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_BONUS EPISODE__DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  a? Hey? Everyone, this is your girl s see BOOKU eight four
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  to three and we are back again. It is a Thursday night and you
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  ahead and get your pizza, your pizza, your pencil, your kindle and
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  everything so you can write down this author and write down her title and you
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  can get onto this read. Okay, so you guys see bookyuds in friench
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  Chat has the opportunity to talk to author Desibate, righty, Come on up,
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  sweetheart, Come on up, Come on up, Come on up.
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  What is this? How I do it? You are good? You are
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  coming through loud and clear. How are you today? I am doing well?
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  Thank you so much? How are you? Oh girl? Charleston traffic.
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  That's all I can say. Forty five minutes to get home, and
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  y'all can y'all stop moving to Charleston, South Carolina. We were tied it
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  doing that out here in Phoenix, all the California traffic coming here. No,
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  y'all see Phoenix. When I see Phoenix, I think, son,
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  I got time. Yeah, it's finally getting cool. Oh cool, supposed
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  to be like seventy degrees this weekend. Yes, but let's get to this
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  thing, girl, Let's get to it. So first of all, you
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  know you gotta tell us about yourself. Go ahead, and so I am
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  pen name author's d Ashante. I created that name use and my name is
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  Desiri Ashante, So I just created it from that. I have been writing
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  for a very long time, in my mid forties. My first, the
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  first thing I ever wrote, was a short storty story when I was nine.
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  It was published in the local newspaper. Born and raised in New Orleans,
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  and it was called the Life of Lauren, and Lauren was me.
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  Of course, my peachers probably were like, oh, I hope this child
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  isn't going through all of these things. So, of course, me being
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  raised in a Southern Baptist household. What happens in the house stays in the
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  house, you know. So there's that. I am married to my husband
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  who I've been with for twenty one years. We've been married for three forever.
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  We have five children, uh none, none, We don't share any.
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  But I have four he bought one to the table, and two grandsons.
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  We have two grandsons. No, no, we don't. We have
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  four grandsons. Two of my daughters have a boy, and his daughter has
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  two boys. God bless you. I got three nephews. So you know
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  that's that's just me in a nutshell. I'm a no girl till I d
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  I e where I am in the world. I believe Black and Gogle.
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  I'm gonna tell you that. So one of my favorite artists, it's from
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  there. I love Big Freedom. Oh yeah, yeah, she came to
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  Charleston, Okay for our profest. Well I worked that day so I didn't
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  have to pay. I was like, go ahead to sign me up.
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  I loved Big FREEDO. I love it. I love it love. Yeah.
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  So we see that you said that you started writing. You wrote your
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  first short novel at nine years oh nine. What needs you continue going to
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  becoming an author of freedom. It gave me a freedom. When I was
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  coming up in New Orleans. New Orleans was the capital of the murder capital,
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  so of course we had childhoods. We went outside, we came in
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  when the lights came on. However, in the thick of things, there
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  was a lot going on within my household, so I was just right to
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  escape what was going on inside what was going on outside, you know.
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  So that was been a skate for me. And I had my first child
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  when I was fourteen, so right now had to take the back burner.
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  I then started writing poetry because you know, poetry didn't take as long as
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  it took to write a book. So as an adult, my daughter was
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  challenging me because she's a reader as well. So she's like, we would
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  always be like, oh my god, this book could have been so much
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  better if or if I wrote this book, I would have ended it like
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  this. And she's like, I challenged you to write one. I challenged
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  you to write a book, and I said, dull accepted. You had
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  an in house editor. Huh, I wrote my first book that has still
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  not been published. Nope, I never gave my first book up. So
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  I am working on it. I'm working on rewriting because of course the timing
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  the times has changed, so I'm gonna have to do a full rewrite of
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  that book, or I may just end up keeping it, keeping it to
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  myself because it's about eighty five k. So oh wow. But yeah,
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  that's that's how I became an author because my daughter challenged me in house editor
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  and a in house cheerleader. It's something when you have that in house cheerleaders,
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  you know what I'm saying, even though you have to feed them,
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  being them Washington, you know, do all other stuff, just to have
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  that say that, it's warning. I mean, my little girl comes and
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  gives me a hug and a kiss all the time, and lost sometime I'm
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  like, little check please, But then it's like, all right, thank
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  you, push this a little bit more. Thank you, thank you daughter
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  for pushing. So let's get into this. Fell in love with the goon,
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  married a boss. Mm hm so so goon boss, how did you
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  come to this book? And and the title it just go ahead, spill
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  of beans. All right. So my husband is one of my biggest cheerleaders.
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  And I was tossing around titles, tossing around titles and He's like,
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  nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, and then uh so I
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  can't remember the title I had, but he made a play on it,
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  and he was like, what because I used his last Our last name is
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  Riley, my last my married name is Riley, my my my last name
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  is Jackson. Okay, So the character Jackson I made, I spelled j
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  a x orien and the female character Riley I spelled different from his last name.
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  So that's where we got the name from. And he was like,
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  well, we're gonna put a twist on it. We're gonna she's gonna be
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  the goon. So that's how she got her last name Goonsby. Uh,
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  and they call her gooney or goon and the title. He was like,
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  okay, So since we're doing her last name Goonsby and he's gonna be a
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  boss, we can do how about fall in love with a goon married a
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  boss because he initially falls in love first, So he falls in love with
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  a goon and eventually she marries a boss because he becomes the boss in the
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  town. So hold up, so you're telling me the home girl is the
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  goon and the dude is the boss. We're nine times out of ten.
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  And the book is the Open Way, Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
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  Look at everybody who read the book with in me like, hey,
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  how did you what made you make the girl the goon? You know,
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  I'm just like because every goon we read about is a man. Yes,
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  yes, and that is true. The game just as hard as they can
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  play it for ya. Hey, y'all, hear you just answered and asked
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  my question because I was going to ask, like, why make the female
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  on the goon? But you know what, that's it's a nice the It
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  really came from they. She was raised in floss to kill, okay,
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  so she had to have a harder, a hard outer shell. Yep,
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  that is correct. With everything that she went through within with that family that
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  she had, she had to find a way to get from under that fell.
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  And the only way she could find as such a young girl was to
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  get out there and hustle, and she had multiple her So that's what made
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  a goon. So you are answer my next questions in ten words of lection,
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  see look at it. So I'm gonna ask you this one. What
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  is your favorite line from this book? You can only choose one line?
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  Read line I have so many, but okay, I give you two.
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  I give you two. I'm gonna go with. My absolute favorite line was
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  Goon Gooney and Jackson had got into it, got into it, and he
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  was she was leaving. She was like, you know what, I don't
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  have time for this. I'm leaving, and as she's walking the right away,
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  he runs up to her and grabs her and he says, I love
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  you with my whole soul and I won't be responsible for walking away from God's
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  blessing and that that that did it for me. Dang, that's like something
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  meet me at the altar and your white dress type stuff right this. Yeah,
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  And I guess my second favorite line would be when she got into all
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  that trouble later on in life. Her she she was finally adopted right before
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  her eighteenth birthday and that family loved the loved her her like the whole family
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  loved her, so they surprised her right before her birthday with an adoption decree.
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  And whenever she got into trouble, her mom went to go visit her
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  and she said she said to her, she said, I I need you
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  to understand that the will of God won't take you where the spirit of God
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  won't protect you. Keep your head up. And that was deep for me
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  because that was something that my mother would always say to me when I thought,
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  when I thought times were tough and it getting the thick of things,
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  and she'll be like, what did I tell you? What did I teach
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  you? When you at rock bottom? You don't have any other way to
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  go? But uh, that was profound that I I've never thought of it
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  that way. I might have glanced at it, but that here you say
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  it like that, I never thought about it that way. You know what?
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  We on that note, you guys, we're gonna take a break real
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  quick. You know, we got to do our commercials. So y'all hold
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  tight. She come back with some more cause you know, like it's it.
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  She married, fell in love with a goon, but married a boss.
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  So you guys, turn off flight tonight ONMG, that's think a shower
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  So stop procrastinating and let's get started with writing that book. Welcome back,
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  Welcome back everyone. I told you heard that turned off the light and
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  did she come up? So I'm thinking that your book is streetlet. It
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  the title. But then you know, nowadays they may say street lit.
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  But then when you look, you get into the book, you're like,
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  nah, this ain't street lit. This ain't how how the young lady told
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  She said? When I read a book, I want to imagine somebody's sitting
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  on the corner with a cigarette hanging out their mom fixed somebody cop But you
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  Well, every time I'm asked that question, I tell people I didn't choose
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  street lit. Lit chose me. You know. I write. I just
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  I create the title. I cannot. I create the title and I
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  the right, you know? So I just write stuff that I feel like
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  you know. So, and then on top of that, if a story
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  happening. This ain't what we're here for. So either you're gonna write what
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  to ask you, it seems like your characters drive you, right, they
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  drive me. They are definitely the drivers. I'm just a passenger, okay.
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  You know. I just like to be able to provide that same sense
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  of being in it's so engaged in the story that whatever problems you're having in
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  life are nonexistent. So I consider myself that I rodmance murderers, because there's
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  gonna be there's gonna be romance, there's gonna be murdered. And I was
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  gonna ask you about that. So that one, because when I didn't even
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  know how to pronounce that. When I saw that, I'm personally thank you
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  because when people see me they don't think that I would read street lit.
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  When I tell them I work at a library, the first thing they say
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  is your library got books like that. I'm like, yes, we do,
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  and I'm very proud, and I'm gonna walk you to this out and
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  I'm gonna show you a couple of them. So for me, that is
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  why I read streetlet because this is not something that will happen my everyday life,
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  and I read to take me away from whatever is going on, Like
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  if I'm really stressed and I'm at work, Oh, you may hear Little
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  Wayne, you may hear Shirley Murdoch, and you might hear Tied tr Bette
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  drum pe Key, and then you might hear a little bit of somebody else
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  reading something that I can't even say says I can't trouble. But you know
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  what I'm trying to say, excuse me, allergy is really kicking. So
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  that title now seeing them one more time to me erodimance murderous. How in
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  the world did you come up with that one? I was like, uh,
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  I was just messing words because my characters are grown, so they gonna
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  have sex. And for the most part, I like to give happy most
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  of them. Sometimes the characters don't get the happy end and that the reader
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  want them to have, because sometimes I have characters that don't want to be
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  in love, but they want to be romanced. They want the cow but
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  not the calf. So I have a few female characters that's like, I'm
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  just in it for the ride, so that that's my romance part of it.
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  And then I initially started off basing all of my characters off of people
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  I knew, you know, and situations that I had been a part of.
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  So, like I said, I was born in the murder born and
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  raised in the murder capital, so there's a lot of murder. Uh.
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  And I fight with one of my friends every year because anybody can get it,
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  man, woman or child. Oh oh you ruthless? Okay. Every
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  year every year she would just like send me a random text blah blah blah,
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  and I'm like, girl, what's wrong with you? You remember you
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  killed that such and such And I'm like, I didn't kill that. The
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  character was dead. For the characters, oh wow, yeah, even my
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  daughter, my daughter. When my daughter read now this is a book called
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  Freaking You, it was don't run asked that that quick? What is this
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  then freaking you Okay, yeah, so there is two horrible debts. My
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  daughter called me at the beginning when the first one happened that that one wasn't
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  a murder she died. It was the main character's mom. So she was
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  like, Mom, you could have prepared me for this, and I'm like,
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  uh no, you're a reader just like everybody else. Got to the
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  next the other part, which is midway the book, She's like, I
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  can't believe you would do that, and I'm like, I didn't do it.
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  So every time Nadine, when when Nadine, she'll post it on my
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  wall, like she'll literally posted on my wall cursing me out about the baby
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  that got murdered. Oh wow around when they do that stuff like that,
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  and my daughter would chime me and I'm just like, it wasn't even my
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  idea. Like I was trying to move on. I was trying to get
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  the character to do something different, and she's like, I can't live without
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  my child, So you know what, if you want to close my story
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  out, you're gonna do this the way I want to do it. And
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  I was literally stuck on in on that scene for about six days. Hmmm.
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  So let's let's let's have a little fun with this question. So let's
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  bring out the character Jackson. Who would be the celebrity to play Jackson in
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  the movie fell in Love with the Goon, married a boss? Who would
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  be the celebrity actor because of his character build and work of I would choose
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  Damns and interests, the little boy from Snowfall. Oh, wow, because
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  he has a beautiful smile, he's charming, he's chocolate. Uh, he's
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  everything that. He's well spoken, you know, he's everything that Jackson is.
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  Wow. Okay, authoress, Well, I'm sorry. Actress Riley Tayanna
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  Taylor. She would have to be Riley because Riley is wild, she's loud,
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  she's pretty, she's fit, uh and she just uncut. And Teyanna
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  Taylor is all of that. I can see that. I can't I can't
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  see that. I can see that. Yeah, I can see that.
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  Well, okay, let's take it one more step and then well, you
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  know, get your information. Excuse me? Who would be the director?
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  Who? Oh, the one director that I would have wanted is no longer
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  here, Old John Singleton because he made movies for us. What you said?
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  You know who I was thinking, I was thinking Spike Lee, you
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  know what, and that that was my second. That's my second, that's
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  my runner up. Okay, Spike Lee. He makes movies for us too.
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  I was truly thinking Spike Lee. Man, Yeah, I would definitely
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  go with Spike Lee because my first choice passed away. Okay, Okay,
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  So now we're getting to the end of the broadcast, so you know,
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  you got to give us all the rundown, even though it's scrolling across the
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  bottom, so you guys can catch the replay and catch all her handles at
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  the bottom. But I would like to say, what would you like to
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  say to your new readers, old readers, future readers, upcoming readers,
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  your audience. What would you like to say to that I started this journey
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  in twenty seventeen. My book got kicked back a few times and I was
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  getting discouraged. Had I had this one reader that we shared books. When
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  we work together, we would share books and she's like, this, don't
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  give up. She's like, I know that it's in you because we would
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  always have the same discussion that myself and my daughter would have and she's like,
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  don't give up. And it's readers like her who she does not read
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  digital books, so every every book that I have I had to at least
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  get one author copy to send to her so she she would it's people like
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  her that make keep me motivated to go. In this last couple I've been
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  on a hiatus because I lost my mom in August and it was a wild
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  run. But I would like to say to my new readers, if you're
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  looking for something out the box but real, at the same time, I'm
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  your I'm the author that she's looking for. I feed people to alligators.
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  Uh you know I I just do all of this off the walks up that
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  actually happens. But at the same time, I take you to a place
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  where you can be free. I'm trying. I'm I use words that you
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  might need to use a dictionary for, but it's not overwhelming, you know.
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  I keep it as simple as I can with being complex. Love it,
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  love it, love it, loving it, loving it. That's my
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  alarm. Oh I work nights. I work nights, so my alarm goes
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  off at five point thirty. But you know what, I wanted you to
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  know that you have my thoughts and my prayers. On this coming Monday,
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  it will be two years since I lost my mom, so I totally understand
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  how you feel and knowing well, I got staff day that day, so
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  I can't sit up and read a book. You know what, be quiete,
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  So give us your handles, because you already told us that you know
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  your books are gonna take us to a different place, so we need to
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  know where to follow you so we can get all the info on your your
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  new books, your upcoming books, all of it. So oh there,
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  it goes across the screen. But if you want to go ahead and give
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  it so on Facebook. I am Desirie Authors, did Shante Riley. I
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  have a reading work called I'm Reading. I have Snapchat and I think that's
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  just desiree J eight or something like that, or just underscore Desiree. I
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  have Twitter at Desiree j. Instagram is just underscore Desiree. So yeah,
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  Instagram and Snapchat is just underscore Desiree. And TikTok is Desiree Jackson eight,
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  I think. But yeah, I like to laugh, I like to play.
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  I have multiple businesses, so you'll see uh books, you'll see cupcakes,
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  you'll see chocolate covered strawberries at any given moment. My strictly author page
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  on Instagram is author is underscore Nya Jante. All right, well you guys,
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  y'all got her rundown. She got a talk of cupcakes and strawberries and
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  lord the fact girl and me got real happy. Well, we want to
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  thank you for coming out and talking to us about your book and gaining new
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  readers and and this just being you, and we thank you for the hood
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  books. Oh yeah, thank you for having me having you guys. It's
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  another author another night. Join me Saturday because I'm gonna have another author for
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  you, same time. Eight pm. SC Book Gals of Chats, You
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  author to explore. Join us again in two weeks for sc Book Gals and
• 32:30
  French Chat. Have a good evening.