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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST_LIVE ON DA CREW PODCAST- SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR ALINA SMITH · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh down in South Carolina where the stories rise. As
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  Speaker 1: a queen with a mission.
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  Speaker 2: Fire ran her eyes twenty years in.
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  Speaker 1: Counting, serving wisdom on the shelves, helping voices find the
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  Speaker 1: coverage to believe in themselves.
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  Speaker 2: She opens up the pages less.
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  Speaker 1: They're hidden, story, shine the black and brown.
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  Speaker 3: Off, the stepping bolder in the time.
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  Speaker 2: With a mic and a message.
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  Speaker 4: She's changing the scene.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody knows her name.
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  Speaker 2: She's a literary queen on the librarylse of the five stream.
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  Speaker 2: Wi y'all say you wake up?
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  Speaker 5: The dreams is day night and day.
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  Speaker 2: Leans in true scrimball.
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  Speaker 3: Let it all begin.
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  Speaker 1: To see book go keep shutting up's bringing story.
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  Speaker 2: But true scrimball, we see.
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  Speaker 1: Little go let the hole, see trush crim and see
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  Speaker 1: it from the page of the Queen.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, it's another Tuesday night and this is your
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  Speaker 3: girl s see book out eight four three.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I ask you, how are you.
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? For me? I am good.
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  Speaker 3: I am back and I'm happy to be back, trying
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  Speaker 3: to get back on track. But you know what it is,
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  Speaker 3: what it is. It's actually was cool today in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Got a little hot this morning. But when I took
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  Speaker 3: a walk. It was like eighty eight degrees. So now
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  Speaker 3: we're good. Okay, But y'all know what we're here for
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  Speaker 3: a new book and a new author, So tonight. Now
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  Speaker 3: I know y'all know I'm bad at means, so I
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  Speaker 3: want to say it's a Lena or a lot of Smith.
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  Speaker 2: So let me tell y'all a little bit about the ath. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: She is an author, a.
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  Speaker 5: Mental health nurse, practitioner, entrepreneur, doctorial candidate whose writing blend's
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  Speaker 5: real life emotion, resilience, love, suspense, and personal transformation.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all, that was a whole whole, a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: words going on there, but we all read it every day, okay.
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  Speaker 3: She writes across multiple genres which I love, include romance,
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  Speaker 3: dark romance, psychological thriller, urban fiction, and inspirational fiction. Through
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  Speaker 3: her books, she creates stories that speak up to healing,
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  Speaker 3: second chances, complicated love which I know a lot about survival, ammunition,
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  Speaker 3: and the strength it takes to rebuild at the life
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  Speaker 3: partest season, Spring up, missus Alana Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how are you hey?
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  Speaker 6: How are yall?
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  Speaker 4: Hi?
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  Speaker 6: Everybody? That's good?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. See that's my type of author. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: into it, so I write a little bit of your bio.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell us something else that I might have
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  Speaker 3: not spoken of, or something else you think we should know.
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  Speaker 4: I think you hit it on the nose. I started
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  Speaker 4: writing when I was fourteen. Actually, I actually started with poetry,
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  Speaker 4: and that was.
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  Speaker 6: Very sacred for me.
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  Speaker 4: It was like all types of pieces of me on
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  Speaker 4: that paper, you know, back then. And I'm telling my age.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had to write everything by hand. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a laptop or anything like that. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true.
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  Speaker 3: And when I said that to my daughter, now she
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  Speaker 3: y'all didn't have laptops. Look at her, girl, I said,
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  Speaker 3: the computer was as big and I would pull out
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  Speaker 3: something and do my hands. She was like, in computer
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  Speaker 3: has a trunk, that's a calm. Like, you know, I makeing.
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  Speaker 2: Me feel old.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, it's the summer and one thing that
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  Speaker 3: I do the summer, just because the summer, the education
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  Speaker 3: doesn't end in my household. So I gave her a
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  Speaker 3: pencil and I said, here's these questions. I need you
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  Speaker 3: to answer the questions about the book. I gave her
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  Speaker 3: the pencil. She sent it to me and a Google doc.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, say.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me you're an author, Now, what are your
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  Speaker 3: goals for your writing career.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I want to write things that stick to people,
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  Speaker 4: things that are relatable, things that make somebody sit back
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  Speaker 4: and say, man, what you know? Or man, she's right
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  Speaker 4: about that. You know, because a lot of romance or
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  Speaker 4: even second chance. You know a lot of people have
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  Speaker 4: been through a lot of these roads before, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's good to have something that can real people in.
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  Speaker 3: I mean to read a book and have relatable points
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  Speaker 3: in the book that would make me go and get
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  Speaker 3: more books by that author, because I'm like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: mean this author has some type of connection.
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  Speaker 6: So that's the I want to make people feel something.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's romance, suspense, you know, urban fiction, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: psychological thrillers, no matter what it is, especially inspirational.
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  Speaker 6: You know, self help books. We need those, We need those.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 3: I see you have written a lot of books. I've
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  Speaker 3: seen your catalog and I've seen the website. Are how
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  Speaker 3: did you come up with the titles of your books?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's an interesting question because.
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  Speaker 4: The way the way my mind works, I can be
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  Speaker 4: having a conversation, I can be listening to just a
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  Speaker 4: random conversation. I could just be driving like and I'll
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  Speaker 4: be like, oh, that's the book. That's a book. My
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  Speaker 4: husband just shakes his head. Me I said, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: a book. So there's no rhyme or reason. It just
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  Speaker 4: it just comes to me, you know. I could or
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  Speaker 4: I could be just kind of sitting on my balcony
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  Speaker 4: just just looking by the water because water speaks to me, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and so it just it's random. I'm not gonna lie random,
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  Speaker 4: but my mind is just always shooting out ideas.
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  Speaker 3: Now, since we're talking about books, ooh, this book you got,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna show y'all the cover in a second.
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  Speaker 3: M girl, y'all the love and the intense emotion on
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  Speaker 3: the cover of this book.
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  Speaker 2: Let me explain the off this myth. I am a
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  Speaker 2: cover girl.
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  Speaker 3: If your cover is sitting in a bookshop and I'm
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  Speaker 3: like walking down and it makes me stop, believe you me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking a but youre coming back for it and
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  Speaker 3: adding it to my to be read this. Let me
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  Speaker 3: show y'all what I'm talking about. Since you fumble, y'all
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  Speaker 3: look at that. Okay, ma'am, can you please tell me
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about.
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  Speaker 2: This cover.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you on covers needing to be attractive.
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  Speaker 4: That's always the go I will sit and go through
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  Speaker 4: this fifty different ways before I'm like, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 4: it right here, this is it right here, because it
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  Speaker 4: has to make you look sometimes I want you to
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  Speaker 4: imagine yourself there right where they are, or connecting some
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  Speaker 4: kind of way through that cover.
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  Speaker 6: That's just first and foremost.
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  Speaker 2: I can see you can't say that concept.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I haven't meet he fine, well, but but
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  Speaker 3: that's true. But sometimes things aren't always what they've seen,
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  Speaker 3: which is kind of like the story. Things might look
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  Speaker 3: good on the outside, but behind closed doors, it's not
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  Speaker 3: really shaken the way that it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's what this story gets into.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody who gave eight years of her life two kids,
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  Speaker 4: gave all of the soft parts of her to somebody,
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  Speaker 4: and she stopped begging for leftover, stop begging for love,
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  Speaker 4: finally chooses herself and he fumbled. So that's just the
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  Speaker 4: way it happened, and she found love.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, okay, okay, I know se man, y'all we have
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  Speaker 3: questions we should ask, but I got it in this
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  Speaker 3: separate asks, girl, how did you come up with that?
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  Speaker 6: Listen, did you come up with that storyline?
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  Speaker 4: I've been to my own since I was seventeen, and
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  Speaker 4: I've seen a lot, been through a lot, and I've
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  Speaker 4: been through you know, relationships where people have fumble and
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  Speaker 4: I'm easy to love. So I'm the one that you
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  Speaker 4: lose me. You lost the whole table. You say, what
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  Speaker 4: does she bring to the table?
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  Speaker 6: I am the table. So I've been through that.
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  Speaker 4: Then they've done that, and so I was like, let
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  Speaker 4: me let me put a little bit of this in here, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: She said. They asked what did you bring to the table?
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  Speaker 2: She said, I am the table. I'm stealing that. I
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  Speaker 2: just want you to know that. I just want you
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  Speaker 2: to know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's a lot to say, because everybody is talking
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  Speaker 3: about what you bring to the table, what you bring
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  Speaker 3: to the table? Literally, do we know what each other's
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  Speaker 3: bringing to the table? Because y'all know when we look
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  Speaker 3: at TV, right, y'all know how that butterbeat going all
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  Speaker 3: over the pancake, that's not butter, that's oil. So are
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  Speaker 3: you bringing your true self to the table? Everybody talk
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  Speaker 3: about the table.
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  Speaker 6: But I love that.
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  Speaker 4: The women we love we're pushed and we're patient, and
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  Speaker 4: we endure so much and then look, it's only so much,
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  Speaker 4: you know before we're just next.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and y'all might not agree with me
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  Speaker 3: about the song selection I'm about to say. R Kelly said, women,
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  Speaker 3: woman sat up. Ain't nothing you could do about it.
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  Speaker 3: And that is so true, because we as women, we.
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  Speaker 2: Will keep we will.
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  Speaker 3: We will cut a phone off, we'll sleep on it,
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  Speaker 3: come back and be like, all right, we're gonna try
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  Speaker 3: this again, try this again, try this again. So listen,
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  Speaker 3: fellas out there, Well, she keeps coming back.
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  Speaker 2: She loves you. Change whatever the issue is.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's little changes, and even if it's her,
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  Speaker 3: tell her what it is. You know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: in a manner that is acceptable. Don't bark because she upset,
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  Speaker 3: But you know what, that's a whole another show. We're
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  Speaker 3: even gonna go, Okay, that's a whole nother show. Don't
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  Speaker 3: answer your question, what is your target audience for this spook?
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  Speaker 3: Are you looking for younger readers, older readers, any readers,
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  Speaker 3: possibly gaining some male readers? Who do you target your
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  Speaker 3: books too?
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  Speaker 6: Definitely a mature audience.
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  Speaker 4: This particular book, I would say for people who like
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  Speaker 4: second chance romance, like that emotional depth of a book.
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  Speaker 4: It's for readers who want to understand what it feels
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  Speaker 4: like to love someone, somebody who's just like, well, I
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  Speaker 4: want to read it about love.
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  Speaker 6: This weekend, you're out on your.
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  Speaker 4: Beach or your cruise, your cabin and you just want
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  Speaker 4: to sit and feel something good.
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  Speaker 6: This is for you, you know, So.
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  Speaker 3: That second chance love is beautiful. I mean, it's something
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  Speaker 3: about that second chance love book, especially if they go away,
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  Speaker 3: find somebody else, come back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you always wonder.
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  Speaker 3: It's sometime the author will tell you at the end
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  Speaker 3: why it came back. But it's great for the reader,
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  Speaker 3: especially a reader like me, to set up thinking, yes,
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  Speaker 3: what need then finally come back after they left.
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  Speaker 2: So I love second.
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  Speaker 4: Chances and at this betrayal, motherhood, healing, self worth, I
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  Speaker 4: mean it goes.
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  Speaker 6: It's layers in this book, learning to choose yourself again.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, all that in this book. Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: be truly transparent you guys. I haven't read this one,
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  Speaker 3: so the same way you guys are being intrigued right now,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm beyond that form. Okay, all that in this.
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  Speaker 6: Book, all of that is in this book. Ohl, okay,
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  Speaker 6: trying to give you take bits without giving you too much. See,
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  Speaker 6: you gotta read it to get into it.
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  Speaker 3: Come, man, I already got the ball, I got the school,
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  Speaker 3: and I got the cereal.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't gonna pull me no more milk in here.
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  Speaker 4: And just right after back from the first chapter, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like, oh yep, I said that before.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really relatable if you are a femie.
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  Speaker 4: And if you got that one friend that you know
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  Speaker 4: who got your back, that one real one, because you
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  Speaker 4: always got that one real one that's like, girl, listen, look,
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell you, come, come sit, we need
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  Speaker 4: to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all all right, I have that.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, matter of fact, I might call her to marcuse
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  Speaker 3: me and her ain't talking a good minute. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: and the first thing you said, when you're on the
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  Speaker 3: phone with them her, let me tell you what happened,
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  Speaker 3: let me take your shoes off, put your bonnie on,
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  Speaker 3: because she didn't give me off the phone no time soon.
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  Speaker 3: So no, and now, but that one friend who's credible,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everywhere out of her mouth or his mouth
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  Speaker 3: is the truth.
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  Speaker 6: It's gold.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. So you said you first started when
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  Speaker 2: you were writing poetry.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, is there anything from your childhood that you are
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  Speaker 3: writing in your poetry street.
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  Speaker 2: Help you with writing this book.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say a lot of the emotional depth,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, I was always very observant, even even
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  Speaker 4: as a child, you know, writing I was very observant,
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  Speaker 4: paying attention to everything I was.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I was a little People used.
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  Speaker 4: To call me and they used to say, you wear
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  Speaker 4: your heart on your shoulders, your hopeless romantic.
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  Speaker 6: That was always me. I didn't care. It was me.
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  Speaker 6: It's still me. Yeah, nothing's wrong with the teacher's home.
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  Speaker 6: But I would say that, I would.
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  Speaker 4: Say that, you know, it's funny because one I had
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  Speaker 4: this notebook obviously, you know, wrote everything down.
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  Speaker 6: It was a thick one.
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  Speaker 4: I had two of them, full of stuff, just full
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  Speaker 4: of years worth of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Even as time went by. I remember one time I
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  Speaker 6: lost that and I felt like.
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  Speaker 4: A piece of me was like buried, Like everything just
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  Speaker 4: went cold and dark at that time because you can't
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  Speaker 4: get that back.
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  Speaker 6: There's no flash drive, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And so it made me actually stop for a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of time. I don't know, I felt some kind
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  Speaker 4: of way, it was like I was grieving, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, And so it wasn't I just had this,
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  Speaker 4: but I still have the ideas.
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  Speaker 6: They still kept coming.
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  Speaker 4: They still I would like jack little tidbits here and there,
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  Speaker 4: or would just keep them stored in my head. But
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  Speaker 4: then I had this, my newfound love, and it created
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  Speaker 4: that reawakening and that's what sparked me to start doing
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  Speaker 4: this again. And so that it just got more in
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  Speaker 4: depth and more layered. And so I was like, yeah, okay, I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Understandable, but let's step back one more time to your childhood.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to act.
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  Speaker 3: What was your favorite story or favorite book as a child?
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  Speaker 4: M Okay, well we were talking about when I was fourteen,
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  Speaker 4: so even you're not gonna be private, leave this. But
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  Speaker 4: at fourteen, you know, I was into Norah Roberts, you know,
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  Speaker 4: back then, I liked her my girl. I had a
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  Speaker 4: library down the street I would walk to and just
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  Speaker 4: find the romance. And that's when I really was like, whoa, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I see, I see what was going on here.
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  Speaker 6: But see how I read.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know I was to hear me now, But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a matter of time has gone by.
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  Speaker 3: So you know what it that's crazy that you said
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  Speaker 3: one of my my parents, my friends or people would
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  Speaker 3: know that I'm reading that. I think that about my child,
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm in a I have so many books, right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm one off. My daughter went I'm away, actually come
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  Speaker 3: and read some.
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  Speaker 6: Of my books.
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  Speaker 3: Because now she she's skinning of age, you guys, like
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  Speaker 3: Order is eleven years old.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to middle school. And I am afraid.
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  Speaker 3: She's smart, she's beautiful, she's intelligent, and she's into Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and Michael Jackson her new found thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I honestly do wonder has she ever sat down
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  Speaker 3: and read any of my books?
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  Speaker 6: You'll never know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know right, I would never know.
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  Speaker 3: So let's go back to your journey as an author.
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  Speaker 3: Do you are you self.
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  Speaker 2: Published or are you in the publishing house?
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  Speaker 6: I am now. I do self publish.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: However, a good friend of mine, her name is Joycelickorice.
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  Speaker 4: She's real, real big in the industry and in the
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  Speaker 4: movie industry. Several movies you know that you can stream
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  Speaker 4: right now. She actually owns a publishing company. During Empire,
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  Speaker 4: she published a lot of my books, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: my medical books. I write medical books as well, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a psyche professional, and so I'm the
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  Speaker 4: type of person that you know, I learned, I observe
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  Speaker 4: or watch and I'm like, oh, okay, I can I
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  Speaker 4: can do this. So she she helped me hold my
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  Speaker 4: skills and so now I do self publish.
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  Speaker 6: It's a journey, but I got there.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do you do you love that journey? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of a lot of self published authors
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  Speaker 3: are like, oh my god, I wish I never went there,
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  Speaker 3: But I think I feel that they do that because
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  Speaker 3: it's their first book. But I mean, how do you
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  Speaker 3: feel about your self publishing journey?
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  Speaker 6: I would say in the very beginning, when there was
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  Speaker 6: a learning curve, it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Was stressful, frustrated, especially when you're trying to do book
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  Speaker 4: covers yourself. Because I do my book covers now and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: so it can be stressful. But I would say to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: people who are trying to self publish and go through
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: those frustration, just take a de breath, step back, do
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  Speaker 4: your research, take your time, don't be afraid to ask
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: questions in the right form because there's so many.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Resources, and just keep going until you get it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: If that's what you really want to do because now
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: for me it's like second nature. It's nothing, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: it's just like another day. So now it's okay. But
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: in the beginning all it was stressful.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I will say kudos to you. You said that
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you create your own book covers.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 6: Now can you just want to blow it up? In
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: You did a great I am so loving this cover
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and the other ones because I have, like I said,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I have looked at your catalog on Amazon reach y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Kutos to you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I appreciate that because I'm telling you, sometime it's hours
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and hours and hours, and you know what's funny. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: my daughter, my oldest daughter, who's twenty four, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: and if I'm sitting and spending too much time, she
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: comes in.
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  Speaker 6: She's the Canva expert.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Mom. All you got to do is this, and she
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: pushes a couple of little clicks and I'm like, how'd
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  Speaker 4: you do that?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you about to me and her name to
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: talk because I'm trying to do some stuff in Canda
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: and they have like six arms and four fingers and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what I'm at.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: You know, listen, I'll give her her flowers, and she's
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: taught me some things, my little minimeme.
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  Speaker 1: M hm.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to leave out she is. She is
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: an artist.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: She's a professional artist, so she she does help sometimes too.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, that is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hello, can you tell us her name or would
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: you like to tell us her name?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, her name is Jocelyn her artist name.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I feel bad because well, I'm trying to think how
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: to spell it, because it's Nixus Paints and she has
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: her own story behind her her artist name. But I
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: believe Nixus is nix ss. I'm pretty sure n I
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  Speaker 4: x S S. And so she really does some really raw,
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  Speaker 4: authentic work.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: She's extremely talented.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Well kudos to you, baby. We see that the talent
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: runs through the family and continue to make it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Do with it, do you, baby girl?
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Absolutely?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: So we talked backstage before we came on, and I
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: told you that we have a section of this show
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: that it's called the Fun Questions. Okay, so let me
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: let me take the glasses off, let me get you ready,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Get you ready to you told me you were ready.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: For this, dang stay ready. Never have to get ready?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Right there you go, boom. So Lifetime saw your book cover.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: We're gonna bring back up the book cover again. You guys,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: They said, you know what, we read this book. We
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: are Lifetime Movie Network. The killer Man take him back
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Movie Network, because y'all know that's what Lifetime do. Somebody
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: kills him, he comes back to life, and then they
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: fall in love. So they decided that they love your
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: book that we are going to make it into a movie.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Your female lead has to be a singer. Who would
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: it be and why did you chose that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Okay, I would have to say Kelly Rowland.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Because I haven't heard that one in a wild well,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: and she is.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: A singer, we all know that.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: But she has that soft grown woman bab she has
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: that quiet strand that fits near you know, the main
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: female character, and so I feel like she would good
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: at playing that mother, that that woman who's been emotionally neglected,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: especially after the last.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: One she did. It was it was, it was, it
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: was cool.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I mean I liked it, but it was mixed reviews
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: about it. But I would say, Kelly Roland, Okay.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Did you see the movie? Are you speaking about the
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: one that she did with Method Man?
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And because I brought it up on trying to think
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the name. It was a Tyler Perry one that she did.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: She was a lawyer. She was representing the guy who
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: was on who.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Was trying to be I think it was murder charges
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: and she he was a painter, okay, and he was rich,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: he had a lot of.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Money, and she failed for him easily in fact.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But you know, a lot of people said a lot
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: of things about it, but I thought it was it
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: was okay.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: I wish I could you gonna make me look it up.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Now, Carol, I'm already beating to it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Google her and that hit look because it's gonna bother me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Is this meta Cooper?
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it. That's it. Watch it. You haven't watched it,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: watched it? Watch it?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, y'all, y'all know me. I'm gonna stop
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: whatever I'm doing. I got too streams. I had to
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: stop looking, and I'm gonna put that on the Bachless.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: So I got some days coming off. So I'm gonna
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: enjoy it. What you think when you watch it, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit you back and let you know that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: So we got Kelly Broler, but now we have to
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: cast your male offer. I mean your male character, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: he has to be an actor.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Who would he be? And why?
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna do this in two parts, because
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: we have the guy that she's with who fumbled, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: the guy who she found in love with. So let
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: me let me say this, right, I would say the
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: guy she fell in love with later her second chance
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: would have to be Michael Eatly just period.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: Because he's that type of man.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: He's the type of actor everything we've watched the man well,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say everything, but he has that look
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: of a man who we believe is perfect from the outside, handsome,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: charm man. He knows how to play the good man
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: in public.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: That's him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he actually you can play. I'm being honest, but
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I would I would have to say him, And I
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: would say for the one who fumbled, I would actually
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: say Lance Gross let me switch no, no, no hold on,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: let me switch the around, let's go backwards. I would
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: say Michael Elie for the one who fumbled.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: And I'm gonna say that because.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Now I'm thinking about being Mary Jane, where he did
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: appear to have it all together, and he was that
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: one who was charming and all these things, but then
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: he did kind of fumble if you think back on
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: that whole series, which was everything by the way.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: So I would say him for.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: The one who fumbled, and maybe Lance Cross for the
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: one she found in love with, because he has that
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: romantic lead energy, definitely that steady, patient, confident, consistent.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: True, because I really I don't know if you guys know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: but there is this I don't know what they call it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: It's Tonight's Conversations and he's now one of the guys
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: on the panel and they're supposed to be coming to
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Charles and I would love to see him, but I
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: saw those ticket crisis and on the heads.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: But you're totally right.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: He seems like the type of man that I don't
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: want to say it like this, but I am gonna
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: say it like that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Like this, He's the type of man that will help
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you pick up the pieces, give it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: To you, watch you put it together, and he will
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: carry it carefully to the finish line. He's just that
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: type of man that I see. Okay, so one more thing.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: You know, all movies all TV shows have to have
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: a theme song.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: What would your theme song be?
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: For sense you follow it, I would have to say,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Mary J. Blige, not gonna cry.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Ooh period.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I feel like that fits it just perfect, because what
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: does she say in the beginning, while all the time
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I was loving you, You're busy loving yourself. She's talking
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: about the years that she put in the kids, all
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: these things that that fits this book.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: But she's like, I'm not gonna cry.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: You did that because that song right there. I know
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: this is gonna sound real cool when I say this,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: but I can't wait until my daughter gets her first
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: break up, so me and her could be having a
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: hair brush around here sing.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I know. I know it sounds cruel, but I get.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: It though as a mother of three, I get it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: I trust me too.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Cruel.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: You're gonna tell me, You're gonna have to tell me
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: how you did it, because, oh.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Girl, prayer you hear me. They're now twenty two and
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: twenty four, and my son is twenty. So yeah, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: maybe you know, you.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Know how girls are with emotional They think they know
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: what love is and they think they found love.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: And I went through that already.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Listen, if you can only understand the fifth grade trauma,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: then my daughter used to come home, and I used
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: to come home from work. This girl used to be
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: at my door. Some mommy, let me tell you what
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: happened to day school? When I'm thinking to myself only
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: in fifth grade? When are you talking about? So see
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: what I take you to it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: That's a book.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Chronicles. I can see it right now.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Nobody told me. And I'm the only
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: one with the daughter. So yeah, I might have to
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: call you sometimes. Please accept my call.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: I got you, I got you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Be.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Ready. Mm hmmm.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I'm literally I'm scared. I told my son, I have
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: a twenty four year old son.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I tell her if she can before you, brother, you
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: wouldn't do it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: I got conversations brave mammy.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Oh lord, and I think back to my mom, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: my mom had all girls.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: When you had the first boy, you broke the chain.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I broke the chain and it was a beautiful before
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: we had our little you know, oh you know, but
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: it was such an easy child.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Mm hm.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: She's smart, she's beautiful, she's intelligent. She's opinion need, she's
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: opinion needed, she's opiniony.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: You know what they tell us when we were younger.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Her Mama's always saying or our grandmothers that it is
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: one or the two, and your child's gonna do to
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: you what you did to me, And honey, let me
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: tell you ten times over. They were not lying.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes I'm talking to myself and Mary and I
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: realize it and I have those moments where I'm like, man,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I was some kind of crazy, wasn't I?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I am scared. I've heard people say that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah it's true. So you gotta ask yourself, how would you?
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: How would you talk to you? How would you deal
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: with you? Would you have listened to that?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, who, I'm gonna have to camp outside the school.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: But who?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I wasn't a bad child. I just never showed up
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: a class. Who that's a who.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: That's a whole doesn't show y'all Lawn and Mike garantt
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  Speaker 3: cab me and alumni who woo, y'all know what's up?
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Girls?
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: They mouthy, they mouthy, their hormonal, all those things.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: It's just that comes with it. Okay.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: So we got Jesus, you got Kelly Rowling, we got Lance,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: we got oh my god, Michael, Michael Ealy and.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: We all not gonna cry.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's a whole lot of drama in a book,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: So that mean that book about to be good.
• 35:07
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• 35:14
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• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Awesome, But I forgot to ask you one question, and
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: this would be a great way to end the show.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: What would you like to say.
• 38:04
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  Speaker 4: Since you fumbled, I hope you walk away remembering that
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: choosing yourself is not selfish, and sometimes love does not
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: fall apart overnight. Sometimes you slowly realize that you've been
• 38:49
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• 38:52
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  Speaker 6: And that's pretty much what this book is about. So yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 3: remember we do have other promotions that's going on, so
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  Speaker 3: double check on all of my Facebook page and even
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  Speaker 3: check out my family members on the crew. They have
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  Speaker 3: some specials going on where you can have your book
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  Speaker 3: in Times Square. You can also participate in some of
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  Speaker 3: the anthologies we got coming up, and also to represent
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  Speaker 3: your state campaign. We are trying to help you get
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  Speaker 3: your brand out there so you could talk about your books,
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  Speaker 3: your brand, and anything that has to do with your
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  Speaker 3: publishing journey. Okay, another Tuesday Night in the books, you guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be back here next week.
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  Speaker 2: What another author?
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  Speaker 6: Check this out, y'all?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hm, Next week Tuesday, I'm gonna see you here
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  Speaker 3: at eight o'clock. Remember there's no such thing as an
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  Speaker 3: old book because not everybody has read every book.
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  Speaker 2: You hus have a great night.
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  Speaker 6: Bye,