia, and to think
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  that my coworkers felt this way about me to give me this award, it
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  was like even more better. I love to see my kids. I used
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  to deal with teens, and I used to work in teen services. Now
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  I'm solely in adult services. So after eighteen years, you're seeing your teens.
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  Now there are adults and they have their own kids, and they come
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  back with their kids and they'd be like, hey, miss Retries, remember
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  I give you that hard time. That's like, so what are you doing
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  with your life now? All mister Trees, I had to do and at
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  this and that, and to think that you played a factor in their lives
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  and they have such a great experience and now they're bringing their kids back.
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  It's like, where else can you get this feeling to wake up in the
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  morning be like, yes, another day I get to go there. I
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  get to introduce another young man sometimes to a book, or another young lady
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  to a book, or this old lady who wants to read the street literature.
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  And you're like, all right, now me find out. So,
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  yeah, there's so many different stories I have, but those are the ones
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  that I keep near to me. I can hear the passion you have about
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  being a librarian and being able to impact individuals in the literary aspect of the
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  world. What would be your advice to someone that was thinking about becoming a
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  librarian or you would encourage someone to become a librarian, because you know that
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  that's not something that you hear people pushing. It's not a profession that you
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  hear a lot about, so it has to be a need for it.
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  So what would you say to someone that's listening, that enjoys reading and enjoy
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  books, how could you convince that person to get into becoming a library?
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  And are there men? Are there men a librarian? Oh? Yes there
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  are. My manager actually is a male and he's like one of the coolest
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  people I've ever met. It was He's so cool. It's the albar had
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  sof Tia. There are some black male librarians. I got mister Ray and
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  we got mister g Missus Gerald. There are two African American male branch managers.
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  So they're not just librarians, these are branch managers. So it's like
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  koodles to them. So I am a librarian by years of experience. Okay,
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  I am what you call a para professional. So in other words,
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  I don't have that beautiful degree. Now. I can hear my ad in
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  my head right now, and my AD is that's the admin team. They're
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  like the third under the director. And I can hear them say, Okay,
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  Trees, you know you can get the degree. You can get a
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  degree, but I am a mother first. So I do a lot of
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  webinars. I do a lot of training to make sure that I am always
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  current on what's going on in the world of libraries. Now. There are
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  individuals who I work with that are becoming librarians. And if you're an African
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  American, I'm telling you there are so many scholarships out there that you can
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  literally go to school for free, like for free, you guys. And
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  you would think, like, well, Trees, why I want you to
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  go to school, Because, like I just said, I'm a mother first,
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  and I'm going with the valume of mother like, Okay, I've had
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  my chance. I've got an eight year old now, and I want her
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  to have me behind her one hundred percent. But that won't stop me from
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  the goals that I have because look, I got things I got to do.
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  I got somebody right here. The side I think would be who has
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  my back and who pushes me? So I would say go for it.
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  If you don't want to go to school, go work embody yourself with your
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  vision. You want to become a library, You want to spread the word
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  of diversity, you want to spread the word of literature. Have books around
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  you. Twenty four to seven. If I was to take my camera off,
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  and God, I will not do that to you guys, you will
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  find you will find books in every single point of my house. Yes,
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  every everywhere there's a book. And why because I know that's where my heart
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  is. So if that's what you want to do, get those scholarships,
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  stick to it, keep going. If you don't want to do the educational
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  route, then you can be an associated specialist, a pair of professional you
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  can go that route. But if your life is in literature, go for
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  it. We need more of us. So, okay, I know you.
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  Oftentimes I hear you on your shows oftentimes talking about urban literature, self
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  published authors, things of that nature. As a librarian, because I want
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  to be able to tie your profession into the things that you do outside as
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  well. So, as a librarian, what advice would you give to self
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  published authors that's looking to promote and sell their books effectively. Well, something
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  I gotta do for myself, and I try to do it all the time,
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  and I'm seeing a little glimpse of where I'm being consistent. Consistency is
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  it show up for yourself. Somebody told us I wanna sera Dames Angela.
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  Show up for yourself. You are the first promoter of your book. You
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  you feed the passion, You set the fire. If the fire is hot,
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  people gonna come because they want to get warm, and they want to
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  know what's going on with the fire. They want to know why is this
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  fire sitting here out of all this heat? Why is this fire here?
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  And you're gonna draw them in. But the only way they're gonna draw in
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  is if you show that passion first, and the passion of the fire.
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  So show up for yourself, be consistent, passionate fire, and ignore others
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  around you, those naysayers. So also are their resources at the library that
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  self published authors can use. Ooh, you guys who are in Charston,
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  South Carolina. Some of the Chalston Doorge if you just want to come down
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  here. This month is National Authors. We call it Nana Rama National Authors
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  writing something in another but I call it National Writing Month. And this month
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  we are showcasing how to be self published. I even got a guy who
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  names Julian who this classes at our library did a podcast class. We have
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  four people show them they wanted to start their own podcasts. We have a
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  group that's going to be talking about panel discussions on how to start a book,
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  write a book, get over the writer's block, self publishing versus going
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  to a publishing house. We have a computer that has Adobe that you can
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  do your or you can make your cover, you can type your book.
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  We have a creative studio at our library where you can put your book together
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  and you can have that one baby copy for yourself. So we have a
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  lot of resources, especially in the month of November. So stop by the
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  library. Almost all the libraries you can tell Miss Patrice. But if you
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  want to stop by Herds and Andrews, that's why it's actually savor, come
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  on by. So do you know of any platforms or do you suggest any
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  platforms that self published authors may be able to showcase their book on. So
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  there are plenty of platforms, you guys, and there are plenty of levels.
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  Okay, you have Whitpad, you have another one it is called book
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  Matts, Blurb, you have your Amazon. There are little ones that around.
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  I would always say, look at your budget, but then also invest.
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  Okay, don't think, oh, I'm gonna go for the free option.
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  Whereas if you don't drink Starbucks for about a month, you would save
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  up what close five hundred dollars and you can invest a little bit more.
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  So that's just where you're publishing purposes. Now marketing, Oh my god,
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  you got all these free social media out here. I mean I've screenshot so
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  many books off of TikTok to isn't honey? And on Facebook I just gave
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  up because it was always a new book that I was seeing. And let's
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  say you do you want to now invest in and social media marketing? You
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  have Canva. Canva is now my best friend. And if you need help
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  with any of that, of course, you got YouTube in university. And
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  then you do have individuals who are able to guide you. Wayne's Transformation that's
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  my podcast, sister. You have this lady here on the side, Miss
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  Queen collaboration. You have them, so you have so many avenues to the
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  point that you have no excuse not to get your book out there. Wow.
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  So what can we expect from Patrise in twenty twenty four? You know
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  what you guys, I don't know, but I will tell you it'll be
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  more than what you got in twenty twenty three. And that's gonna be a
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  lie, because angel I can tell you if you saw me in twenty twenty
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  two, you would never believe me right here at twenty twenty three. Twenty
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  twenty two was a year of loss for me. Lost a best friend,
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  lost my mother, lost some marriage, and twenty twenty three I'll never forget
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  New Year's ey. Well before New Year's Eve, I had a friend.
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  She told me to go wipe your face. I was like, I can't
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  what. She kept on telling me, go wipe your face, and I
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  was like, all right, I'm gonna go do this. But I never
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  know that one simple act when she was talking to me, she was feeding
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  into my spirit because God God knows, Andrew Can told me I was crying.
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  I was not nosing you, guys, I was a hot mess.
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  So to see what twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, and God,
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  how much He has blessed me in twenty twenty three, even my kids,
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  even my nephews, my sisters, my family in general. I am.
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  I don't know what he has me in twenty twenty four. All I know
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  is I'm gonna buckle up and I'm gonna go for this ride. Well,
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  you have a question, Black Diamond said, what would you say to someone
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  who would like to switch generals? Do it? Do it? Genres is
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  just an enclosed box, and I love to see authors jump out of that
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  box because it kind of introduced you to a whole new a whole new world.
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  Okay, me starting off for just reading street lit. Then I started
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  doing contemporary, and then I started doing Christian fiction, and I never knew
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  that I would go through all those. Now I'm actually starting to read fantasy.
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  Never if I thought I would read fantasy. But I'm there, so
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  feel free jump out of it. Just go for it, girl, Trevida.
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  I see your comment. God will blow your mind if you're allowed him
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  access. Oh allowed access? So one more question? And so will Patria
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  ever write a book? Why? I feel like that was a setup?
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  Question? Will I ever write a book, I think I will, But
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  what it would be about, I have no idea. Because if I write
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  about my life and this roller coaster I've been on, you guys will think
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  I'm lying. I would have to pull out receipts. When I pull out
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  receipts, he'd be like, Oh, this chick was serious. So yes,
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  I would like to write a book. I am a part of some
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  anthologies, so I can see that in the future. Yes, ma'am Treda,
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  I will see what well I tell you. I truly, truly have
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  enjoyed chatting with you on tonight. I hope those that are tuned in have
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  been blessed by you on tonight. I look forward to seeing all that God
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  hands in store for you. How can people follow and support the things that
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  you're doing and stay connected to you to see what you're doing in twenty twenty
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  four everything sc book Gals and friends on all social media and if you can't
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  formulas, you can do sc book out A for three the crew, always
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  with the crew and Facebook. My name is Patrise Grumble. Look for me.
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  It's going to be some audio reviews, which I've got two of them
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  coming up. We've got book reviews, more authors interviews, because I'm going
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  from two days you guys a week, so every week, every week,
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  every week, every Saturday. I'm so excited. More authors. Yeah,
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  just catch me. It's sci book out A four to three sc book outs
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  and friends and Patrice S. Grimble and the crew. All right again,
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  I truly have enjoyed being with you on tonight. I look forward to all
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  that You're gonna be the one in twenty twenty four. Again, I thank
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