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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST HOSTED BY PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bake in. Welcome to the sc Book gall and Friend Chat.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews,
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  Speaker 1: author interviews and life. Come on in and join us.
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  Speaker 1: We're ready, are you? Hey? Everyone, this is your Girl
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  Speaker 1: sc Book Gut eight four three, and it is another
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. How was your week going? Woo girl? And
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  Speaker 1: I understand y'all, it's been a week and there's only Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm good. I'm good, and I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 1: guys are good. And so you know I'm here. What
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  Speaker 1: another book and another author? Oh, I know y'all heard that.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize. Were having a little technical difficulty, but we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it. Do what to do, sir? Gargoyers? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: females and gargles. That's where we are. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: your girl, I don't know nothing about that gargoles world,
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  Speaker 1: but she had me in that world because her copa.
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  Speaker 1: She said, you don't see the little gargles. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see the gargles. I thought the was just you know,
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  Speaker 1: she was sitting in a nice fancy chair. But they
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  Speaker 1: were gargoles. So we're gonna have to talk to them.
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  Speaker 1: As Barry Brown about this. Let me get a correct
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  Speaker 1: Verry T. Brown about this. Vera, come on up, girl,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: come on up, Come on up, come on up and
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  Speaker 1: see we gotta talk about this. How are you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing good. I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Because yes, me too, because we wanna talk about this stuff. Okay, okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: before we go any further, please tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about very teeth Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm from the South, uh, proud of proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: I I'm a Navy veteran. I'm a mom, I'm a wife,
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other sorts of hats that I
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  Speaker 1: have that you know, get in the change every second
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  Speaker 1: of the day. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a reader. First. I love to read.
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  Speaker 1: And just so happens one day, I, you know, out
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  Speaker 1: of the blue, I was like, Eh, let's let's I
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  Speaker 1: mean and I've I've always written short stories. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean when I say short stories, I mean like flash fiction,
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  Speaker 1: like a few hundred words. And I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, let's see we a flesh this, Let's see
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  Speaker 1: we can publish and we'll we'll take off something on
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  Speaker 1: my bucket list, So let's go there. And I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you said that you're a reader. How
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  Speaker 1: important is it for authors to be readers? Oh? I
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  Speaker 1: think it shows up in the writing. I mean even though,
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  Speaker 1: like I have no formal training and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to say that my book is good. Hopefully everyone thinks
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  Speaker 1: my book is good. I'm not going to just out there,
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  Speaker 1: come out there and claim it. But I'm not formally trained.
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  Speaker 1: I have never taken a creative writing class in my life.
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  Speaker 1: But you kind of pick up things as you read.
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  Speaker 1: I may not have a name for certain devices that
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  Speaker 1: I use in my writing, but I know how to
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  Speaker 1: use them.
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  Speaker 2: If that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It does make sense. And the reason why I ask
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  Speaker 1: that question because there's a lot of authors who are
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  Speaker 1: not readers, and I always want to ask, well, how
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  Speaker 1: do you keep up to date? What's going on? How
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  Speaker 1: do you keep up the date on the trends? So
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  Speaker 1: how do you keep like, how are how That's like
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  Speaker 1: a chef not eating and tasting in school. I will say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. My plan is not to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: trends with my writing. I'm just going to write what
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  Speaker 1: comes to my head, what I what I see behind
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  Speaker 1: my eyes when I close them, You guys get to
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  Speaker 1: see my little internal movies, but you get to see
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  Speaker 1: them on paper, in word from in word form.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully y'all like it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not writing the trends and I
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  Speaker 1: don't read trends either.
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  Speaker 2: I read what I want to read.
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  Speaker 1: And because there's some stuff out there that's really trend in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, eh, I'm not. Really, that's not my jam,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how you end up. But that's how people
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  Speaker 1: end up with DNFs. If you're if you're not, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what you like to read, that's how
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  Speaker 1: you end up with the nfs, by forcing yourself to
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  Speaker 1: read the things that you don't like to read.
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  Speaker 2: So that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I have them, and that's true. And I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you are true to yourself and you steady
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  Speaker 1: your lane. And then I love the fact that people
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  Speaker 1: who like to dip their fingers and stuff because you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that you would be good at this until
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  Speaker 1: you try it. Look, I just young lady. Her book
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  Speaker 1: is titled is Raven and it's about pirates. Who would
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  Speaker 1: have known that I would like a book about pirates
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  Speaker 1: and it is not my usual jam, but I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna give it a try. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things about where I work. I
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  Speaker 1: always have the opportunity to give it a chance. But
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  Speaker 1: there was just one drama of one genre I'm tired of,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sorry to you people who I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to read it. Uh oh, I can't
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  Speaker 1: hear you all the lovey Dove romance mm hmm, that's
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  Speaker 1: just oh my god. Love w romance is good too.
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  Speaker 1: I see my girls there in the comments. Well that
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  Speaker 1: the two that are there that have commented so far,
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  Speaker 1: they're not lovely w Romance. They're like somebody, somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Got to go.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually have seen and heard of their books,
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  Speaker 1: Katrina Williams and Off the Sea Winter. I have heard
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  Speaker 1: of their books. So thank you guys for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen your titles, and I think I think
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  Speaker 1: both y'all might have a book in my library system.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've done an interview with Katrina already. And
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  Speaker 1: and then see Winter, Oh my gosh, that that lady.
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  Speaker 2: He paying this fire, she's always dropping fire.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. You know, if you have never thought that I
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  Speaker 1: would like Christian fiction. See, she definitely put me on
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  Speaker 1: Christian fiction with godly connections. And then Katrina, when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you this woman is a writing bast, she is
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  Speaker 1: at writing beast. Like she'll say, hey, I got an
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  Speaker 1: idea for such and such and such, and then before
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  Speaker 1: I close the business, she's like, all right, it's my book.
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  Speaker 1: You ask me what I'm talking about, Miss minchin me.
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  Speaker 1: You need the chit chat because I have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people coming to me and asking for Christian fiction.
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  Speaker 1: I put up a post I want to say about
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  Speaker 1: a week ago and people were wanting Christian fiction. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that genre has been muted for a
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  Speaker 1: good minute. So me and You're gonna have to chit
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  Speaker 1: chat so I can get some of your books and
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  Speaker 1: put the feelings out there. So went to we going
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  Speaker 1: chit chat. Mm hmmm. So now we do have a
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  Speaker 1: love a girl in the group. Her name is Shannie Denise.
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  Speaker 1: She's currently on vacation, so I'm not sure she'll get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to tune in. But that's our love a girl.
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  Speaker 1: That's how a girl that does the lovey dove. But
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  Speaker 1: she does lovey dove in the Detroit way. So you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna get a little hood in there, in
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  Speaker 1: a little pros like, hey, me and you will talk
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  Speaker 1: to Mishane. We're gonna talk. That's my type of love
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  Speaker 1: him to kill him dead, That's what I'm talking. But
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  Speaker 1: then we can do some other things. Okay, she treat
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  Speaker 1: you're being in off. Okay, so African Americans and gargles. Mhmm.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't been in that world for a while, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that is what me. You want to go to that world?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. I'm gonna give all credit to Melody Lynch.
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  Speaker 1: She put out a challenge. She put out a challenge
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  Speaker 1: to the authors that are in her group. And we
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  Speaker 1: got some banging paranormal authors in that group there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's Tessa, there's Melody Lynch, Marcilla Black, Steve. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm missing people. Oh gosh, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: think of her author name. I know her her handle
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok, but I can't think of her author name.
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  Speaker 1: Her last name is Bass. I can't think of her
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  Speaker 1: author name at the moment. But these ladies, So Melody
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  Speaker 1: Lynch put out a put out a challenge. She was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's do some monster series. Like everyone like, get your
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  Speaker 1: get your juices flowing. We're gonna do some monster challenges.
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  Speaker 1: And I haven't done the rest of the Molesey challenges,
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  Speaker 1: but with that one, I was like, Gargoyles, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I was already playing in the mafia type. It was
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  Speaker 1: put the gargoyles in there. Yo. I love the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you have that creative circle. That is beautiful. How
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  Speaker 1: has that been such a blessing to you in your writing?
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  Speaker 1: Have that creative circle?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: So we got the ladies. Uh see Winter Katrina Williams. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and I see Angel in the comments, Angel the author.
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  Speaker 1: I have people to bounce ideas off of. I have
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  Speaker 1: people to be like, hey, am I Trevor. I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: hey girl, I'm struggling. I need somebody to body double
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  Speaker 1: with me. Hey, you want to go live for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and we're just gonna We're just gonna write.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got Melody Lynch, Testa Stone, El Madaris.
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  Speaker 1: They're always dropping author gems in their groups. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Melody Lynch, she likes to focus on like Amazon marketing,
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  Speaker 1: and then Tessa she's always given writing advice. El she is,
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  Speaker 1: she is, she's she gets like emotional like I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say emotional support, but she's there to like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cheer people on. Let me think, uh so that's one circle.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got my girls at there the other circle.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got an angel the author and her
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  Speaker 1: people there my other circle. I got lots of circle,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got I'm My first My og circle
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  Speaker 1: was Catera Rune and Ari B.
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  Speaker 2: Cox.
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  Speaker 1: They have not published yet, but it's coming this year
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so I'm so excited for their their books that.
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  Speaker 2: Are coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Those that was my ogi, my first circle. I just
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  Speaker 1: happened to message and be like, hey, I saw you
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  Speaker 1: said you were trying to write a book. You want
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  Speaker 1: to you want to be uh, I want to be
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  Speaker 1: writing Buddies Penn Sisters. And they said, that is mad crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I love every single part of it, and as a reader,
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  Speaker 1: I am here for every single part of it. Yes,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: just to have that backing. And sometimes I tell independent authors,
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  Speaker 1: she's come to me and it's like, look, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the backen of anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Said.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to create your circle. Yep, don't make
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  Speaker 1: your circle. Don't be afraid. Oh and then these ladies
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  Speaker 1: they put me on to. Uh, you have some you
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  Speaker 1: have specs and book creps, specs and book wrecks. Those ladies,
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  Speaker 1: Uh not from books and blands. Uh. They put me
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  Speaker 1: on to so many people. And oh and then Paige
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  Speaker 1: and Monete. She also does my covers as well as
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  Speaker 1: as well as pinteresty money. Yeah, you just have to
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  Speaker 1: put yourself out. Don't be scared. I mean, because what's
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  Speaker 1: the worst is gonna happen? They say no, what's the
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  Speaker 1: worst that can happen? They say no, Okay, next, but
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  Speaker 1: that heaven, that circle, I see that. That is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And then when your circle shoes up for you. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: all you ladies. I would love to interview all you ladies.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't do it live, we can do it
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  Speaker 1: pre recording. I love the energy that you guys have.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's go to these god calls. Is it shinty shiny.
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  Speaker 2: Shanty?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Why she gotta be so mean, man, She's not
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  Speaker 1: mean me. So I was speaking to some other ladies.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, shot them, you lose them. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: she can't. She gotta she gotta wear a crowd. She
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  Speaker 1: can't loose it up. But that that also puts us
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  Speaker 1: in and said, was it that strong, strong black woman
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  Speaker 1: troupe or the superwoman truck or the superwoman stereotype. But
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  Speaker 1: but she out here running, She's run in a whole territory,
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  Speaker 1: so you know she she can't let them see a fold.
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  Speaker 1: You know you got me not bad trees, because you
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  Speaker 1: are correct. Why can an African American and she is
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  Speaker 1: African American? Please send me a character is African American?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I have any any any
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  Speaker 1: characters in the book that aren't. Okay, I should have
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  Speaker 1: not done that. I should have should have thought about it,
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  Speaker 1: because you know how they how they would say an
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  Speaker 1: African American woman cannot be she can't be gentle, but
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  Speaker 1: she always has to be strong. And the fact that
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  Speaker 1: I threw off on him, but she she's strong, but
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  Speaker 1: she is very like I am woman. Hear me roar
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: is the vibe that I was getting from her? Am
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  Speaker 1: I correct? Yes? Okay, okay, So m I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you this question because that how to and this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be like that's the silliest question in America.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hear a lot of shanty c H E
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  Speaker 1: E T I I do look into the little things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Was there a reason why you spelled her
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  Speaker 1: name like that, or was there a reason why you
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  Speaker 1: gave her that name or that's just a nan that
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  Speaker 1: came up to you. So her full name is Chantale,
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  Speaker 1: and so I was like, yeah, she's Chantale when she
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  Speaker 1: got the crown on, But what did her sister's call her?
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  Speaker 1: And so that's how I came up with Shanty, and
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  Speaker 1: Chantelle just came to me because I was like, that sounds
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  Speaker 1: like this sounds regal to me, Chantale, this sounds regal.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds you know, what's the word I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 1: I leave it at regal. It sounds regal. So I
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  Speaker 1: was like, let's go with Chantale. And then her sisters
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  Speaker 1: need to have a nickname for her. So actually all
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  Speaker 1: of them have nicknames, because there's like a moment in
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  Speaker 1: a book where Shanti calls Trenise Nissi, and then Lorraine
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really have a nickname amongst the sisters, but her
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: love interest calls her Laurie. So how how important sisterhood
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  Speaker 1: in this book?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Is everything?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm an only child, so this is what I imagine
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  Speaker 1: sisterhood is.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This this is all about their bond and how they
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  Speaker 1: work together. Okay, So in your synopsis, you didn't say
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  Speaker 1: anything about the brothers. No, I did not.
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  Speaker 2: I did not.
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  Speaker 1: Why they were there along the way. So what is
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  Speaker 1: the mentum? Oh my god, Sorry, I have to catch
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  Speaker 1: myself for a second. But you know what. The character,
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  Speaker 1: the male character that I gravitated towards most was Eli,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually had I had a chapter of history
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  Speaker 1: written before I even started boss, so I had I
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  Speaker 1: put him in here. But everyone's been gravitating towards Kayelle.
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  Speaker 1: So if now I'm gonna lead that question, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: an accident. If you had to choose one of them,
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  Speaker 1: mm hmmm, who would you choose and why? Mm? To
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'd have to go with Kyl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean Eli, Like look, okay, if you saw the character
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  Speaker 1: Eli type, however comma personality and how it carries himself,
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  Speaker 1: I will go with I would go with well okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I know earlier we talked about from Good Tarra.
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  Speaker 2: Without the d.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow. So I need you to think of your
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  Speaker 1: three favorite female characters.
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  Speaker 2: In the book.
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  Speaker 1: Just three? Oh, I mean I got up here all right,
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  Speaker 1: the three characters you see on the cover. I know,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna add other people, but yes, time called.
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  Speaker 1: They say, okay, you know what we like. We love
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  Speaker 1: this book. Okay, and we need a girl group to
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  Speaker 1: represent the sisters in this book. And know, by the way,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: these are your fun questions. I told you they were coming.
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  Speaker 1: What female group would recognen would represent these sisters? And
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  Speaker 1: why did you choose that group?
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  Speaker 2: Hm hmmm mm hmmmmm. Oh, I'm gonna have to go with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I would go TLC okay, why
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  Speaker 1: L so I could I could definitely see tis as Ashanti.
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  Speaker 1: I see, I see Trainese is left eye. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that last one now that's see
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  Speaker 1: I don't know he is. All right, let me let
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  Speaker 1: me go back to the drawing board. So maybe not
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to LC. Because I was thinking I was leaving. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: was like, what about total? No, not total? What about escape?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I guess we could go escape. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: it was okay Tiny? Oh my gosh, uh where am
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  Speaker 1: I Candy? And what was the one that left?
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  Speaker 2: Was that Tasha?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was Tasha?
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  Speaker 2: Tasha?
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, that was Tasha. Well Winter says, Destiny's Child. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I can see that too. I can
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  Speaker 1: see that too. All right, So we got ok so,
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  Speaker 1: which one you want to go with? Destiny Child or
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  Speaker 1: let's go Asney Child? All right, Desney Child's at the table,
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  Speaker 1: and they say, you know what we're gonna do this.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody else said that's w V.
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  Speaker 2: I considered that's WV, and I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They were a little too put together.
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  Speaker 2: I know they were.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, they were everybody oh cut clothes a right,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was him. Now you're about to make
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: me go back and lit's to all the girl groups tonight.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So child, Desney Child's at the table. Oh my god,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: we would love to do this movie of your book.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: All right, So who's going to play with character? Because
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: they need to know who they're reading for. Oh we
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: gotta be mm hmmm. Of course she's gonna be shanty.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm hmm. All right. We got Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: would she be so much? Right? You know, I'm gonna
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: switch that up now, Kelly would be Kelly would be shanty.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I could see Kelly is shot and then uh, Michelle
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: would be Lorraine and Beyonce would be all right, they're cool.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: They said, all right, this, but we want to use
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: one of our songs as the title track for the movie,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: which one of their songs would represent your book's gonna
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: be easy. So when you think boss blood of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Stone sovereigns, what song comes see Mine Bye survivor, Oh
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give up, I'm back stick. That's that's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: what comes to my because they don't really have any
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: like you know, like.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they don't have any like hard songs.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking they don't mm hmm child y'all sad?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's just about breaking uphing. That is the most aggressive
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: song that they got. That is so true. Oh y'all
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: some sad woman. Oh they didn't have independent.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That. I was like, no, that's too cheesy.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That was too bubble gummy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: That was commercial song.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they really were a pop group. They really
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: wasn't R and B soul. I'm just realizing that, you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: know what, how they dealt with the men. Can you
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: keep up? Baby boy? I met my brother, you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I thought that was the most corneous That makes sense
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Dancing video, Yeah, video, Okay, so we got Dusty challenge
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: there and we got what songs were.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Saying, survivor and not lose my breath, Savanah, lose my breath.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Now they said, you know what, we love it, we
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: love it. We got yall three, we have the song.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: But you know what, we want somebody else to cool
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: author with you. Who would you give that honor the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: cole author with you? But it has to be the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: person that you admire the most, and when your book
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: comes out, they are the first person you're like, look
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it's out. They are the biggest person on your cheerleading squad.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And if you cannot choose one person, I will give
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you five. Who would it be? Oh gosh, but I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: got I got a huge circle. Oh well then it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: run all down. Oh gosh. Okay, well let's stop that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Let's change your question. Okay, all right, all right, it
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: is premiere night. M h you want all of your
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a one, all of your support staff, everybody who has
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: had your back there? Okay, who all would come? And
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: what color are they required to wear? Hm? Hmmm, well hmmm,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: oh so everybody gets their own color or everybody wearing
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a sad color. You know what that would be unique,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But which one would you like to do? The color
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: would represent you if you choose one color, or the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: color would represent them in their personalities. This is the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: first time I ever done this question, ye'all. This question
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: is like off the top of my head. Okay, okay,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: so h one that represented me, because that's gonna be
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: hard enough colors in my in my vocabulary. All right,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you have your red coffee, Go ahead and call everybody up.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: They can get you take it. So we're gonna be
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a purple. That's my favorite color. We'll go with purple.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: So I can only choose five or you said you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: could choose your circle. So, in other words, who would
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you like to say thank you to room? Alright? Bey Cox,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: see Winter, Katrina Williams, A, Denise Paige and Monnette Uh
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Starlight if you have not read a Starlight book? Yes,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: she is hilarious, y'all would cut up.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I already know it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Let me see whoever is. I'm gonna just catch the replace.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, and we got uh who else?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Who else? Who else? Who else? Who else? Angel the author?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Duh?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: No brainer?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Uh? You know. And then there are people that hold
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: like in the stratosphere, like Tesla Stone.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Melody Lynn j El Madaris A A.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Lewis. Uh uh, you got the space and book great
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: scales you got, you got mad from books and blends
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and you know all of them, all of all of them,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: all the people's If you could say anything to your readers,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: your new readers, the readers who you're gonna team after
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the show, if you can say anything to them, what
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: would you say? This is just the beginning. She's just
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: whole mic drop. Five words. Yes, I did count the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: words you got.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: This is just the beginning.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Five words. She did a whole mic drop. Caught me
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: off guard because most people go she said, this is
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: just the beginning, like YO, know me, get to know me,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: been know me, follow me.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: You're a go girl.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You go hold on? Okay, Lifetime came back. Oh I
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: gotta aswer that question. Okay, Lifetime said they love your book.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: The movie went well, all y'all pictures look good at
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the red carpet. But now they want to do a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: book a movie about you. Oh you being an author? Okay,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: who would you give the honor of playing you in
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: your biopic? And why? That's a good question. Can you'll
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: help me out? I don't know jesus, Dana Owens. Dana Owens,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: who's Nana Owens queen? Okay, because that's something like boy
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: need something though, Okay, I was just looking at the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Equalizer of the day. Do y'all know they got a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: whole roogle channel on the equalizer? It's crazy. I was
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: watching it. So why the queen herself?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I've always loved Latifa.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Anytime I saw her, I saw, okay, already shut up,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: it's her part. Be quiet. So and then I actually so,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: like I said, I was, I was. I was a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Navy veteran, and I am a Navy veteran. My first ship,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: towards the end of my tour, I had a uh
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: An l d O. I forgot what position he was,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: but he was one of the few black officers that
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: we had, especially in the in the technology feel And
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: one day we were on watch and he was like,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: come in, Dana Owens, and I just busted out laughing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: But if not Dana Owens, if not Queen Latifa, then
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: lady and rage. Oh stuff from what she is right
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: now she did. She just did a biopic for Miss
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Cleo calling me now something, I'm sorry, I'm sorry you
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: telling me. You're telling me there's a biopic for Miss Cleo.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: There is, there is now, I don't know if it's
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: been released. I remember seeing the airline that it was
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: getting done and she was playing Miss Cleo, and I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm watching it several times for holloween just
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: called me. Now the one the psyching that used to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: be on at night They literally did a bio pic.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Who had money to spend? I would you not watch it? Watch?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Because I just want to know why one of those
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: it's one of those movies like you see the train,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you see the train on the track, you know it's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: gonna hit, but you just can't stop. It just seems
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: like it's gonna be one of the a bio pic
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: from somebody said, bear with the accent. That's the only
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: thing I can do with an Island accent. Is about it?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Somebody said they seemed that much clear. Oh my goodness.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna be up here trying to find it tonight. Okay,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: anybody audience, y'all know where it is? Like? Is it
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on Lifetime? Oh? She said it was a trip. I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: think is it on Lifetime? Well, I don't have BT
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: plus Well I don't think nobody has it now. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: think it's all paramount. Now, Okay, I'm back to community tief.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I have to admit there's not been a movie of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: hers that I have not enjoyed. I have enjoyed almost
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: every single movie she's done. I wish they would do
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: a Girl's Trip too, but I don't know which angle
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: they would come from, because I think they kind of
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: still every I even like Taxi was it was it?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I think it was just Taxi. It's Taxi that was hilarious.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: But he kept on saying that this is the Tasty
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and he was that was hilarious. I love that movie.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Before we leave tonight, we need the rundown because we
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: want to be there for all your might drop moments.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: So can you tell us your social media contact any events?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Because I do have some upcoming authors and events that
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you will be at. I will put that at the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: bottom screen. Okay, And I'm gonna say, I'm so mad
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: at you because you got tickets to the Black Romance
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Book Festival. I do. I'm not a fan of romance,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: but that many authors in one area. Excuse me. I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: know somebody writes Rodica and I was gonna go to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: their table. But you, oh, look and so in my circle.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I am. So when I saw that, I said, oh,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I should just find her ticket to the ticket. But
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: give us the rundown. Give us a social media where
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: we can get your books. What you're going to be
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: up to, Just give us the rundown. We'll see, let's see.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So sorry, So my social media handles aret will be
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: in all of my books, so majority of them are
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: very Verity Brown. So Facebook is Verity Brown, rights, Instagram,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Verity Brown, TikTok vera dot t dot brown, and fanbase.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Is vera dot t dot brown. Yeah, all right, variations.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Tell us where we can purchase your books, where everything
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: can be at you. So you can purchase my books
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: from my website www dot Verity brown dot net. I'm
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: also available on Ku. But if you really want to support,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: go to their Verity Brown dot net. You know, authors readers,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that's true. If you really want to support an author,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of times bind the books from their website
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and then go follow them on Kindle. I know we
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: want to leave reviews, but we still have good Reads.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: We still have other platforms where we read them in
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and if you're a Kindle unlimited person. You know, go
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: ahead and drop your reviews. But I am trying this
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: year to go to the author's website, if they have authors,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: if they have websites, so Amazon don't get all the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: money that I'm hearing and that they're doing Amazon, but
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: follow these authors so you know. I have fun with
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you tonight, right, I really do. Thank you for joining me.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: And when your next book drops, come back, if not,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to send me a message so I can share out
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: to everybody. Missus Mike dropped herself has dropped another book,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: and we will be to support you. Girly. Thank you
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for being with us. And if anyone is out in
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the streets there needs these book events, I'm gonna be
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: at BRBF, I'm gonna be at Smart Lovers in Orlando,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty seven, I'm gonna be at
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the Haunted Mansion, Fantasy Ball and Savannah and Books in
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the Boot and Shreveport, Louisiana. So y'all know, we have
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: so many authors events, so many book conventions like I've
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: never seen that many before in my life as long
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: as I known, I've never known to have so many
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: conventions of book And then on top of that, let's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: put the icing on the key African American books. And
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: they say we don't read Yeah, we do, we just
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: don't read that Jens Patterson and stuff like that. Oh,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't I can't do that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, just.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Can't do But y'all make sure y'all go out and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: y'all support these authors. Thank you for being with me tonight.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for having me.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I had so much more.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you. So you guys, look, it's another Tuesday night
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: in the books. But you know I cannot leave without
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: telling you guys all the promotions that we have. But authors, Okay,
• 40:19
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• 40:23
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• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Okay. Fifty dollars will have your book on the billboard.
• 40:33
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• 40:48
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• 40:54
  Speaker 1: think our openings now are in the middle of May. Yes,
• 41:01
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• 41:04
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• 41:06
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• 41:09
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• 41:15
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• 41:20
  Speaker 1: five territories, and we are already getting states taken. Like
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: think about it. Michigan is gone, Michigan poof gone. Okay,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: So if you want to represent Detroit, sorry, can't do
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that one. Somebody is already grab that. And I got
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: two other states that was talking to me today. One
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: in South Carolina and another one is Jojia.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: So this promotion right here, you will get a one
• 41:51
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• 41:55
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• 42:00
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• 42:04
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• 42:12
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• 42:15
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• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I do the book review section. I shout out books.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I will look at a genre and pick a topic
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: that I would like to talk about. I'll talk about
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the topic and give you book recommendations. Then on top
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: of those book recommendations, I have a review section where
• 42:34
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• 42:38
  Speaker 1: And then there's an author interview. There's a certain author
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: who's going to be interviewed or she doesn't quite know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: but I think I should just say you might know
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: who that author is. Okay, you guys going to be
• 43:02
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• 43:11
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• 43:15
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• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I am actually booked up for the month of May.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I will open up in May fifteen for June, July,
• 43:29
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• 43:32
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• 43:38
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• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a pre recorded interview, okay, and with that pre recorded
• 43:45
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• 43:50
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• 43:53
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• 44:08
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• 44:13
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• 44:23
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• 44:25
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