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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST is hosted by Patrice Grimball| EVERY TUESDAY 9PM EST LIVE ON DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K k Luk and gentlemen, I have your attention. Please.
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  Speaker 1: The show starts in lie hard On.
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  Speaker 2: Col Hey everyone, this is a Tuesday night and we
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  Speaker 2: are back another episode of sc Book Gallas and Friends.
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  Speaker 2: And so y'all know I have another book and another
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  Speaker 2: author that is here to talk about their book. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, I won't see you guys on Thursdays.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say Happy Thanksgiving and I am very
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  Speaker 2: grateful for you to join me tonight and know all
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  Speaker 2: the other shows that you have joined and the ones
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  Speaker 2: you go back and replay and everything. Okay, make sure
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  Speaker 2: that y'all support these indie authors on Black Friday. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of authors that are have any
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  Speaker 2: specials on their book. I know some authors are giving
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  Speaker 2: away whole sets. So if you grab these books, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you do some reviews. Okay. If you've been noticing,
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  Speaker 2: I have been posting little blurbs because this month I
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  Speaker 2: am celebrating Novella November, where all of the books I'm
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  Speaker 2: reading this month's are novellas, so they're kind of like
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  Speaker 2: quick reads. So I have been posting them, posting little
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  Speaker 2: reviews to TikTok and Instagram, on Facebook. So go back
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  Speaker 2: on my page, look at some of those books and
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  Speaker 2: grab them an adam to your collection. Okay, So tonight, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: let's just say the book cuts close to home for
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  Speaker 2: this author, and I'm gonna let her explain that to you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: she has this wonderful book that is called The Inherences
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  Speaker 2: of Amaya Montgomery. Okay, there's this young astis right, So
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  Speaker 2: you know we all got an issue with insecurities and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, Well she does too, and she finds
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  Speaker 2: herself with this nice, charming husband of hers. But remember
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  Speaker 2: everything that glitter and go. So all you're gonna say
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  Speaker 2: is things start to deteriorate very quickly. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell you much more because I'm gonna let you'll
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  Speaker 2: hear from the author herself. You guys, welcome author Jeletta.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna I told you I was gonna stay
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  Speaker 2: it wrong. Love you welcome, Welcome, How are you this evening?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Well, happy to be here? How are you? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I am wonderful with this seventy five degree whether hinch Austin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, Turke, You're gonna have him on a baby suit.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh before we get into your book, can you tell
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit about yourself?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm Jiletta Shavers. I am a licensed clinical
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  Speaker 3: social worker, and I am a mother of three. I
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  Speaker 3: have a thirty three year old daughter, a twenty three
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  Speaker 3: year old daughter, and surprise, surprise, when I'm forty but
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  Speaker 3: I turned forty one, i got pregnant and I have
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  Speaker 3: a twelve year old son. So every decade I had
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  Speaker 3: a baby. And of course I am an author. I've
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  Speaker 3: been writing most of my life since I was a
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  Speaker 3: little girl. But I decided that I wanted to publish
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  Speaker 3: her Two years ago. I decided, Hey, I want to
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  Speaker 3: publish a book. And I reached out to a couple
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  Speaker 3: of people that I knew had published books and just
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  Speaker 3: asked them some questions. They were very gracious and kind
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  Speaker 3: and you know, to help me along the way. Along
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  Speaker 3: along the way. I have a good friend. Her name
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  Speaker 3: is Latanya Bennett. She's never published a book, but she
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  Speaker 3: provided great insight with marketing and who to reach out
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  Speaker 3: to and different things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, wow, you know a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: come on and they say that they started writing when
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  Speaker 2: they were young, Like, what made you want to write
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  Speaker 2: when you were young?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when I was younger. I'm fit before. So when
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  Speaker 3: I was younger, we didn't have cable. We had four
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  Speaker 3: sevent eleven and PBS, so I was watching soap operas
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  Speaker 3: during the day, even school was out. But in the
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  Speaker 3: evening time there was really nothing for me to watch
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  Speaker 3: on the weekends. I've never really been a cartoon person,
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  Speaker 3: so there's never really anything to really watch on TV.
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  Speaker 3: So I wrote, I wrote, and back then I was
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  Speaker 3: writing the way I wanted life to be. I love
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  Speaker 3: the father who raised me, he is my dad. But
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  Speaker 3: when I was younger, I craved to get to know
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  Speaker 3: my biological father. My mother and grandparents they kept him
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  Speaker 3: away from me for whatever reason they had, and I
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  Speaker 3: would write about meeting him being I'm being a princess
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  Speaker 3: and he was a king, and I'm going to live
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  Speaker 3: in a castle, all that fairy tale stuff. Then when
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  Speaker 3: I became when I gotten older, I started reading. Oh
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  Speaker 3: so embarrassed to say this. When I was like twelve thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: I was reading like Edgar at Edgar Allan Poe's like
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  Speaker 3: The Telltale Hard and the House of Usher. I was
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  Speaker 3: reading those and Stephen King. As I. As I've gotten older,
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  Speaker 3: I started reading like Carrie Street. No, I'm wrong. I
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  Speaker 3: actually saw the movie Carrie first, and I went back
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  Speaker 3: and reading the book. But yeah, pet Cemetery the Shining.
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  Speaker 3: Even at a young age, I've always liked horror and
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  Speaker 3: suspense and thriller and like The Exorcist. It didn't scare me.
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  Speaker 3: I was I was a weird kid. It didn't scare me.
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  Speaker 3: What scared me they have scared me now is real
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  Speaker 3: life stuff. It's real, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do the existem that that was.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do the system. I love Carrie. My favorite
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  Speaker 2: was Kojo.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it cooled you? I read cold, Yes, I read cool.
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  Speaker 3: I never saw the movie Cool Joe. Believe it or not,
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  Speaker 3: I never saw the movie. But yes, oh my.
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  Speaker 2: God, No, you gotta look at the movie.
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  Speaker 3: That was a good one.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming up with a remake. I don't know while
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  Speaker 2: they Yep, it's supposed to be coming out next year.
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  Speaker 2: Summer of next year. They're doing a whole nother remakelio
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  Speaker 2: be that dog alone. Okay, so but listen, I say this,
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  Speaker 2: and I say this to you, never be ashamed of
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  Speaker 2: what you read. I had a director whose name is Nicole,
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  Speaker 2: and lord, I wish she was still with us, but
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  Speaker 2: she's at a different library system. And I was so embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: I was working in children's and I was just helping
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  Speaker 2: them out that morning and I used to wear headphones
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  Speaker 2: are listening to books. And she said, what are you
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  Speaker 2: listening too? And I was like. She looked at me
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  Speaker 2: and she said, you never be ashamed of what you
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  Speaker 2: will listen to or what you read. She says, what
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  Speaker 2: you do. And the book was named Choked Me, spanked me,
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  Speaker 2: pull my haird.
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  Speaker 3: So I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I said it to her. She said, oh okay, and
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  Speaker 2: she walked up. So never feel embarrassed what you read.
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  Speaker 2: It's what you love. It is your comforts. Nobody should
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  Speaker 2: be able to tell you what to read. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: this book you have. First, let's talk about the cover. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit of your vision for your
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  Speaker 2: cover and why did you choose it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So the vision that I gave j R. Mason,
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  Speaker 3: who did the cover, I just wanted a mansion and
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  Speaker 3: I wanted a man to be looking at the women
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  Speaker 3: the window. And it to look ominous, and the lady
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  Speaker 3: she's I wanted you to see the back of her
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  Speaker 3: walking toward the house because I wanted you to wonder
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  Speaker 3: if she's excited about walking toward the house, is she
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  Speaker 3: nervous about walking toward the house. How is she feeling
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  Speaker 3: about walking toward the house. So that's why I want
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  Speaker 3: you to see the back of her. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so since she's rich, I want to be a mansion,
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  Speaker 3: and since her husband is charming, but remember he's gaslighting her.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a good person. So I want that ominous feeling.
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  Speaker 3: And she exactly what I asked her to do.
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  Speaker 2: And the great thing about it, this is why I
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  Speaker 2: love the offense to tell us about their covers, because
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  Speaker 2: there are meanings to their covers which we would never know.
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  Speaker 2: And to look at that, I am now just seeing
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  Speaker 2: dudes sitting up in the window, and really, you just
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  Speaker 2: not noticing that I am just seeing dude sitting there
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  Speaker 2: and I'm pointing like he's I'm just now seeing dude.
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  Speaker 3: In the windows waiting for her to come home? Or
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  Speaker 3: is he waiting for her to come home? Yeah? What
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  Speaker 3: is it? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: So, so tell us a little bit about the book now, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So why don't I tell you a little bit about
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  Speaker 4: without giving any spoilers.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm bad about spoilers. Uh So the book is
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  Speaker 3: loosely based on me. This this fiction, but it's lucy
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  Speaker 3: based on my life. Amaya. She struggles with anxiety. I
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  Speaker 3: struggle with anxiety as well, not to the magnitude that
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  Speaker 3: Amaya struggles with it. So everything is exaggerated in the book,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for the reader's pleasure. And Amaya she was
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  Speaker 3: lonely growing up. She was with her mother and her father.
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  Speaker 3: Her mother and father were both on heroin. My parents
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  Speaker 3: were not on heroin, not no mes at all. They
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  Speaker 3: were not on heroin. But her parents were on heroin.
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  Speaker 3: Her mother was physically and emotionally abusive to her. So
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  Speaker 3: some things happened and she ended up living with her grandparents.
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  Speaker 3: And she had trust issues because she was bullied growing up.
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  Speaker 3: So with me, I had trust issues. In school, I
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  Speaker 3: was bullied because the school I went to it was
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  Speaker 3: very few darker skinned children there. It was only a
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  Speaker 3: few of us, so I was bullied for being darker skinned.
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  Speaker 3: I developed early, so I had breast when I was
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  Speaker 3: nine adriere and I was pigeon told so yes, so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: being dar skinned, developed butt sticking out and walking pigeon tod.
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  Speaker 3: So with that, Amaya and I can relate with Amaya.
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  Speaker 3: I moved in with my grandma. I was given to
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  Speaker 3: my grandparents when I was an infant, so and I
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  Speaker 3: always longed to want to stay with my mother. And
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  Speaker 3: my mother and I we did not have a best
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  Speaker 3: of a relationship, but I moved in with her when
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  Speaker 3: I was thirteen. And my mother now has advanced dementia.
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  Speaker 3: So I started writing The Inherits of Amaya Montgomery as
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  Speaker 3: a therapeutic tool for me as a mental health therapist.
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  Speaker 3: I like to tell my clients, you can write your
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  Speaker 3: own story and write yourself a happy ending. So I
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  Speaker 3: wrote my own story, and I wrote myself a happy
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  Speaker 3: ending for Amaya and her mother, since I won't get
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  Speaker 3: the happy ending I want with my mom with advanced
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  Speaker 3: de Mitchell. But about the book. Amaya parents grandparents. They
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  Speaker 3: were very wealthy and they died when she was eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: and when she turned thirty she was going to get
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  Speaker 3: multimillions of dollars. Her husband married her in college because
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  Speaker 3: he had a plan from college until she turned twenty
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  Speaker 3: nine that he was planning on gaslighting her to have
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  Speaker 3: power of attorney over her and her money. And when
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  Speaker 3: he gaslight her, he gassed light I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 3: one spoiler. He gas likes her in this one scene
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  Speaker 3: where he actually has uh. He pays for a technician
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  Speaker 3: to come and to rig up the house and he
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  Speaker 3: has it where she's seeing her grandparents as ghosts, but
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  Speaker 3: they don't look like ghosts. They look real and they're
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  Speaker 3: talking to her. And that's just one thing, and it's
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  Speaker 3: more to that. I just don't want to give everything away.
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  Speaker 3: But that's how far he will go. And he's done
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  Speaker 3: some crazy things and he will kill anyone that gets
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  Speaker 3: in his way. So yeah, it's gas lighting on hydraulics,
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  Speaker 3: is what I call it.
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  Speaker 2: You telling me this man was crazy enough to pay
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  Speaker 2: someone to do images of her grandparents so that he can.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you have a very powerful thoughts patterned. Oh, come
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  Speaker 5: up with that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I have a vivid imagination, a vivid imagination, and
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  Speaker 3: I learned that when I was a child. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if those thingsons popped in my head. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a mental health therapist and these these crazy things locked up.
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  Speaker 6: In mind, but yeah, yeah, like what what? And there's
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  Speaker 6: twists after this, plot twist after plot twist in this book.
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  Speaker 2: So how did you keep up with your plot twists?
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  Speaker 2: Did you use like a writing journal or you just
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  Speaker 2: let it flow? Like?
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  Speaker 3: So, how did you keep up with every day it
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  Speaker 3: was coming? Things come to me when I'm in my shower.
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  Speaker 3: Things come to me if I'm watching TV and I
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  Speaker 3: would just pick up my phone and I would just
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  Speaker 3: text it to myself whatever whatever. Like the scene I
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  Speaker 3: was getting ready. I don't want to give this one away,
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  Speaker 3: but there's one really intense scene and it's really really intense,
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  Speaker 3: and I was just thinking about her. The character is Sandra.
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  Speaker 3: She's the housekeeper, but she was also Amaya's confidante and
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  Speaker 3: she knew Quentin wasn't right, so something happened to her
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  Speaker 3: and it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild, and I just
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  Speaker 3: thought about that and then I just started typing in
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  Speaker 3: my phone and then it was so much coming. I
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  Speaker 3: end up getting my laptop out and I end up
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  Speaker 3: typing that scene, that entire scene. So sometimes these just
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  Speaker 3: come to me. I do start out with an outline,
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  Speaker 3: but then I end up being a pants so so.
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  Speaker 2: How do you are you an author where your characters
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  Speaker 2: talk to you or you like, how do you get
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  Speaker 2: your characters to interact?
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  Speaker 3: And see? This is the thing I hear people say,
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  Speaker 3: the characters talk to them. I guess I haven't built
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  Speaker 3: that ability yet. What I do is I see my
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  Speaker 3: characters like in a movie. I vividly see my characters.
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  Speaker 3: I can visualize them, and it plays in my mind
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  Speaker 3: like a movie, and I'm basically putting them in place,
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  Speaker 3: and as the movie is going, I'm visualizing how they
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  Speaker 3: will react to what the other person is saying or
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  Speaker 3: the environment. So yes, I'm ready for the character to
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  Speaker 3: start talking to me. You know, I have some author
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  Speaker 3: friends that say that they're not gonna write until the
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  Speaker 3: characters start talking to them, so I hadn't.
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  Speaker 2: I am so glad you talk by characters and watching
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  Speaker 2: the movie in your mind, because remember behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: I told you about those fun questions. I hope you ready.
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  Speaker 2: It's just time for them, right, Okay, Oh no, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Get nervous on me now, because you're halfway there.
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  Speaker 2: You are halfway there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm Maya Amaya.
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  Speaker 2: Who would play her?
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  Speaker 3: But oh it's a catch.
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  Speaker 2: A cat the catches. It has to be an eighties
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  Speaker 2: R and B artist.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, eighties R and B artists. Okay, okay, I'm shot
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  Speaker 3: to con I love Oh no, no, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 3: it back. Tina Turner because I was born in every Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So we end it up on top. So yes, I
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  Speaker 3: would say Tina Turner.
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  Speaker 2: So we got Tina before she discovered Tina or Tina
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  Speaker 2: after she and I beat the nothing out of Ike? Tina,
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  Speaker 2: which Tina.
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  Speaker 3: Don't the brights oft of Ike? All right? All right?
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  Speaker 2: So and now now we have your male character. What's
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  Speaker 2: this theme again?
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  Speaker 3: Quentin?
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  Speaker 2: Who would play Quentin? But he has to be an
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  Speaker 2: eighties movie star?
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  Speaker 3: Hm mm hmmm. I love Denzel. I wouldn't put Denzel
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  Speaker 3: in Quinn because Quinn is a horrible person. Let's seem, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: this person's not a movie star though, but he's been
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  Speaker 3: in movies.
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  Speaker 2: Who would it be?
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  Speaker 3: Is it mcguel? He was in a show called Sparts.
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  Speaker 3: He plays on Carl Weber's family business. I think his
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  Speaker 3: name is Miguel.
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  Speaker 2: Do this?
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  Speaker 3: I think?
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  Speaker 2: All right, y'all know me, y'all know, I'm gonna go look.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he played and he was the son the man
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  Speaker 3: that played on Fresh Press of bel Air, the Dad
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  Speaker 3: upper Field. He had two sons, Terrence Howard and the
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  Speaker 3: other man, Miguel. I think it's new but it would
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  Speaker 3: be him that would play Quentin.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know exactly who you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: And it's family business, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in a family business. Let me see. His
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  Speaker 3: name is Miguel miguel A new Yeah, miguel a new
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  Speaker 3: NaN's junior. Oh, I remember him.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of my favorite movies. It was well, he
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  Speaker 2: played the lady. It was a basketball movie. He played
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  Speaker 2: the lady. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in movies. I can't remember any movies.
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  Speaker 2: That you want a man?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I can see, I can.
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  Speaker 2: See all right. We are Lifeline, Lifetime on the line. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they love your book. Okay, you already have your two
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  Speaker 2: main characters. But now they need a soundtrack? What sound
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  Speaker 2: What song will be the feature song to represent your
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  Speaker 2: book on the soundtrack? And from the eighties, it could
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  Speaker 2: be from anywhere?
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  Speaker 3: How about Danger?
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  Speaker 2: The girl in Danger, y'all, she do mystical.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's.
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  Speaker 2: So, why did you choose that song?
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  Speaker 3: First of all, there was the first thing that popped
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  Speaker 3: in my head. And because she is in danger and
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  Speaker 3: she doesn't know it. She believes that her marriage is perfect,
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  Speaker 3: and we know nothing's perfect, but she believes her husband's
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  Speaker 3: perfect and her marriage is perfect, and she just basical
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  Speaker 3: because he's killing folks, gas slighting her, poisoning people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just all those things. So just danger. If you meet
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  Speaker 3: someone named Quentin, just run.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry all the Quentin's out there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry everybody's like that Quintin. I made my next husband,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Quentin, not this Quinto that you know that want
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  Speaker 3: to take care of me and my son and love
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  Speaker 3: us both and not want to kill us for our money.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine every money, because we don't have any money.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand the She just gave a whole deep nap.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure y'all check up all the boxes. Okay,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: you got to check off the boxes. So we have
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the soundtrack is Danger. We have Tina Turner, and we
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: have Michuel Newness. So Lifetown says this, The movie was awesome. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now we want to do a movie about you. Who
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: would you get to play you? And why would you
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  Speaker 2: give them such a title?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my h mm hmmm, you know what Kelly Rowland.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that is the first time I've heard that name.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I really like Kelly Roland. I think she's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I love her beautiful dark skin. I think she is
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  Speaker 3: a great actress. I think she's a great singer beyond say,
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  Speaker 3: you know her didn't shine when she was in Destiny's Child,
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  Speaker 3: but I believe her life's shine now and I would
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  Speaker 3: love for her to play me. I would.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we gotta get somebody to write and well, co
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: author your biopic for lifetime. So what author have you
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  Speaker 2: always wanted to write a book with and why them?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Or if you don't have an author you ever wanted
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  Speaker 2: to write a book with? Who is your favorite author?
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  Speaker 2: And wife?
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  Speaker 3: So I would okay, I would say I was able
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  Speaker 3: to co write a book with someone. I would say,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you a grant because her stories are just
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  Speaker 3: as crazy as mine, crazy crazier. Okay. I can see
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  Speaker 3: us writing a book so unhinged that people would probably
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  Speaker 3: read it in one city. They wouldn't put it down,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: they wouldn't go to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Now that is what's up. Yeah, that is what's up.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa not to go eat a snack?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: They won't even go eat a snack, there could be
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: too busy engulfed in the book.
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  Speaker 2: I had a book like that in a long time.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Oh when y'all took delivrate that place.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: You need to you need to read. Have you read
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: The Babysitter by Tunisia Steward?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: What the name of that one called The baby Swetter?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: The Babysitter? That was a book that I read and
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I stayed up most of the night. It was sleepy
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  Speaker 3: the next day. And it's coming out of them. It's out.
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  Speaker 3: It's out now on audible. Is this a scary book?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: The Babysitter by Tanisian Steward. It's a thriller. It's not scary,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: it's a thriller.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, y'all this might be very crazy. Okay, So
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell y'all a little bit about one little
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: thing about me. I can't read scary books. But one
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: of my favorite movies of all time, favorite movie series
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  Speaker 2: of all time, it's The Purt Oh really, but you
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: can't read scary I can't read scary books.
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  Speaker 3: I need to know what up you got to read?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: It's a horror thriller. I wrote the book and the
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: audio it scared me and I wrote it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everything. I just said. This is an audio book, I said,
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  Speaker 3: read it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: But I love books with sound effects. Man. This new
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: thing that authors are doing adding sound effects to the books.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. It takes the book to a whole separate,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: a whole separate.
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  Speaker 3: It's a smatic experience, experience.
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  Speaker 2: I've never for my first time listening to an audio
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: book that had the additional sound effects. Kind of got
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: me in trouble at work because my epiece came out
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and were you know, but it was like WHOA. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I love that. So it's great to know you guys
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: that if you get that book that she just showed,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: it has audio and it has the sound effects. So
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: y'all want to go grab that one and tell me
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: how it is. Because I don't want to have to
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: sleep for the night light. I will be forty five
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  Speaker 2: next week, I don't me Jesus No, I'll be forty
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  Speaker 2: six next week. I don't need to be sleeping.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: No night light. Well, you won't need a night light.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: You're gonna need an overhead light with this one. See
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: just read, just read the first two chapters and tell
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: me what you think.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: She said for the first two chapters. Okay, you know what,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you know what step me. The link to it is
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: that one out.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: It's so uh, I'll say I was sending. I would
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: send the e book to you for free. Just read
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: it in the daytime. Okay.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: So what I'll do? No, I'm actually going to somebody house.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I ain't cooking the ship. Oh well, okay,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: you know what, and you can read here's here's here's
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the bed, here's this. I'll pause the book that I'm
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: reading right now, okay, and I'll read the first two
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: chapters tomorrow morning, and I'll have something in your inbox
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: telling you if I can continue.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, how about that? All right?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: And you guys, I will. I'll put it on my
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Facebook page and you know how I did my little
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: blurt to my books, and y'all will tell me. I'll
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: tell y'all if I can continue. So if you send
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: it to me tonight, I can do it tomorrow, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I promise two chapters.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: You got this?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: So before we leave, what would you like to say
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: to your old readers, your new readers, and the readers
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: you are again after this podcast.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I would just like to tell them thank you for
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: supporting me, and I also want to say thank you
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: for the people who tuned in tonight. And I'm hoping
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: to invoke different feelings for our readers as they read.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I would love for them to feel love and excitement
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: for the protagonists. I would love for them to have
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: anger for the antagonists. I would like for them to
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: hopefully appreciate that. You know, a lot of my books
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: have female lead characters. We don't have very much of
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: female lead characters. I guess in the books that I
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: read there's only a few. And just to reading is
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: good for the mind. So keep reading, and please support me,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: and support indie authors, and support black indie authors, and
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: please please please leave reviews. You just don't know how
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: important reviews are to us and for us, especially with
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the Amazon algorithms. The more reviews we get, the more
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Amazon will put our books, you know, where readers can
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: see them in the not the spotlight, but just to
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: be seen. Otherwise we're just here, so yeah, yep.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Otherwise they'll just fade and you won't see their books
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: and you will see people wonder why they keep seeing
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the same books over and over and over again. Well,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why is because you didn't plase
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the review for that book that you loved so much.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: You didn't give that author a chance to be pushed
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: out in an actor. Okay, so tell us where we
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: can follow you and any upcoming events that you may
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: have that we can see you in person.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: So I will be in Mississippi for Oh let me
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: look on here, you have it right here, So the
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Black Girl Who Black Girl Who Read Books Summit April
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: third through the fifth. That'll be in Dallas, Texas. I
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: will be in Mississippi on March the twenty eighth and
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: twenty ninth for the Literary All Star Expo. And then
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: I will be in Nashville, Tennessee October twenty three through
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the twenty fourth for license for the Licensed to Thrill
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Book Fair and October. So I'm excited about those upcoming events.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: And then you guys, if you look at the bottom
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: of your screen, you will see all of social media information,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: so on case she goes someplace else, she'll post a
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: turk page and you'll be able to follow her angle
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: more So, I would like to thank you for being here.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I enjoy you too.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: You guys.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: So I got the two two chapter challenge tomorrow.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Getting ready to send it to you.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I'm scared, y'all because I don't do scary books.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I will tell you this. The first chapter is not
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: scary at all. Okay, so you're gonna bote me up
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: to it, but you have to read chapter two as well.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna read chapter one. In chapter two, I am
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: going to step out of my comfort zone and you, guys,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I will report back to you guys about chapter one
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: in chapter two, okay, if I can continue now, okay,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: y'all see me in one one or on if y'all
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: see the Amazon truck and there's a well you know what,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I got the little wallflowers from uh which called bath
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and Body.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I have the.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Trade and want to get the one with the night light.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Y'all blame her?
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Well, all right, all right, giving it a dance. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: will kay.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I will thank you. It takes me out of my
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: comfort zone, and that's one of the things I do
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: want to do in twenty twenty six. Knowing that way
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I work, coming out of the comfort zone and helping
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: other people find great books to take their mind off
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: of things. It's something that I want to do so.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: All right, you guys, before we leave, we're going to
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: tell miss Shavers thank you for being with us tonight. Okay, Shavers,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: see I did it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I did it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: You guys, y'all know I'm bad with me. Thank you
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: to be with us tonight. So you guys, before we leave,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: y'all know you still have time to nominate those authors,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Nominate those podcasts, Nominate those book clubs, Nominate those books.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: For the twenty twenty six aspiring author book gall of Wards. Okay,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: if you look on my Facebook page and any of
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: our social media you will see the link. Once we
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: get off here tonight, I'm gonna put the link back
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: on again so you guys can continue to nominate authors. Okay,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Remember you have until the end of no the twenty
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: fifth I want to say it's twenty fifth I might
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: if you're wrong, but the twenty fifth of December to
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: nominate your authors, your books, your podcasts, authors, book podcasts, reviews, magazine.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: There are different categories just to make sure that you complete,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: and you can nominate as many people and as many
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: times you like. Okay, so you guys, there's another Tuesday
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Night in the book. Thank you guys for being with
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: me tonight. Remember I got a two chapter challenges and
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I'm a post tomorrow. You guys, pray for me. Okay,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: you guys. Remember there's no such thing as an old
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: book because not everybody has read every book. Happy Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 2: much love for me, good night everyone, Bye,