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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _74_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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Welcome to the sci book Jolly Friends Chat. We're gonna be talking about the
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ready. Are you the girls in the club? They're getting wild from me,
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and yes I am. And I miss you guys. Oh I miss
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you guys so much last Saturday night. But I have mammy duties to do.
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My baby girl got her war yay naya, So you know we're coming
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back, and you know I had to come back with some nice heap for
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y'all tonight. Right. So me and this author, I've been following her
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on Facebook for the longest, okay, and she's one of I gotta feel
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that she's one of those authors you can sit down and talk to about her
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book anybody else's book. But believe you me is about to be a good
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conversation. Okay. So again, welcome to another Saturday Night with your girl
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Ssie book y'all eight four three, and we are bringing war tonight. Yes,
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y'all, we talking war because you know the title of her book is
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called It's War Behind You Now, ladies, y'all know, if y'all got
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a man to say something like that to you. I mean, what you're
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gonna do. You're gonna ride or die or you're gonna run away. So
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we are going to to talk to the author of this War behind You.
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Author is Candas. Come on up, girly, come on up, Hi,
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Hey, how are you? I'm good? How are you? I
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am good? Good? Good? So before we get into this book and
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we talk about Breeze and Lena, right, all right, so before we
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talk about them too and the stuff they got going on, tell us a
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little bit about yourself. And my name is Authur's can or can I go
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about Author's candy. I've been writing for about nine years now. I'm originally
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from your Alabama, but I now live in TuS School, so roll tied
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people. I have about twenty five books available, and I write urban romance
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and children's books. I'm also an avid reader, so yes, I will
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read it. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm an author because I
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will sit and read all day. But other than that, it's just me
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and my little puffy and we'll be reading. Okay, now you said you're
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a romance author, I am children's author. Yes, that's two different spectrums.
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Watch Keen first The Romance or the children's The Romance. So the children's
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books are actually written by my eight year old nephew, Jeremiah, and I
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just type up what he says, and we know he gets his author credit
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on his books. And yes, he signs his books and everything, and
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he does. When I go to events, I take his books too,
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and he signs them before I get there if he can't come. So yeah,
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that's how it works out. Know what, we might have to talk
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to your nephew, because in August, I'm doing shows that are dedicated to
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children's books because it's back too, and I'm a librarian. I would love
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to have little Man on my show. I think that'd be so cool.
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We can definitely set that up. And his birthday is in August two,
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so he would love that. All, okay, me and we have to
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talk after the show. I would love to have little Man on my show.
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Oh my god, that's so sweet. And you know what, as
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a mother and having two sisters, I would like to say thank you,
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because you know, we don't honor the aunties a lot, you know,
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and in my family, we don't say Happy Mother's Day. We say happy
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Woman's day, because when they get all our nerves, we send them to
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them. And if your nephew is anything like this nine year old, like
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I run in by my house and I apologize, he's fired, and his
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siblings like Jeremiah will sit and literally talk to me about book ideas. The
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other day, like the other night, we were sitting around and he just
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gave me like a three whole little book series right there as were talking,
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and he was like, you're gonna are you gonna write this down? T
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T and put it on your pewter. Let's get to your job. But
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you know, thank you, thank you for doing that. You woke And
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he has his own publishing and everything, honey, he don't. Now I
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feel bad. He has his own publishing, yes, ma'am. Miss Elaine
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Jenkins is his is his publisher. She's an urban romance author. Is well.
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He called her his book lady, so he will call her and tell
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like, T T. Can you call my book lady so I could talk
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Elaine Jenkins? Mm hmm, she's on my pu she is. Yeah,
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it's war behind you. Yes. First of all, let's talk about this
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title. How did you come up with a title like that? My my
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publisher actually came up with it because she didn't. I'm not good with titles.
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Okay, So a lot of times I'll either start writing a book and
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then write her and be like, hey, this is what this book is
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about, give me a title, or I write one of my pants sisters,
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and so usually that's how that goes. And if she'll send me real
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quick, no, ma'am, no, ma'am. So can I ask what
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title did you have for? I wanted it to be called Creeping with the
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Plugs Daughter, And the only reason she didn't let me she felt like it
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gave way too much of the story. So she said she liked it,
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but it was it's a bit much, you know, won't keep them in
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suspense sometime, so we changed it. But it's more behind you worked out
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perfectly. As soon as I saw it, I was like, yeah,
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I love it. I like that. I like the suspense to it.
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I mean, because she's right putting it all out there. But I would
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have never yeah, all right, all right. So I always ask are
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your characters people that you know? Or they're just people who are talking to
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me in your head? And they just came and took up and this book
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they are people who were talking in my head. But I do have some
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books who I base stuff loosely off real people, especially somebody who makes me
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mad, and I have to go right to kill scene right quick. So
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yeah, nothing to kill him in the book. You know, I'm mad
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at you. You dying in the next chapter. Listen, I can't do
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it. I can get away with it that way. I can kill you
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off in the book, make me a little money, get my anger out,
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and we go on to the next kid. You know what, I
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never thought of it that way. That is the most genius. You get
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away with it, you make money off it, and you get your anger
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out. Get no kudos to you, because I would have never thought of
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it that way. When I first got it out, I wrote nothing but
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qu see, I wrote nothing but suspense books and actually had to sit me
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down and have a long talk with me, like six, we're not gonna
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keep doing it, okay, but everybody, it's the man on the corner.
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Look at you wrong, You're dying. Like, so, what started
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your journey with writing this novel? Is it things that happen? I know
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you say you have the characters in your head, but like, how do
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you start off. Music inspires me a lot. I hear a song and
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be like, hey, and you know, Kevin Gas got this song plug
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daughter, and I was telling Kevin Gates with the characters, but it's talking
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to my head. I was like, Okay, this is how we can
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do this. Switch this up and do this and do that. Okay,
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yeah, we can do this. So you have music in the background playing
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while you're writing, or you need it completely silent. No, I have
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to have music when I'm writing. If I don't have my headphones on and
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in my own little world and not knowing where I am, just sitting with
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my laptop, I cannot write. Wow, Like, how long can you
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go? Like how long can you have a session like that? I've done
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it for hours, Like as long as I'm taking a good play this on
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Pandora going and I will sit there and write right right right, just be
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in my own little world. I bothering nobody for hours. Oh no,
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okay, I see locks in a suit and I see nothing but swags.
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Tell us a little bit about Breeze. Breeze is one of my favorite characters
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because he doesn't he's not over the top, you know, he stays in
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his own lane. He's not a flashy drug deally. He don't want everybody
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to see what kind of cars he got, how many women he can get,
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Like, he just wants to stay in his own little corner and make
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his money and not be bothered. And he got an exit strategy, like
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he don't want to be in a dope game fever. He saw businesses and
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he he only really only did it because it was a family business, Like,
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had it enough be for that, I think Breeze would have been just
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like a little shop owner or something normal guy. But I love how laid
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back he is. And that's the thing that's unique about your book is that
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the care that has an exit game. He has an exit out of the
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game, you know, And a lot of people don't do that. They
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just have their character be fifty sixty years old and they still on the street.
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But your character has an agenda and know why he's doing it. Okay.
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So this is like one of those questions that I pose to a group
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of friends with me who read, like does that make it okay? You
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know that the fact that he's in the business and he has an exit plan,
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Like, so I like that because it's great that you can have that
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component in it. It leads to great conversations. Mm hmm, Lina,
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I don't like her. Why No, Lena was just but you got to
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think about her life before. That wasn't the word I wanted to use.
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You know what I'm saying by so hard on her because like her mama was,
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she had a hard life. She got taken from her her father.
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Who would had he not had he been in her life the whole time she
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she probably would be even more spoiled than what she was, but she would
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not have had to be as hardcore as she was before. Like I blame
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her mama, like I want Oh. It took everything in me. Now
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I thought you would kill her this sound I wanted to sew so bad that
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actually kept saying, you don't need to kill her, mama. You don't
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have her mama here, her mama, b listen. It was taking everything
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and me not to just have one of them prisoners going there and slip her
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throat. It was, but I did get my get back at the end.
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I just didn't breeze and Lena just seemed like they weren't in the same
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world, but in two different, two different sizes of it. Because she
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was new to his world. Like she knew nothing about her father, she
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thought he was dead, so when she came into their world, like,
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okay, her stepdaddy was a nickel and dimer, but he wanted nowhere near
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on the level that breathing and her father was so all that was new to
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her, and having security escort her places, having drivers and stuff like,
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she wan't used to all that. She was a stripper and she had only
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fans tape, so she she wasn't used to it, so it took her
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a minute to adjust to it. That's why she's seeing spoiled because she's just
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like leaving alone, like I just want to be normal. But her daddy
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is like, no, you're gonna be the princess that you are I know.
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And I was like, okay, she she's a I see you trying
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to conform the but it ain't working. But so Whi's book two. I
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don't think they need a book too. I don't think I think everybody got
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closure. The only somebody who probably didn't was Trinity or maybe the uncle.
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But neither one of them were talking to me outside of this book, like
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I'm not gonna force it, so I didn't see the need for a spinoff
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or a part. Really was kidding her, Like, yo, I got
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something to say in this book. If thought Trinity, we wow, she
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you sure need her to come on because I thought about hook getting up with
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Breeze's cousin, but then he started getting all my nerves in the book.
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So no, that didn't work out. Preeze's cousin. Yeah, name again,
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Josiah, Yeah, Joe he oh, he got on my nerves.
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He got on my nerves. Got he got. That would be so much
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drama between she would kill him. Yeah that alone. Yeah, she no,
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that that'll be novella because she wouldn't last one hundred pages with him.
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I can't see it. I can't see it. So we're gonna take a
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break real quick, and we get to have fun with the questions. I
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didn't see you. But you like music, so I'm pretty sure you're gonna
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like the second half. So you guys are gonna take a break, come
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back. We're gonna finish talking to Miss Canthus real quick. You guys,
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okay, we can keep on going. So my second half of my show,
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I like to bring mainstream into the show. Okay, and you like
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music, m hm. So let's bring it. We'll bring it to this
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error, which oh god, I hate the music of this era, but
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we're gonna work with it. Do you see Being Breeze? How do I
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see rap star? We'll do rap first, honestly, Dave who Dave who
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the devil is? That he has my favorite song by him he has with
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Chris Brown called perfect and what's his name? Because I do look mm hmm.
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That's why I see Van Breeze Dave East, because Dave like laid back
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and out the way. Okay, let's see Dave. Ye. Yeah,
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I can't I can't see yeah, h I apologize everyone, I'm sorry.
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Yeah, I'm sitting up here to look at what the book bag? And
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yeah mm hmm. Okay, okay, so let's take it back. Let's
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take into my era that I like nineties hip hop? Who would you see
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nineties? Let me thank you? I see I see Q Tip. I
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don't like you, Tip. You don't like the vibrant, the vibrant think
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mmmm. I wouldn't let him be one, so be mace before I let
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him be CUTI Mace. Well, okay, niece is very calm, rights
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very or shine shine you remember no rapper. Yes, now you did that.
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You did that. I can see Shine even in the character and how
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you describe him in the book. I can see shine. I can see
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shine, Lena, let's get her R and B. I was thinking Monica
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because Monica can have a little stuck up attitude that time, either Monica or
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Cusha Cole Yo, you might have hit it on the neck with the Kisha
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cold. But then because her attitude and how she acts, possibly even King
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Michelle listen, because she just kills all your care I be need you seeing
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me over. It's like you're not killing your boy you want to kill even
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though yeah, she is irritated, especially when she's been on locke and hip
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hop and she'd be just so missy. Yeah, I can't. I can't.
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Yeah, you can't. So if you can have any director make this
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movie, it's war behind you. Who would you think would make your book
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and do it great? Justice? Who? Oh? Intense hands down?
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Yeah, hands down? Either her or untamed hands down like you untamed?
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Yes, yes, yes, And I would even go as far as I
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think it's my the lady who did the Purple paper Heart movie. I can't
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think of her name, but intense and Untanged are my two top two.
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Like, if I could work with anybody to do a movie for me,
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it would be one of those purple heart movie art. It's called paper Heart,
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paper Hearts. Okay, let's see that one doesn't ring a bell,
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but we're gonna find out who it is. A stop a book called paper
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Heart. Oh okay, I see you, I see you. I So
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while I'm looking at um, how do you feel about the newest thing of
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a lot of the urban books becoming movies on two bs? I love it
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because if I'm I'm like when I'm sitting there watching tube and be like I
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wrote, I read that book. Yes, yes, And a lot of
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people they're not too fond of it because they feel that the the authors are
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not getting the correct uh the the put it like this money right. I
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totally understand it. And like I told one lady, I said, I
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totally understand that. I said, but get how many readers that you have
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gained? Yes, because you took the time out to start move Now.
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I'm like, you know, look at Tyler Perry. If we see Tyler
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I can do bad all by myself versus the last play he did. There's
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a big vast difference in maturity level. The you can see the growth progress.
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So I love that new thing of a lot of the urban books becoming
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too b movies. That's my next goal, like to get one of my
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books turned into a movie script and everybody's hands and if it go to Toby,
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Amazon, Original, whatever you gotta go to, like people, I'm
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gonna see a book that I wrote turned into a movie and people are gonna
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know who I am. Like you're gonna be able to pull up on tube
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and see my book is now a movie. And that right there is rewarding
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in itself, because how many adors that are unlocks. Yes, yes,
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you're so right. So if you could choose any book of yours, which
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one would it be? I wrote a book and I guess it would be
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now it would be called like a thriller, and it's and it's called Bonded
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by Blood. And the first book needn't do so well, but the second
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one a lot of people were like, oh my god, I would do
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that one. And then I would do a book I released not too long
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ago called Scars of a Single Mother. I will all right, Scars of
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a Single Mother first, because more women can relate to it and then bonded
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by blood. Okay, so it looks like you have a question. So
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somebody would like to know what is your writing process like? So usually,
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like the ideas will come to me, and I'll write out my characters,
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their descriptions, where I want the book to take place, and important stuff
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from the plot that I forget because my mind is terrible. Like I have
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to have my notebooks in beside me the entire time i'm writing, because I'll
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forget how old my characters are. Sometimes I'll forget what they look like.
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Sometimes I have to have all that right now, and then I get my
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laptop and my headphones, my music. I have to have my Pepsi and
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my honeybuns and my snacks, and I'm good to go. She said,
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Pepsi and honey bun talking about Now, are you working on anything on anything
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right now? I'm actually working on two books right now. Yes, can
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you tell us some little little bit mate. One of them is my first
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time I'm doing an older woman younger man type story, and it's gonna be
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leaning more towards theoretic side, and I never stepped into that before. So
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that's all I can give you. I can't get you up one. I
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ain't ready yet. You have to keep me updated. You already know that,
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so I already know how to be updated by your books. So how
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about you tell everybody else how they can follow you on social media if you
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have any book events coming up. You know, let's go ahead and give
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us the rundown so we can be ready for that older woman young man thing
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going on. Keep up with me on Facebook. I post more about my
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books on Facebook and Instagram. On my Facebook is just my name, Candice
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Tolliver, and then my Instagram is author is Candice and I'll put like my
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character visuals I put when I do sneak peeks from my book, they'll go
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on there. And so that's how you'll know my covers go to Facebook first.
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I'm not going to any events right now, but that is something I
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do want to do later on in a year. Okay, never know,
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you might come down to Charleston in October and I found out we got someplace
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in the shop we're supposed to be doing. So know, yeah, I
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will send you more information, but I think you've being with us Tonay letting
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us know about Breeze and Lena. I'm gonna have to get Lena some credit,
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man, because she was acting like a total you know whatn't that book?
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But she her mama was, I know, but she showed her.
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But then book Man, even though mom was fron like before we even leave,
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how did you get her character to be the way that she was?
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Her or her mama her mom? I had to have a reason as to
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why her daddy hadn't seen her in years? And what better way than I
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have a bitter baby mama, better baby mama. So you know, strug
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dealers, they get the women they see dollar signs. They want marriage so
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they could be secured for life. And Ryland wasn't we it? So Carmelina
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took her baby and she did and we's money, So like I had to,
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I had to make it a reason why the daddy didn't see her.
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And like I said, what better way and what easier way and more drama
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field way than a better baby mama? And that she loved up too.
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We thank you you guys. It's war behind you is in Amazon. Do
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you have any other places where you can purchase it? It's just right now.
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It's just on Amazon, right now. You guys, We're gonna have
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the link up here for you in a moment, so you guys can go
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and grab your copy of it. Thank you, thank you, thank you
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for joining us on the Saturday night, gaining all these new readers and all
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these new followers. And if you guys, if you miss any part of
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this, you can go to our YouTube page. Go to South Carolina Book
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Gallon Friends Readers page that was just started a couple of weeks ago because y'all
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flooding up my timeline, so I had to give you all y'all own separate
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group. Now you'll be smart and join this group because I got some stuff
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coming up in August for our little people, and then I'm gonna have some
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office take over the group. So they're gonna take over. They gonna talk
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to you about their books, their writing journeys, how to make things do
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what it do. So remember join at see Book Gallon Friends Reader's Group.
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So now don't get it twisted. There's a book review book group, and
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there's a reader's group. This that's right here we're doing. That's gonna be
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in the reader's group. So if you forgot the name of the book and
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you forgot a little bit about these characters and how I just don't like Lena.
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I'm gonna let it be known. I don't like her. But you
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can go back and catch the replayers on all of our networks. You guys,
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make sure you join another member of the crew tomorrow night. We have
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and y'all just go follow us. Y'all know, y'all know the did okay
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you forty two? Look for it. The crew. We are the divas
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of the airways. Again, thank you, miss kandas for joining us tonight,
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and you guys, I will see you next Saturday. Bye. Thank
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you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a new book toy or
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