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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST HOST PATRICE GRIMABL EVERY 1ST-4TH TUESDAY LIVE 8PM EST · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention fleets. The
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl sc Book galt a
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Speaker 2: four to three per tree Scrumble, and it is another
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Speaker 2: Tuesday night. I hope you guys have been okay. You
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Speaker 2: know I need this.
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Speaker 1: Plea gentle line like I have your attention please. The
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Speaker 2: So you know we have some technical difficulties. You know
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Speaker 2: we got a roll with them, a correct alright, so
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Speaker 2: let's try this all over again. I am your girl
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Speaker 2: Patrece Grimble, missus s C Book, y'all eight four three
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Speaker 2: whenever you see that, that is me. And it is
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Speaker 2: another Tuesday night where I am bringing you another author
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Speaker 2: and another book. Now, y'all, we were having fun behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes, y'all know me. I love to have fun,
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Speaker 2: and we about to have us some fun. Okay. So
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Speaker 2: this author, y'all, this author, her name is miss Yosha Yasha, York.
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Speaker 2: She got like twenty five different aliases. But that we
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Speaker 2: ain't gonna go. We'll talk about that in the minute, okay.
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Speaker 2: But her personality is so beautiful. Am I am so
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Speaker 2: honored to have her hair tonight because we gonna talk
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Speaker 2: about dis Miss Tennessee Jones. Y'all, this cover is what
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Speaker 2: we call fire. Y'all know I love a beautiful cover
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Speaker 2: of a book. So we're gonna bring her up so
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Speaker 2: she could tell us a little bit about her in
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Jones, Come on up, miss York. How you doing, girly?
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Speaker 3: I am doing great? How are you?
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Speaker 2: How good I do? Welcome to sc Bookals and friends chat.
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Speaker 2: But before we go further, you gotta tell us a
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Speaker 2: little bit about yourself.
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Speaker 3: Of course, and I'm so glad to be here. A
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Speaker 3: little bit about me. I got fifty.
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Speaker 4: Eleven names, y'all, and depending on mood, it might switch
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Speaker 4: up in the next.
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Speaker 3: As far, it's the main name. You need to know
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Speaker 3: that that will say my name is Yeah, she York.
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Speaker 3: A little bit about that. What started that as my
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Speaker 3: pen name? It started around the summer before seventh grade.
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Speaker 3: I took a lot of influences one my older sister.
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Speaker 3: She was a big influence in my life. Her name
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Speaker 3: was actually Tasha. I didn't want to use her name
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Speaker 3: but something similar. So that's where the Yasha came in,
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Speaker 3: and then I wanted something that sounded kind of regal esque,
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Speaker 3: and that's where the New York came in. So that's
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Speaker 3: where that name started. As far as y'all sure, can
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Speaker 3: I kind of use that as like my pen name
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Speaker 3: for different things and when I but that's definitely why
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Speaker 3: it became my author pen name. But my actual name,
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Speaker 3: my name is Natalie Cole's like the singers. Those are
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Speaker 3: the two main names. All the other names will probably change.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So what made you want to become a writer?
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Speaker 3: Yes? What made want so it become a writer? It
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Speaker 3: is so many things, Like I would say, like the
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Speaker 3: main things that I always got something going on in
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Speaker 3: my head. I literally have like whole cinemas, different movies.
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Speaker 3: I have different things playing in my head. Like I
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Speaker 3: look at myself as like a main character just going
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Speaker 3: through a journey. Like that's literally what plays in my head.
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Speaker 3: And so that's what really inspired me to write, because
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Speaker 3: I was like I got to get this stuff on
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Speaker 3: paper or something, because stuff is just too good. Like
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Speaker 3: I would literally just be having dreams about what I
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Speaker 3: could see as being a movie, and I was like,
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Speaker 3: let me write this down because this could really be
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Speaker 3: a good I was doing that I think as early
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Speaker 3: as like six or seven, and it would just be
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Speaker 3: different things and they're in school and whatnot. People and
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Speaker 3: even my moms, they's always said, you know, you are
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Speaker 3: very creative. Like I would just come up with stories
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Speaker 3: just off the top of my head, and it's like,
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Speaker 3: you are very creative? How did you come up with that?
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Speaker 3: I'm like, And so that's what kind of inspired me
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Speaker 3: to be a writer.
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Speaker 2: I hear that from a lot of people, is that
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Speaker 2: it start when you're young and there are like young ages,
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Speaker 2: what what's what sparked your creativity at that young of
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Speaker 2: a age. Was it like you were like crayons, color
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Speaker 2: and books or you like mimicking people? Like what sparked
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Speaker 2: that creativity?
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Speaker 3: I would say a little bit of everything. I've definitely
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Speaker 3: always been like, even like at my big age is
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Speaker 3: thirty one, I like coloring. I like stuff like that
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Speaker 3: artsy stuff. So that's when it inspired. And then as
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Speaker 3: far as like the things that I like to look at,
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Speaker 3: I've always been an aesthetics person. I like things that
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Speaker 3: are colorful that jump out, like, actually, if I didn't
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Speaker 3: become an author, my dream job, well, my own as
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Speaker 3: a child, I always wants to be. I imagine myself
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Speaker 3: being an artist in Paris, sitting at a cafe painting
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Speaker 3: on a little easy or something like that. Like I
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Speaker 3: had it easy as a kid, and like the big
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Speaker 3: like creative boughts of all different kind of markers of
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Speaker 3: pasteals and all of that, and like I feel in
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Speaker 3: love with it and I really just sit there and
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Speaker 3: just color and truck for hours. And then I also,
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Speaker 3: I'm a most person to singing. That kind of connection
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Speaker 3: I love for writing too, because like I can just
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Speaker 3: feel emotion for music. I don't even have to hear
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Speaker 3: the words because sometimes the words don't necessarily correlate to
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Speaker 3: the emotions that I feel. But like sometimes like I'll
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Speaker 3: just listen to a beat or a tune and it
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Speaker 3: just brings about emotion and I can, like I'll get
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Speaker 3: a little into that a little later. That's kind of
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Speaker 3: what inspired kind of Tennessee Jones, just listening to music
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Speaker 3: and just coming up with the vibe and how the
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Speaker 3: story fits and things like that.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, now see I totally understand that because Okay,
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Speaker 2: so y'all Phil Collins is on my playlist, Like I'm
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Speaker 2: listening to that One More Night, but I don't like
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Speaker 2: the whole song. I just like Gerald Albright his sacks
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Speaker 2: at the end of best Song is Banana, y'all. I
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Speaker 2: love it. I'll just play it to school to that part,
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Speaker 2: and like, I think it was somebody saying, you sit
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Speaker 2: up there listening to full talents. Now I actually listened
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Speaker 2: to the sacks, so I totally get it, because that
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Speaker 2: sex is a whole by itself, so I totally understand that.
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Speaker 2: So since you talked about this person, we gonna talk
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Speaker 2: about Miss Tennessee. First of all, very creative for a name.
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Speaker 2: Why the name Tennessee?
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Speaker 3: Well, I would say why I picked that name. It
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Speaker 3: was a lot of different influences as a kid. I
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Speaker 3: was also well, I wrote this set around seventh grade,
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Speaker 3: and so at that time I look Corney. I liked
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Speaker 3: the whole saying You're the only ten I see, so
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Speaker 3: I was like, so I like that part. And also
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Speaker 3: with my actual government name being Natalie Coles because I
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Speaker 3: live in North Carolina and my initials is NC like
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Speaker 3: the state, I was like, I named somebody after an
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Speaker 3: actual stake. I was just really just the thought. But
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Speaker 3: that's kind of where the process came and I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: what last name goes good with Jones? I wanted something
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Speaker 3: to sound like an epic character, and I'm like, somebody
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Speaker 3: like Indiana Jones or something like that. Okay, if I
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Speaker 3: put Jones on it, that's gonna make the characters sound here,
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Speaker 3: she said.
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Speaker 2: Indiana, Indiana, Indiana. Okay, you know what we just Okay, Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: Where my brain be working. It sounds good when I
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Speaker 3: put it on paper, but it be a.
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Speaker 2: Little The crazy thing about it is it's the way
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Speaker 2: that you're thinking as about four to five people that
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Speaker 2: totally understand it, and it makes your book unique. So
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Speaker 2: I applaud you for the thought pattern that you have.
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Speaker 2: Keep them coming, keep them coming. But for her to
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Speaker 2: be this beautiful and y'all listen, I'm not saying anything bad, okay,
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Speaker 2: but I've seen some covers and I've seen some name
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Speaker 2: of some characters and you're looking at the cover like
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Speaker 2: the name of the character doesn't fit the car. But
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Speaker 2: for her to beautiful and be named Tennessee is very unique,
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Speaker 2: and I like that. I love that unique factor of
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Speaker 2: the book. So tell us a little bit about missus
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Jones.
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Speaker 3: Yes, as far as her I would say like her
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Speaker 3: a facial aesthetic influence. I was really going for someone
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Speaker 3: that kind of has that what's the best word. I
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Speaker 3: want to say. I did have some influences. I want
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Speaker 3: to just kind of like that moody character because throughout
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Speaker 3: the book, she you know, starts off as a teenager
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Speaker 3: and then grows up to like you know, progresses to
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Speaker 3: a young adult. And so but her character, because she's
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Speaker 3: someone that loves music, that sings. I wanted someone to
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Speaker 3: reflect me, but somebody that really, I would say, fit
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Speaker 3: that name. So when I was kind of thinking of her,
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Speaker 3: I was thinking of, Okay, I want to mixture of
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Speaker 3: like a summer walker and maybe like a sissm, somebody
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Speaker 3: that kind of fits that whole moody aesthetic vibe and
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Speaker 3: just really but not necessarily looked directly like them, but
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Speaker 3: somebody that kind of fits that vibe. And that's what
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Speaker 3: came as far as where Tennessee Jones. The look came
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Speaker 3: from because I feel like she kind of gives off
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Speaker 3: those mobs.
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Speaker 2: Yes somebody, Yes, Because okay, I have my screens split
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Speaker 2: you guys, because when my authore is talking about their
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Speaker 2: books and your covers, I liked to visually see the cover.
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Speaker 2: Some looking at it just like you guys are able
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Speaker 2: to look at it and I see it. I see
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Speaker 2: it all through that. Mmmm so this this can I
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Speaker 2: can see this being a book that you guys would
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Speaker 2: read if you know it's I think it's June. It's
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Speaker 2: Black Music Month. Here's your pick for ju So Derek
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Speaker 2: mm hmmm mm hm.
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Speaker 3: He is a very very interesting character. So for him,
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Speaker 3: he had a lot of different influences. I would say
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Speaker 3: when I was drafting him, he I'm waiting. As far
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Speaker 3: as him, I wanted him to come off I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to think of who exactly, because he had a certain
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Speaker 3: book to him. When you see him, he's like that
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Speaker 3: charismatic just kind of I want to say, kind of
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Speaker 3: the eternal look from the Tina Turner movie, not the
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Speaker 3: actual how Ike Turner actually looked. For how Laura's Fishberg
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Speaker 3: played him. I kind of wanted him to kind of
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Speaker 3: have that look, but not that look, but like the
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Speaker 3: cross between names from the movie. Uh the other guy
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Speaker 3: with the green eyes and he just be uh where
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Speaker 3: he be? Uh? Is he coming? Beyonce? I can't think.
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Speaker 2: I know who you talk about. I know that that
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Speaker 2: the light skined guy who hated the children outside of
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Speaker 2: the Yes.
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Speaker 3: Him, but I can't think his name any other time
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Speaker 3: I know his name, I'm talking of my head, but him,
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Speaker 3: the one that hunted children off the balcony. I was
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Speaker 3: thinking of a mixture that you got that Koreer, Michael
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Speaker 3: Michael Young, Lawrence Fishburgh slash Michael Easy combination. That's where
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Speaker 3: the inspiration for Derek came from. And then some I
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Speaker 3: would say, some influences from people that I've met, you know.
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Speaker 3: I also, you know, not to say I broke this
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Speaker 3: way before the whole thing with Diddy, you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of some Diddy influence, not necessarily visually, but you know
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Speaker 3: how he was acting, but just kind of I would say,
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Speaker 3: like the main influence of his character also came from
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Speaker 3: you knowing that the what's love got to do with it?
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Speaker 3: It came from his kind of characteristic and just that
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Speaker 3: need for just power control, that narcissistic behavior. That's where
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Speaker 3: that came from as well, because I watched it as
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Speaker 3: a kid. I don't know why, Ma Mama let me
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Speaker 3: watch that, but that's one of my.
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Speaker 2: So from the little bit that I read, I got
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Speaker 2: player like, I like it's an honor to be with
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Speaker 2: me type vibe is what I got from Derek.
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Speaker 3: Am My, yall, No, you are very much on, very
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Speaker 3: much on. That's his. That's his. He is very he's
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Speaker 3: he's very arrogant.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, yes, yes, And I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: I don't even like you. Okay, okay, So that's finished
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Speaker 2: the book. I got like fifty young of y'all seem
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Speaker 2: like to be read readless in my library checkouts. I apologize, okay,
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Speaker 2: but these characters seem like they're from two different worlds.
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Speaker 2: Without giving away the novel, how do you bring them together?
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Speaker 3: I would say how I brought them together just based
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Speaker 3: on situational You have Tennessee Joms without you know, spoiling
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Speaker 3: the book. You have a young naive girl who she
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Speaker 3: wants to sing. Singing is her passion. She's good at
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Speaker 3: it typically as and even as myself, I used to
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Speaker 3: be a singer myself. Well, I mean, ill sing a
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Speaker 3: little bit now, but when I was younger, I professionally
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Speaker 3: sang and all that. You just have that hunger, and
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Speaker 3: you just your ultimate desires. You want to be famous,
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Speaker 3: and so somebody who has such a desire but does
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Speaker 3: not necessarily have the networking, the means to just get
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Speaker 3: out there. She crosses path with someone like Derek Creed
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Speaker 3: a K A d C. Who you know, he sees
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Speaker 3: an opportunity, he's gonna take it. He's Lisary, those two of.
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Speaker 2: My and reading the little parts that I read, I
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Speaker 2: got a little bit of And I might be saying
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Speaker 2: the title of the movie wrong. The Preacher's Daughter, where
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Speaker 2: it was a young girl from from being a Destiny's child,
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Speaker 2: the third movement, the third fourth one that got kicked.
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Speaker 3: Michelle. Yeah, no, not Michelle is the one you a
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Speaker 3: little so her character in.
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Speaker 2: The Preacher's Daughter when I when I was reading it,
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Speaker 2: that was was coming to me. And even when we
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Speaker 2: talked about the deep person and I don't even want
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Speaker 2: to give him reference it it gave me a little
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Speaker 2: bit of the other character. And I was like, I
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Speaker 2: gotta finish reading this when I get a chance, because
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Speaker 2: I want to see which dynamic overpowers the other dynamic.
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Speaker 2: Now I disclaimer, I have not read the whole book,
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Speaker 2: you guys, but I'm thinking Tennessee gonna win this one over,
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Speaker 2: am I right?
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Speaker 3: You ain't gonna tell you right, But it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: it's it's the way it goes about. It's not direct,
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Speaker 3: you know, just she automatically. It has a lot of
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Speaker 3: twist and turn. I don't want to spoil it, but
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Speaker 3: it's it's not just straightforward. She just wins. And it's
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Speaker 3: not even because it's it's a book too coming out.
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Speaker 3: I'm still working on it. I should have it. I
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Speaker 3: didn't initially say the end of July, but we're gonna
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Speaker 3: say more like it. All this is and it's gonna
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Speaker 3: win in the book too how everything else play out.
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Speaker 3: But that's where it's going that she is I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: win this. But it's not. You know, nothing is an
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Speaker 3: easy win with Derek.
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Speaker 2: It's not because.
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Speaker 3: That's just not his character. He he ain't gonna go
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Speaker 3: down without a fight, so without.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So since we're gonna talk about fights, who is
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Speaker 2: the biggest supporter when it comes to your writing journey?
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Speaker 3: I would say my biggest supporter is my mama, Like
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Speaker 3: she has always been my supporter, like with everything I do,
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Speaker 3: because in her mind, there is nothing that I can't do.
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Speaker 3: It's all a matter of what my mind and motivation
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Speaker 3: will let me do. But there is nothing that I
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Speaker 3: can't do. And so she is definitely my motivation and
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Speaker 3: time I say, well I'm gonna do this, she said,
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Speaker 3: when you do it, I know you can do it.
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Speaker 3: You just gotta put that motivation in that work to
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Speaker 3: do it. And I know you can do it. I
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Speaker 3: know it's gonna be good. Definitely.
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Speaker 2: My mom Okay, see all right, shouts out to your mama,
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Speaker 2: tell her to hurry up with this book too. Is
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Speaker 2: I don't want to have I can't get booked too.
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Speaker 3: So Mama was like, you need to have pret Audi
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Speaker 3: your book too.
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Speaker 2: I was like, getle, mommy, what else? I know? We
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Speaker 2: have book two Tennessee Jones or whatever the title is
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Speaker 2: going to be. What else can we expect from you
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Speaker 2: in your writing journey? Other avenues? What else can we expect?
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Speaker 3: Well? I have a couple of other work in progresses
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Speaker 3: that I am putting out. I would say I am
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Speaker 3: a person I like to explore different niches. Another book
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Speaker 3: that I'm putting out just kind of like a hallmarky
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Speaker 3: book because my mom she loves Hallmark and so she's like,
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Speaker 3: because she calls me by my middle name, my middle
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Speaker 3: name is Emily, and so she's like, Emily, can you
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Speaker 3: just put out a book.
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Speaker 2: That's like, oh you got a whole another meme too.
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Speaker 3: Many days. Actually, my government name, I have four names.
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Speaker 3: I have two middle names.
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Speaker 2: So you could pleat the alphabet and have no problems.
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Speaker 3: Huh, not at all.
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Speaker 2: It's that part. I'm sorry, Mama, Please don't get mad
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Speaker 2: at me. Please please still be on my side about
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Speaker 2: that book.
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Speaker 3: To her names, it's okay, Like look she we look,
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Speaker 3: I said all the time, because she was gonna name
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Speaker 3: me another name, and she was like, wetu this we
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Speaker 3: like a little bit about my whole name is Natalie,
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Speaker 3: Emily Belle. Natalie came because my dad's name is Nathaniel.
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Speaker 3: Emily came from my older sister, because she's like Clifford.
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Speaker 3: Elizabeth Belle came from my dad's grandmother. She was gonna
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Speaker 3: name me her. Actually, she was like, I don't want
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Speaker 3: you getting picked up for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not it's she was my god rest,
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Speaker 3: my grandma, so awesome lady. But her name is Gertrude.
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Speaker 3: When she was like the jokes you would have received
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Speaker 3: if I named you Gertrude, I was like, I thank you,
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Speaker 3: I would have not. I was not strong enough to
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Speaker 3: that name. I would have changed my name, and then
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Speaker 3: of course my last name.
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Speaker 2: Are you so wrong?
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Speaker 3: Very interested human? We crack about that all the time.
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Speaker 3: My SA was like she is a clown. She was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I would have called you dirty, girty whole life. And
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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's why that.
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Speaker 2: Oh joice, oh.
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Speaker 3: You can look. I love, I love, I love my
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Speaker 3: grandma Gertrude. She's awesome lady. But even my dad. They
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Speaker 3: was like, we all get it bell, but Bell is
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Speaker 3: her middle name, that's where the bell came from.
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Speaker 2: That was okay, okay, that's that's okay, that's good. Granny
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Speaker 2: had child, Grannie had seriously okay, So we got the
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Speaker 2: hallmark that I called it the Little Romances? Is there
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Speaker 2: anything else coming from you?
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Speaker 3: Yes? I want to do like a horror kind of
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Speaker 3: Sheiro movie where I got like a female serial killer.
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Speaker 3: That's that's a work in progress. I'm gonna give too
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Speaker 3: much to pay, but we got that a work in
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Speaker 3: progress as well. And then also I want to do
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Speaker 3: kind of a I'm trying to find the words for it.
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Speaker 3: A want it like a parallel underground universe, kind of
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Speaker 3: similar to what's the movie, uh, the one, what's his
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Speaker 3: name is it us? The one that he'd uh the
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Speaker 3: dude from kemp Pill was a key or pill.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen us.
25:59
Speaker 3: If kind of some of us where you kind of
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Speaker 3: have like a a parallel underground world that kind of
26:04
Speaker 3: matches the top world but not necessarily with the same thing,
26:06
Speaker 3: but kind of where you have an underground world that
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Speaker 3: funds is that people don't understand that kind of you
26:12
Speaker 3: navigate between both of those worlds. I'm working on a
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Speaker 3: book like that, so many different stuff.
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Speaker 2: So you got me there, I'm never y'all, Please don't
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Speaker 2: take my card. I've never seen I got a court
26:26
Speaker 2: now threatened me to see centers by a certain point
26:29
Speaker 2: in time. I don't think she's gonna talk to me
26:30
Speaker 2: if I don't look at senates. But I can see
26:34
Speaker 2: that a lot of African American authors, and I love
26:39
Speaker 2: the fact that we are stepping out of the street lit,
26:42
Speaker 2: the contemporary and the the contempu street contemporary, what's the
26:48
Speaker 2: other one? We always do urban scene, and we're going
26:54
Speaker 2: into those paranormal and thrillers. I love the fact that
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Speaker 2: we're starting to branch outside the box, whereas they can't
27:04
Speaker 2: put us in the category because we in all the categories.
27:07
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying that I am trying to
27:11
Speaker 2: branch out and read those for me. Sometimes it's kind
27:15
Speaker 2: of difficult. And my coworker told me to keep reading
27:18
Speaker 2: them because there's going to be one that's going to
27:21
Speaker 2: click it for you and then you be smooth selling.
27:24
Speaker 2: So I'm still thinking about going there.
27:27
Speaker 3: But listen, you just gotta find that one that clissed
27:29
Speaker 3: because sometimes I would say, I feel like with the
27:33
Speaker 3: when we step out into different genres, just having that
27:36
Speaker 3: sense of where we're still grounded, where I feel like
27:40
Speaker 3: we still retain our blackness in it, that's what really
27:44
Speaker 3: makes it a salary because sometimes for some of the
27:46
Speaker 3: ones that I've read, it feels like we're not fully retaining,
27:49
Speaker 3: like it's we may not be having an authentic experience
27:52
Speaker 3: when we're reading. I'm like, you know, I'm like I
27:54
Speaker 3: can't really relate to this. But when we when you
27:56
Speaker 3: read once where you have when you like, yeah, I
27:58
Speaker 3: would act like this this is how we'ret That's what
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Speaker 3: makes it. That's what makes you click and connected, right.
28:05
Speaker 2: M h, I see you, because that's exactly what I think.
28:11
Speaker 2: There has to be something that helps me relate to
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Speaker 2: the character that will help that click. And I'm going
28:18
Speaker 2: to keep on trying. I know there's going to be
28:20
Speaker 2: one and then that's going to start that gravy train.
28:23
Speaker 2: It's like how I started reading. So I'm gonna get there.
28:27
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get there.
28:30
Speaker 3: Go ahead, No, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. And
28:34
Speaker 3: I feel like with us branching out kind of starting
28:37
Speaker 3: with the now, we're starting to now kind of because
28:39
Speaker 3: I feel like what the problem was with that, Like
28:42
Speaker 3: I said, I feel you on that because I'm like,
28:44
Speaker 3: this is I don't. But I feel like what people
28:46
Speaker 3: are starting to do now we're taking those we're putting
28:48
Speaker 3: those elements into those stories. Like with me, when I write,
28:52
Speaker 3: even if I'm writing different genres, I put those elements
28:54
Speaker 3: in the stories because I'm I pull it from different
28:57
Speaker 3: experiences in life. You know, I'm gonna pull it from
29:00
Speaker 3: a situation where you know I've seen on TV or
29:03
Speaker 3: your family. I just kind of I pull things also
29:07
Speaker 3: from my life or things that I've seen and so
29:10
Speaker 3: putting that in. I feel like a lot of authors
29:12
Speaker 3: are now starting to putting that in, and that's really
29:16
Speaker 3: that's really what's making the books good and not just
29:18
Speaker 3: making it just unrelatable. Get us, yes, not making it
29:22
Speaker 3: relatable instead of unrelatable.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. And I as a reader, in seeing that we're
29:32
Speaker 2: I'm not saying we're just breaking into the genre, but
29:35
Speaker 2: we're starting to stake our plan. I appreciate that. I
29:40
Speaker 2: appreciate you taking little things and putting it in the
29:42
Speaker 2: book and giving me that. Okay, I'm cool. I'm a
29:46
Speaker 2: little bit here. I'm getting that. So I appreciate you
29:49
Speaker 2: doing stuff like that. So we did talk about these
29:54
Speaker 2: fun questions, and we are did the fun questions. But
29:59
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you that.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
30:02
Speaker 2: Lifetime just gave you a call. Okay, Lifetime said, we're
30:07
Speaker 2: about to do a biopic of you as an author,
30:10
Speaker 2: but we have to have someone to play your mother,
30:14
Speaker 2: your biggest supporter. Who would play your mother? And why
30:18
Speaker 2: did you choose that person?
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Speaker 3: I have already had this planned out, and I've told
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Speaker 3: her too. If she didn't want to play it herself,
30:25
Speaker 3: because she because my mama is kind of lading me.
30:27
Speaker 3: She's like, I just want to play myself. But if
30:29
Speaker 3: for some reason she did not want to play herself,
30:32
Speaker 3: Loretta divine, because like that is like the closest like
30:35
Speaker 3: when I see my mom, if I see her, if
30:38
Speaker 3: somebody plays her, it's got to be the Loretta divine
30:40
Speaker 3: gotta be like that is I look at her, that
30:42
Speaker 3: is what I see her. I see my mother, and
30:44
Speaker 3: that's how I see with my grandmother, I see Dela
30:47
Speaker 3: Reice like planning that out for years now.
30:52
Speaker 2: My grandma gets mad.
30:53
Speaker 3: She's like, why you because because she knew, because my
30:56
Speaker 3: grandmother's have seen Dela Reice back in the day. She's like,
30:58
Speaker 3: why you Galanry, she got a name like you. When
31:01
Speaker 3: I see you, you mind, like, y'all what like.
31:08
Speaker 2: You wall touch right?
31:14
Speaker 3: I used to watch that show so much, me and
31:16
Speaker 3: my sister, like we we still watch that now. We
31:20
Speaker 3: still watched that watch.
31:23
Speaker 2: Wasn't that like the Saturday Night m Saturday Night TV?
31:29
Speaker 2: It was? It was that show then it was no no, no, no, no, no,
31:34
Speaker 2: no no, the one with Sherman.
31:39
Speaker 3: Hen's Lee you talking about. Yeah, just watched Go to
31:45
Speaker 3: Girls Walking Texas Ranger and Heating the Night.
31:49
Speaker 2: And hey, hold up, hold up what you know about that?
31:52
Speaker 2: And Heat the Night? And they got a whole rocal
31:59
Speaker 2: channel for in the Heat of the Night. You met
32:02
Speaker 2: an old lady of me? Yes, they do. I'm telling you, hey,
32:12
Speaker 2: I had to but.
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Speaker 3: Me.
32:14
Speaker 2: Okay, y'all know I work at a library. Y'all know
32:17
Speaker 2: I go down the rabbit hole, right m So I
32:20
Speaker 2: was looking at in the heating night one night and
32:24
Speaker 2: I was wondering what happened to all these characters on
32:28
Speaker 2: the end the heat of night. Don't gonna do not
32:31
Speaker 2: go down that rabbit hole to find out about these characters. Yeah, huh,
32:40
Speaker 2: I was that too, Yeah, because my whole child it
32:47
Speaker 2: was Wow. It's like one of them had a's about
32:53
Speaker 2: three of them had drug addiction. I'm like, ain't y'all
32:57
Speaker 2: and the police, Yeah, do not go down that rabbit hole.
33:02
Speaker 2: It is don't uncharted territory. But I do remember them
33:08
Speaker 2: Sunday night, the Saturday nights and you had to go
33:11
Speaker 2: to bed by ten o'clock because of my granny house.
33:13
Speaker 2: You had to go to church the next morning. Yep,
33:16
Speaker 2: I understand that. But guess what Lifetime call again and
33:22
Speaker 2: they said, I do not want you to please yourself.
33:26
Speaker 2: We have to find somebody that is going to please you.
33:29
Speaker 2: Who would you want to play you?
33:32
Speaker 3: And why dang, that's a horrible one because I feel
33:36
Speaker 3: like I am like.
33:40
Speaker 2: I would say, and Mama played out, but you don't
33:43
Speaker 2: know who's going to please.
33:44
Speaker 3: You because it's like I just I feel like, can't
33:47
Speaker 3: nobody capture me like me? I would say, even though
33:51
Speaker 3: she's like way older than me. I would say Kim Coles,
33:54
Speaker 3: Like that's I would say, like the person that I
33:57
Speaker 3: relate to the most, like I feel like me and
33:59
Speaker 3: her like Loki, like I don't know if we related
34:01
Speaker 3: in real life or not because we got the same
34:03
Speaker 3: last name, but Kim Kim Coles, I feel like she
34:06
Speaker 3: would be like she I let her play me as
34:07
Speaker 3: I'm like getting older or like but like I've had
34:12
Speaker 3: like that would be the closest persons.
34:17
Speaker 2: Will be older. Do you have someone in mind for
34:19
Speaker 2: the younger you?
34:21
Speaker 5: Mm hmm okay, I don't know that's all right question
34:27
Speaker 5: because I'm like I would have to play like, oh man,
34:32
Speaker 5: hold on.
34:38
Speaker 2: Not the homes.
34:41
Speaker 3: Like I think I take my role as myself seriously,
34:45
Speaker 3: Like I will be like you cannot compare to me,
34:47
Speaker 3: like what's it? How Chaka Khan?
34:49
Speaker 4: I don't know.
34:51
Speaker 3: I got to.
34:54
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So we'll come back to that one that
34:57
Speaker 2: you guys know and friends, we have our Summer Reading
35:01
Speaker 2: Challenge like we've done every year, and you guys know
35:05
Speaker 2: that you're going to get your secret word for today
35:07
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna ask the author something about this
35:11
Speaker 2: secret word. So if you're ready, I am going to
35:15
Speaker 2: place your secret word on the screen and you already
35:20
Speaker 2: know what to do. Head over to Scie book Out
35:23
Speaker 2: and friend find the post that says summer reading and
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Speaker 2: enter that word. Okay, So today's word, well, this week's
35:31
Speaker 2: word is heat, because lord knows, if you're in Charleston,
35:37
Speaker 2: South Carolina, that the temperature to feel like temperature was
35:41
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventeen I was established yesterday or today.
35:47
Speaker 3: I believe yes, it was, yes, right above y'all in
35:52
Speaker 3: North Carolina, South Carolina. Different kind of heat.
35:56
Speaker 2: It like you can want, you can even breathe. When
35:59
Speaker 2: we went outside.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, not at all.
36:02
Speaker 2: The fluffy girl of me wanted to go to get
36:07
Speaker 2: some snacks.
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Speaker 1: Hm hmmm.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm driving with my ac ain't no way, ain't
36:15
Speaker 3: no way, like I said. And it's different like as
36:17
Speaker 3: soon as you're coming to North Carolina, it kind of chill,
36:19
Speaker 3: like it's still hot, but it chill out. Books cross
36:21
Speaker 3: state lines to South Carolina, probably like God, god o mind.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it is like you opened the door. So there
36:34
Speaker 2: word is heat. And for our question, what the word heat?
36:38
Speaker 2: What book have you currently read that brought the heat
36:44
Speaker 2: to you?
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
36:47
Speaker 3: That is a hard question. I mean I feel like
36:53
Speaker 3: personally it's my book because I feel like my book
36:56
Speaker 3: really brings the heat in a very non stereotypical way
37:01
Speaker 3: because some of the books I've been reading it have
37:02
Speaker 3: been kind of I'm like, I was expecting it to happen.
37:05
Speaker 3: I was expecting y'all to get together. But my way
37:07
Speaker 3: mine is because the way I'll be thinking. Definitely my
37:10
Speaker 3: definitely because I've read my books, of course, but not
37:14
Speaker 3: to brag on myself, but definitely Tennessee Jones, listen.
37:19
Speaker 2: If you don't toot your horn, who's going to tutor
37:23
Speaker 2: for you?
37:24
Speaker 3: All right?
37:25
Speaker 2: So before we leave out tonight, how about you give
37:28
Speaker 2: us a rundown on how we can follow you get
37:30
Speaker 2: your books, if you have any events coming up? How
37:33
Speaker 2: about you give us to run down and what's going on?
37:36
Speaker 3: Yes, to give you the rundown. I am on all
37:40
Speaker 3: social media platforms as far as like my personal way
37:43
Speaker 3: you can get tell me I'm on all social media
37:45
Speaker 3: platforms TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, my direct website to my book
37:50
Speaker 3: and where you'll be able to like see everything related
37:53
Speaker 3: just to my book is y'all shood your dot com.
37:56
Speaker 3: I'm also I am self published, so I am on Kendle,
38:00
Speaker 3: I'm limited, and I'm also Amazon.
38:04
Speaker 2: All right, well you know what. We thank you for
38:07
Speaker 2: being with us tonight at sci book gathers and friends
38:10
Speaker 2: chat y'all. This is going to be one of the
38:12
Speaker 2: one time review Okay, So y'all know how I am
38:16
Speaker 2: my review. Give me some chances, give me some time.
38:20
Speaker 2: Don't be rushing me in boxing me. I gave you
38:22
Speaker 2: the book last week. Can you review it now?
38:24
Speaker 5: No?
38:24
Speaker 2: No, no, it's a lineup okay, life and get it.
38:33
Speaker 2: Thank you for being no, I got you. See this
38:45
Speaker 2: is why we can't be on this show together, because
38:47
Speaker 2: see me and her be sitting up here giggling the
38:49
Speaker 2: whole night, and y'all be like, I'm the giggage one
38:52
Speaker 2: and have no problems. They having fun, And.
38:59
Speaker 3: I thank you.
39:03
Speaker 2: You want to join my cerviuce I got.
39:08
Speaker 3: You know.
39:11
Speaker 2: You know we don't have to call each other Wenday.
39:12
Speaker 2: We have to change number. We will talk about the
39:15
Speaker 2: circuits and the monkeys and the lions, and you got
39:21
Speaker 2: It's another Tuesday night. Thank you for being here. Thank
39:25
Speaker 2: you missus York for being here. You guys, remember there's
39:30
Speaker 2: no such thing as an old book because not every book.
39:34
Speaker 2: Not everybody has read every book. Good night everyone, bye,
39:39
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.