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Patrice Grimball, “SC BookGal”: Championing Diverse Stories and Independent Authors · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the sc Book gall and Friends Chat.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews,
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  Speaker 2: author interviews, and life.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in and join us. We're ready, are you? Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, this is your girl Scie book out eight four three,
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  Speaker 2: and it.
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  Speaker 1: Is another Tuesday night. So I'm gonna asks y'all, how
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  Speaker 1: are you guys? Because you know we start off with
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  Speaker 1: that conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I want to say I am so proud of
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  Speaker 2: state South Carolina. Y'all thought y'all were gonna do that
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  Speaker 2: redictriary thing, and we now say anything, lay that down.
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  Speaker 2: We know y'all gonna come back again, but I pray
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  Speaker 2: to God that we show up just like we just did.
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  Speaker 1: So stay to South Carolina. Proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're gonna talk a little bit about that later,
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  Speaker 2: because you know what, y'all need to make sure y'all
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  Speaker 2: get out there and vote. Stop playing around, because if not,
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  Speaker 2: y'all gonna have to figure out y'all want to work
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  Speaker 2: the back of the house or the front of the house.
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  Speaker 1: And before I make those two decisions, I'll be gone. Okay, but.
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  Speaker 2: I am here with another author on this Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 2: and y'all, I didn't even know I had her on
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  Speaker 2: my two reader lists. You know how you have an author,
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  Speaker 2: they go by this, but then you see this name, and.
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  Speaker 1: When you put the names in the face together, you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got some of your books. I mighty to be read.
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  Speaker 1: That is what just happened to me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I think me and her met when I
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  Speaker 2: put off the call to do some interviews.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all, I'm always putting off the call to do interviews.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to have.
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  Speaker 2: Your interview live or pre recorded, y'all need to get
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  Speaker 2: at me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I am so honored that she answered. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna call her Miss Gonzalez. I am called her Angel
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  Speaker 2: the Author. Come on up, girly, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, hey, miss lady, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Or she got the hearty, how it's gonna be?
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  Speaker 1: Listen?
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  Speaker 2: She started it, not me, she started tonight. Yet, I
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  Speaker 2: know you sent me a bio, but I want everybody
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  Speaker 2: to know about you from your ears, tell us from
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  Speaker 2: your mouth to their ears. Ego, So tell us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am Angel Gonzales, aka Angel the Author. I
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  Speaker 2: am first and foremost a mother before anything. I had
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  Speaker 2: four beautiful children. I'm originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and I
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  Speaker 2: got into writing books as of recently, but I've always
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  Speaker 2: written poetry.
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  Speaker 1: I've always written short stories.
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  Speaker 2: And believe it or not, reading started out as a
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  Speaker 2: punishment for me when I was a kid. You let
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  Speaker 2: me know if you want to know the story.
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  Speaker 1: See now, you're the opposite of my child. I put
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  Speaker 1: her under punishment. She cool without the TV. She's fine
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  Speaker 1: without the phone. Oh for sure. I put her under punishment.
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  Speaker 1: I walk in the room.
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  Speaker 2: This girl got the right on reading the book. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, you know you want to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was me and my mom used to
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  Speaker 1: snatch chords and snatch TVs and everything, and I just
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  Speaker 1: started reading and I started. That was my first My
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  Speaker 1: first love was poetry, and that's where it came from.
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  Speaker 1: So poetry. A lot of authors start with poetry.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you a question, and I've really
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  Speaker 2: never asked anybody before that I could think of, how
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  Speaker 2: easy or how hard was the progression from poetry the
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  Speaker 2: full length novel. It has been a journey. It has
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  Speaker 2: been a journey. It's definitely was a challenge. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, if you can write you can write, right.
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  Speaker 2: So starting out with poetry, it just it kind of
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  Speaker 2: paved the way into.
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  Speaker 1: The urban fiction, the novels and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say that it's really really hard. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, if it's something you got, you got it,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But again, I love me some poetry, and
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm a drop some poetry one of these
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  Speaker 2: days soon, hopefully. Oh see see, I see you dropping.
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  Speaker 2: I see you dropping nuggets, trying to beat us in there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you are got us at the coon and
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be all like that. So poetry to full
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  Speaker 2: length novels. And why did you even start to write poetry?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: What made writing a part of your life? So I
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  Speaker 2: had a teacher in the fifth grade. I went to
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  Speaker 2: Raymond Elementary in Cleveland, Ohio, and her name, I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember her name, but she used to we did would
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  Speaker 2: have this day where you would like write, or you
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  Speaker 2: would do coloring, or you would read. I was in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth grade and I chose to write. And so
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  Speaker 2: every I believe it was every Thursday, I would have
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  Speaker 2: a short story for her. And one day she put
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  Speaker 2: me on the spot and she read it in front
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  Speaker 2: of the class and the class loved it and she
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  Speaker 2: was just like, hey, you know I have these poetry competitions.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to check them out.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know hi vera and so I got
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  Speaker 2: into it. I won a couple of contests and it
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  Speaker 2: was a rap from there.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, So how did you feel when you won your
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  Speaker 1: first contest?
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  Speaker 2: I was so I didn't it was surreal. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: think it was possible, just like I didn't think it
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  Speaker 2: was possible for me to be where I am right now.
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  Speaker 2: But I am, you know so.
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  Speaker 1: As right?
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  Speaker 2: So are you under publishing house or you're independent? I
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  Speaker 2: am with Bonnie Blanco Presents, So I am. I would
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  Speaker 2: say I'm under a publishing house that is my publisher.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the BBP girls, I know they down there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird. So how did it feel that had
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  Speaker 1: that backing with you?
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  Speaker 2: I know it has to be awesome to know that
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  Speaker 2: you could be like, hey can you look at this
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  Speaker 2: for me?
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  Speaker 1: Or hey can you look at that for me?
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  Speaker 2: How does that encourage you and make you feel better
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  Speaker 2: as a writer?
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  Speaker 1: Say it one more time? You kind of cut out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: How does having that backing of your publishing house help
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  Speaker 2: you as an author. I mean, I know sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: may have an idea, bounce it off.
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  Speaker 1: How does that help?
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  Speaker 2: So she believed in my pen. She believed in my pen.
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  Speaker 2: That's really when when someone asked me questions along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: I submitted my manuscripts to previous publishers and I was
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  Speaker 2: turned out. And it's okay, because you know it's a
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  Speaker 2: learning experience, right, And I submitted to her, and she
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  Speaker 2: she believed in me. She pours into me. She's very positive,
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  Speaker 2: very sweet, very talented. I have nothing but good things
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  Speaker 2: to say about her. Nothing but she's amazing. That is
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  Speaker 2: what's up to knowing that you have someone that is
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  Speaker 2: there to support you and tell you to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing a lot of people who say they sending
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  Speaker 2: the book off to publishing houses and they just get
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  Speaker 2: that rejection letter. I just wish some times that they
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  Speaker 2: would give a reason why they rejected them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: some people want to know what they did, what they
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  Speaker 2: did wrong, to see if they could change it, or
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  Speaker 2: even if they would like to change it. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that's I think you having that backing and having
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  Speaker 2: that person that to bounce ideas off is an awesome idea.
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  Speaker 1: I say this, this is my motto.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not everybody's I'm not everybody's cup of
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  Speaker 2: tea tequila don Julio.
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  Speaker 1: I am what I am, you know. So, but she
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  Speaker 1: accepts me, she loves me, and she embraces me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be there. She said, tequila down. You
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  Speaker 1: just went to listen. You you you forget Paul.
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  Speaker 2: You can't forget Paul and Paul. You got to be
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  Speaker 2: a special car the President's Oh Paul, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: put don't have me cutting on the cut on his
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  Speaker 2: interview and you see, while you while you had to
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  Speaker 2: see that because see and y'all know I'm very upfront
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  Speaker 2: and honest.
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  Speaker 1: That's how my daughter got here. Paul my song, Hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Yeah. It came like
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  Speaker 1: a story book. Anyways.
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  Speaker 2: So how do you get your ideas for your book?
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  Speaker 2: Are you walking around with posting notes? Do you have
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  Speaker 2: composition notebooks? Are you somebody who doesn't on their phone? Like,
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  Speaker 2: how do you come and put your ideas and store them?
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  Speaker 2: They come in movies, right, So prime example, I could
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  Speaker 2: be laying in bed at night. It could be three
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  Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning. You ever had that moment where
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  Speaker 2: you're like, where's my birth certificate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's me. That's me.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to writing, I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get up and write it down right now.
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  Speaker 2: It just pops into my head and then I have to.
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  Speaker 2: I will put it in my email, right because I
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  Speaker 2: type in my email faster than I do on a keyboard, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I put it in my email, copy and paste it.
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  Speaker 2: I also have a notebook that I carry in my purse.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure people are like, what in the world
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  Speaker 2: is what she got going on? But I do pull
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  Speaker 2: my handy daddy notebook out and I'll be writing in
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  Speaker 2: it when I be traveling.
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  Speaker 1: So yup, I can't hear you, baby, I can't hear you, Patrice.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Mike microphone went on, you're a mother of four? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I do fine time to write, so I normally write
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  Speaker 2: at night. And I also do what are called author sprint,
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  Speaker 2: like writing sprints on TikTok. I'm consistent to an extent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, unless life is life and or whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll get on there. And I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like.
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  Speaker 2: Great pen sisters, and we will get on there, and
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  Speaker 2: we will chat it up and we will get those
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  Speaker 2: chapters knocked out. And so normally at night and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the when I'm on the move in
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  Speaker 2: my email during the day. So I have seen a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the author writing sprints in TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I didn't know what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, are they just sitting down there and just
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  Speaker 2: But then I'm like, oh, they're writing, oh okay, just
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  Speaker 2: like they do the reading sprints where somebody has musical
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  Speaker 2: in the background and everybody is just reading.
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  Speaker 1: So it is time we bring up this beautiful book
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  Speaker 1: of yours.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, authors kissed to this beautiful name, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Shackling wearing a suit? Yes, make you want to
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  Speaker 1: enlarge the cover? Is he wearing a tooth? Total? Is
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  Speaker 1: that a tap too?
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  Speaker 2: So see, you can tell I pay too much attention
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  Speaker 2: to the cover art. So tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about this cover art and how it pertains to your
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  Speaker 2: actual novel.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So.
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  Speaker 2: The concept behind the title in the book cover is
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  Speaker 2: basically when I was writing this, all I kept thinking
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  Speaker 2: about was like bloodline business, bloodline business, like it just
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  Speaker 2: ring in.
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  Speaker 1: The back of my mind.
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  Speaker 2: And so concrete secrets is like they have all of
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  Speaker 2: these secrets that they're trying to take to the grave
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  Speaker 2: with them, and they're trying to hide, but they just
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  Speaker 2: keep coming out, one by one by one by like
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  Speaker 2: every it's a page turner. So you you're getting secret
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  Speaker 2: after secret after secret. And so I just dropped book
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  Speaker 2: two on May night, so there's a part too to
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  Speaker 2: this one as well, and we kind of go through
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  Speaker 2: again the bloodline and how everybody has secrets and so
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  Speaker 2: in book three everything will tie together and it will
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  Speaker 2: all make sense.
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  Speaker 1: I promise, it's a lot. I'm coming. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: the characters. L what's what's the first name? Oh God, Lucious, Lucious.
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: When I read the synopsis and I did Pika pikaboo
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  Speaker 2: through a couple of pages.
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  Speaker 1: It gave me power.
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  Speaker 2: But with some reverse bids, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand that Lucius, they.
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  Speaker 1: All had secrets. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of Angela working for the Feds, Angela was as
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  Speaker 2: dirty as them. Yeah, and Tommy was still Tommy like
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  Speaker 2: he was and.
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  Speaker 1: Eat eat it.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped liking what is ghost and start chilling with Tommy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yo, tell me that's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: But and then ghosts. It seems like it was like
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  Speaker 2: maybe season five when he was starting to run for
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  Speaker 2: office and all of his secrets started coming out. That's
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  Speaker 2: the vibe that I was getting when I was reading
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  Speaker 2: your book.
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  Speaker 1: Now, please tell me, Am I right? Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 1: Or stem me in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not exactly the mayor, but he is the
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  Speaker 2: boss of the family, so he is his job. Lucius
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  Speaker 2: has a lot on his back, right he hap hold
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  Speaker 2: the family together. And what's happening is it is literally
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  Speaker 2: cracking at the scenes and he is trying to hold
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  Speaker 2: it all together. And so he is the one that
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  Speaker 2: is responsible for the success of the bloodline, and he
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  Speaker 2: ain't doing too good.
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  Speaker 1: He ain't going too goody' So why did you put
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  Speaker 1: so much pressure on him?
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  Speaker 2: Because that it seems like every time, let's look at
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  Speaker 2: it as a base, every time he seems up not
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  Speaker 2: even a beast, that's a tire. Every time he steals
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  Speaker 2: up something else, there's another hole. And to the point
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  Speaker 2: where you see you up this tire so many times
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna blow yep. And so that is the concept
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  Speaker 2: like pressure first pipes right. So in book in book two,
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  Speaker 2: the kids are older. So there's two main characters. There's
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  Speaker 2: Major and there's Leland, and so they're the new book base,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: by the way, just thought you know that. And so
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  Speaker 2: they have taken on that pressure from him. He's trying
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  Speaker 2: to retire and it's not working out too well. He's
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  Speaker 2: trying to be on an island with his wife and
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  Speaker 2: it's just not working out, you know, because he got
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  Speaker 2: to come back and again he got to pull it
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  Speaker 2: all together, you know. So was it easy to write
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  Speaker 2: book two or do you feel like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: where do I go from here?
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  Speaker 1: Like? How do you make that smooth transition? These characters
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  Speaker 1: are stressing me out?
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  Speaker 2: Oh who they stressing me out?
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  Speaker 1: It is so I am a.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love me a short read, right, I know
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  Speaker 2: you've heard of the Clockets. I absolutely love me a
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  Speaker 2: short read. And so this book has been it has
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  Speaker 2: pushed the limits. I like, I've pushed the limits with
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  Speaker 2: this one, and I'm happy with the turnout. The dual
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  Speaker 2: point of views is I like to do dual point
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  Speaker 2: of views, but I think the next after the third installment,
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  Speaker 2: the book after that is going to be a standalone.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be take a little break.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you deal with your characters?
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  Speaker 2: Are you one of the authors who characters like will
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  Speaker 2: start talking to him in the middle of them writing
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: a different scene and they have to stop. People deal
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  Speaker 2: with that character, or you have your characters some whine
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  Speaker 2: my characters.
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  Speaker 1: We have me by my edges. They run me. My
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  Speaker 1: characters run me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they run me and they talk to me, and
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  Speaker 2: they'd be like, girl, look I got something to say.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to put this down on paper. And
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh, one o'clock in the morning, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: They run. So your characters are weak, you up and
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  Speaker 1: you sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have so many like thoughts, and so I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, like last night, prime example, I'm like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, book two, nobody knows who's Nina's father is.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I'm gonna doing book three. This is
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing book three. So I have the whole
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  Speaker 2: chapter of closing out that question, like, okay, cool, Now
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  Speaker 2: everybody's gonna know who Nina's father is, and then we
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  Speaker 2: can we can move on from there, you know. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we know that you're your male character is Lucius.
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  Speaker 2: What is your favorite female.
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  Speaker 1: Character and why.
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  Speaker 2: I would have to say Peache is my favorite female character,
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  Speaker 2: and the reason being is pch don't take no crep
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  Speaker 2: Like she's that, yeah, I'm gonna stand by you, you
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  Speaker 2: my man, But she's not, you know, She's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for the love and the stability, and she
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  Speaker 2: like really keeps Lucia's in line. So I like her.
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  Speaker 2: She's really strong and she's really like resilient. I would
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  Speaker 2: say that's my favorite character.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So if you can have any of your characters
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  Speaker 1: come and do this interviewer right with you, right now,
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  Speaker 1: who would you choose that will be the oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: did you just say that character?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to say major why made Yeah? And
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  Speaker 2: that's in the second stallment. So in this one, let
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  Speaker 2: me stay on, let me stay the course. In this one,
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  Speaker 2: I would have to say, Sweetie. Okay, So why would
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Sweetie come on this show and act up? What does
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  Speaker 2: she have to say that she wants everybody to know,
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  Speaker 2: Sweetie just say what she want to say? Like she
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  Speaker 2: don't she has no filter. She has absolutely no filter
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  Speaker 2: at all. I'm telling you she ain't got no filter.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure what she would say, but I
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: know she would have a good old time.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, well let's do let's ask that question again, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: letus ask it differently. If Sweety was to come on
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the on the show right now, what would she say
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: about you as an author?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: She was saying that I am funny and supportive and
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: just a great author and a great person. I've come
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: into this community and I definitely pride myself on being
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: a great person and building like a positive community around me.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm funny too. I don't know if you'd be
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: seeing my post, but girl, I'll be tripping. That's what
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: made me attracted. Thank you. Hey, hey, listen girl. So
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: remember behind the stage I was talking to you about
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: those fun questions. Yep, Yeah, time to go back to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the hot seat.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Oh we have some fun.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: So all right, my journey, my favorite we let's bring
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it up BT plus.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, they say you know what, we love you,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We really do. Okay, we want to make it into
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a movie, but we need you to help us with
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the characters. Okay, but there's some stipulation on how we
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: want these characters.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Can you work with us?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: You say, sure, tell me what you want and I'll
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: try to get a character. I'll try to think of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: who can be this character so lucious, But we need
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Lucious to be a part of.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: A boy band. Now we understand Lucius's very.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Hardcore core and there's always that one hardcore person in
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the boy band.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: What boy band would Lucius be a part of and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what member would he be?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Oh man, hm hmm, Hold on a way, I'm gonna
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: have to say, hm hmm.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Would have to be a rapper, right, it could be.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Now, notice, see you got it. All I say was
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: boy band. I didn't say it had to be R
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and B. I didn't say it had to be gospel.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't say it have to be Okay, well.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I said band. Now I'm gonna tell you what I
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: was thinking. Tuba. All right, I see.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You're going to see his territory with him? Why Tupac,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I just get you know, first of all, I love you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Let's start there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: That's why I.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Would have to say, because he's like, he's you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to explain it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You know, Lucia's Oh, He's like, yeah, what's up?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: So I can see that because I actually chose Wu tang.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm you my new friends man.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Man if he wasn't married, he wasn't married, and you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: know what, I didn't never, I did not know he
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: was married until then. We're doing an article about him
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in the new movie be Heated with Killen Ruling're telling me, homegirl,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you got gee come that men had some Okay, trees, focus, focus, focus. Okay,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: so we have Tupac, but now we gotta find a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: strong female character for your lead, and that's Peachy or Peaches.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Peach oh so hard? Hold up, hold up, hold up.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: She has to be in R and B Diva. Mm hmm,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: R and B Diva mm hmm. I have somebody. I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: have somebody in my mind. In my mind already I.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Would say faith Evans. You say faith Evans, but from
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: a little bit that. Okay, let's let's back up. Why
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: do you say faith Evans Because I feel like Peache.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Like so, there's a lot that y'all don't know about
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Peacha yet, right, Peach seems like jes this soft woman
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: like okay, whatever, No she's not. And the we're going
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: into the thirty I'm gonna give you a little bit
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of teeth. We're going into the third installment, and Peachey
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: is definitely not who she's been acting like or who
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: you think she is. So I'm gonna say that. So
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: remember Faith Evans when you read that book. Yeah, because
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: you know what, there was upon a time when they
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: say faith and doing a little Okay.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I have a guess, and they said Michelle. Oh, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: want to say.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Too, but you know who can mine And this lady
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: is half past crazy, all the way crazy. I was thinking,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: oh lord, just because I say that, her name going
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: out of my mind. What's the one who was singing
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: what a Vonne? My first love? That got all the chill? Yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Cooky White, Piky White.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: We can go with Kiki. We can go because you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: know what, just for the little parts that I've read
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: on her, she scared me. She like check.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, this chicken ain't nobody to play with.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And when you look at Kiki when she's with her.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Kids, she's all sweet and loving, but let where her
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: husbands make her man all her face turned in and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it was over. So that's why I thought her, Okay,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: we can do. We can go with k k O
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: k K Yeah, she excuse me.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, y'all y'all have to. Okay, So y'all know, Broku
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: got these old channels, and I've been enjoying these old
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: channels looking at stuff like I remember that they had
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: marriage boot Camp and she was on I think this
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: might be husband.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Number two, number three.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: When she would get mad with him, her eyebrows would
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: turn in, and I'm like, oh, yoh.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, she is definitely something else.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: And then I looked at R and B Divas when
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: she was on them. Yeah, it's all good. So we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: had Kiki Whitett and we got two pounds. Can you
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: imagine them two together? No, that's like Bobby and Whitney
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: when they had their reality show.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Bobby.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, what do you say? That's what? That's a love.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want babies. What the devil? But okay, okay,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: let's go back. Okay.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: So we got Tubac and we had Kiki and they said,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: you know what, great, we love that. Now we want
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: to make sure that this is not too much pressure
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: on you, and we would like to.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Bring in.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Just somebody to advise you and to help you out.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be like a cold director with you. What
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: fellow author would you want to co direct with you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: And why I would have to say, my good is
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Monique Love.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Because that is her.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: That's her thing, you know, and I think she got
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: She always has some good things to say, whether it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: like ideas or just anything that you know along that line.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So I would have to say I would want to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: do it with her money c Love. Did she do ake?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Is she the wonder the surgeon? No og? Yeah og
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: money club? That's her? Yeah? But he and he and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the and I called her like I didn't call.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I hit her on on Facebook and I said, did
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you just do that to the catch?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: She said, I was waiting till you got to that point.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I said, you was screened heart surgery. That's yep. I haven't.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: When I get done writing, I'm gonna definitely take all
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the time in the world to read Bop his sister's books,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: my pan brother.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I had crew I knew you, and she said, I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: sherely did. I was waiting on you to get to
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: that point.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I said, I said, you skin me. Now you sound
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: like her. That's exactly what you would say. But it
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was great because I had her on my shew to.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: She is a wonderful person.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: So hold on y'all two together on the movie how
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: many people y'all gonna.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Kill because I'm kind of SKay, you know it's not
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: and how without reason? And then how y'all gonna kill him?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: As another part des skit? You know what that'll be?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: That would be a movie I would look forward to. Yeah,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: all right, So we got the movie, we got Tupop,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: we got Kiki, we got money, and you know, a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: lifetime said it was awesome. So now you know what
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: we want to do a bio pic of you. Who
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: would you get the honor of playing you in your
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: bio pick? Does that have to be a celebrity or
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: just to pen sister or on this one, it could
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: be anyone who you would want it to.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Be playing me on my biopic. I'm gonna have to
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: say Nodge. Who's like my that's my penn sister, Bessie Twin.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Oh she's why did you choose her? Me and her
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: are a lot of like in some ways and she's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: just like my twin. I call her my twin. She's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: my twin. Like I think she would do a good job. Okay,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: so we got the twin, We got tupa key key
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in Mornee so Lifetime said, all right, this is great.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Lifetime said, it is time that we have to do
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: your credit. Who would you like to send a shout
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: out to? You can name as many people as you
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: want or as little as you want, but who would
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you like to shout out and just say thank you?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna have first. Let me say my mama. Now, let's.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Verer.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to say ver ver T Brown. It's
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: my pan sister right there. Uh.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And I just had the money. Yeah, I'm you here together.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, vere is my girl. I'm gonna have to save money.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I would have to say a A Lewis. I would
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: have to shout her out. She's phenomenal. And I went
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to where I am without her, and I would have
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to say, we gotta get our cold. I'm gonna have
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: to say him too, because he's unfiltered and honest, time out,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: time out, cool, k O L D cold.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yep. This is a conspiracy, y'all trying. Y'all trying, because
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: then I had all y'all on here.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, I love it, you know what, thank you for
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: opening up this platform for all.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Of us, and it's amazing.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Y'all know how to kill people on y'all books. So
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: now I'm an actual scene. I'm I'm gonna sity quietly.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I got a confession, though, dog got a confession.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I have not yet killed anybody in my books, but
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I have to do it in the third installment.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Well, you got the right people to ask how to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: do it? Hey, what mess you like? Hey, Patrese, what
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: do you think about? Hey?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Listen, because i'mna be like, dang, you had to kill
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: him like that? Damn three there know how to kill
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: people in their books. If they don't know how to.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Kill them, they're not to treat them real bad. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: still can't get over heart surgery. That just that, just
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I have to read it. I still have.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I got a lot of my TVR. I got that.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I have to read Cutthroat. I have to read Enigma.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I have.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: What is it bre read? I have to read her
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: book color Me. I gotta look on my Yeah, she's amazing.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: That's another one of my great Penn sisters.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I got a lot of books to read.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: So hopefully I can get a break at some point
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and I can just beinge read right, And I feel
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: guilty about it?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Don't feel guilty about it. I did the same thing.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I just knocked out three books in a week and
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't, but they were. One of them was very
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: was a poetry and it also was it had artwork
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: in it, which was beautiful. Y'all go check out that
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: review is already on my page at book out and Friends.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: No sorry, see book out and Friends dot com. It's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a beautiful book. On my god, it's beautiful. And then
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the other two was short stories, so it's not it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: when it's going, it's going, and when you get that time,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you try to just put it all in there. So
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I totally understand. But who else.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Would you like to shart up? I'm gonna sit back
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: and be quiet. And if I jump out of my
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: check and she done called another murderer, murderer, character murderer, y'all. Okay, okay,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I'll be a good girl.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. I believe party said my twenty dodge.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to say, in our least, that's one
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: of my really good Penn sisters.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: She's dope. Who else I don't want to abody? Be
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: like you forgot me?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Oh? The Nighttime Collective, the Millenated Literary Rotation, those are
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: the other people that you know have really paved the
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: way for me or been there on my journey, and.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: My mama and a couple of my friends. None of
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: my family like none of my family. So we at
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: sc booky ads and friends, thank you for being with
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: us tonight. But before you leave, you've got to.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Give us the rundown where we could follow you, where
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: we can get your books. You guys see at the
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: bottom of all the information and the scrolling, And she's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: gonna also will tell you go ahead, give us step rundown,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: all right, and so you can find me right on
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: my books on are They're all on Amazon. You can
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: find me on Amazon. It was a one point in
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: time you could find me on the zon, but you
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: can find me now.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: That's such a blessing just to say that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: My website angelthauthor dot com also doing the Cinnamon and
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Honey author spotlights coming up.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I've been putting those on the.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Back bonel so you guys can catch me doing these
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Cinnamon and Honey spotlights and hosting a book event in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. The Cinnamon and Honey Sneaker Social Stories
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  Speaker 2: that stick.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: You can catch me.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: All over social media, hopefully I'll be popping out to
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: some book events twenty twenty seven, god willing. But yeah,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: that's pretty much it. All of my books are on Amazon.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: You can look me up under the Bonnie Blanco Presents right.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Shout out to my BBP girls. And also I wanted
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: to shout out my you know, Bonnie Blanco, big dog.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: That's my girl there, and that's it. That's me in
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: a nutshell. Oh and somebody said you could be found
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: on Black Shelf too.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Oh y'all. Oh oh, let me not forget the black
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: shell look.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh, Mara, Ohverra, all of the she
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: did that something? Okay, So you guys, blackshelf dot com,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: this is this is a straight up endorsement and nobody
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: getting paid for this.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'all know. Yep, y'all know.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I work at a lot bitter okay, and I've always
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: had my co workers come up to me and say, Trees,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: how do you recommend people books?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: How do you do this? Well? Guess what.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: They really don't know because they don't read what I read.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: But Black Shelf I told my co workers on it.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I say, y'all, put it bookmarket on your page. So
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: when you do have someone come you, you can just
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: pop in that genre and you can see if we
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: got in the system. Who ever invented or the master
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: minds that came up with Black Show, y'all have just equivalated.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Y'all. Sell the good reads. I'm gonna shout them out
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Vera Brown, Vera T.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Brown in the comments see Winter, Seannie, Denise Moett, Monette,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: No Monet, and.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Coach k Will.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: If I'm missing somebody, let me tell you something that
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: is the biggest, dopest, brilliant thing someone can ever come
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: up with, because I will tell you I went to
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna say the actual bookstore, because you know,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I went to a bookstore in my area, and I
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: would it almost made me like brought me to tears.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: The only book an author that I saw in that
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: bookstore was Kennedy Ryan. I didn't see anybody else, Okay,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: no one else. I walked right out that store. I said,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: you know what, this is crazy And as someone that
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: has dreams of opening up a bookstore, you know, this
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: is what they're doing is next level, you know, and
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I really really supporting it, pushing behind it like I
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: love it. I absolutely love it, and it's so great
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and I'm just every time I even think I even
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: put it in my latest book. Every time somebody asked
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: me something, I'm like Black Show. It's on a Black Show.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: If you can't find it is great because they also
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  Speaker 1: give you.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: As an authors. They give you a chance to put
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: your books on it. You don't have to be big
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: name and big start. You can just be starting out
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: and that is a perfect platform. Also on top of that,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: me working at a library. Okay, you guys, we have
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: research databases. One of the biggest ones is novelists.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, it does not have a lot of books that
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: are geared toward African American readers. Y'all talking about a
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: whole platform. A whole platform. It's hard to navigate.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: It is very user friendly, it is very eye it's
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: eye candy.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: You find subject, you go in, you find all these books.
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  Speaker 2: You find a new I graduations and I appreciate you
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: guys for coming up with this beutiful platform. Yeah yeah,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: it almost yeah, it almost brings you to tears when
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: you think about it, because, like I said, when I
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: when I first started out, you cannot find me on Amazon.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I was you were unable to find me, and I
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: had a situation where it was like, you know, comments
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: were being made to me, and I felt really down
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  Speaker 2: about it because they're like, oh, you're on Amazon.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Oh I can't find you on Amazon. Oh you're not
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: on Amazon.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I looked you up, you know, like and so how
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: that's discouraging as a new author, and even as an
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: author in Jet, like a black author, you know that
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: that is very discouraging. And so for them to create
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: this space where authors that are you know, new and
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: up and coming like myself can find you can find
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: them some where and you are able to locate their books.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: That creates visibility, It creates community, and I'm all for that.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Anything that's a positive impact on this community, I am
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: And it is just a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope every day that them ladies go to
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  Speaker 2: sleep they realize what they're doing, the lives.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: That you guys have changed, the jobs if y'all have
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: made easy.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: It is very easy for me to tell my patrons,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: especially one of my favorite little.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Old ladies who come to the library. I put it
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: on her phone and she's.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Like, oh, baby, I love it, love you, love you,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Miss md Ooh baby Girdie don't read like we read.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, what the devil? But it's
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: so wonderful platform.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: So again for you guys who created that big ups
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: in my heart. They're phenomenal people and yes, amazing, absolutely amazing.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: So Andrew the author, I thank you for hanging out
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: with me. Tonight, y'all go grab her book. I'm gonna
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: bring up this beautiful cover again.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: What man, right then? No he ain't, No, he ain't.
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  Speaker 1: We're not no, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, because I will come to be if you ever hear,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: because you've seen that's your man. I'm gonna put book
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: two on the black shelf too, by the way, when
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I get some time this week. So y'all coupy me
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: on Amazon, the black shelf and on my website. Well, man,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: we thank you, and y'all know I'm gonna be here
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: to support y'all anything I could do. You let me
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: know he is fine. Okay, see Winna, I'm coming to
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: your house too.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: That is my man. You can but he find all
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: you want, but he is mine. You may had once
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: pride of God the mom Oh.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: That's us all right there that someone used to get
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: your troll back in the Tays.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for joining us. Girl. You have a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: great night, you guys. I told you I was going
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: to talk to y'all.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Right, but before I talk to you, guys, let's give
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: it up to Angel the off the one more time.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Let's give it up the black shelf one more time.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Y'all go grab her book. So now y'all, letna get
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: a little serious. Okay, y'all know the midterms are coming right,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: y'all see everything that's going on right, it's not being hidden.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: It is right in front of your face. I'm gonna
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: need y'all to get out there and vote. I know.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: So we said we wasn't going out there. We wasn't
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: gonna be protesting. We're gonna let them come out and
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: find out. But now it's time for us to put
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: our boots.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: To the ground. Okay.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: I need you guys to go out there and vote.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Check your voter registration when you get ready to vote.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: The day before you go, I want you to go
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: on your state's voter registration website check make sure everything
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: is in line. When you are in that voting booth,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: you want to make sure your information is correct.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: If it is not, correct. There are individuals that are
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: hired there to serve you, y'all unless y'all want to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: be working the front of the house or the back
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: of the house, y'all better get out here. Vote. All
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: y'all who have graduation, Big ups to you.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Now, let's do part two, because if you don't vote now,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: you won't have any say so in your future mothers, fathers, grandparents, uncles, cousin, aunts, everybody.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: If you are over the age of eighteen, you need
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and vote. Okay, the same way we
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: can head off them clubs, the same way we can
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: go to all these events, is the same way we
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: need to have those poles busy.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Now me, yeah, I'm going to work the poll. I
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: should hold on the voting poll.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Y'all get your mind out together. I'm trying to be
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: serious for a second. I'm going to be there. I'm
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: gonna vote. And when you go vote, take somebody with you.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Check the elderly neighbor who you hardly speed. Come out
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the house. This would be a great time to introduce yourself. Hey,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: my name is such and such.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote. Come on with me to your homeboy,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: who could flash all the cash.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Hey man, come on, let's go sign up for some
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: voter regstration. Check your areas if you need voter registration forms.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Check your local library. Okay, you guys, now it's time
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: for us to rise up. Make sure okay, this is
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: your girl Scie book out a four to three.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Y'all.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Remember there's no such thing as an old book, because
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: not everybody is read every book.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Make sure you tune in next week.