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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #170_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  I like that. That was nice, y'all. Hey, you guys,
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  is another Saturday Night and it is your girl sc book galt A four three
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  Patrece Grimble and we are here with another book. You guys, this is
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  crazy because I had just saw this author's book on TikTok and I screenshot it
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  right because I know I'm gonna read it. And then I put out a
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  post saying hey, I got an open date, and she chimed in.
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  You guys should see my mouth drop. When I knew the book, I
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  was like, yo, I just screenshot this book because I wanted to read
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  it because the TikToker was going mad crazy and I'm like, look, I
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  gotta add this to my list. It is so privileged tonight to have the
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  author of a second Chance Christmas off the Queen Tea. Come on up,
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  girly, Hi, thank you for hi. No, thank you. It
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  was crazy. When you hit me and I got the email with your book
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  cover, I was like, yo, I just screenshot this book. Look
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  book and my son is looking at me like, oh, here she go.
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  So thank you for coming on to night. How are you? I'm
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  doing well. How are you today? I'm good, good, good,
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  got off the jump and now I'm here tonight and getting ready to talk to
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  you. So tell us a little bit about yourself. Oh wow, my
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  name is Tatiana. I go by the pen name Queen Tea. I have
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  been published since twenty eighteen. I just graduated from college with my undergrad and
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  I said to myself, I want to at least drop one book just to
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  you know, get my foot in the water, see if I like it.
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  And from there I've been, you know, writing. I did have
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  like a little break last year. I dropped maybe one book, a Christmas
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  book, which you know I love dropping Christmas book. I had my twins
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  in January, which was the reason why I didn't write last year. And
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  after graduating with my master's last year, I decided, let's try to get
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  back into the swing of things, and so I separated from my former publisher
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  and I had this Christmas book that I was writing in between, and I
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  was like, you know what, let me try to see if I can
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  do it independent and see if it's going to be well received if it's not,
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  just so I can get an idea off. You know, writing is
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  really what I want to do on the side because I'm a special education teacher
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  by day and I'll never give that up. So I knew for sure that
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  let me see what happens, because everybody loves Christmas. But when I was
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  writing this book, I decided to write a little bit different, and I'm
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  happy I actually got it out. So that's a little bit about me.
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  Now. That's one of the things that the TikToker said. I cannot remember
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  her name because she said the book was different. She said, Christmas,
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  I think different. I was like, everybody's going to fall in love and
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  blah blah, somebody gonna get stabled something in this book. So that's what
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  it had me thinking, and that's where I screenshot it. Well. First
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  of all, from the sister of someone who has or had special needs,
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  I would like to say thank you because I know it's not easy and we
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  as the family really do appreciate it that you take that extra step to give
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  love to those with special needs. So thank you. Now my pleasure to
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  the twins. God bless you and happy early birthday. Do you have twin
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  girls, a twin boy. No, I have a boy and a girl.
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  Oh you got the best of both world, girl, I do.
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  So let's get into this Second Chance Christmas. Okay, you said it's difference.
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  Can you tell us a little bit about Oh, he's about the difference.
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  Okay. So it's still a happily ever after. So there is a
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  happily ever after with the ending. However, it's different because like all my
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  other Christmas books, there's always some hint of like chaos, but then it
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  also railed together towards the end. So I say it's different because it's titled
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  The Second Chance Christmas because it shows a second chance at love. So the
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  two main characters were married, been going through a nasty divorce, and the
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  husband realizes after having so many issues two Christmases in a row. That's why
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  it's called second chance. He decides when Christmas that he wants to win his
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  family back, and so you go through the whole thing of them trying to
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  figure out if they can make it, you know, back to each other,
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  or if it was really just leave it how it is. Let's co
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  parent, We don't need to be in a relationship together, but the main
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  character. His name is Solomon and his ex wife is Sage. Solomon goes
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  through a lot. He puts stage through a whole lot. He not only
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  cheats two Christmases in a row, but he starts realizing as he gets older,
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  everything he did he regrets. And so I'll just call this a little
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  bit about the beginning. He gets into an altercation with his brother in law,
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  which is the opening scene. It's chaotic, it's everything that you wouldn't
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  think in a Christmas book. But at the same time, you get an
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  understanding as to why Sage decided she didn't want to deal with this anymore.
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  So a lot of people have been saying it's kind of toxic in a way.
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  I don't see it like that because I wrote it, but it does
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  show the realization of I thought the grass was greener on the other side,
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  but now I'm regretting it. I'm trying to win back. Oh yo,
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  this grass is greener. I think that's gonna be twenty twenty four. I
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  think so truly, because everybody is is telling people, look, you know,
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  it's green. It might be spray painted. So this this grass is
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  green. I think that might be the subject line of a lot of people
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  in twenty twenty four, but hey, to each his own, to each
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  his own. So is there a certain reason for your characters' names or it's
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  just something that you came up with. Well, I always loved the name
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  stage, so I knew that I wanted to have a character with that.
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  But when I was trying to do like my Christmas like every time I get
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  ready for Christmas and start writing the Earth, and I felt like, I've
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  used so many Christmas character names and everybody ever uses the same one, Nicholas
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  and and Ebony and Ebanie, the usual. So I'm like, you know
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  what, I want a name that's close to like the Christmas element, but
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  not really because you know, Solomon has been used a number of times in
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  the urban fiction world, however I haven't seen one for Christmas. So I
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  wanted like MATCHI names. I know it sounds really corny, but I'm like,
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  Okay, her name is said, so I need to find something with
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  a s as a ring to it. But at the same time, when
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  I chose Solomon's name, it just sounded so good together with her name.
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  And also, Solomon is a rapper, and so he does have a rap
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  name. And when I broke down his name to get his rap name,
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  it all just fits together. Oh but it's not. I don't think it's
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  corny. I like that. Say you just Solomon. It just sounds right
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  together. Yeah, it just like she saw sage Solomon. You know what
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  I'm saying exactly, That's exactly what it was supposed to be. It just
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  gives it that strength behind the name. So is there anything that you would
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  hope your readers would take away from your book. I would hope that they
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  take away from these particular characters that you see the dynamic of how when you
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  love someone, you love them with everything in you and you try to see
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  the good even though there's the bad right in your face. I would want
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  for them to take away that Solomon realized his wrongs. It may not have
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  been when everybody would want it, but he realized it along the way of
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  what he did wrong and what contributed to the ending of his relationship. But
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  at the same time stage even though she has her own secrets that will eventually
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  come out in the book, she also was strong enough to realize that she
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  deserved more, and so I feel like every bit of her character was to
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  showcase that I love you, but then I also know that I have to
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  love myself and my kids more, and I don't deserve what you're giving,
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  no matter how long we've been together. So I want people to take away
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  from Solomon realizing his wrongs, but Sage also being strong enough to realize that
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  if we don't end up together, I'll be just fine. Ooh, okay,
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  So we're gonna take a commercial break because you just put godly did not
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  you make me really want to get this book? Like, but we're going
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  to take commercial break and we're gonna come back now. The second half of
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  the show is normally when the fun fun happens. So you guys, we're
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  gonna take commercial. Come on back afterwards. Okay, turn off the lights.
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  A candle, tonight, a man, a merchant. Let's take a
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  shower shower together. I was abandoned. You was my da and some mot
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  wealthy and save Jayce. Turn off the come girl. I want to care
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  of you with special treat You're so sweet. Turn Oh sorry, y'all,
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  I was all into y'all know that's my song, welcome back. We're on
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  the second half, So Queen Tea, I don't know if you've ever seen
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  my show before. But the second half is when we have some fun.
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  I do send my authors out questions, you guys, we don't always go
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  through all the questions. I like to let the conversation flow, okay,
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  But the second half we try to have a little bit of fun. So
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  if you can place any male character in your book, well, let's just
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  go with your main character. If you could put him in any TV show,
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  what would it be and how would he put into that ship? Hmmm,
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  that's a good one. So let me tell you what I'm thinking.
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  I am thinking living single, and I'm seeing Kyle. I love living single.
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  I could I could definitely see that. I have, I could see
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  that. I can. You know, I'm from New York, from Queens,
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  so I can see him doing like being in a living stale on nineties
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  kind of I honestly I would place him if I could, I would probably
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  pay him either in the Fresh Prince of bel Air, okay, or I
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  can definitely definitely see him. And there's a show I used to love called
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  The Game with Tamauri. I could definitely see him in that more of like
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  a comedic kind of serious drama kind of thing like I could see him in
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  need of those two. Okay, so if we picked one of the main
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  characters of the games, because I loved it too. I really got into
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  it once, you know, him and Melanie was going through everything. M
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  h. And they brought Brandy on. I was kind of like, Okay,
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  they lost me. Yeah that was here. Then Tasha got pregnant.
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  It was like, Okay, y'all could have been way better than us.
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  But who would he be on the game? Hmmm? I could see him
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  being either Moleik because even though like like I hated when Brandy came on,
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  I'm not gonna lie. I really just stopped watching because it just wasn't too
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  much for me. But when they did the reboot, which they canceled and
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  I'm kind of mad about that, the growth from Eleak from the first series
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  to the reboot, I could definitely see being Solomon. Okay, I think
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  I might have to go catch well. I got some work to do,
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  so I think that might have to because I didn't want to look at the
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  reboot because that was what is this Brandy yet? Yeah, once you get
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  out of that headspace like Brandy when she came when they took it to bet
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  and they lost all the main characters, and then they try to make Lauren
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  London and and Jay Elliott or something like that. They try to make them
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  the main character. The storyline wasn't as good, but when Paramount repicked it
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  up and they did a reboot, it wasn't the same. It was still
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  some characters, but it was new characters. It was really good because now
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  you got a backstory on why Maleak was the way he was from the first
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  show, and it was really what wouldn't That's why it's mad they canceled it,
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  but it definitely gave you more of an eye opener. And also Tasha's
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  character grew too, So I really did like the reboot. Okay, you
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  gave me on my I got something on my on my watch list. So
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  now your female character, Sage, if she can be any old school female
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  R and B artist, who would she be? Oh God, I from
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  a little bit that I read, I was getting and I think I might
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  be wrong on this one. I was getting like I need a Baker like
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  I want to be. Was that good? I would definitely say Anita Baker
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  or Tammy Torell. Definitely girl, I'm I'm in the wrong era I'm a
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  motown girl. Listen, I just literally play your precious love over and over
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  to the point I was like, I don't understand how you know any of
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  these songs, but I would take her as Tammy Torell because if you listen
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  to not only the songs that she have with Marvin Gaye, her song catalog
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  itself beautiful. I would say tim Torell, she is her whole like a
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  love song exactly. It's it's a whole exactly. You hear the pain in
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  her voice and you definitely can hear there's a song that I can't remember who
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  redid it, but she has the original, Oh Phoebe Wonder, she has
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  the original one versus Stevie Wonder's version. Hers is more like you can literally
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  hear her her pain in the whole song. What is it called? All
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  I do? All I do is she has one and I play it all
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  the time. Yeah, she has the original version. I didn't know that
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  she has the original version, and it's really slowed down and you can hear
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  literally every no, it sounds as if she's crying on the song. It's
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  beautiful and that's I did get a lot of emotion from her in the book.
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  I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but I did pull
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  parts of it. But I was reading, I get a lot of emotion
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  from her character h very very when I was writing her, like I literally
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  do. That was like, now I have a new favorite character. So
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  and that leads into this question. When you're writing these emotional scenes, is
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  it training? Like how do you how do you set the mood to write
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  this? Okay, this is gonna be hard, she's about to go through
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  it. How do you how do you set that mood to write that way?
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  I'm not gonna even lie. It's kind of hard now, Like I'm
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  in a happy space like in my life, so really getting down to it,
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  I have to be in my element. And that's like I'm a night
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  writer, so I write late at night when my kids are you know,
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  sleeping, or they're getting up for like the night feeding. That's when I'm
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  writing. I'm writing like two three in the morning, and so my mind
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  works a little bit better around that time because I'm like sleep the prime,
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  So I can think a little bit clearer, and I can think of how
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  I want to execute the emotion. So for her, I have to be
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  in that space of like either being sleep deprived really heavily, like like liquid
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  courage, like just drinking some wine and like really sitting with it, no
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  serious like drinking it and sitting with it because like for me, like when
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  I'm at a silence, like when it's just dead at night, no no
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  music, no crying, nothing, my mind works a little bit better.
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  And so I could tap in a little bit to those emotions, and a
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  lot of them is like emotions from past relationships and just pass her and I
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  literally have to hone in on it for me to write it. So I'll
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  sit and I'm like, okay, this is how she's feeling. How can
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  I really get that emotion out? And once I literally sit with it,
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  I take a couple SIPs of my wine, the emotion starts flowing and I
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  literally will sit and I will write so much, and then I have to
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  revise it because I'm like, okay, that's a little too much. Like
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  even one of the thing that she did and she was really just letting him
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  have it. It was more intense. But I'm like, okay, this
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  is novella. I can't really put all of this out. Let me try
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  to scale it back a little bit where you can still get the point but
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  not overdoing it. Okay, Okay, So you tell them about wine.
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  Do you have a wind up choice? Or if I'm feeling like, okay,
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  I need to get this out. I have a due date, I'm
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  drinking either reasling or prosecco, those are my two. If if I'm just
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  you know, I have no cares in the world and I just want to
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  unwind, I'm drinking like moscato, and those are the three. I only
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  like whites. I'll drink red every once in a while, but the whites
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  are the ones that really taps into all the emotions for me. Are they
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  say so? They say that that white stuff. Uh? I don't know
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  people how that happens. So if you can invite one person at dinner,
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  what are your characters? Who would it be and what would you say to
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  them? If I can invite one character, it would definitely be Sage,
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  definitely be said. What would you say to her? I probably would thank
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  her because I feel like her story is a story that so many women can
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  resonate with. I feel like she showed strength in times when she really didn't
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  feel she had it inside of her, And I would thank her because writing
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  her really was like very therapeutic for me because it really got a lot of
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  past trauma passed emotions that I had bottled up. It finally came to the
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  surface and I was able to really get her emotion out. And also,
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  like I was watching Love and Hip Hop and this was around the time when
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  Erica was going through her whole back and forth with Safari, and it really
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  opened my eyes because I like, I like reality TV. I hate to
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  say it, it's my way of unwhining after a hard work of her day
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  of work. And so to see her relationship from the beginning that when you
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  know, Love and Hip Hop showed it when she was on another show and
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  he really just taste her and wore her down and she didn't want nothing to
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  do with him, and then for him to do what he did to her,
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  it really just did something for me, and I like felt Sage's character
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  even more just thinking of her situation of how she had to deal with all
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  that stuff, and so it mirrored for me Sage one hundred percent, because
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  it's like you give your all and at the end, it's never exactly what
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  you gave out, and then you question whether it's you, whether you know
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  what's the reason why all this is happening to me. I'm a good person,
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  so I definitely would invite her and thank her because I feel her story
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  really tapped into a lot of emotions that I did not want to get out,
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  but I was happy to get out. And once the book was done
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  and sent to the editor and the test readers you know, were telling me
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  parts they liked, then I'm like, Okay, I could pat myself on
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  the back because I got out what I wanted to get out. I feel
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  you with that. I am big in reality TV right now. Well,
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  I've always been. My thing is married to medicine. Oh my gosh,
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  did you see the new season? Hey, we might have to be in
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  boxing each other on the show on because like we are, And how you
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  going to write the ex wife to the bride and shallow of the new you
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  know you? That was messy. Always She's always messy. Always be talking
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  about the book, y'all. We talked. So as we're in tonight's broadcast,
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  I am going to say, I've had so much fun with you.
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  I am so it's crazy you're supposed to be here to see that book and
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  now get to talk to you in persons, It's like awesome, Okay,
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  how can your readers, your old new readers, your new readers, the
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  people who won't start following you because they saw this tonight, how are they
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  able to follow you? Oh? I am literally on every social media platform
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  you could think of. I'm on TikTok It's Tatiana Sanin. I can't remember,
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  but I'm on TikTok, I'm on Instagram, Ebony, bomb cell,
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  I'm on Facebook. I'm religiously on Facebook, and it's just my name.
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  Tatian Sannin hyphenated ellis definitely everything that I have as far as books my life,
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  I post so much daily. The best way to catch me is either
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  Facebook because I'm always there and I love people in boxing. I'm always up,
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  so Facebook is the best way to get me because you'll definitely see every
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  book that I have coming up. You'll see me supporting and I'm a big
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  supporter for other authors as well, supporting upcoming books. You'll see you know
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  where I'm going to be as far as with book events for the next year.
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  I also put up my next four books that are coming in the next
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  couple of months. My January, release my February, my March, and
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  then I have another Christmas book that's dropping in two weeks, so you definitely
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  will find all the things that I have mostly on Facebook and I pose daily.
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  So you guys, if you look at the bottom of the stream,
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  you see all her handles. If you can't catch her, now go back,
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  catch the replay, listen to us again, talk about all these shows
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  were talking about and everything. I would like to thank you for being here
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  tonight. And your book is on the to read if you seem the to
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  read book. But see you got a novella. And the best thing about
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  that is I can be at work because I work at a library. I
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  can be at work and I can read your book and help people out at
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  the same time. So a win is a win. But before we leave
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  the night, you guys, make sure you are nominating your authors, your
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  bloggers, your publishing companies, your podcasts. Remember the twenty twenty three AAA
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  LAC Aspiring Authors Magazine Awards. You have until December thirty first to nominate any
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  of your favorites in over twenty categories. You guys, we went from four
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  to now twenty. We thank God for the growth We're gonna have a virtual
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  to go and break. Our last show would be on December thirty. First,
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