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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST EPISODE _16 _HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the Crew Podcast. I am
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Because I'm back. Welcome to the sci book yall in friends chat,
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We're gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews, walk the interviews in
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life. I want to enjoy life. We're ready, are you see the
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girls in the club, they're getting welcomed. Me and all the pretty chicks
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saw one smile, let me speak. Hey, everyone's a girl as see
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book out A four three and okay, see the technical difficulty is already starting,
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but you know we will still have us some fun tonight. So y'all
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know that I'm here another Saturday night with a new author and all my erotic
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heads. We got a book for you. So I wish I had put
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up the cover of this book. Y'all just say, let's just say please
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club. That's the vibe that I get from this book. So I am
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going to bring author Tosha Rights, y'all, let's go ahead and get into
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this. Come on up, Girley, come on up, Hey, what's
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going on? I am good? That is the vibe when I look at
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your cover, I at likely think please club girl. That was the whole
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mood of that book. I was trying to go for that. I was
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like, look, okay, before we dive into that, tell us a
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little bit about yourself. Well, I am an author. My name is
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Tasha Writes, and I have been an author since twenty twenty two. If
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you're talking about published, I've been writing for a while. I have probably
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been writing since I was like twenty three, but it was in the poetry
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is what I was writing before, and so you know, I just kind
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of wrote just to be writing a little bit here and there. And it
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was my husband who said, you know, what you should write, like
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it's really right, and I'm like, okay, yeah, you know,
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I was just kind of playing it off because I didn't really think that I
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was, you know, even worthy of even like showing people my work.
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So I used to write poems just around the house, you know, stuff
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about him and this, just little little stuff. And then I actually put
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Penn in the pad and was like, you know what, I'm gonna do
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a story cause I have so much going on in as head of mine.
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I was like, well, let me go ahead and put this story together.
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So I just wrote, you know, maybe about a quarter of a
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chapter, and then I put the book down. Then he ain't pick it
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back up, and then all of a sudden, twenty twenty two, well
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twenty twenty one, I picked the book back up again because my husband had
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been hounding me the whole time. So imagine I was twenty three, I'm
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forty six. Now. That happened when I was like forty five, forty
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four, forty five, So it took that long to actually write a full
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book. And so I, cause I kept putting it off, I'm like,
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yeah, I'm gonna get to it to it. So then finally I
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was like, you know what I'm gonna do with this time? So I
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went and read through it and finally I was like, you know what,
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I'm about to finish this and I was real determined. So I did it,
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and before I knew it, I had a published book. So that's
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exactly how that happened. So Black Diamond is acting the same question I was
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going to ask you, like, oh, was it to go from poetry
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because you know it was a couple of lines to a full fledged novel art.
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Was that well? It really wasn't that hard. I thought it would
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be a challenge for me because I'm thinking, you know I'm gonna do this.
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Forem I'm like, I never wrote a book. I and to tell
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you the truth, I've never really fully read an urban book. So I
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didn't even know the first thing about it. And all I kept thinking was
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I don't know if anybody would even read this book, Like that was my
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first thought. I have read some pieces of your book, and you're telling
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me you have never read a full urban novel. Not then when I did
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my first book, I never read an urban fiction novel ever, because I
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didn't even know they existed. Now I know I lived under a rock,
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and I know everybody in Urban Road was like, what are you serious?
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And I'm hearing all these different type of books now, and I'm like,
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yeah, I never read that, and so I was like way behind when
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it comes to urban fiction. So please excuse my not my unknowledgeable self,
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because I didn't know. I really truly didn't know because I wasn't a reader.
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I was just more, you know, just here, here and there.
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I was like, I'm not reading a book like I wants to read
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a book, because I thought all the books were just you know, boring,
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until I finally actually read an urban fiction book and I was like,
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oh my god, where have I been. And everybody's like, oh,
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you got to read this and this, and I'm just getting I'm getting right
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now, given overwhelmed with books. So you just heard my whole books.
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I am my friend book. I'm so sorry. And now I tell that
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story and everybody goes, are you serious? And I'm like yes, And
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so unfortunately that was who I was. And I was like, because I
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think school did that to me more of you know, giving all these books
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that just weren't interesting, like they would have us read all these books.
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And I'm like, I'm like, I don't want to read about that.
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I don't want to read about that. Like it wasn't it just wasn't nothing
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that grabbed me. But what I will say urban fiction books, I absolutely
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love all of their books. Oh my god. When I first read my
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first one, I was like, oh my god, where about one?
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Yeah. The first one I ever read was by my mentor. When I
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first published my book, I went to him to actually get tips on a
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lot of things about how to publish my book. And so I was like,
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well, you know what, while I'm doing this, I need to
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read one of his books because he's probably thinking like, okay, so you
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know, you know what type of book you were doing, and he's asking
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this question. I'm thinking like, yeah, I think I know what type
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of journal this is. I don't know. I'm just writing this book.
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And so I said, well, let me read this book. So the
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book I read was Crybaby by author King Benjamin oh Book. And I read
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that book that I was like, I got so into it and I was
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like, oh my god, where have I been. I'm like, I'm
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like, he actually kind of write. He writes just like I do,
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be right, I almost to see stuff I do. So I was all
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excited. I'm thinking, this is the book that I had in the library
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one time. Check make sure, because I don't have no problem like going
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on Google and looking at this. But let me ask you another question.
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So not to ask, but I'm gonna I'm a comment on something you said
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about being in high school. And really I work at a public library and
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have this from ninety Oh I never read this one before. Oh wow,
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boy, that stopped my whole train of thought. Let me go ahead and
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add that to my good reason read this. I got the author. I
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have a lot of students. They have to read Tears of the Sun Prisoner
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ten fifty four, and it's not books that they want to read. So
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when they come back to the library, I see the parents bringing the babies.
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Oh, let's get the baby some books. But the teenagers and the
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young adults and the parents won't get books. So literally what you're talking about,
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I have to take and this is what I call it my specialty is
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take book the movie. So I have one girl, One little girl was
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with her mom and her mom said, oh, I can't wait to look
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at Power on TV. This mean, yeah, you got a whole nother
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week to look at the episode. She's like, I just wish I had
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something that could get me through the week. Oh, I got you,
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I said, you want to she said, I don't read a book.
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She came back three weeks later, it was like, you got any more.
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I got you. So I totally understand where you're coming from. Bridge
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between high school and we call it the young adult years. It's lost because
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you're required to read all this fair and high full fift. I still don't
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understand what I was supposed to learn from that book, but I read it.
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Yeah, you know, I was supposed to learn, but I read
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it. You know. But your poetry, let's talk about that before we
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get to this strange addiction. Okay, what was your poetry like, Because
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if I'm if your poetry is anything like some of these scenes, you got
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a streamed addiction, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and publish that too.
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Well, glad you said that, because I am a hopeless romantic that's
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what you're gonna get from me. And my poetry is hopeless romantic poetry.
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So yes, I am a love poet, So yes, you are going
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to get that from me. And that is how my poems are. I
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wrote a poem about my husband and he absolutely loved it. And so that's
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where it just went from me. And to tell the story about how that
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I even transpired to me being I didn't even know I could write like that.
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It took me watching Love Jones to actually realize that I could write poetry
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and write books. So when I sat there and it was actually it was
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the Rens Tates of Poem that I sat there, and I said, when
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I heard his poem, I said, I think I can do that,
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and I sort of put in the path and I was like, I was
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surprised myself. I said, ooh, this is good. So yes,
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and to let you know, I am planning to write a poetry book and
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that will come here in the next couple of years, so you will see
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poems from me. And that was a plan of mine all the beginning of
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this, because I was like, if the book thing don't work, I'm
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definitely gonna write poetry. So it's one of those things. Poetry is people's
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I think anybody who reads, or anybody who would like to read, if
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they're not avid readers, I tell him to start off with some poetry in
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the journal in your life because the poetry, poetry is for everybody. Oh
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yes, the right thing. And I was surprised to find out there's a
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lot of authors who write poetry, and I said, okay, you know
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that. I asked a few of them. I'm like, okay, is
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popular, Yes, this streets addiction? Okay? What with? How?
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Why? Everything? Like? What? That one was a very to tell
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you truth, That book came off so easily for me. I just I
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pictured, I already had the main character. I already knew Curves was going
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to be the main character in this book. And the concept I have for
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her was she was a stripper, but she didn't want to be one for
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a long time. She had bigger things going and I wanted to kind of,
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you know, kind of leave away with that because a lot of people
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they hear the word stripper or dancer and they thinking like, Okay, she
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don't have nothing going on. She ain't trying to do nothing. But Curves
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had a whole different angle with her. She even though she had the body
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for it, it just wasn't something that she had that the mind. And
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so it just came off easily. I just thought, like her, I
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said, well, if I was her and she wanted to just do photography
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and film, which is still kind of along the same lines of what she
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did as a career. What would she do? How would this work when
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she went to college? How was she? And it just flowed And I
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already knew I was gonna put the professor there. Ron was gonna be the
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professor, and that was how that was gonna go. I already had I
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had Rod's character what I made curves, so I knew they were gonna buy
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just off of. And I wanted to also do I love Prince. Prince
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is my favorite entertainer of all times. Me and him have to share the
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same birthday, so I wanted to do it attribute to him as well.
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So when I did these characters, I wanted him to be very sexy.
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I wanted did the whole everything to be spiceful. I wanted them to have
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I wanted them to all have some type of Prince field to him. And
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so that was the whole stream of the book. Okay, so you've seen
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you want everybody to have a Prince Steve filter or filter. How did the
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professor? What prince aspect did you give him? I gave him Prince's name
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prince name is Roger Prince Roger Nelson, so I kind of flipped it a
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little bit and made him Roderick Nelson. And so that was how that came
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about. So, yes, if you noticed, the names in these books
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are kind of interesting, to say the least, but that's where Rod's name
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came from. It was first Roger Nelson, so I said, we're gonna
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call him Roderick Nelson and then just give him ride as a nickname and then
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kind of make it sound sexial a little bit, you know, kind of
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like a why this book was? I saw it in the category of urban,
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and I said, why is this book in urban? The only thing
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urban in this book is the people this book needs to be in. Do
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not have this book on your phone or tablet when your child can read?
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Yes, that was the whole aim of that book was, I'm about to
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see how far I could go with this book, and that's exactly how I
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wanted to do with Since your husband expired inspired you, what did he say
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when he read the book? Oh, he loved the book. He was
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like, Okay, I see, I see what's there you're going with this.
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So he loved the book. He's read it too, and he's like,
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Okay, when you said I started off writing poetry, I'm thinking in
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my back of the head trees, you remember some of the stuff that went
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on in this book. And she told me she started off of poetry,
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and I was in my early twenties. I was in college too, So
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that should tell you a whole lot about this book. We're gonna take a
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break real quick. We're gonna come back, and you know, my second
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half had some fun questions for you know, some prince princes in this but
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we're gonna take We're gonna come back and have some more fun. Come back,
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you guys. Turn off the legs, the candle. Tonight, a
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man, a merchant. Let's take a shower, shower together. I was
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abuded. You was somew wealthy, and say, Jay, turn off.
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Come girl, I want to hear of you. What special treat you're so
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sweet? Turn Yeah, I see that, and I see a point already
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in your hate, a big old point. She about to spend the night.
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We have prince and we have love Jones. That paid a factor into
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your book, So curves herves who would play her in the movie Strange Addiction?
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Well, the book is strong Edition Strong. That's okay, But I
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don't know, probably between now Cardi B or maybe Minaj. I don't know
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what their acting skills are like, but they definitely fit the part you know
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who. I was thinking Annown since you went to the Rap Rap World,
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I was thinking Remy, mom. Oh, yes, Remy could play even
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Trina. I would even take Trina Oo. I can't see Trina, and
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it probably would be Trina only because the part two in this series has a
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lot to do with my Aba, so would be able to play. Did
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you say part two? Oh? Yeah, there is a part two to
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this It's published. Part two of this series is on Amazon. What a
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name of part two is it? We have a lot of couples in this
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book now, So yeah, you you had a And that's one thing I
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did like is that you had a lot of characters flowing in and out and
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remind me I was getting even though these ladies are much more sophisticated, I
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was getting a sister's vibe with all the characters coming in and out. So
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if you look at that show, they got a route. I don't even
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know how Tyler, Perry and everybody. Every time you look between sisters and
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all the queens men. It is a rotation of characters. I like that
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because there's always that wow factor that oh my god, and what about to
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do with you? And why are you in this book? Well you can
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blame that on me being a Gemini, but a lot of personalities going on
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there once. So sometimes I'm switching and taking people out, putting people in.
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Somebody's talking to me at that time, and that's just basically what happens.
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It's like, Okay, let me go into this character a little bit
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more because we need to know a little bit more. I need to let
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them see a little bit more of this. So that's the Gemini and me.
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I know a lot of authors they can't handle it. I know the
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storylines get confusing, but you kept this smooth, you kept it going.
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So what is your secret? How do you do that? I visualize this
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when I do these books, and i'm writing. Before I put in the
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pad, I'm already at the end of the story in my head, so
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i know exactly how I wanted to go. So by the time I'm putting
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in the pad, I'm just flowing in my mind on how what's next,
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What's happening next, What's happening next? And I know a lot of people
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can't do it because I'm a panc writer. So i haven't even did an
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outline or anything. I'm in the character at that moment. I'm I consider
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myself more like a I'm a pancer. But at the same time, I'm
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in the I'm in curve shoes while I'm writing. Wow. So when I'm
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writing, I'm cursed. So as you know, i'm writing, I'm cursed.
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I'm whoever it is that moment. I'm them at that moment. And
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so that's why you're getting those type of feelies from the book, because I'm
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actually ride, I'm actually d I'm actually moist. I'm in the bodies of
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them and they're talking through me, and I'm like and that's basically how it
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goes. One of my favorite authors, her name is mel Dude. She
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says that she's like man Trees. They just be talking to me and she's
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like, I literally stop what I do when I start writing. I do
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too. I need you another one of mine. He's now in Florida at
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an advent. Kareem Williams he does it too. He's like man Trees.
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And I'll just be writing stove and I'm like, I just don't understand how
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y'all keep I could barely understand conversations. Sometimes I'd be telling you what you
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say again. So for y'all to keep all these different individuals and keep them
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in line and then produce this wonderful work, thank you. So I told
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you my friend questions. I gave you what you noticed that when I sent
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you a questions, they didn't seen you these one. There we go.
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Who would direct your book if it was turned into a film, Now,
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that is an interesting question. I don't know. I really don't know whoever
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it is. They got to be able to work with me, though,
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because I gotta have that book got to be it has to be next to
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the book as far as the movie is concerned. So I have no idea
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who I will pick as a director. I really don't. I just know
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they have to be workable. And when I say them, scenes got to
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be just like it's got to be like the book. Okay, I'm not
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skipping rod scene with curves when they first meet. That's not happening. That's
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I want all the films. Okay. Somebody said Henson that I would do.
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Okay, what's his name? What's his name? He's a character,
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he's not a director. Uncle. What's the man from the Valley dunkle Clipper?
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Yes, I can really see here. That would be good, that
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would be spicy. Yes, somebody said it's fifty cents. I can work
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with fifty. I have a few other books that I have published and I
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would love to work with. Yes, tell us about one of your other
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your other books. What else you're got going on? Well, I have
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I have a total of nine published books on Amazon. So I have a
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book series as a ten book series going on right now, and it's a
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hood hood, urban hood fiction book. And I'm dropping another one. It's
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dropping the parts. I think I'm on book six of that series next month.
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I'll be dropping out month. And it's called The Cold Keepers and it's
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about a set of five guys. They are from the whole, they're coming
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of age. And this book that I'm getting ready released, they were grown
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and violent and sexy and yes, giving me this scene look like the first
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time I saw his name when I was working, I was working an event
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for the library and they said, okay, Zene is coming up. I'm
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thinking I'm about to look at some dime diva walking around the letters. And
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when she came up, I said, y'all, she looked like a soccer
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mom. I said, what would she be doing? And me stereotyping?
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And I'm so sorry, Zane, and you apologize. I was thinking,
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she got to have my four or five kids and her daughter is not even
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allowed to read her work when she was younger. I was like, what
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kind of house mom doing? Surprise? Surprise, because when I tell people
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what I'm reading, they look at me like and still. I mean,
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I was even afraid to tell. I had a director that came to the
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library and she was like, what are you reading? I said, please,
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don't ask me that. Right now I'm in the children's section trying to
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find me. Do not ask me this question. She said, Now,
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never be afraid of what you're reading. This is me, all right,
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you asked for it. What you're reading. The book at that time was
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called choke me, spiked me, pull my hair. She said, oh,
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okay, it's good, I'm looking at you. I would never see
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a nine book series, you go, girl, with the next one dropping
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next month. Next month, that'll be book six, So you know you
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gotta, you know, send me in for me. She's like, tell
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my people, yes, sure, I sure will, but yeah, I've
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been working us. I love writing. I think that's one of the things
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that during that gap period that I had that I didn't publish anything. Now
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I wish I would have wrote more then, because oh my gosh. So
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now it's like it's kind of like I'm playing Ketchup, but I'm not.
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I'm enjoying it. I'm like, I'm in I'm in a good place right
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now, and it's just coming to me. I'm getting so many different ideas,
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I'm getting so many different characters, and I'm just writing and it's just
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coming and I'm like, oh, I got all these good ideas. I'm
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like, just I just dropped the book and uh and just last month in
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January into January February pop favors and somebody asked me how I came up with
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that concept, and I'm like, well, I was listening to hip hop
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and is my big influence on a lot of my books, because I truly
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do love hip hop. For more of the nineties, I listened to a
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little rough the Card, but the nineties, the nineties with the time,
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oh my god. Yes, a lot of my man male characters come from
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that, like from the good type of nineties rough you know, rough neck
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type of dudes who have a gentleman's side to them. And so that was
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when this his series comes from that. So you got you got DMX on
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your please list I see that already. Oh definitely, I see that,
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Jay z Allo, I see that you got that on your your please listens
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too. So I couldn't for some reason, I couldn't get into fifty cent.
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I studied getting and not even as music wise. I read his book
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because he does have a book, he has a uh fiction urban book.
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I read that and his television shows. Oh my god, I'm addicted,
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Like I can look at Power all day long. Why mean Power? Like
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best friends? This music, I just can that. It's the party is
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like no, you're a girl that hey I love. Like I said,
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I love the bout these music. And that was a lot of my male
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characters definitely come that the hard nose. Some of the I know I had
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like him who at that time I was check out of that. One girl
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was scary to man, I have to be my club days. God,
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you can get off the club at three clock, gotta be work at five.
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Thank you for delivery mes boring them some scary I understand. I was
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there too, and now you look at the music that I have now there,
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it's like, what is it? I don't understand that. Let me
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let you listen to something I listen to. Damn when you step back and
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we listen to stuff. Some of the stuff we listen to, especially look,
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I mean second Tua Jesus So okay, book book, Yes, okay?
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So how can we follow you? Because I do know you have a
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very strong social media presence and I love it on Facebook. It's like grabbing
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me. Oh yeah, let me like that if you guys, I got
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over a thousand stream shots of books Wow in my phone. It doesn't make
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any sense any stream shots that I get from off the Wow. But tell
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us how we can follow you if you're going to any events, what you
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have going on? Just give us that rundown before we close out tonight.
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Okay, I can be reached. I'm on Facebook, Tasha Underscore. I
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think it's underscore rights author Tasha Rights on Facebook. Instagram. I'm Tasha Underscore
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Rights on Instagram. I am Tasha Rights on TikTok, Tasha rights on Twitter
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and threads. I'm on threads too, so I think it's Tasha underscore rights
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on So all of my names are every last. There's no way you can't
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find me, right, Do you have a website or anything? My website
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is Tasha you guys, have you missed any of that? That was very
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simple. But we're going to have a landing page for her on SCI Bookouts
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and Friends Chats. Tasha. You know this was a lot of fun tonight,
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right, this was I enjoyed this, so you know you got to
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come back again. Right? Oh, I wouldn't mind at all. Thank
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you. Thank you for writing them books to make you want to curl.
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Yes, I got other things, but again, thank you for coming out
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tonight showing uh well, actually gaining new readers, showing that you are not
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what you read. We will be looking for that poetry book and your new
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release to come out next month. Yes, you guys, it's another Saturday
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Nights in the book. I will be with you again next Saturday. What
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a whole new author and a whole new book checked throughout the weeks. All
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my social media this week is dedicated to our little people. It is National
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African American or Black Children or Child Book Week. So every day I am
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going to be showcasing books that are for our younger people. Let's get them
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back in reading. These statistics are staggering, and I might have my little
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person take some pictures and tell me about her favorite So check out social media.
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That's if she worked with me, y'all. It's your birthday weekend.
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She acting like a pure diva. Oh nine going on ninety nine. Thank
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you guys, guys, enjoy your Saturday night. Tasha Wright. Thank you
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for joining us again. Guys, I love you, good night bye.
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Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a new book toy
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or a new author to explore. Join us again in two weeks for sc
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