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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #143HOST PATRICE GRIMBAL · DA CREW Podcast

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  you as I dayr? Hey you guys, it's another Saturday night. You
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  heard my song Careless Whispers. So now we're gonna vive on into meeting a
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  new author. And you guys remember early this month that I told you that
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  there was a book that came out called The Freestyle Cipher, and I told
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  you that I would have another author. Well guess what tonight she is here
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  tonight on Sci Book Gall and French Chats, we have author kay Lynn Hunt.
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  Hi, sweetie, I am good. I'm good. I'm good,
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  and how are you doing? I'm good. It's good, good day.
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  I was in the heat all day at my nephew's football team. Way to
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  go for throw Chester Patriots. But lord, I'm in Michigan. It's not
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  hot here so again I heard its beautiful there, Yes it is, but
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  the weather is not. It's nice. So we already started getting chili as
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  well. It wasn't that bad today. It was like fifties, that's nice.
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  I could do fifty. I could do fifty. It wasn't that bad
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  today. But and now you get that whole chill. I've been turning my
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  heat on already, so already, yeah, oh my god. See I'm
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  in South Carolina. So fifty we pulling out jackets and stuff, you know.
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  Forties we got full booth and gear. You know, in thirties they
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  already closed out school because it was too so welcome to our show, but
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  we always stought up. You gotta tell us a little bit about yourself,
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  okay, Well, as you said, my name is Kaylin Hunt. I
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  have been self publishing since twenty eleven. I have oh six books, a
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  couple anthologies, few short stories. I've always loved writing, and I wrote
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  the first book I actually published. I wrote it and actually sat on it
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  for like four years because I just didn't know what to do with it.
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  And I decided I'm like, I'm going to put it out there like just
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  here. So and I've been writing ever since. I've taken a little break
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  over the last few years. Well I haven't really been doing a lot of
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  publications. But right now I have a lot of stuff in the work.
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  So within the next year, I'm going to be dropping probably every three months,
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  it'll be a new book or something. Oh so what and this is
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  an offscript question, but what do you consider your genre? I don't like
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  to put myself in a box, so for I say, contemporary, urban
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  contemporary, or you know, women's fiction. But a lot of my books
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  kind of touch on different things. It's like really one category that I don't
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  think it belongs in, like multiple but I kind of pen whatever comes to
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  mind. My books is a paranormal so and then one of my current projects
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  is actually a suspense novel. So yeah, I kind of jump all over
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  the place. I have romance, well women's fiction, because I don't know
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  how romance. It's a lot of drama in those two. Yes, yes,
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  yes, I've seen some romance books and I'm thinking, good god,
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  how many pins in the game you're going on now? Like rufles come from
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  rufus in the book? Now, totally understand. So the book that we're
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  talking about tonight Freeestyle cipher. How did that come along? So I am
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  in a book club I see you reading and chatty, and it's an online
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  book club. Well, we have a in per core nine member book club
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  that we meet once a month, but we expanded it to online. It's
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  like an online book club I See Reading, Chatting, which has over two
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  thousand members. The founder Ebonie Evans. One day, in order to like,
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  you know, keep everybody engaged, she came up with this idea where
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  she will drop photos and a writing prompt and invite authors to just make up
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  a story on the fly. So it has grown. We've been doing it
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  for six years. It has grown to she has to schedule, so she
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  does I think four to five authors per week every Friday, call it freestyle
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  Friday, and she'll have a topic, drop some photos, and authors come
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  and do their little short stories right under the posts. So I write almost
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  every week, and I just there are some excellent stories and a lot of
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  the times I always get we need more, or even other authors that you
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  read, I'm like, I want more. So I was. I had
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  been trying to figure out how to get it all in one place. So
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  one day I was just like, Hey, who would who might want to
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  do this with me? And and it was just I had not done anything
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  like that before, but I wanted to try it. I thought it would
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  be great and it turned out better than I expected. I see, I
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  see, So can you tell us a little bit about your short story in
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  the cipher? My short story is called Mark for Life, and I kind
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  of I don't even know when that topic came up because a lot of the
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  freestyles I just keep, but it was one that kind of resonated with me.
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  So it's about man and a woman, Kamaya and her her husband Cameo.
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  You get a little backstory about how they met, and the story opens
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  with it's their anniversary and something happens that sends Kamaya in a tailspin and she
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  does something that really scares her husband into thinking she's gonna leave, and a
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  lot it's a surprise that happens in the situation before it's all said and done,
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  and he he still won't know the gravity of what he's done until later
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  on. See, That's why i'd be setting myself out when I asked you
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  all to do this. Give me a little bit because I'm sitting up here
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  like that's all you're gonna give. See y'all be setting people up? Yeah
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  see. And then so I always have a plot twist that people dostie coming.
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  I love those. I can't I love them give too much information because
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  it might give a clue because I like to shock people with the plot twist,
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  like, oh, I didn't know that was happening. Well, you
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  weren't supposed to love that. I love that. I love that so much.
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  I love that left corner coming out because I would be the one go
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  back a couple of pigs and be like, hold up, where where did
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  that come from? So I love that. So what is the most valuable
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  piece of advice have you been giving or you have gave about writing or just
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  making a career of writing? The advice I always give to people that want
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  to write, not sure what to do, been you know that are apprehensive
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  about it, I always say, just put it down, just start writing,
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  don't try to make it perfect, just get it out. You can
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  fix it later. But if you whatever's in your head, if you get
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  it down, that's the part. Once you get it out, fixing it
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  is the easy part. So that's always my advice to people. The best
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  advice given to me was don't stop. Of course, again, I had
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  kind of just not really been focusing, and I, you know, I
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  don't put myself on deadlines, and I probably need that, but I,
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  you know, but I like, don't stop, keep going. So me
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  and deadlines don't get on. Well, actually, so I don't sat deadlines
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  for myself. I'm just like, I'm gonna do it and it doesn't make
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  me accountable. One of the things I learned from this freestyle, when I
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  put all these people together, it helped me having someone as holding me accountable,
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  and even even I was just the one pushing everybody to make sure you
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  get this, make sure you get that. But I for me, knowing
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  that somebody else is waiting on me, it just pushed me to go ahead
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  and not procrastinate. For me, it's not I'm not a writer. I'm
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  a reviewer. I'm a how little girl called me today, she said,
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  you're a book blogger, so okay, that's what you want. I don't
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  procrastinate. I just forget. It's like it could be on my Okay,
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  I need to do this, But then the next time'm like, oh,
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  I'm doing something else, and then I'm like what was I doing? Again?
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  And I'll be looking at the thing. Like even at work, I
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  work at a public library, I'll go in the back and I'll stop and
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  I was like, hey, what was I supposed to do? Again?
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  As I remember, and then I'll find a book ooh to ball look at
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  her. So I totally understand. I totally understand. So offscript, what
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  do you like better or what would you prefer to write? Full novels?
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  Anthologies or are they calling them novelists now? Which which one do you prefer?
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  So? I prefer a full novel, but the anthologies and the novella's
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  and novelists they're much it's not as much pressure because they're shorter, so you
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  don't have to it's not you don't have to figure out where this is going
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  to weave this into that to make it a full length. You can pack
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  a lot more into this short story, and not for me, because a
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  lot of it is like, okay, I have to make this make sense
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  and not just feel like you're filling it in with words. It has to
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  flow. So in order to get a full novel like making it flow consistently,
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  it's just a little it's a little more time consuming when you have the
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  short stories. But like I said, with the freestyle cipher, I write
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  almost every week, and I write those stories within eight hours, like it's
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  just out gone and actually something. Honestly, it doesn't even take me that
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  long because I'll get the story, I'll see what the topic is, I
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  look at the photos, and sometimes I don't start writing right away because I
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  start doing other stuff. But in the back of my head, the way
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  I think my mind works is it's already thinking, Okay, what are we
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  doing with this? So when I sit down and say, okay, where
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  is the story going, I'll get an idea. And sometimes it ends up
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  not where I'm going but where I was going. But I have actually sitting
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  like today, well yesterday, hey, Abone So and that's our president.
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  She's the one that started freestyle cipher. Ebney, We're gonna talk to you
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  too. Can you tell you miss aving me? Yesterday? I did a
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  freestyle and I want to say, it's probably like sixteen hundred words, and
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  I was writing and I was so shocked at how good it was, and
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  I didn't start writing it. I was at work writing to say that.
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  I mean, I probably shouldn't say that out loud, but it's okay.
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  And I text ebone and was like, I gotta leave work, and I
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  had I gotta leave because this story is getting so good I don't want to
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  stop. So hey, I'm going to reference this. Yeah, let me
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  ask you a question. Why do you want to ask me a question?
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  Do something? So those stories are easy for me to crank out. But
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  because again, you don't have to continue it and make it so draw it
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  out further with it hasn't make sense. You not just fill it with whatever.
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  And I think a lot of times people throw extra stuff in books to
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  make them longer, and it's not put in there seamlessly, and it should
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  be seamlessly. All right, all right, well you guys, we're gonna
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  take a break and we're gonna come back. And y'all know that second half
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  is always my front time. I hope she's ready, but we're gonna take
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  a break and we're gonna come back and talk to off the hunter. Turn
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  off the legs the candle tonight, an a, Megan, let's take a
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  shower shower together. I was abuded. You was my dad some wealthy and
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  nothing save Jayce, Turn off the girl. I want to care of you
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  a special treat. You're so sweet turn on. So you guys, let
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  me apologize right now. I propracticed this all week to say Hunt, but
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  I keep saying, Hunter, I am so sorry. It's okay. I
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  kept on saying, and I just heard it when I when we went to
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  commercial, said Hunter, this me. I did exactly what I didn't want
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  to do, and I apologized. So this half we always ask fun questions.
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  Okay, So here's the first question. If you could spend the day
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  with any author, who would you choose? And why dead or life dead
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  or life Maya angelou? Ooh? Why my an? Actually she is the
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  one that fuel my passion for reading, which of course turned into a passion
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  for writing. But just I would want to be with her just to soak
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  up the knowledge, just like talking to your elder aunt. You know what
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  I'm saying. Like that's my answer to that question every time. Okay,
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  So she was an author and a reader. Do you feel that authors should
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  be readers too? I do. For me, just like when I write,
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  I think about what I would want to read or how I would want
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  to read it, or and like I said, I always throw in apply
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  twist because I read to think, Okay, what's happening next. I don't
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  want people to know what's gonna happen next. They can think they know and
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  it could look like it's going that way, but it has to be something
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  different. And I think that reading you get a feel for you know,
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  how things flow, what happens, you know different, just see different aspects
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  of writing and just immersing yourself in that whole world. Thank you, thank
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  you. I love when authors are readers, yes, because like that's like
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  a cook not tisting's food, right, It just doesn't calculate with me.
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  And I've met authors who said, oh no, I'll never read a book,
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  huh how and so lay Lately I've actually been listening to audio books because
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  I can do that while I'm at work and nobody knows what. They're not
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  interrupting me looking at a book because a lot of times they come like,
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  why are you interrupting me? But I could be listening and totally tune them
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  out. Yes, library alert, you know, I gotta give y'all that
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  little proper knowledge. If you have a public library card, you can get
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  free audio books. Stop doing those audiobulls when you're getting this one book credit
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  for nine and ninety nine cent a month where you can get I think my
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  library system we do fifteen, ten to fifteen books a month. Okay,
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  I'm setting up the audio, and sometime I'd be like, Lord, please
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  don't make me jump out of this chair and my IT piece come out,
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  because if they hear some of the stuff that, yes, they already got
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  this. One little old lady. She comes in there and she gets our
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  little urban novels. She go get the girl who read the Nasty Black Book.
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  You want to go to My coworkers say this, but what you want
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  to do? You know, but it's a joy to see people reading,
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  especially African American culture. Yes, still it's sad to say that, you
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  know, like they said, if you want to hide it from somebody African
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  American or that of color, put in the book. And even my nephews
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  and my daughters they're readers. And my nephews be like, we gotta go
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  Auntie house and read a book, then we get to go outside. Yes,
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  all right, Auntie. So I love the fact that you did that.
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  So what is the name of your main character, male or female in
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  the cipher? Uh? Camaya? Camaya? All right? So Camaya Camaya.
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  If Camaia was a fast food chain, which one would she be?
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  And why did you choose that one? Told you these questions are crazy.
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  Oh so oh if Camaia was a fast food chain, let me see,
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  I would have to go with mm hmmm barber King because you can have it
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  your way hold up so so so, So Camaya is a Kamaia. Commayah,
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  she's a Camaya, she doesn't she when when when her husband does something
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  that totally devastates heard, another Camaya shows up? Oh? Okay, okay,
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  Maya's burger King. Okay, what is the name of your leading male
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  in the book? Cameo? Cameo? All right? So Cameo was a
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  car, who would he be? And why? Mm hmmm he would be
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  a Corvette? Oh and why a Corvette because he goes fast and everyone loves
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  him everyone. Okay, I'm trying to get the burger king and yep mm
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  hmm okay, y'all, so you like me, you're drawing all blanks and
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  that's great. That means you gotta get the book. But before we letting
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  miss Kaelin Hunt leave us tonight, what would you like the city your readers?
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  And how would you be able to contact you. For my readers,
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  I want to say thank you for supporting me and stay tuned because I am
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  bringing more more often. Like I said, in the next year, I
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  plan I will probably publish four or five different things, solo and collaborative with
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  the different authors. I have some exciting projects coming up, like exciting.
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  I am Kaylin Hunt on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok is Kaylin Hunt with the
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  Zero. I also have a website Kaitln Hunt dot com k A y L
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  y n N h U n T. I'm available on any of those,
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  so networks please follow me. Please. If you have any questions you read
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  and you gotta say something to me, go ahead and inbox me. I
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  would love to talk about some of my characters and things that they do.
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  See. You should just say that because I will in box you. I
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  don't mind. I love talking about my characters and I know you'd be like
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  this is the one that called. We want to thank you guys for being
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  with us tonight and miss Hunt. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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  thank you for having me. I'm gonna get on that freestyle cipher because
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  y'all look like y'all got some things going on in that Yes, some things
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  going on in that cipher, yes, but you guys, thank you for
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  joining us on tonight. Another show in the books guess what I'm gonna be
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  back next Saturday. And guys, we are talking after faure puristic or African
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  And I'm very, very very happy to have this off the nui up with
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  us and we are looking for other holes. You guys were looking for six
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  more so, if you want to have your podcast, you do not have
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  We have one one of our podcasts she does health, another one she
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  for people to join us on the crew. If you want and box any
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  one of us and we'll get you in the right direction. Thank you.
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  Another Saturday Night in the books and another book to add to your reading list.
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  You guys, have a great night. Goodbye. Thank you for joining
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  us tonight. We hope you found a new book to read or a new
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  author to explore. Join us again in two weeks for sc book Gals and French Chat