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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _53 _ HOST PATRCE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  eight four three, and we are about to introduce you to another author,
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  a new author and a new book to add on you you to be read
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  less. Now. This author has a little special place because his book is
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  concerning y'all know why let work? Well, you can say live too,
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  because I live as much time as I work there. Yeah, So his
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  book is about the library. You guys. So y'all think I'm I'm really
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  kidding when I tell y'all some crazy stuff be happening at the library. It
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  sure does. Okay. So I have an author by the name of mister
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  Smith, Shine Tell Smith, and he has this book that's called Whole Circulation.
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  Okay, this is the third of his series, and he is here
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  to chit chat with us tonight. Now I'm gonna give you guys a heads
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  up. We're gonna have a lot of technical difficulties real right now. Okay,
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  so you might see the author come in and out and again I apologize,
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  but but you do not want to miss out. So everyone welcome,
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  sci book gathered friends, mister Smith, come on out, missus Smith.
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  There is that grill of yours. Oh my god, it has the old
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  sheets that we used to use back in the day with the stamp. Oh
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  I feel old. So how are you tonight? It's okay, We're still
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  going with the flow. So this book, well, first of all,
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  tell us a little bit about yourself. Are you having can you hear me?
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  Yeah? You guys, I told you tonight it's one of those nights
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  where we're having a lot of technical you can hear me now, all right,
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  now we're talking, So won't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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  And then he goes again, well, I apologize you guys. Okay,
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  how to what his book is called Whole Circulation is a call numbers novel,
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  and this is the third book, and it's called Trial and Redemption.
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  Okay, So I'm gonna tell y'all a little bit about this book, okay.
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  Robin Walkers is at a crossroad in nineteen ninety four, and he has
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  been suspended from his partial time clerical position at the fifty eighth Street Branch Library
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  because coworkers are overburdened even with visiting clerks from the libraries. Still morning the
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  loss of his grandfather, Robin also pines with his former girlfriend and the niece
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  of his superior Sonya. So meanwhile the library page, Tanya attempts to reconcile
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  with her cheating boyfriend Andrew. I told you all some things be happening at
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  the library, okay. And then there is Angie. Now she's the information
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  assistant, okay, and she's given a cold shoulder by Hayward at the day
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  broke up. So Now the fifty eighth streets page, Janelle is due to
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  give birth and to go on maternity lead while all the feuting, while her
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  parents are feuding. So look like you got a lot of stuff going on
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  in that book, mister Smith home. Yes, I do, Yes,
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  I do. And it's very relatable to a lot of my readers. You
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  know, they can really relate to all the characters in the story. It's
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  you know, it's pretty much, you know, like real life. Yes,
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  yes, So before we go an in further, tell us a little
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  bit about yourself. Okay, I've been self published since twenty nineteen. I've
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  done three book theories, and I'm working on my first non regular standalone novel
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  now that's due out in November. I won a few awards for my second
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  book, and it's been a journey so far. You know, I'm still
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  learning how to do things here and there. But the fact that you step
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  out in you actually but every experience, you know, just trains me to
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  be a better writer. Yes, yes, yes, you actually did it.
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  You did this self publishing, and I knew that was hard. But
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  the fact that you did it and you stick to it, I applaud you.
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  And then on top of that, you got some awards to double applause.
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  So now this this, these characters, they got some things going on.
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  Tell us a little bit about Robin, because seems like everything is like
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  a little bit like he's one of the centralized ones. And so then he's,
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  you know, very opinion being library for college to you know. Actually,
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  m So I see that over time these coworkers have become more than that.
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  Joy, anger, love and pain are all etched through this whole novel,
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  and some people have to make some choices to renew their life decisions or
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  reserve to a new path. He used little bits of library lingo in his
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  synopsis, So like the last line of his synopsis says, and with their
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  due dates fast approaching, one thing becomes clear that everybody hasn't happy wants to
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  have a happy ending. Do day to what we use in the library lingule
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  to tell you and bring your book back? Okay, you guys, I
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  apologize for the technical difficulties, but I did ask him some questions. So
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  I'm going to take a moment and find the questions that I asked him.
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  Because we do talk. I do talk to these authors, and I try
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  to get a nice rapport with them to actually help you guys get their work
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  in for them to promote their work. Okay, So I did ask him.
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  I say, you know how many books have you've written and which was
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  your favorite? So mister Smith said he wrote four books so far, the
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  latest one right now is called Hold, the one that we're talking about tonight.
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  And he says he really doesn't have a favorite. He said all his
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  works he loved equally, but has a special place in his heart for his
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  first novel. And I guess he would have that place you guys, because
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  guess what's his first baby? Okay. I also asked him, I said,
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  at what point do you think someone should call them self a writer?
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  You could call yourself a writer the moment you start writing. It doesn't matter
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  if it's a short story, an article, or even blog entries. So
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  I guess when you put the paper to the pen, Missus Smith say,
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  he feels that you're already a writer. Okay, This question I love to
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  ask all my authors, especially those that are very fairly new to the game.
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  I said, what advice would you give to someone working on their first
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  book? I think his was great. He said, focus on what you
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  can and if you get stuck, you do your research. Writing the book
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  is actually the easy part, but there are some other aspects that are hard.
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  And if you plan it to self produs published, learn the process.
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  If you're trying to do traditionally get published research, literary agents can plan to
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  help you with your inquiry. Both are a serious challenge and that I really
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  think what first authors is the biggest challenge. It is that to go with
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  a publishing house or do it on your own. Now, I've seen people
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  do it on their own and knock it out the park. I've seen people
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  use a publishing company and the book goes dead. I think one of the
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  things that a lot of first time authors forget to do is to market themselves.
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  They do not market their book. They feel book is written, everybody
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  can buy it. Everybody can't buy the book if they don't know nothing about
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  the book. So here's a little tip. Market your book. Okay,
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  there is always someone who has never heard about your book, So always keep
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  a copy of your book with you when you get a chance, you talk
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  to someone about your book. Any time you get any type of chance,
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  you throw your book in there. You are your book's advocate. You are
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  your books cheerleader. Okay, now while he's we're still trying to get him
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  back you guys, but I'm still going to share his interview, he says.
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  I asked him, I said, what is the hardest scene to write
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  and why? He said it was a scene in this second book that was
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  very difficult because the parallels what happened in real life, and that was the
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  depth of one of this MC's character. It was very emotional and I had
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  to step away for a few weeks after writing it. I love that when
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  I feel an author has putting all their emotion into the book, that's the
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  type of book I'm put on my shelf because something about for me, the
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  hunger of a new author is timeless. Some authors, and I won't even
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  say there's one in particular, some authors get so into theirselves that they do
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  not their book doesn't have that hunger like it had what their first book.
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  They feel that I already been in this game. I really don't have to
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  put all in my work speak for itself. But you know what, if
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  you can give me that same hunger you have for your book, your in
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  your latest book, you will have a reader for me in life. I
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  may not even read your book, but I put your book like I read
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  it yesterday. Okay, So I guess keeping that hunger alive for the book
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  is one of those A big thing for me as somebody who lives and breathe
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  in this literary world. Okay, I asked him, I said, how
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  do you describe your book's ideal reader? He said, I never know how
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  to answer that question. I don't write with a specific reader in mind.
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  I just feel whoever write, whoever wants to read a unique story. Hopefully
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  they'll stay with that and give my book a try. I like that answer,
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  not really having a target audience, especially with a fiction novel. I
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  like that it leads it open to anybody and everybody. Now, a lot
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  of authors can really not answer this question, so I'm gonna give it a
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  try. I ask them, what through the words literary success me to you?
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  And how do you picture it? So, you, guys, we're
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  gonna take a break real quick, and I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna
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  answer that question for you. Sorry about the technical difficulties, but we're gonna
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  make it do what it do tonight. Come on back, Oh stopping.
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  They try to make me try to take me out, but I got Jesus
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  onside, so we're gonna try. Come on up, miss Smith, We're
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  gonna try to see if we can get him out there. Can you hear
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  me? Yeah, yes, so we got you. I was just reading
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  your answers that she sent to me in the book, but now we can
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  actually hear from you. So tell us a little bit about whole circulation.
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  Yes. Post Circulation is the third book in my Call Number series, and
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  you know, it sort of completes the trilogy of the first year, which
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  is nineteen ninety four. I tend to come back, you know, eventually
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  and continue the story as you know, it goes on into the next year,
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  nineteen ninety five, with a couple like new arrivals that at that library
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  branch that you know surrounds the story act. As you could see, there
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  was a lot of drama that happens, and you know, it has like
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  a multi layer storylines that you know, I pretty much managed to weave all
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  together. And you know, it kind of reminds me of a TV show,
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  kind of like The West Wing or The Office, you know, when
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  there's all these unique characters and their storylines. When I was reading your synopsis.
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  I got to feel a Greg's anatomy. Oh all of this is happening
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  in this one library, and I'm like that pool manages, like you gotta
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  do all this is going on? Yeah, So I mean why the setting
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  of a library, like what made that your focal on? I feel that
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  it was like a story that was never told before. There have been,
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  like, you know, some novels that take place in a library, but
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  you know, they never really explored the daily runnings that happens behind the scenes.
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  I feel like this is like definitely one of the first that I've read
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  or have seen. So you know, I figured, right, try to
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  be a unique and original with that, and you were, and people don't
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  understand it. This stuff does happen at the library. Yes, nineteen years
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  of working at some When I was reading, I was like, yeah,
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  I know that situation. Yeah, yeah, I know that situation. Yeah
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  yeah I heard that one. So it was it really stepped very close to
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  home because right, yeah, so many people they feel Okay, especially my
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  family. Okay, my cousin's out to say, nobody wants to work at
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  that born library, And I'm like, I just wish it was born.
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  Well, today was born, but normally it's not like that. So these
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  characters, I don't know if you could tell us, but are they patrons
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  that you've seen in your library or individuals that you know. They're loosely based
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  on characters that I know in real life. Naturally, I've applied dramatic license
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  and I've changed the names just so you know they don't try to assume me
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  down the line and author who did his homework, Yes, digital homework,
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  that dramatic license, and a lot of people do not think about that.
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  They don't think about that until I knocked on the door saying, hey,
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  you've been served. So that was brilliant. So we have three books,
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  yes, in a series of one year. Let's take one of your characters
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  and let's migrate him to to where you have him now in the book.
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  I'll let you choose what every character I know, there's so many. I
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  got thirteen that I'm juggling around. Naturally, Robin is like one of the
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  main characters, but you know, I'd rather like try to talk about someone
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  else. Another favorite is Robin's best friend Franklin, who, like you know,
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  this third book, there's some questionable things about like you know, how
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  he's like trying to like find this one person. He almost comes across stalker
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  ish, but then he runs into all these like situations that like you know,
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  get in the way of what he's doing, so he doesn't actually cross
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  that line on stalking. You know, something always happens to jam him up
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  in the situation. But throughout the series so far, I really enjoy putting
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  him in weird situations. You know. In the very first book, his
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  very first scene, he was like working in a woman's boutique and pretending to
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  be gay so he could like you know, gets most of the attention from
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  his female coworkers. You know, Okay, okay, they opened up to
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  him when they think that, and you know he's pretty much taking advantage of
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  that. Oh wow, playing that's all I know. So by the third
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  book, you know, he gets in a little bit of trouble and everything.
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  The second book, you know, he actually loses his job because of
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  like you know, overstepping it with one of the other members from the library.
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  He ends up sleeping with his sister, so he ends up confronting him
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  in the women boutique and they get into it and everything like that, and
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  he ends up getting fired so it's funny situations like that, are you know,
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  he's sort of like the commedy relief of the novel. Okay, your
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  titles, Yes, how did you come up with them? I know they're
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  all about the library, but you can use other words, but call numbers
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  naturally is a given for the first one, because that's what that number is,
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  the category you know they use. Yeah, book endings, Well,
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  it's like, you know, a lot of people thought that since I was
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  using endings, it's like the last book. But book endings, naturally is
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  just that thing that holds the books up on the shelves. That's what we
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  call them, like a book ending. Yeah, yep. And our hope
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  circulation, you know, was basically the thing we do with holes reserves.
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  When we actually put a book on reserve, we hold the circulation so they
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  could pick it up. And you know, I have all the rest of
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  my titles already planned out. I'm planning and hopefully a thirteen book series to
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  tell their whole story. So I pretty much got all my titles all picked
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  up. Now that's what's up. I've never known anyone to have it plan
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  out that far, so that's that's what I'm talking about it's very venturous.
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  I love the fact that you're doing it so you already know like approximately what
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  character is going to be in each book right now, so like you know,
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  someone, there'll be new characters that arrive in book four that'll carry over.
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  It took five and six and all that, so it's always going to
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  be a different group each book. You know. Yeah, you're gonna kill
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  off any characters. I plan to. Yes, Unfortunately, it's gonna be
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  yes a lot of stuff. It's gonna get a little dark, m okay,
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  okay. So where do you see your career as an author going or
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  where would you like it to go. I know everybody always strives out for
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  that success, to become a bestseller and all of that, But I'd rather
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  be known among my peers as like a storyteller, you know. I like
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  to hopefully be remembered when they talk about you know, Sentel Smith, like
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  he wrote to very interesting books, and you know a lot of the readers
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  will like enjoy his books if they give him a chance, because I don't.
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  I don't even though I'm writing about libraries now, I don't want to
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  be remembered just as the library guy. I want to like branch out and
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  do other different like novels and like standalonees of other different you know, situations.
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  I want to like dab into like you know, crime fiction. I
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  want to do fantasy. I want to do a little bit of romance and
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  supernatural stories. You know, definitely mix it up. I don't want to
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  be just pigeonholed in one topic. And I like that an author that is
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  willing to step out of their comfort zone to gain new readers and to not
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  be placed in this box of this is just you and this is all that
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  you write. Like that, I said, I don't want to be known
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  as the library guy. You never know, that might be you writing that
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  fantasy that might be your new niche you know, you never know, I
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  don't know. I like that. So I did ask you what was literary
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  success, and I read a little bit of your answer. But again,
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  can you tell us what literary success looks like for you? Like I said,
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  just I guess fame, not like you know, amount of money,
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  fame, but just like you know, familiar for reality, you know,
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  just to be known on the tips of the tongues of most of the people
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  out there, especially other authors. Okay, you are you still at a
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  library now or Unfortunately enough, this is all based on stuff that happened.
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  Like I said back in nineteen ninety four, I actually worked for the library
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  from nineteen ninety three all the way to nineteen nineteen seven, so you know,
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  like I've got four or five years under my belt. But I'm not
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  there anymore. But I got plenty of stories to tell. Joe, tell
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  me about it, like I'm telling you. I tell people all the time
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  my job is not born. I've been working in a library for nineteen years.
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  Wow, that is amazing. Always something makes you scratch your head,
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  be like what the demo? Right? You never know when you wake up
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  and what you see you know on the job. So many different people have
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  like this, this low opinion that all you do all day is just read.
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  And I'm like, no, it's not like not even clots, not
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  even close. I have a lot of people think that it's all you do
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  is sit behind a desk and read. If only they will be only new
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  I'm back there doing programming, checking out books, summer reading, webinar,
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  give myself a whole headache. That's all I have to do in London,
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  and I plan to share more stories and everything like that, or what really
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  goes on behind the scenes, you know, like you said, coming up
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  for programs and events and everything that takes a lot of hard work, you
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  know, a lot of budgeting, a lot of like you know, contacts
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  and everything like that. You know, we just don't, you know,
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  snap our fingers and these people just show up. Yes, it's a tig
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  that somebody understands my flight. Nobody und So I guess my next question was
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  should be if you Oh well, I already did a break, So let
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  me tell you another thing about my sell. Okay, we do fun questions,
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  and these questions I never sent to my authors, and reason being because
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  I'm a big person. I love music and I love television, okay,
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  and pop culture is very big, and in the literary world you will see
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  them use pop culture icons to fit their characters. So with Robin, who
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  would he be if he was let's just say a comedian, let's go that
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  round. He was a comedian, who would he be? Oh, okay,
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  that's a good question, And right off the top of my head it
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  the only person I could think of that kind of relates to Robin in his
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  way, his personality and all that is the late comedian Mitch Hepburgh. Ever
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  heard of him, never heard him? Really? Yeah he was. I
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  know he didn't last that long because you know, like Robin Harris, you
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  know that song Robin's namesake, he passed away real early in the game before
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  he was noticed, you know, Robin. Yeah, Robin Harris, you
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  know, has those memorable roles from House Party and Harlem Nuts. Yeah,
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  you're right, exactly, Mitch. Mitch Hepburgh is right up there with Robin
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  Harris as a comedian that was up and coming at the time, but really
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  didn't get his shine. Okay, so now you're gonna make me do some
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  research and figure out who he is. That's so good. So what about
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  Angie her character? If she was I love R and B. So if
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  she was an R and B artist, who would Angie be? Okay,
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  if Angie was an R and B artist, I would think, well,
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  her personality she would be. I would like to say probably Aliyah. You
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  got Aliyah because her attitude. I was thinking, like Laura Hill, that
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  could also possibly work. But you know Aliyah was really focused and driven with
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  her music. You know, she like she was that star that like really
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  he came out and shine bright and was gone just at the peak of her
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  popularity, right, you know, And I feel like Angie is like the
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  same type. You know, she's trying to like bring out the potential and
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  show the best of her people because she has a lot to prove being a
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  Native American woman. Okay, I see with that one. Okay, so
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  we got one on one. One more, Hey would Learner? Okay,
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  if he was a rapper, who would he be? Okay, well,
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  off the top of my head, I guess I would probably have. I
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  guess Hey would probably be like Eminem, you know, as a white guy
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  trying to prove himself and I normally you know, black dominated industry. Oh
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  I I can't kind of see that. Yeah, I can't see that.
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  Once again, Like Angie, he's trying to prove himself, come up with
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  like new ideas and new programs that you know, his boss approve of.
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  And you know, he always has like these hiccups that happened to him that
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  like, you know, set him back a bit, but he still applies
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  himself and it's determined, you know, to have the library run a certain
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  way that may or may not you know, align with his head librarian.
• 35:49
  The same values. He's very conservative. Okay, I can really see that.
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  So you know, we come into a close. You know, I'm
• 36:00
  gonna bring you back because this technical difficulty didn't serve you justice. I know
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  it's not you, it's the stupid Internet. We're gonna blame it on the
• 36:09
  Internet. But in the meantime, tell us how we can follow you,
• 36:15
  we can get your books. Just tell us how we can connect to you.
• 36:21
  Okay. I'm very active on Twitter. I'm still active on Facebook.
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  You know where you found me and everything like that. And I'm also somemi
• 36:30
  active on Tumble. I didn't I don't think I gave you my Tumble,
• 36:35
  but you know I have my Instagram and all my other links are also available
• 36:40
  on Facebook or Twitter. That's like the best way to get in contact with
• 36:45
  me. My books are on Amazon. They're also on Barnes and Noble and
• 36:52
  other different independent books book websites. They're slowly getting into the stores. I'm
• 37:01
  doing what I can, especially around here in Michigan. I managed to get
• 37:07
  them in several libraries and bookstores, so and anybody collect going there, I
• 37:15
  probably just asks for them and they'll probably look them up, which is easy
• 37:20
  and just you know, stock them within a couple of days. But you
• 37:24
  know, most of the stuff is straight, you know, dude, through
• 37:30
  Amazon. It's the best way to get my books quick. And they're discounted
• 37:34
  too. You know. Sometimes I try to like pick them up myself so
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  I can sell them directly on my website, but you know, I can't
• 37:40
  get them all the time, and the prices just start dipping down a little
• 37:45
  bit, so you know, get on all the cheaper. So y'all heard
• 37:51
  it. He said, they're on sale, get them now. So we
• 37:54
  appreciate you being with us tonight. And like I said, you know,
• 37:58
  I'm gonna bring you back. And so which book we're gonna talk about?
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  We're gonna talk a whole circulation or I mean, which book we're gonna die
• 38:07
  sac because you already got me hooked and me working out a library. I
• 38:12
  just want to be like, you know what, I can see them doing
• 38:15
  that. Let's go ahead and let's decide which book we're gonna chat about.
• 38:21
  We can do like a like a little book discussion with everybody, right,
• 38:24
  we could do our own book three for now, but I do have my
• 38:30
  next book is coming out in November. This shit and that's, like I
• 38:36
  said, that's a standalone you know that has nothing to do with the library
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  or nothing like that. And it's a little more modern. It takes place
• 38:43
  in twenty thirteen rather than nineteen ninety something. Okay. It's an interesting kind
• 38:52
  of romantic, kind of suspenseful thriller type book about relationships. And it's pretty
• 39:00
  much singing around this couple that's in the story. They used to be big,
• 39:07
  but if you'll, still a lot of weight in separate different ways,
• 39:09
  and now they pretty much turn the heads everywhere they go. But they still
• 39:14
  have the insecurities of when they were bigger, and you know they still deal
• 39:19
  with like some emotional hang up, some issues. Okay, So, but
• 39:25
  you know you're gonna you're gonna have to keep us posted wonder But again,
• 39:30
  I thank you for being with me tonight, Missus Smith. No, we're
• 39:36
  gonna grab whole circulation and we're gonna start reading guys. Thank you for joining
• 39:43
  us another Saturday night, a new author, another book to add to your
• 39:47
  to be read liss. So remember you can always catch a replay by going
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  on YouTube. All about You forty twos. We have a line up of
• 39:59
  st where you can catch the replay. I am going to attach this along
• 40:04
  with his answers to my questions to scbookgallsenfriends dot com. It'll be up.
• 40:10
  I want to say on Monday, you can go back there and catch the
• 40:14
  replay and we will see you guys, me on Monday because I got another
• 40:21
  author, So join me Monday eight o'clock right here. Thank you missus Smith
• 40:27
  again. Everybody, have a safe, enjoyable Saturday night. Bye. Thank
• 40:38
  you for joining us tonight. We hope you found a new booktory or a
• 40:44
  new author to explore. Join us again in two weeks for sc book Gaals
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