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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #113_HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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my name. Welcome to the sc Book gall and French Chat. We're gonna
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Come on in and join us. We're ready, are you as m Hey
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everyone, this is your girl put trees grumble at see Book. Y'all a
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fourty three And it's another Saturday night and we are here with See Book Gallant
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Friends Chat. So if you're seeing my promo, you knows all about the
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month of August, the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop and this month I have
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all the ladies authors. But tonight we're gonna say she works hard for the
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money. So we are gonna bring up miss Sylvia Hubbard if she's gonna talk
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about her book. She works hard for the money, y'all. I know
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y'all gonna like this one. Hey, girly, Hey, how are you?
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I am great? How are you pretty good? Pretty good? Killing?
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Literally killing? Yes, you got. She's sitting at seventy one degree
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weather. I'm sitting happy at Charleston eighty five sweating. So I told her
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earliest, I am so hating on you right now. I had to go
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from my SASA. I was like, oh, my toe, I'm getting
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cold. I can't be sitting here in the interview with my toe's gold.
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Yeah, she talked about her tools cooling, y'all, I'm a sweat.
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But can y'all see the sweat? Don't be checkular me and dominion energy.
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You're gonna have a conversation about my electric Yes, great book, miss Hubbard.
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Tell us about yourself. Oh so much to tell. So I am
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a dark romance, high suspense author, which basically means I throw everything in
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the pot, mix it up, kill somebody, and then come up with
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a h G A. And I'm also a founder of Motown Writers Network,
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which is one of the largest online and offline groups in Michigan. We've been
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established since two thousand and We help authors reach their literary goals and we connect
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readers to Michigan authors. Uh, then what else do I do? I
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do speaker events, I have like my own YouTube. I do a lot
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for just I just help you know. I'm an asset instead of a liability
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in the world. So, oh my girl, I'm gonna need you to
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write that. Now, I'm gonna it's more than I love that. That
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one line. That one line I love. We got a backup something.
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Now I work at a public library. You said dark. What is it
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again? Romance? Dark romance? So now can you tell me about this
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so I can go be smart on Monday and tell about coworkers. So basically,
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it's it is a kind of cross the line, dubious consent. You
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are gonna have some dark things of sometimes tie up, tie down. It's
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a lot. It's a lot where you don't you have the open door love
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scenes. We don't hide anything. It's like you're fly on the wall,
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so you will see and feel and smell everything. It sounds like something okay.
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So at work, I'm big on audiobooks because I do a lot of
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programming and the audio books. This helped my day flow in one day.
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Yeah, that little speaker came out. Everybody hurt when I was listening to
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and they were like, only I'm sorry, but it's getting good. Now
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let me go back and ever forget. The director of my library at that
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time told me, and this is always stuck. She said, never be
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ashamed of what you read. Yeah, I shouldn't. So the book that
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I just read, woof was Wood's name, deep Throat Diva. I shouldn't
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be ashamed of that, she said. No, but just no having in
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the children's sections. It's mean I got you, yeah, get better time.
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So if I'm understanding, and I might be wrong, but Hearty Boys,
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Yes, that's what it is. A Hearty Boys series. Okay.
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The first book is She and is that she works hard for the money,
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and it's just basically to introduce these three, these four it's actually four brothers
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one it's three brothers and a cousin actually, and they have feel they have
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been cursed where if they get together or get you know, they meet up
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or try to be together, bad things happen to the point of like their
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mother ended up dying, their wives ended up dying. So they just try
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to stay apart. You know, they would love to be together, but
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they can't. On top of that they were all born with various skin conditions
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where they cannot be touched, So you're gonna meet meet Beck Hardy. Oh.
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Another thing about them is that they all have girl names. So in
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this one, his name really is Rebecca Hardy, but everyone calls him Beck.
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And that's why he is a very hard nosed because he's had to fight.
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I would expect his life of people making fun of him and his name,
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and he grew up. His other brother is like an mm A fighter.
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And then there's the oldest one, Oscar, who lives on an island
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just all by himself pretty much, not any contact or anything, so they're
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all solitary. Beck is the worst though he has no social kouth. He
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says what he want to say, and he's kind of like a bully.
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He rubs people the wrong way. But he's really good at the job.
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Was just construction supervisor, so you know, people need him on the job.
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They just don't like to be around him very long. So I wanted
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to create a guy who was just really hard to love. So everything that
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you hate about somebody, it probably beg probably is like that, And you
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know what, he would be my favorite character. I love the hard character.
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That's when people were saying. They were like, oh my god,
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I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, but oh my
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god, it was so good. He's so good. Oh god. So
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I like to create the Godzilla effect where in the beginning, yes you do
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hate that monster, but at the end you're like rooting for the monster destroying
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the city. I don't care. Yes, yes, that's that's my character.
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You would be the meanest person in the novel. I'd be at the
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and I knew it. I got your back. You know, no way
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good and well you see them street, You're like, hey, what's up
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in the book? So she works hard for the money? That is that
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the latest release in the Hearty Boys. This is the first release and the
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latest release in it. The next one will be the Oscar Story, which
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is the Hard Way and that will explain his his weird self as well.
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And then the third book will be actually the Other Brother and his Cousin,
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which will be a reverse Harem. So okay, they all work out in
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the end. The curse is stroken. Did you say Harold reverse harem?
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So that means when the woman gets two husbands instead of the husband gets two
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wives. You are so funny sheets. Look here, look at here.
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Let me, let me, let me. Friends will be happy to review
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that novel for you. They're shipping on our way and we'll make it do
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what it do. Well, that's funny because I had started writing reverse harems
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back in like two thousand and nine, before it even people. I didn't
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even know what it was called. I just knew it was. It was
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when we had the Super Bowl and Detroit and I saw Jerome Vettus like up
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close, like up close, and if you saw Jerome Vettis, you're like
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you. I just imagine an entire book and wrote it in three days and
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it was Jerome Vettus and a twin. So then I wrote it and people
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were like, oh my god, this is a and and it wasn't.
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Uh, it didn't because a lot of the reverse harems will make the guys
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go gay, and I'm like, no, I don't want. It's always
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like they have a bromance of some kind, but no gay stuff. So
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it's it's really weird how to explain that, But okay, I just say,
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yeah, don't worry, I will be weird and read it. You're
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so freak. So I mean, it looks like, you have this outline?
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How do you do that? Girl, Grace and Mercy? You know
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this book is going to be about this, this book? How do you
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authors do that? So it's kind of like you ever saw that movie Split?
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Yes, okay, so he explained all the personalities sitting in a room
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in a chair and then someone gets the light. So for authors, we
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have this room in our head. Well, for me, I have a
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room in my head and all my characters just sitting there until a story comes,
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or a plot comes, a situation comes, and then I'm like,
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Okay, you in that chair would be really good for this story. And
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then I go find the worst person that they could possibly fall in love with.
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And then I was like, okay, yeah, y'all go grab the
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light. And that's the story. Oh my god. That's how my brain
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works, and how you know whoever has the light? That's why, and
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that's why I only do one book at a time. I know authors,
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some authors do like several books at a time. But when I'm in that
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story, I am in that story. I am living their life. I
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am I have their afflictions, I have their anger. I'm like I'm living
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them So I can only be like so many people at one time, So
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I try to write like one story at a time. But since in the
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hard way, I know, like in the in the Hardy Boys series,
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I know they're brothers. So as I'm living Beck's life, I know that
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he has brothers, and I know these brothers can't be together, so I
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kind of already know their stories and how they're gonna go. That's great because
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I have one of my favorite authors, Kr Bankston, Hey, I here
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you do? Her and the other friend, Elizabeth Lashawan. They say that
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their characters be talking to them, and I have looked at posts and be
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like, oh, y'all got them. But then you know that's the creative
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being in you guys. See it is it's like a satellite telling us like
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it's some like a satellite coming down in your head and just you're literally just
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you guys. She's in the woods, I want to say. So we
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might be having a little bit of technical difficulties, but you know what,
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we're gonna take a break and we're going to bring up the commercials. Also,
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guys, remember if you want to advertise on the crew, make sure
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you send it to one of us. So we're gonna be right back.
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She's back, but we're gonna come back. You know, technical difficulties,
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it's mas stereotypes. They got to go after they go. I'm gonna miss
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around to flip the scene's will repart with what with a little touch of lates.
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Okay, y'all, I love I'm just so proud of that promo.
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Y'all just don't know how much I would like it. I was like,
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yo, like three females ladies, first anniversary. Okay, I'm sorry,
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back to let me, let me get control anto stereotypes. They got to
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go after they go, I'm gonna mess around to flip the antlo stereotypes.
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They got to go antlo stereotypes. They got to go after the antlo stereotypes.
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They got to go after they go. I'm gonna miss around to flip
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the scene's will repart with what with a little touch of latest lady first lady?
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First? We said that. They all right, so we are back,
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you guys. So I'm about to pick her author and publish your brain
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real quick. So my question now is what is the process that you go
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through to get your book published. Some people go to Kindle, some people
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do Indeed, what works best for you, well, for right now,
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what works best for me is basically the the Kindle process, So I usually
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use KDP and go ahead and publish it that way. I am in my
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car in twenty twenty four, I'm pushing more towards a draft to digital especially.
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I was trying to wait for the sale of smash words to go through
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so then i can have them all on what one platform, you know,
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cause I'm not trying to find my money like a pimp at the end of
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the month, so I'm like, okay. So I was trying to wait
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for that to finish so I can just like okay, okay. I know
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the money is coming from here. I know the money's coming from here and
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coming from here, so I'm not trying to slap nobody to get my money.
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I didn't even know they still had smash words. They do, but
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it's it actually is blending into there. I think it should be complete.
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I haven't talked to Mark Cooker yet, and I'm supposed to be talking to
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him soon. I've been trying to sit down with him to see when it
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goes through. But hopefully it'll go through by the end of the year and
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everything will be all joined in, and you know, everybody can see their
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stuff all on draft of Digital. But yeah, I'm just kind of waiting,
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and you know I can wait. I don't mind. I've been in
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this business since two thousand, so I'm just I'm like an old lady sitting
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on the porch, like, oh, darling, your book is it'll be
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okay for a couple of years. But I don't know anybody, you know,
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I just like, so let me explain to everybody. Spash words.
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Smash words. I came across that. Oh god, I can't even remember
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how long ago. It was. Not been a while, it's been a
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long time. But you know what, I loved it. Why because that
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was when you got to the nitty crittio authors. It was formated. It
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wasn't all that. It was the pure beauty bliss of authors putting the workout.
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And I loved love in the authors. Yeah, I have a wonderful
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platform. It's a wonderful platform. It's hard to get your book up in
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there. I'll pass their monsters, but they've made it a little bit easier.
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I would recommend that, yes, definitely, make sure you have an
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account with Drafted Digital and start loading your books up because they are expanding and
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they are going to be an Amazon competitor, a really great and strong Amazon
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competitor. Okay, so let me don't get us wrong see book gallant.
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Friends. We love all authors, but it was something about the hunger of
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an in the author. Yeah, it's and I love those. I love
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to push those in the authors. You know, the one where the cover
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don't look a little bit too right, but the next time you see them,
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the cover work is. I love that because I'm like somebody grow up
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and see somebody expand and you know, really taken. That's why I love
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like, you know, all these years I'm watching authors, you know,
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grow and expand, and I can usually tell now from the beginning like Okay,
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this is gonna be like a one year two year author. And then
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you know, sometimes they surprise me, but usually ninety percent of the time,
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I'm like, okay, honey, maybe you should listen to your elevators.
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That's why I come on over and do this soon dark romance like I've
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heard of it before, but now you explain it to me more so,
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how do you how do you how do you make your books stand out with
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a genre that's really fairly new. Well, I think it's always been there,
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but with the Me Too movement, honestly, you've had to put h
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warnings on things to make sure people aren't tri to make sure people aren't.
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But I think a lot of times if you read a Catherine Woodwidth or U
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Johanna Lindsay back in the day with the Fabio covers, uh, yeah,
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you were seeing a lot of dark stuff that happened. You're like, oh
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Jesus, we need to found shark because but yeah, a lot of times
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they were going in depth of describing things and doing things, and yeah,
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now you have to have trigger wines and things like that. So I kind
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of warn people it is going to get dark. So like in she works
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hard for the money, we do go into the glory hole. We do
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have bondage, we do have kidnapping, we do have very very dubious consent.
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Yeah, so you're gonna get I know, I know, but it's
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there, and I that's why I say, I want to make sure people
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aren't triggered or oh my god, I can't believe what I'm reading. So
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I'm just warning them now it's dark. It's dark, dark dark, It's
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gonna take you down those alleys your mom said, don't go wow, you
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know what that that's even more advanced at when I normally read, So I
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might have to give myself a long conversation after reading those type And then what's
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really different about she works hard for the money is that I did it.
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I kind of did a new thing where the girl was going from gay to
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straight. That was an interesting concept because a lot of times we always see
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the opposite. And I was like, well, let's see what happens if
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you know, she got out of this uh, lesbian relationship for over twenty
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years, she's been with maybe one guy previous to that, and then she
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meets this horrible guy named back, and let's teach. Can we work it
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out? You know, let's punish with the rest of these questions because I
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need to find out where I can get to my next question. So I'm
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having all kinds of thoughts and then Latan, you're sitting up here the top
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of let's go down to the rabbit hole. No, we're not going down
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that rabbit hole. Fun home to go down. It's every hole we went
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down. Look at you, Look at you. So how do you promote
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your work? You have got me. Wanted to put the books in the
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back that I need to read, and lord know there's a lot of them
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from both y'all want to join the review team, please contact me so I
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can start reading more books like this. But how do you promote your books
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everywhere, somewhere anywhere? When I first started off, I was like a
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single mom working and it was hard for me. I used to have to
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only have an hour at the library, and I'd have three kids with me.
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I'd put the baby under the chair and then let the other two sits
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in the children's section where I have one hour to go and promote online,
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run and do it, and then you know, the next day and I'd
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have like a bag of disc. That's when we had those floppy disks.
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I have a bag of disk and I have to go update my book or
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do my emails and then do the promo. So that's how I used to
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do it. And then a lot of times offline, I'm doing brochures or
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flyers. I'm leaving them everywhere. If I'm in drive through, if I
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was in a line, if we was waiting somewhere. Sometimes I'd make the
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kids stand outside the store while I'm in the store, pass these out to
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everybody you know, and you know, on Saturdays, we would hit every
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on Detroit has this mile cast, six mile and seven mile. We would
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hit all the beauty salons where everybody was getting their hair dead for Sunday morning,
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and we would just send out like flyers. I have books in the
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trunk and we'd go pass out flyers to all the beauty salons and hair salons.
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Today I do a lot more social media. I steal blog from back
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in the day. I've made my blog more of like a membership service where
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they get first DIBs on the book that I'm writing. So whatever book I'm
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writing or work in progress, members actually get to read the book as I
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write and I'm also then then that's why I recently joined Kendo Vella well like
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three years ago, and I would I joined kendcause I was doing the same
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thing on my blog as Kendall, So I did you know, I just
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moved over there and started doing it there. So yes, I was like,
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hey, I'm an old pro with this. It moved over there and
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made double the money. As long as I keep it behind a paywall,
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we're good to go. So there you go. There you go. Yeah,
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we only have about two more minutes. Okay, my my question,
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and I'm gonna go ahead and get my arm. That's some payful. We
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were gonna get this book in Soy. Now it is actually everywhere you can
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get it Amazon. Uh, it is even in Google Books. It's an
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Apple Cobo everywhere, so you can't actually get it everywhere on the book.
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You can download it immediately, start reading it and let me know how you
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light back, and then just wait for his brothers The Hard Way to come
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out by next year. We're gonna work right after this candlevella I'm working on,
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and yeah, you'll be meeting him and then all his other brothers as
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well, right telling you mean you gonna go down to Glory Hole together,
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because I'm gonna get this book. Girl here. I did like it because
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I got the glory Hole in by like the fourth chapter, like me in
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I was, I was hitting it. Oh about a fourth chapter, we
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just go down the rabbit hole. We we ain't waiting to chapter ten,
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chapter twenty. I was like, let's jump in, let's see you more
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time. Huh a girl, this is life. This is just get straight
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to hue. Okay, understandable, understandable, what is next? So he
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wanted what he want and he get he wanted. Now, so what you
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did say that he is that character? Okay, to have some conversation.
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The girl conversate away. So my last question of tonight is where can your
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readers find you? And what would you like to say to him? Okay,
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so my readers can find me, of course on my website Sylvia Hubbard
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dot com and my uh that Sylvia Hubbard dot com. And she's also on
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Facebook, you guys. And I want to say my social media and then
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Sylvia Hubbard one. And then what I want to say to the readers is
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that, of course I'll be coming out with a lot of books this year,
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not just that she works hard for the money which started at the so
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she is all over your place, you guys, this has been such an
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honor to have Sember one. I'm sorry, I keep going. We understand
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that you are out there in the wilderness. I'm trying to hurry up.
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So September one is the Freestyle Cipher coming out, and I'll be doing a
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Night's Not Safe for Work short anthology in there. I'll be doing Kendall vella
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starting August thirtieth of a reverse harem called Desires Tryst and then her substitute husband,
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she said, her subscription service, right, he substitute husband his boss.
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Yeah, exactly what it see is. And then I'll be dropping each
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deception as an e book and U and a paperback on November first. And
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that's basically about a woman who decides to seduce the deacon of the church and
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tear the church apart. Not inspirational. And I just completed Essence Difinity,
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which will come out at the end of this year, and that's about a
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man who wakes up from a coma after five years and find out he has
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a four year old son. Yeah, yeah, I know. I hold
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that he's been in the coma for five years. It has it for year.
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Yeah, you about to lose Joes, y'all. You about to lose
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Joes his nurse and he finds out, Yeah, her son is his son,
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and he's you know, he gotta figure out it's out. So okay,
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So you guys, she's gonna give all of us that information because see
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that right there. I'll make sure I type it all up in the interview
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so you guys can keep a list I'll make it a checklist, so y'all
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just print it out. Yes, we will do that. But I have
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like over fifty books, so what I'm coming out with you can just catch
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up. And it's they're all interrelated, so their companionship stories. So you
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read one books, you gotta read another about the best friend or the cousin,
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the sister. Something's related. So well, yes, well we're gonna
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do is you guys. She's gonna turn We're gonna turn this podcast interview to
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a blog interview, and we're gonna have all this information for you guys,
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okay, because I need it on my side because you know that that one
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but the five years and a four year old, that's that we did.
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We did the Turkey Baster and everything. We were like, okay, let's
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get into this one. So did you listen Turkey? You know what?
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Let me end this interview right here, can see we're about to have you
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coming back. We you know what, we I've been wanting to make an
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urban on my book club discussion. I'm gonna have to talk to you to
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see that, right then, not the turkey see her, not the Turkey
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case. Okay, see okay, let me let me be professional. Y'all
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see what she doesn't cause she don't caused me to come out of character.
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We thank you for join us in say book, gals and friends. You
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guys. You know y'all gonna want to go tell somebody about this and have
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them come back and catch this interview. She's gonna do a blog interview,
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so you guys can get your list together add it to your to read lists.
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If you're like me, you got books all around you, so add
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that to your too read lists. And we're gonna review it, of course,
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because I'm not gonna let that slip out of my hands. Hain't away
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in the world. But again, you guys, we thank you miss Hubbard
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for joining us tonight. Please enjoin the rest of your vacation and all your
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time and guess with you guys. You know I do my announcements at the
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end of the show, correct, So we still have spots for you to
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join the crew. Okay, The crew is going to give you hands on
31:53
training for you to start your podcast, and you could be like me and
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have fun and meet all these authors and you might not even want to do
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authors. You might want to do music. You might want to do children's
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books. But you have the opportunity to make your own platform and have a
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team of individuals behind you to help you achieve this dream. Okay. Also,
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you're gonna see a lot of authors interviews coming from me. I am
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so enjoying all of these authors. Star Daijah, Miss Hubbard is going to
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do an interview, Regina dougas interview. I have some own Doxie. She's
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gonna be on this September. That's some parenting Coche right there. We have
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Kevin Eastman. We have two other people coming through. I have so many
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authors coming through. You guys, you can't tell me you won't get your
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new read. So another Saturday night in the books. But I have a
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special guest that's gonna be here on Friday. It's Bonus Interview Friday the thirty
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first, at eight p m. I will see you guys there. Bye
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bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a new
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book three or a new author to explore. Join us again in two weeks
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for sc book gall and the French Chat. Have a good evening. By