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Page-Turner Talk: Talese Nicole in the SCBookGal Hot Seat | DA CREW PODCAST LIVE 8PM EST SUNDAY-FRIDAY| · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Luck. Gentlemen, May I have your attention? Please? The show
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  Speaker 1: starts in ten line seven. Attention please. The show starts
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  Speaker 1: in ten line seven six five four three two go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl. Hey everyone, this is
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  Speaker 2: a girl se book yard eight four three Yes since Monday, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here. So why are y'all questioning me? Am? I
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  Speaker 2: supposed to sit on these good authors. And I tell y'all,
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  Speaker 2: come on, now, y'all, this author here, this fire a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful disaster. How many of us have been involved with
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  Speaker 2: one of those? My beautiful disaster created a ten year
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  Speaker 2: old who is up forget grabs. If anybody wants her,
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  Speaker 2: just give me a coat. But tonight, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: another wonderful author who is here with us. She's gonna
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  Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about this beautiful book that
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  Speaker 2: I must say. Guess what, you guys. She's gonna tell
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  Speaker 2: you all about her publishing how she would who I love?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, which is one of my favorite publishing houses.
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  Speaker 2: I stay in their Facebook group. I'm always in their
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group, and the way they interact keeps the readers involved. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I am about to bring up author tay Leise Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: Come on up.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, it's like that intro girl.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to sc bookyuds and friends. How is your day been?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. It's been okay today. I've been
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  Speaker 3: traveling this weekend, so stillo jet lag, and then I
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  Speaker 3: had to get home traveling, I had to get home
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  Speaker 3: go to work. So I'm just I'm glad to just
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  Speaker 3: sit down and you know, relax.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, we thank you for going to these events
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  Speaker 2: and just blessing us with your talents. So thank you
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  Speaker 2: for all the hard work you do.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: So, since we got all that nice stuff out the way,
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  Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, a little bit about me. I'm Talise Nicole. I
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  Speaker 3: am very very very new as a writer. I started
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  Speaker 3: off doing coaching, so life coaching, self love coach, and
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  Speaker 3: then I had a blog on talisaquote dot com that
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  Speaker 3: did pretty good. And then I would write short stories
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  Speaker 3: here and there and put them out. I put one
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  Speaker 3: out to this Facebook group. I think it's black Girls
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  Speaker 3: right too. I want to say that's the one. And
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  Speaker 3: I came across this other author named Samira Alexander. I
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  Speaker 3: always shout her out every time because she really, she's
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  Speaker 3: very Uh, she's my career wouldn't have I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: started without her. But she read that the short story
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  Speaker 3: of a beautiful disaster, and she reached out to me
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  Speaker 3: and she was like, you know, I'm very active just
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  Speaker 3: as a reader in the community. So she was like,
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  Speaker 3: Bata read for her, which I did, and she put
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  Speaker 3: me in this other group I see you reading whose
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  Speaker 3: event I was at this weekend and she was like,
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  Speaker 3: they do freestyle Fridays. I want you to just you know,
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  Speaker 3: sign up for one. Just it's a random topic. You
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it is until Friday, and then writes
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  Speaker 3: a story. Then I wrote one and she was like, no,
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  Speaker 3: you're not sitting on this no more. This is a gift.
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  Speaker 3: She was like, let's do this, and we me and
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  Speaker 3: her got together and we did. We co authored a
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  Speaker 3: book called Silent Night, Dark Desires that happened in November
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  Speaker 3: and ever since then. It's a it's actually a Christmas book,
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  Speaker 3: so but it's a it's a it's a horror. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like a Christmas you think Christmas time, you think
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  Speaker 3: it's cute, but no, it's like what could go wrong
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  Speaker 3: at Christmas? Everything can go wrong in this book, everything
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  Speaker 3: did go wrong, so and yeah, so ever since then,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'm gonna do this, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So she took me under her wing. I learned a
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  Speaker 3: lot in a short time. And yeah, that's pretty much
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  Speaker 3: my story of becoming a writer. So I like to
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  Speaker 3: write thrillers. Thrillers are thriller and horror is probably gonna
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  Speaker 3: be my first love. But I like romance too, so.
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  Speaker 2: Thrillers and horrors. So when the purge happened, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: need you to come down here in so see.
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  Speaker 3: I know I know what's gonna happen because if I
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  Speaker 3: write that, oh, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: You can give me all kinds of ideas. How you're
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  Speaker 2: right here? Were so tell us about a beautiful disaster.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So it started off as that short story and
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  Speaker 3: black Girl's right too, and I wrote it. I was
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  Speaker 3: very upset. I actually named the character and from the
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  Speaker 3: short story after the person I was upset with. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he gets ended with the hammer, very very brutally.
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  Speaker 3: So I wrote that and I put it out there
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  Speaker 3: and everybody loved it. It's something that you can really
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  Speaker 3: relate to just anybody, women, men. Once you are scorned
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  Speaker 3: or you know, you put so much into something a
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  Speaker 3: relationship or anything and you just you it's like you
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  Speaker 3: just snapped, Like no, I've been doing this this whole time.
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  Speaker 3: So it's more I like, I like to write stories
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  Speaker 3: that blend with twisted, like beautiful with the twisted, because
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  Speaker 3: that's really just what life is. Life is just beautiful
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  Speaker 3: moments mixed with unfortunate things. And I wanted to be realistic.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I was very angry, so
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  Speaker 3: it was like, no, you're about to get it. So
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  Speaker 3: that's how the story came about. But when I published
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  Speaker 3: the full novel, I really got into a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: went through a little crime, a little crime, thriller, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of thrills, and I just made it. I made
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  Speaker 3: it a full story. So it's it's I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud of what it came to.
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, you like, I like to say,
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  Speaker 2: you kill them softly?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay, She.
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  Speaker 2: Says she wrote the book about someone in the end
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  Speaker 2: with the Hamilton, How in the world did you do it?
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  Speaker 2: I was just about to ask, do the characters talk
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  Speaker 2: to you? But I'm scared to ask.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do they talk, they do they talk. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: there's a one one detective in there that is really
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  Speaker 3: he's just a grumpy old detective. And I was up late,
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  Speaker 3: I was I don't I didn't know what direction I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to go with him. And I was just like,
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  Speaker 3: if I was just a like a forty five year
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  Speaker 3: old man that's just hit it like a brick wall
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  Speaker 3: in my career and some little young guy comes around
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  Speaker 3: and takes all thunder, well, how would I feel? So yep,
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  Speaker 3: I had to stay up with him, with that detective
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  Speaker 3: Roland Greer, stay up with him and really figure him out.
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  Speaker 3: But I liked how it all came.
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  Speaker 2: So you started out with your blog Life Coach blog
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  Speaker 2: Short Stories. How has been a life coach? And we
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  Speaker 2: just talked backstage at your mother. How has that played
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  Speaker 2: into your writing? Do you use some of the things
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  Speaker 2: for your writing or how? How does it tie in? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, it all times in when I was coaching and
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  Speaker 3: just listening to other people's issues and what they wanted
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  Speaker 3: to get sorted out, I will put myself in their
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  Speaker 3: place too. I would say, you know, I maybe would
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  Speaker 3: not have done that that way, but I understand why
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  Speaker 3: you did because of you know what you were going through.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, a lot of that, and just being a
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  Speaker 3: mom and having to figure things out. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: was a young mother. We talked about that too. I
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  Speaker 3: was a young mom, a teen mom, and I had
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  Speaker 3: to figure out everything. I had to figure out relationships,
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  Speaker 3: how to be a mom, how to cope with the
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  Speaker 3: reality of you're gonna do this by yourself that wasn't
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  Speaker 3: the plan. And just learned a lot of different life skills.
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  Speaker 3: And I always loved writing. I wrote all types of papers,
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  Speaker 3: and I want awards. When I think I was like
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  Speaker 3: third or fifth grade, I wrote something about Lisa Left
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  Speaker 3: Eye Lopez. I wrote something about her when she died,
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  Speaker 3: and it won some kind of award. I can't really remember.
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  Speaker 3: My mom she talks about it a lot. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just blended all my life experiences. And some of
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  Speaker 3: the characters are a lot of me myself, but others
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  Speaker 3: are the other people. If I, if I was going
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  Speaker 3: through this, you know, these actions that this character does
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  Speaker 3: in this story will make sense, So I try to
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  Speaker 3: make them very relatable.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. And
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of authors they they use their
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  Speaker 2: life experience, So I like that that gives the book
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  Speaker 2: a personal touch, personal feel, So you know, I sometimes
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  Speaker 2: feel that reading in the author, sometimes you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: a part of their soul. So I like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Why why killing them? Why horror? It's a very genre
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to African American readers. So why that genre?
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I just first of all, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a little different than a lot of people. I like
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  Speaker 3: to be scared. I like to that thrill of not
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  Speaker 3: knowing what's about to happen. It gets me like my
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  Speaker 3: heart gets it pumping, and I like it.
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  Speaker 2: No, we cannot go two movies together because I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to you about to die? What about to happen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? And then it's so funny because I'm the one
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  Speaker 3: that's under the blanket. I'm at the movies like this
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  Speaker 3: under the blanket. They're like, you the one one to
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  Speaker 3: come see this, movies like yep, and we're gonna stay.
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  Speaker 3: We don't stay. But I just like I like that thrill.
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  Speaker 3: I like to not know and I like to really
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  Speaker 3: be surprised. And I'm like, oh, that's you know that?
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  Speaker 3: So I think thriller and horror just does that for me.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess your book has a lot of twists
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  Speaker 2: and turns.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the Beautiful Disaster does. Yeah, even in the opening
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  Speaker 3: you didn't You would never see it coming if I
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  Speaker 3: didn't just tell you.
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  Speaker 2: So, you, guys, I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: I have not read this book. This book is on
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  Speaker 2: my to be read list. Did y'all know me? Your
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  Speaker 2: girl was a cover girl and this book by itself,
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  Speaker 2: with that cover, which we won't talk about a little later,
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  Speaker 2: was enough for me to add it to my list.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome, but we're going any father. Let's talk about Nicole.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: I understand by the synopsis Botanical Shop, which is I
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  Speaker 2: love the fact that your characters are not the typical
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  Speaker 2: African American characters. Thank you because it makes me. It
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  Speaker 2: makes me think more. Okay, I have to really put
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  Speaker 2: myself in the book, bical what are you doing? Plaints for?
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  Speaker 1: What is this?
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  Speaker 2: But it's the way from the more so I like that.
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  Speaker 2: And Detroit Botanical shop in Detroit. I'm gonna tell you
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  Speaker 2: what I'm thinking. We shop in Florida. But tell me
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  Speaker 2: about this character in the inspiration for her hmmm.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Nicole was inspired a lot from Talis Nicole. For myself,
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  Speaker 3: she's very there's a part of me which I feel
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  Speaker 3: like is every woman where you can be very, very
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  Speaker 3: very sweet and very naive. And you know, you put
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  Speaker 3: yourself in these situations, these relationships with people that you
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  Speaker 3: know you don't need to be around. You know you
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  Speaker 3: should have been stopped, but you keep going anyway, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like you cutting yourself. You already hurting yourself by
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  Speaker 3: just saying, but you stay anyway because you really want
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  Speaker 3: it to work. But when you get tired, when you
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  Speaker 3: get to that point and you snap, it's like I
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  Speaker 3: did everything that I could do. Why would you do that?
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  Speaker 3: And this is the consequence of doing that? So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Nicola is she's very soft, she's very fragile. She's been
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  Speaker 3: hurt a lot, and when she gets hurt, people start
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  Speaker 3: going missing, people go missing. And her plants are shining
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  Speaker 3: even brighter and healthier.
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  Speaker 2: And the plant is what kind of murderous stuff you
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  Speaker 2: got going on here?
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  Speaker 3: The plants are healthy, vibrants and beautiful and bouncy. You
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  Speaker 3: can buy them, sometimes they don't.
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  Speaker 2: Sell, y'all. This is okay, this is getting scary. The
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  Speaker 2: next thing, you know, I'm gonna ask this question because
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  Speaker 2: y'all don't mean is she fleeting feeding the plants the blood?
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  Speaker 3: Please say no, I don't know. You gotta read the book.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta read author, like, look the book. I'm working
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  Speaker 2: on a review right now. Your book might be pushed
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  Speaker 2: to side. I'm sorry, but this isn't kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I understand my TBR.
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  Speaker 2: Girl, I don't. I don't even want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: a TVR list. I just's laun jesus, I can't even
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  Speaker 2: go down that road. So Detective Eric Robinson tell us
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  Speaker 2: a little about about him, says, my understanding is that
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  Speaker 2: there's some nopsist and I'm like, y'all know that I've
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  Speaker 2: not read the book. But he meets the poet and
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  Speaker 2: I'm far fetching she not killed a poet?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, he's gone in chapter one. Yeah. The whole
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  Speaker 3: story is about Detective Eric Robinson trying to solve the
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  Speaker 3: case of a missing person who happens to be Jamal
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  Speaker 3: the poet. What she had to kill him? Dad? In
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  Speaker 3: the first chapter, you know what, I asked a question,
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  Speaker 3: I said, what what makes a thriller book a five star?
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  Speaker 3: For you? And everybody? Most people were like somebody needs
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  Speaker 3: to die immediately. Okay, I get people what they want.
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  Speaker 2: In the first chapter. Come on, first.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter to give you people what they want.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know what it's always them offers with the smile
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  Speaker 2: that will kill you with the pen and then come
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  Speaker 2: back to you the next day. How you doing, girl?
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  Speaker 2: You know, kill we with the opinion? Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I was just yeah. So the whole book is just
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  Speaker 3: based off that short story. So that's what happened in
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  Speaker 3: the short story, and it's already out there, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're like, well, what happens next? So I just continued
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  Speaker 3: it from what happened next? But the chapter one is
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  Speaker 3: just a short recap of what happened and then we
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  Speaker 3: go into what happens next.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, she's kevin people and then she talking about
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  Speaker 2: short recaps. I just don't even understand what to do
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  Speaker 2: with my life with you with this book. So we
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  Speaker 2: already told y'all a little bit about the book. So
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  Speaker 2: now we're about to go to these funs questions I've
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  Speaker 2: been telling you about. Okay, okay, alrighty. I love music,
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  Speaker 2: I love movies mhm, and I like to incorporate that
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  Speaker 2: into my books.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: Who would pay Nicole if your book was turned to
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  Speaker 2: a movie, and why would they play her?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a little bit of what I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and I know it's not the situation of the book,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm thinking about that chicken acrimony because Nicole sound
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  Speaker 2: three read How do you see three winds shy of
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  Speaker 2: a sale or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yeah, so you mean Taragia Taragi.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. I'm thinking that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be I could see Taragi playing call. I could
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  Speaker 3: see that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can get as who would it be?
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  Speaker 3: Whom? That's so hard? If I could get anybody. I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking me Along at first in my head. She
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  Speaker 3: still looks so young, Nicole is. She's a little young,
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  Speaker 3: she's like thirty. But me along still, but she's still
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  Speaker 3: a good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, me along, I can see that. I can see that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can see me along. I can see that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So we did an actress. Let's think of a singer.
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  Speaker 2: Who would she be? Singer? Huh? I'm thinking Monica. And
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  Speaker 2: the only reason why I'm thinking Monica because I know
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  Speaker 2: there is something not right upstairs with Monica.
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  Speaker 3: She's from Atlanta. So she a hood for sure?
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  Speaker 2: Monica or little more or Michelle she's another one that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably Ca Michelle. I could seek Michelle doing it
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  Speaker 3: because you know, you seek Michelle in a movie you like,
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  Speaker 3: because she she's already a little some screw's missing, so
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  Speaker 3: you already expect, like, okay, she about to be somebody. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I would say Michelle, that's a good Yeah, Ca Michelle, alrighty?
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  Speaker 2: Which Rapper would play Detective Eric?
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  Speaker 3: Who somebody fine? Because Detective Eric Robinson was fine in
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  Speaker 3: my head when I was writing, Man, I know that
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  Speaker 3: would be that would be that would be really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, yeah, I just had a moment I apologize.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Rapper, Oh I'm bad with this. I'm so bad
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  Speaker 3: with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know That's why I don't give you all these questions.
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  Speaker 3: You got me want to look up Rapper. I can't
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  Speaker 3: even think of nobody.
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  Speaker 2: I also saw k R S one.
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  Speaker 3: KRS maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I don't think he can be a
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  Speaker 2: DMX DMS is this bad boy all the way. I
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  Speaker 2: can't see DMX ever being any type of law enforcement figure.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can't think of Rapper, how about I'm
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  Speaker 2: male actor? Who would it be? And why.
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  Speaker 3: It had to be somebody that plays like really noble characters,
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  Speaker 3: like really noble.
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  Speaker 2: Men, noble characters.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I would say Loreen's taped, Yeah, Loreene
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  Speaker 3: s Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's a cute lit shit or the one, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: can see that, or what's the dude who Makai Pfiffer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Makai Pfiffer. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, from what I've read, I can see those two characters.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: But wait, hold up, Lifetime is on the line and
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  Speaker 2: they love the fact that your movie about a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: disaster was a hit, so they say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna do a biopic on you. Who would you
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: give the honor of playing you? And why?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Oh dang see I oh man, And I keep thinking
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: about just like local Detroit actresses and things like that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: So I would hope, you know, because if something like
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: that wasn't happen, I would definitely be all hometown. Like
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: I'm starting from home first, you know, black black authors, writers.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I want like a full black studio, and I want
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Detroit first. So I keep thinking about, Shoot, I'm gonna
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: mess her name up, makiwa Albritton. She does some local movies,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: she do a lot of local movies.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I would think her and why did you choose her?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I feel like our personalities are similar on the screen.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: She's a great actress. And then just even like her
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: tiktoks and her or her skit videos and stuff, she
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: just seems so like she seems a lot like me.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: So I would think I would think she'll do good job.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Well if she seems to not like you, she seems
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: like she is a wonderful and great person.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate it.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I try to be she you know what. You can't
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: see that, and you a horror writer and you be
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: killing people in your book.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: To be I try. I'm nice. I let people, you know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: go out, and I'm like, okay, and keep talking. You're
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: gonna be next in the book, so listen.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I can see her at the desk right now. Yeah,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: she kill your characters smaller at you're like, yeah, you did.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: When I first wrote A Beautiful Disaster, that's short story,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I was on this laptop and I was just going
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and it had got dark. I didn't even notice. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: started in the daytime and it got dark and it
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: was just the light from my laptop. I said, oh,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, shoot, I ain't feed my child baby
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: like you, coach. She said, yeah, I was some chicken
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: nuggets and okay.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Right after just get finished killing this person, we're going
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: to McDonald's need Okay.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Right, I was going, Man, So.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: What does literary success look like in me?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: To you?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Oh? See, that is so loaded, But it's really a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: simple answer. It's whatever you want it to be. It's
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: different for everybody, and for me, it just looks like
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: people really enjoying my book. That means that I've done
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: all the research to make great characters. I keep taking
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: these different writers versus trying to expand how I write.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: That means I really took it serious and I really
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: put it all in and that people like it. So
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you know, money and stuff that would
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: be nice. I don't want to work. I would rather
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: have I'd rather write full time. I mean, that's the goal.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: But to be successful in it, I just feel like
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you are somebody's favorite author. That to me, that's success
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: right there.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: So, and the fact that you're actually still evolving your
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: craft is beautiful. A lot of people, once they put
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: out that first book, they don't think to go back
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and take writing classes. They don't think to go back
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and read other authors. They just think, Okay, I did
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and I've arrived and that's it. But the fact that
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you are investing in yourself, investing in your craft, that's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: for me a reader like me. That makes me want
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: to go get your book and just be like, I
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: read it. I just bought it because she cool like that,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I do. Yeah, I'm always a student.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I'll forever be a student. And I love all these
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: indie authors. I'm just I'm obsessed with them. I think
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: they threw me in the group with them, so we
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: have like little messages every day, and I learned so
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: much from them. They always throwing things that they probably
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: don't even realize, and I'm like, oh that makes sense,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: So I take it, I apply it, I forever. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: love different elements in all of them, so the best
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: parts of them, I try to take it and make
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: it my own. Like Octavia Grant, She's so unhinged her characters,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: like you think what I did with a hammer? She
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: doing all kind of stuff and I'm just like, how
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: you even think of that? So she makes me want
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: to oh, Octavia Grant, hold on, I'm gonna get Grant.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: And then there's Kenya mass Dime. She is like, she's
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a O G. I don't even see how I didn't
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: know about her prior to last year. So when I
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: first found out about her, her stories are timeless, They're
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: so well crafted.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Samirah Alexander, she's the one that put me on. She
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: brought me into the the reader's world. She opened that
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: door her hers the first story that I read by her,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: she has so much going on. It was all psychological
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: and I like to think. So I was like, Wow,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: this is amazing, keep on going. Then there's Kara and James,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: She's amazing. There's Anna j Anna j was I think
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I believe she started off Rodica. Yeah see, uh huh,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: and now she writing thriller and so she when I
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: got from her was that if you want to write,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: just write. You don't have to be boxed into one
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: genre if you want to expand. So like my new
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: book that's coming out September ninth is a romance. So oh,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to find where I'm you know, my love
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: after man.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I love authors that do not put theirself in a box.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Because what you don't think you might be successful in
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you may be way successful than you thought. So I
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: love the fact that that's happening.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: So we're getting close to the end of our time.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: But before we let you go, please tell us how
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: we could follow you on social media, get a copy
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of your book, just give us the rundown.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: So Facebook is I'm talisn Coole. Everywhere you can type
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: me talis Nicole. Instagram and TikTok are a little different.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: It's Love Talise Nicole. That was my blog when I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: had my my blog. So it's at love talis Nicole
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: talisnico dot com. You can subscribe to my mailing list
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: and I got all kinds of stuff like exclusive. I
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: got a little games that I play. I like to
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: do giveaways. Yeah, talis nico dot com. You can find me.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: You can find any anything on Twisa, code dot com.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: So you guys, you know that all the information that
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: you have, But this author is scrolling at the bottom
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: of the screen. The replay will be instant as as
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: soon as we get off. If you go on YouTube,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you can get the replay. I thank you for being
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: with me tonight and being my friend. During the purge,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I got you. We're gonna have to exchange number because
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: when we hear that sound and we'll be like, hey,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: she got my back.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna tell you this is what we're gonna do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: We're gonna stay inside. Okay, we gotta stay inside.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, man, I got one person I
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: want to get sorry, I want to get a love.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I write too much, I read too much. We're gonna
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: be inside. Don't trust nobody, nobody.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: So should I go with that mindset in your book
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: to not trust anybody, don't trust nobody. I like a
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: book like that. Well, thank you for joining us tonight
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: and giving us another great read. You guys should go
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: out and get a beautiful disaster onside. Look right there,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Look at that cover, y'all. You can't. I thought the
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: book was about romance. She ain't loving them, she's killing them.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: See it's a real poetic. It's like a love letter.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: And then it's yeah, see you said that, And I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: gonna tell you what came in my mind. One two spirit,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: He's coming for you, that's in my mind. But she
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't kill a man in the first chapter.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you'll see if you just read the first chapter.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I think that you'll you'll get exactly what I'm saying.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, just read chapter one and then let me
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: know what you think.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to read the book, but I'm also scared
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: that she's so calm at killing people.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Don't trust nobody, not even your local Floris.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you again for being with us tonight, you guys.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Remember I'm gonna be back tomorrow with another author, author
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Black Queen. Please remember there's no such thing as a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: old book because not everybody has read every book. Again,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: thank you, miss Nicole for joining us tonight. Y'all, go
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: grab the book. A Beautiful Disaster, good Night everywhere. Bye. No,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: she's killing people in the book. I don't even know
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: what thing. I'm actually really have to go, y'all, mea
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: get this