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Fantasy Mystery Intrique And Lemon In Luna And The Lost Cove From Aria Joy Prichard · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, even being in radio for 47 years, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know every single song, so it makes it even more
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  Speaker 1: fun when you get to do a show called Music's
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  Speaker 1: Lost History, the artist edition as well as the song edition.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you really know about the songs you're
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and good morning to you. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you, Arrow?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely excited to share a conversation with you because you
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  Speaker 1: have this way with words. And I want to know
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  Speaker 1: where you picked up that imagination and said, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to share it with the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Is it something that you just kind of tripped across?
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  Speaker 1: Because I remember being in the second grade and Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Keefe sat down with me and said, Write whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: You'll figure it out later on. Just get it out
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  Speaker 1: of your system. Just identify that you're a writer and
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  Speaker 1: we'll go from here. What about you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was the same.
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  Speaker 3: I've always loved fantasy and magic and being able to
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  Speaker 3: tell stories. And it's always just like been in my head.
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  Speaker 2: So just being able to have the freedom and.
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  Speaker 3: Opportunity to just get it out, like you said, and
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  Speaker 3: run with it has definitely helped me.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to jump into some marketing on this
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to merch? Because I mean, I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of the term merkids and I'm going, I want one.
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  Speaker 1: I want a t-shirt. I want a stuffed animal. I
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  Speaker 1: want something that says that I am a merkid too.
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  Speaker 3: I do have a website called mermaidfriends.com and I do
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  Speaker 3: sell a bunch of mermaid themed related things.
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  Speaker 2: Mermaid friends club.
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  Speaker 3: I love being able to create like a community with
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  Speaker 3: like a little club type thing. So I definitely have
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of merch. I'd love to do stuffed animals.
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  Speaker 3: That would be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I think my connection with Luna and the Lost Cove
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that my own daughter, on her walls
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  Speaker 1: growing up as a child, she would paint, not draw,
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  Speaker 1: but paint actual mermaids and things on her walls, which
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  Speaker 1: are still there today because I won't erase them at all.
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  Speaker 1: I want my grandkids to go in there and look
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  Speaker 1: at that and see where her mother was. And when
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  Speaker 1: I was reading this story, I'm going, oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is such a moment for all parents
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  Speaker 1: as well as young adults as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a hundred percent. That's so funny that your daughter
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  Speaker 2: did the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I did that when I was a kid, my,
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  Speaker 3: my parents let me draw on the walls of my
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  Speaker 3: closet and I was drawing mermaids and fairies and all.
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  Speaker 2: Of my little magical things.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what gave me the inspiration to like,
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  Speaker 3: to be able to start for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Where did this story arrive from? Were you driving in
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  Speaker 1: the car? Were you at the mall? Or where were you? Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the craziest thing about an author, and I
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  Speaker 1: wish listeners would understand this more about authors, it hits
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  Speaker 1: you when you least expect it.
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  Speaker 2: It does, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've always had it in my brain that
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  Speaker 3: I love, you know, the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: I love mermaids.
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  Speaker 3: I love being inspired by fantasy stories. And I've always
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  Speaker 3: been fascinated by, you know, just like ocean conservancy and
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  Speaker 3: being able to take care of our planet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've gone snorkeling in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, when you're snorkeling and you see all
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  Speaker 3: of the corals and everything white, it's very sad.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, the trash on the beach and everything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that's always been inspirational to me, like in a
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  Speaker 3: sad way, you know, but being able to kind of
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  Speaker 3: combine that with mermaids and storytelling, I thought was like
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  Speaker 3: an important way to, you know, share how worse was
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  Speaker 3: to take care of our planet with kids.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, you made me laugh like
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  Speaker 1: a child when we talked about something here. Because over
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  Speaker 1: here in Charlotte, there's a place called Ebenezer. And right
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  Speaker 1: there at the edge of the water is a pickleball court.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you have here but sea pickleball? I
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  Speaker 1: laughed out loud. I'm going, she's been here. She's been here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love being able to kind of create funny
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  Speaker 3: little antidotes like with– like sea pickleball, you know, cause
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  Speaker 3: like a sea cucumber or something. So I had fun
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  Speaker 3: coming up with little things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you're so amazing in the way, cause
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  Speaker 1: my wife is a second grade teacher and she goes,
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  Speaker 1: I love her because she, she gives them permission to
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  Speaker 1: use their imagination. Not too many people, not people or
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  Speaker 1: even books give us that opportunity. Go use your imagination,
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  Speaker 1: go get your own world and get your own interpretation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really important for kids to be able
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  Speaker 3: to you know, use their imagination and be able to
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  Speaker 3: tell the stories that are in their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Aria Joy Picard
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. I swear you're going to love this book.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Luna and the Lost Cove from Aria Joy Picard.
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  Speaker 1: That book cover. My God, please tell me what your
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  Speaker 1: emotions were when you opened up that box when it
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  Speaker 1: first arrived at your house. Because the colors, everything in
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  Speaker 1: this book cover. Somebody put some research into this cover.
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  Speaker 3: I was thrilled. I was over the moon elated. It
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  Speaker 3: just turned out exactly how I could have imagined. It's
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  Speaker 3: just so beautiful. I loved creating the cover. I'm making Luna,
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  Speaker 3: my mermaid, you know, very sparkly and shiny and beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: And my publishers were amazing working with me on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the foils and the raised parts.
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  Speaker 2: It's very sensory.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every time I give it to somebody like
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  Speaker 3: to look at, they're like touching it because they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my goodness, this is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Just to feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, that's what I love about it is because
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  Speaker 1: I came from that world where we actually touch books,
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  Speaker 1: read books and things like that. And my fingers were
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  Speaker 1: always rubbing the book cover as I was reading it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like you're reintroducing people to real books and
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  Speaker 1: not just something that's I'm not knocking digital reading. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not at all. But but when you're holding a book
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  Speaker 1: like this, you're different. You're holding something that is very personal. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it gives you that sense of, wow, I accomplished this.
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  Speaker 2: I did this. I made this. And it's here.
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  Speaker 1: So I got it. Where did you learn how Julia
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  Speaker 1: Cameron from the artist way calls it painting a room.
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  Speaker 1: So where did you learn how to paint about a moon?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not just any moon, it's a silvery underwater glow.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, my God, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. I, I think just practice and taking
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  Speaker 3: the time to, you know, put in those 10,000 hours,
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  Speaker 3: do the work.
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  Speaker 2: Just start.
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  Speaker 3: I got my master's in illustration at the Santa School
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  Speaker 3: of Art and Design. And being able to be there
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  Speaker 3: and practice being able to do mood and lighting and
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  Speaker 3: all of the different aspects of an illustration to really
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  Speaker 3: make it pop definitely helped create the mood.
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  Speaker 2: Of the moon lighting and all of that, like you
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  Speaker 2: were saying.
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  Speaker 1: Whose idea was it to put the map in there?
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  Speaker 1: Because I have never met a person who doesn't love
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  Speaker 1: a map.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I, I'm, I came up with
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  Speaker 3: the map, so I love, I love maps and I
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  Speaker 3: love being able to, I think it's a storytelling must,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you have to have a map, you have
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  Speaker 3: to have a place to go.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I, yeah, I loved being able to do that
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  Speaker 2: and create the map.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got to make sure that we put some
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  Speaker 1: love and attention on Lemon as well. Because, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as a writer, I'm going Luna and Lemon. Okay, where
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  Speaker 1: were you at sitting at the kitchen table? Were you
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  Speaker 1: at a red light in the car? When these names
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  Speaker 1: came together and you go, okay, I'm feeling it. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. These are my two. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Luna, I've always loved because I love the moon.
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  Speaker 3: So I thought Luna, the moon, I think that would work.
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  Speaker 3: I love stars and the moons. So that's where Luna
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  Speaker 3: came from. And I just love character design. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: always coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up with new characters.
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  Speaker 3: And then I was thinking, who could her little friend be?
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  Speaker 3: And I've had this little seahorse in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Of my mind forever.
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  Speaker 3: And I've drawn him around for years. And he kind
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  Speaker 3: of came across because he's kind of like my little puppy, Yodel.
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  Speaker 2: So bubbly, happy, cute.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but lemon, the name lemon came just, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 3: what should I name him?
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  Speaker 2: And I just was looking around in my.
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  Speaker 3: Room and there's a lemon like planner where I write down.
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  Speaker 2: My plans for the day and there's lemons on it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, ah, there it is. Lemon Luna lemon.
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  Speaker 2: It's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: See, and the reason why I bring that up is
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  Speaker 1: because that's one of the reasons why I created View
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  Speaker 1: from the Writing Instrument on iHeartRadio is that we never
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  Speaker 1: get to hear the author's voice. It's always their fingertips
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  Speaker 1: and it's always their imagination. And character development is such
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  Speaker 1: a major thing because their book is underneath their desk
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  Speaker 1: or it's underneath the bed or it's in the attic
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want anybody to read it. And then
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  Speaker 1: here comes you and you're going, watch what happens when
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  Speaker 1: you play with words. People love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, very much. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So now there's got to be another level. Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to try to get into animation? Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to try to get into something where you can take
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  Speaker 1: the story to a fourth dimension, get it up on Hulu, Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even sell it off to Disney?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like that would.
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  Speaker 1: Be the dream.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I do have, I'm I'm very grateful and honored that
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  Speaker 3: I have some really amazing friends and mentors in the
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  Speaker 3: animation industry, um, that have been amazing Disney artists.
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  Speaker 2: So I have talked to some of them and.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, would you ever be down for a, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a movie pitch or a TV show for kids?
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  Speaker 2: And, um, I would love to do that eventually. That
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  Speaker 2: would be the dream.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Just to be able to explore that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about being where we are
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  Speaker 1: today when it comes to creativity. Tell me where there
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  Speaker 1: is a wall because we can remove that wall and
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  Speaker 1: find new places to explore.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you? Because,
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  Speaker 1: and I really want adults to do this. They should
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  Speaker 1: buy two books because they're going to do it for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to buy the book for their loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: but they better keep one for themselves because this is
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  Speaker 1: one of those books that adults are going to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get it on my website, mermaidfriends.com.
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  Speaker 2: And it's available anywhere. It's available on Amazon. It's available
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  Speaker 2: on Barnes & Noble.
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  Speaker 3: But you can also follow me on my Instagram, which
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  Speaker 3: is ariajoy.art. And then I also have my book things,
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  Speaker 3: my mermaid stuff at Mermaid Friends Club.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going on tour or anything like that? Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to go appear at schools?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm planning on it. I, I'm also just going to,
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  Speaker 3: I have everything in the works right now, but I
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  Speaker 3: also have, um, going to Gatlinburg for the weekend of, um, Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to be doing a book pop up there, uh,
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  Speaker 3: with the aquarium and everything. And I have a reading
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  Speaker 3: at Parnassus books and green Hills in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: So, planning on stuff with kids, book tours.
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  Speaker 3: I do have a teacher's guide that's going to be
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  Speaker 3: available soon for the book.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. So, yes, I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 1: You should have just seen my wife's eyes pop open
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  Speaker 1: like that because that's exactly what she's looking for as
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  Speaker 1: a school teacher when the authors work one-on-one with those
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  Speaker 1: that are in there with those crazy little ones 25
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  Speaker 1: and 30 deep.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Arrow. Very, very kind. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You be brilliant today, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. You too.