April 17, 2023 • 26 mins
The LA Time Festival of Books is next weekend (April 22-23) at USC! And Malik Books has been named a special seller for the Children’s Stage!
Booksigning Schedule
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
Booth 880
Gail Lerner - 11AM Tatyerra Mikell - 11AM Craig Smith, former Los Angeles Clipper - 1PM Ashley M. Coleman - 1PM Supanova Slom - 3PM Erika Kendrick - 3PM
Booth 538
Craig Smith, former Los Angeles Clipper - 11AM Tatyerra Mikell - 1PM Billie King - 3PM
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
Booth 880
Laura Cathcart Robbins - 11AM Amina Lovell - 11AM Ashley Jean Granillo - 11AM Jayne Allen - 1PM Cindy Montenegro -1PM Rodney Barnes - 1PM Carell Augustus - 3PM Andrea J. Loney - 3PM
Booth 538 - Sun April 23
Brianna Gipson - 11AM Nadine Luke - 1PM Norky the Celebrity - 11AM to 5PM
FULL SCHEDULE:
https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule/
And Malik’s secret weapon, April, interviews LaeTania Richardson about her book Love Saw It and her lifestyle brand “Hey Lady, by Tania”
E-mail Malik at RealMalikMuhammad@gmail.com
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Hi, my name is Malik, your host.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Of Malik's Bookshelf. This week is all about community. That's
all I'm gonna be talking about. Because the epic Los
Angeles Times Festival Books this upcoming Saturday and Sunday USC
is going down at USC and Malik's Books is.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
In the house.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We have a all star lineup at Malik Books Booth
eight eighty and five thirty eight. But let me tell
you about this because this year Malik Books has been
selected as the Children's Stage special Seller. That's right, the
main children's stage. Maligue Books is the special seller. We
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have to host over thirty different author's books. This is epic,
is big. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I got a mountain of books stacked up at the
Books thought that I had to order and we are
just so excited that we have been selected as this
year's special seller for the Children's Previlion main stage.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
La Times Fessival Books is expecting around between one hundred
and one hundred and fifty thousand. Of course, I'm hoping
one hundred and fifty thousand between those two days. I
got a ton of books that need to be sold.
I got an all star lineup for the children's main stage.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
They doing all these author signings there, and.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm going to tell you about then up for the
Children's pavilion, the children's stage, then I'm gonna tell you
about Malik's.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Books, Boots and who I have a period.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is going to be signing their books. This is
going to be an exciting Let me tell you something.
I just hope it don't rain. I hope it don't rain.
You know, this weather been crazy here Atmosphaic Rivers or
what have raining when it's zero percent chance, it is
crazy whether out here in Cali.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But hey, I hope it don't rain.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
April twenty second and twenty third. Oh, we have a
beautiful sunshine day and I hope the community comes out
it by the thousands to support the Los Angeles Times
Festival Books and come through the Children's pavilion, come at
Malik Books. Here's the line up for the Children's Pavilion
April twenty second and twenty third. Now, if you want
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to get a full disclosure of all the authors appearing
at the La Times Festival Books, you gotta go to
La Times dot com backslash fob All right, this Sunday,
they just came out with the lineup. I believe in
all the vendors that are gonna be to participating in
booth numbers. But I'm gonna tell you real briefly some
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of the authors at the children's stage, and then I'm
gonna follow that up with Malik Books. And if you
go to Melite books dot com you can get a
full lineup of our schedule at our boost eight eighty
and five thirty eight, because we have some great independent
local art as well as some main published, mainstream published authors.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, so here's the children's stage pavilion, all right, all.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
About community at Los Angeles Times April twenty second, April
twenty three at usc the children's stage lineup. We got
Robert Glasser, author of Glorious.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Promised a ballet dancers, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
David Shannon wrote a book called Gold, Aaron Becker wrote
a book called The Tree and the River, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Shanna Stitch wrote a book called Black.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Beach, A Community and Oil Spills, So we got that,
and a lot of these books are new. A lot
of these books are just coming out this month or
pre released just for this show at the Los Angeles
Books Festival, all right. Doug Salata, who wrote a book
called Hot Dog. Listen Kwame Alexander. This brother then wrote
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a gang of books. But he got a new book
to just release called how to Write a Poem, And
we got his other books as well, So come ont
Kwame Alexander at the Los Angeles Times Fest walk.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Along with guess oh, Max Greenfield.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Now I got a change that to hear him last
year and he lit up the main stage. He's gonna
be speaking at the children his book. This book is
not a present. This book is not a present. That's
what he wrote in He's you know, we're gonna have
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his other books as well.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Joy Hong, I love you more than you ever know.
I love you more than I ever know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Joey Honk in the house at the Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Books all right.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Joanna Medina, who wrote a book called Elena Rides. Elena Rides. Okay,
these are all children books.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Elina Rides, all right, that's name of her book. Ty
Leah no book listed, but she owned that, all right,
so he'll come through. Ada Salazar wrote a book called
Jovita war Pants. Jovita war Pants, The Story of Mexican
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Freedom Fire.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Salazar wrote a book called and I got all some
other books by this author, Jovita war Pants, The Story
of a Mexican Freedom Fire.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Robin Ozon all right, wrote a book called Strong Baby.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Now, I think Robin is like she's one of those
polyton instructive leader founders or something like that, you know,
big time, you know, well known in the fitness and
health industry. Got a book called Strong Baby. So come through.
I met Zeppa because I'm your mom. That's the name
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of that book that he wrote. The iconic Stacey aproms
at the Festival of Books at you see, she has
a book called Stacy Remarkable Books. All right, that's one
of her latest a children's books. She got a gang
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of books that she wrote Bromance. She has a book
on a business and her journeysm in the business world
and her partners.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And now she is going to be at the LA Times.
Stacy Abrams at the LA Times.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Signing her books and talking to the children and the people.
Stacy Abrams, so you know, that's one of the most
recognizable names and politics and so forth, strong black woman.
Stacey Air at the LA Times. Gonna be reading her book,
Stacy's Remarkable Books.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Then we got Jeffrey Brown wrote a book Thor and Loki.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
May Guard Family Mayhem. All right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's Jeffrey Brown and his books. He got a gag
in his books, coming to Dina Menzoe. She and Kara
Menzo They both wrote a book called Loud Mouse in
the House. Lucky Diaz wrote a book Love Gucti Rosta.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Look Gucti Rista.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All right, So that's a new book by Lucky Diaz,
Love Guti Rasta.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And then we have.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
A mirror, all right, who wrote a book called You
Will Do Great Things. Love the title by a mirror
wrote a book called You Would Do Great Things. Katherine
Schwazernagger Pratt good Night Sisters.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's the children's book she wrote.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And Christy Gang Christy Gange wrote a book called Last Flight.
So listen, that's all the children authors this year. That's
going to be signing at the Children's Pavilion Books, the
Children's stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival Books and
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this all star lineup, so you got to come through.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's exciting. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Talk about Malite Books and what we have at our
booths at eight eighty and five thirty eight because we
have some published authors by mainstream public and we have
some independent authors at our booths, and so we excited.
(09:35):
We excited. At first, I wasn't going to because I
got to be in there. I got all these out children,
I have my booths. But at first I wasn't even
going to schedule any authors for my booth. But as
I got closer to the event, I realized that, you know,
this is a great and excellent opportunity to feature what
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we do at Malague Books, giving voice to them voiceless.
So I said, we gotta have some authors because this
is what we are about. So I reached out and
I started to organize, and I got all star lineup
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of authors who are self published, independoth or main street publishers.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Deals.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, and so Saturday and Sunday, April twenty six, come
through Malik's Books Booth eight eighty five thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We got Gail.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Lerner who wrote a book called The Big Dreams of
Small Creatures. All right, ta Tierramico, the Birthday Princess. Craig Smith,
former La Clippers, Gonna be in the House. He wrote
a book called Craig and His Magical Basketball. You got
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to come through. Go to Melik books dot com. You
get the full schedule of Malik books line up all
right right on the home page. Now we have Ashley Coleman,
author of Good Morning Love Ashley Coleman, super Nova, Slum
in the House, author of Man Heal Thyself, Wellness Warrior,
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Journey to Self Mastery. Erica Kendrick, author of Cookie Monsters,
Lord Catch.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Cough Robbins I interviewed her too in the podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
She wrote a book called Stash My Life in Hiding.
Amina Laurel wrote a book called Oprah alland Ashley. Jeane
Granlio wrote a book called Where Masters Lurk.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And Magic Hydes Jane Allen in the House.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
She wrote a series of books, but the new one
is out called Black Girls Must Have It All. Black
Girls Must Have It All. Cindy Monteleegro He wrote a
book called My Mind as a Mountain. It's both in
English and Spanish. So come on out. Cindy Monta Negro
Rodney Barnes now listen this I interviewed him for the
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podcast This brother is iconic. He deep into books, movies,
TV series. I mean he's behind the stage, he's a writer,
he's all of that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But he's at Malay Books.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Come through booth eight eighty. Go to the melikbooks dot com.
Look at the schedule. But he wrote a graphic novel
called Blackla The Return of the King.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Coming out to hang out at Melik.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Books and sign his new book, Blackler Return of the King.
We have Correll Augustus who just wrote this iconic book,
and we did a gang events with my brother. But
Hollywood reimagining iconic movie moumits. That's what a Corral Augustus
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genius world tremney to the given voice to the voiceless.
So you gotta come out hang out with Correl Gus.
Get a book he's autographing black Hollywood reimagining iconic movie mombits.
Andrea Lonely, she is in the house. Look, she wrote
a gang of books too. Listen, We featuring curving flow,
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the elegant vision of La architect Paul Williams. Y'all know
his iconic building at the Lax Airport that you know, Dome.
This circulating around the LA Airport. Everybody seeing flying and
flying out with Paul Williams. The architect, a black man,
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done a lot of iconic buildings all over the city
of La. This guy is iconic. So hey, she got
a book out featuring a children's book that features La
architype Paul Williams. So hey, come out, Andrea Lonely. She
got a gang of books, got a whole lot of
other some science books that she wrote for kids, helping
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them inspire them to want to go into science.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We also got Billy King.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Listen, she wrote a book about marrormaids before the blow up,
about Marriymaids featuring Chloe as Disney putting out this movie
featuring Chloe a black merrimaid, and it kind of created
some controversy.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well long before all this time, and he had.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Billy King wrote a book called Piper Blue and her
Search for Great Means is about a black mermaid and
she's a wonderful pictorial book, picture book for kids. So
he come on out, and she I think she wrote
another book on book two.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
She got a few books.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
She's a you know, a movie producer, singer, performer, you know, strong,
beautiful black woman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
She's gonna be at Malik Books. So come on out.
And we have Brianna Gibson, whom wrote a children's book
called Baby Please Be Safe. It's about being safe.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
She's gonna have her daughter there, who's major part of
this book and inspiration, and she's gonna be in her
costume and she's gonna be doing her thing. So you
gotta come on out and support the I youth because
she the little girl gonna be signing books or Leah
that's her name. She's gonna be signing books called Baby
Please Be Safe, all right. So then we have celebrity
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character Noirky. We got a costume coming to Malik Books.
The celebrity costume bird is called Noirki, all right. And
they have a book gonna be signing Noirki and the
Dream Factory where Dreams turned into a venture. So you're
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gonna gotta come out. This is gonna be a fun day.
Narky a Belief Books. So hey, we're gonna turn the
value up. Let me tell you this. We also have
Nadine Luke. She's all about elevating the mind and conscious
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and self esteem of our kids and youth. So she
wrote a gang of books, one of them called The
Veterinarian Fashion Design. Now this is part of what she
called I Can Be That Too series. So she got
a number of books. She gonna be on set. She
gonna be signing at booth five thirty eight. You gotta
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come out to see Nadine Luke. He's all about uplifting
our youth and using books to inspire, to encourage, to love,
to create self esteem. And she goes in and out
of the school districts. She travel up and down to California.
She's gonna be in the house Nadan Luke to come
on out at Malik's booths at the Los Angeles Times
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Festival Books April twenty second, April two.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's an all day fair ten to six. You gotta
come on out.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We're hosting Mani authors were hosting the children authors at
the Children's stage. So hey, I'm excited. It's a lot
of work, but hey, this is what I do. I'm
a book activist. I get down like this. I get
excited about this. We was out in the community just
this last week doing with the LA Unified School District
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organization called BSOP BSAP Black Scholars Achievement Program, all about
lifting up the black and brown and so hey, I
was all part of this event. It was called the
Family Reunion and it was a big hit.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The families came out.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
They gave away a lot of gifts and books and
all of that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So we were doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I broke out the bookmobile, Malik's Bookmobile, and I mean
tell you at the Loss Angeles Times Festival up books,
malit is bringing out the book mobile. I was able
to arrange this year to set it up. I'm excited.
We're going big or go home. We got the book mobile,
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we got the booth, we got all that taking place
at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Book the book more Bill is going to be historically
at the festival, books along with self published art, mainstream
published authors, and Malie hosted all the books for the.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Main children's stage as a special seller.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So come on, our family, come support, So we need
to come.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hey listen.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
In the past, in my opinion, black people have been
underrepresented at the Los Angeles Times Festivook Underrepresented. We need
to come out. We read, We love books, and we
need to come out. This is a funday. It's a
community event. Everybody. If you love reading, if you need
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to encourage your kids to read, need.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
To come out to the Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Book It's a community event. It's free. Only thing you
gotta buy. I think you gotta pay for parking out
there if you can find it.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But other than that, it's free. It don't cost you
nothing to listen.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
But if you need to come and support, you need
to buy some books.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
That's important too.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's important because we put a lot of work in
it and were trying to make all these authors best sellers.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So you gotta come on out, community, Come on out.
I couldn't do no other podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
This week other than announcing what's about to take please
this upcoming week April twenty second, April twenty third, So
come on out. Come, bring a friend, bring the family,
bring the kids, come on out. Let's get down, let's
have fun, let's praise books, Let's show up in the community.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Let's embrace each other.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Le's It's all about unity, Belief's bookshelf, bringing a world
together with books, culture and community and this event signifiance
what Malique Books is all about.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So come on out piece, good evenings, good day to everyone.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This is April from Elik Books. We have Latanya Richardson,
author of Love Sawid. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Thank you April,
about your journey and what made you are inspired you
to write this book.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Let's see, I had this story in my head for years.
I've always loved a good love story, particularly a good
black love story. Black love, yes, and one that wasn't
a struggle love story. And so I started, like I said,
years ago, with this. I needed to sit and kind
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of develop the characters.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Once I had that done and I.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Was able to kind of just put everything together with
the plot and all of that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I'm an avid reader, so you know, I've been.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Reading books for years obviously and just wanted to take
a stab.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
At it, you know. Okay, now how long have you
been out? I released the book on Valentine's Day this year.
Oh well, Krack and congratulations we got a new author. Now, yeah, congratulations,
it's a beautiful cover. You have a basketballer here. Is
there any significant for the basketball? Absolutely? So the love
story is about Kevin Peterson. He is a professional basketball player.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
He needs a shrikingly beautiful and cultured young woman named
Layla Simone.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Lane, and it's their love story. It's a love at
first sight.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And their journey to get to their destination.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So, okay, love story. I love love stories. On this journey?
Did it allow you to see yourself in it? Are?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Is it a depiction of things that you've seen?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's a little bit of all of that, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I always say art does imitate life, you know, so
we take our.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Collective experiences and we you know, put them in our arts.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
So yes, there's a tag bit of that, But overall
the story is fiction. Okay, so yeah, just a little
bit of me, but it's predominantly fiction.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, your story. Do you feel that it's a relatable
for male and female or just for just for us?
It is definitely for both male and female.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Obviously with the basketball you have that him being a
professional basketball player.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's a love story. Who doesn't love love?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
You know, it's relatable, it's raw, it's all of that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So I think both men and women will enjoy the story.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Team work makes the dream work, Aprawn, the stomp interviewing
authors in the store Latanya Richison Love sort where here's
the continuation of the organic interview at Malik Books signing
this week.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Sit in the room and block everything out, you just writing,
and everybody's like, well.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What did you do?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
This is my you know, the ideas, my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I just put them in my notes. Take that, you know,
and transcribe them and what have you. But it's just again,
I'm just amazed. At first of all, I've almost sold
three hundred copies.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Come on, and that I have something in my hand
and I'm looking and I still can These are my words,
these are this is my story that I created from
here and it's living, breathing and perpetuity, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
And it's just like it's just it's just God is amazing.
God is amazing.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
And so in December, because I was done and we
just needed to do some editings and some finishing, and.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
God was like, if you don't do this now, you're.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Gonna miss your opportunity. And I was just like, I
gotta get it done. So once I told everybody was like, okay,
just her, just like, when's it coming out?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I said? Valan Guides. Then giving myself.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
The deadline, you know what I mean, because now I'm
flip to the fire.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know what It's like, Okay, because I know my
people would be like, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thought you she said, she said, you know.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
And I never want to. I don't like being that person.
Like I always tell you. If I tell you, I'm
gonna do something that's already dunhu, you.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
And so the fact that people were just like looking forward.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And then Philip was like, so this was like, okay,
we don't have it, so let's just do pre sale.
Let's just let them know.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
It's coming out Valentine's Day on your website, you know,
because they put it on Amazon and all that for
pre sale. But She's like, no, let's do it through
your website and pre sell it. And literally within a week,
I had like eighty ninety people that.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Purchased the rage. That was awesome though, and I was
just like, what is going on? And so it's just
all been just word of mouth, grassroots, just me. So
what I have people do.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And what I have to do today is when they
get the book, I have them. So this has been
my marketing strategy. Everybody's been sending me a picture of
them reading the book.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Okay, And so she's she's in Carousyle.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I had a look. They in the hair salon everywhere.
Love it. Yeah, I mean it's just been like crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Travel consultants don't traveling.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And so everybody's just been more than my one friend
she she was in where she she was in caval
Saint Lucas. My other friend was literally on the Nile
in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Love it, so everybody. So now everybody's like, oh, I
got to get my picture to you. Let me get
my picture to you. Let me get my picture to you.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And I've just been posting it on you know, social media,
and so now everybody's like they want their picture with
the I got the books I'm gonna take, I'm gonna
send it to you, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So I'm like, okay, that's a that's an awesome marketing track. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I also want to thank you for choosing on these
books to have this beautiful book signing.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
In here today. You can pick up your autograph copies.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Online or you could come in here the Cover City Mall,
Bawen Hills Mall to pick up your autograph copies at
any time would you like to tag or plug yours?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You can find me at Hey Lady by Tanya and
at t A n i A on all social media platforms.
My website if you do want to get an autographed
copy of the book is Heylady by Tanya dot com
and again it's Tanya at t A ni A.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, thank you so much. I'm going to have
a successful book signing today. Absolutely can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Thanks for listening to Malik's bookshelf, where topics on the
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the whole wild world run up read my League Books.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Book Show, bringing a world
together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hi, my name is Malik, your host.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Of Malik's Bookshelf. This week is all about community. That's
all I'm gonna be talking about. Because the epic Los
Angeles Times Festival Books this upcoming Saturday and Sunday USC
is going down at USC and Malik's Books is.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
In the house.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We have a all star lineup at Malik Books Booth
eight eighty and five thirty eight. But let me tell
you about this because this year Malik Books has been
selected as the Children's Stage special Seller. That's right, the
main children's stage. Maligue Books is the special seller. We
(01:10):
have to host over thirty different author's books. This is epic,
is big. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I got a mountain of books stacked up at the
Books thought that I had to order and we are
just so excited that we have been selected as this
year's special seller for the Children's Previlion main stage.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
La Times Fessival Books is expecting around between one hundred
and one hundred and fifty thousand. Of course, I'm hoping
one hundred and fifty thousand between those two days. I
got a ton of books that need to be sold.
I got an all star lineup for the children's main stage.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
They doing all these author signings there, and.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm going to tell you about then up for the
Children's pavilion, the children's stage, then I'm gonna tell you
about Malik's.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Books, Boots and who I have a period.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is going to be signing their books. This is
going to be an exciting Let me tell you something.
I just hope it don't rain. I hope it don't rain.
You know, this weather been crazy here Atmosphaic Rivers or
what have raining when it's zero percent chance, it is
crazy whether out here in Cali.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But hey, I hope it don't rain.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
April twenty second and twenty third. Oh, we have a
beautiful sunshine day and I hope the community comes out
it by the thousands to support the Los Angeles Times
Festival Books and come through the Children's pavilion, come at
Malik Books. Here's the line up for the Children's Pavilion
April twenty second and twenty third. Now, if you want
(02:54):
to get a full disclosure of all the authors appearing
at the La Times Festival Books, you gotta go to
La Times dot com backslash fob All right, this Sunday,
they just came out with the lineup. I believe in
all the vendors that are gonna be to participating in
booth numbers. But I'm gonna tell you real briefly some
(03:18):
of the authors at the children's stage, and then I'm
gonna follow that up with Malik Books. And if you
go to Melite books dot com you can get a
full lineup of our schedule at our boost eight eighty
and five thirty eight, because we have some great independent
local art as well as some main published, mainstream published authors.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, so here's the children's stage pavilion, all right, all.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
About community at Los Angeles Times April twenty second, April
twenty three at usc the children's stage lineup. We got
Robert Glasser, author of Glorious.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Promised a ballet dancers, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
David Shannon wrote a book called Gold, Aaron Becker wrote
a book called The Tree and the River, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Shanna Stitch wrote a book called Black.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Beach, A Community and Oil Spills, So we got that,
and a lot of these books are new. A lot
of these books are just coming out this month or
pre released just for this show at the Los Angeles
Books Festival, all right. Doug Salata, who wrote a book
called Hot Dog. Listen Kwame Alexander. This brother then wrote
(04:40):
a gang of books. But he got a new book
to just release called how to Write a Poem, And
we got his other books as well, So come ont
Kwame Alexander at the Los Angeles Times Fest walk.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Along with guess oh, Max Greenfield.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Now I got a change that to hear him last
year and he lit up the main stage. He's gonna
be speaking at the children his book. This book is
not a present. This book is not a present. That's
what he wrote in He's you know, we're gonna have
(05:18):
his other books as well.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Joy Hong, I love you more than you ever know.
I love you more than I ever know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Joey Honk in the house at the Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Books all right.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Joanna Medina, who wrote a book called Elena Rides. Elena Rides. Okay,
these are all children books.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Elina Rides, all right, that's name of her book. Ty
Leah no book listed, but she owned that, all right,
so he'll come through. Ada Salazar wrote a book called
Jovita war Pants. Jovita war Pants, The Story of Mexican
(06:06):
Freedom Fire.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Salazar wrote a book called and I got all some
other books by this author, Jovita war Pants, The Story
of a Mexican Freedom Fire.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Robin Ozon all right, wrote a book called Strong Baby.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Now, I think Robin is like she's one of those
polyton instructive leader founders or something like that, you know,
big time, you know, well known in the fitness and
health industry. Got a book called Strong Baby. So come through.
I met Zeppa because I'm your mom. That's the name
(06:48):
of that book that he wrote. The iconic Stacey aproms
at the Festival of Books at you see, she has
a book called Stacy Remarkable Books. All right, that's one
of her latest a children's books. She got a gang
(07:10):
of books that she wrote Bromance. She has a book
on a business and her journeysm in the business world
and her partners.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And now she is going to be at the LA Times.
Stacy Abrams at the LA Times.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Signing her books and talking to the children and the people.
Stacy Abrams, so you know, that's one of the most
recognizable names and politics and so forth, strong black woman.
Stacey Air at the LA Times. Gonna be reading her book,
Stacy's Remarkable Books.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Then we got Jeffrey Brown wrote a book Thor and Loki.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
May Guard Family Mayhem. All right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's Jeffrey Brown and his books. He got a gag
in his books, coming to Dina Menzoe. She and Kara
Menzo They both wrote a book called Loud Mouse in
the House. Lucky Diaz wrote a book Love Gucti Rosta.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Look Gucti Rista.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All right, So that's a new book by Lucky Diaz,
Love Guti Rasta.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And then we have.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
A mirror, all right, who wrote a book called You
Will Do Great Things. Love the title by a mirror
wrote a book called You Would Do Great Things. Katherine
Schwazernagger Pratt good Night Sisters.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's the children's book she wrote.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And Christy Gang Christy Gange wrote a book called Last Flight.
So listen, that's all the children authors this year. That's
going to be signing at the Children's Pavilion Books, the
Children's stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival Books and
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this all star lineup, so you got to come through.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's exciting. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Talk about Malite Books and what we have at our
booths at eight eighty and five thirty eight because we
have some published authors by mainstream public and we have
some independent authors at our booths, and so we excited.
(09:35):
We excited. At first, I wasn't going to because I
got to be in there. I got all these out children,
I have my booths. But at first I wasn't even
going to schedule any authors for my booth. But as
I got closer to the event, I realized that, you know,
this is a great and excellent opportunity to feature what
(09:56):
we do at Malague Books, giving voice to them voiceless.
So I said, we gotta have some authors because this
is what we are about. So I reached out and
I started to organize, and I got all star lineup
(10:16):
of authors who are self published, independoth or main street publishers.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Deals.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, and so Saturday and Sunday, April twenty six, come
through Malik's Books Booth eight eighty five thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We got Gail.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Lerner who wrote a book called The Big Dreams of
Small Creatures. All right, ta Tierramico, the Birthday Princess. Craig Smith,
former La Clippers, Gonna be in the House. He wrote
a book called Craig and His Magical Basketball. You got
(10:56):
to come through. Go to Melik books dot com. You
get the full schedule of Malik books line up all
right right on the home page. Now we have Ashley Coleman,
author of Good Morning Love Ashley Coleman, super Nova, Slum
in the House, author of Man Heal Thyself, Wellness Warrior,
(11:19):
Journey to Self Mastery. Erica Kendrick, author of Cookie Monsters,
Lord Catch.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Cough Robbins I interviewed her too in the podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
She wrote a book called Stash My Life in Hiding.
Amina Laurel wrote a book called Oprah alland Ashley. Jeane
Granlio wrote a book called Where Masters Lurk.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And Magic Hydes Jane Allen in the House.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
She wrote a series of books, but the new one
is out called Black Girls Must Have It All. Black
Girls Must Have It All. Cindy Monteleegro He wrote a
book called My Mind as a Mountain. It's both in
English and Spanish. So come on out. Cindy Monta Negro
Rodney Barnes now listen this I interviewed him for the
(12:14):
podcast This brother is iconic. He deep into books, movies,
TV series. I mean he's behind the stage, he's a writer,
he's all of that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But he's at Malay Books.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Come through booth eight eighty. Go to the melikbooks dot com.
Look at the schedule. But he wrote a graphic novel
called Blackla The Return of the King.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Coming out to hang out at Melik.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Books and sign his new book, Blackler Return of the King.
We have Correll Augustus who just wrote this iconic book,
and we did a gang events with my brother. But
Hollywood reimagining iconic movie moumits. That's what a Corral Augustus
(12:59):
genius world tremney to the given voice to the voiceless.
So you gotta come out hang out with Correl Gus.
Get a book he's autographing black Hollywood reimagining iconic movie mombits.
Andrea Lonely, she is in the house. Look, she wrote
a gang of books too. Listen, We featuring curving flow,
(13:22):
the elegant vision of La architect Paul Williams. Y'all know
his iconic building at the Lax Airport that you know, Dome.
This circulating around the LA Airport. Everybody seeing flying and
flying out with Paul Williams. The architect, a black man,
(13:43):
done a lot of iconic buildings all over the city
of La. This guy is iconic. So hey, she got
a book out featuring a children's book that features La
architype Paul Williams. So hey, come out, Andrea Lonely. She
got a gang of books, got a whole lot of
other some science books that she wrote for kids, helping
(14:05):
them inspire them to want to go into science.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We also got Billy King.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Listen, she wrote a book about marrormaids before the blow up,
about Marriymaids featuring Chloe as Disney putting out this movie
featuring Chloe a black merrimaid, and it kind of created
some controversy.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well long before all this time, and he had.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Billy King wrote a book called Piper Blue and her
Search for Great Means is about a black mermaid and
she's a wonderful pictorial book, picture book for kids. So
he come on out, and she I think she wrote
another book on book two.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
She got a few books.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
She's a you know, a movie producer, singer, performer, you know, strong,
beautiful black woman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
She's gonna be at Malik Books. So come on out.
And we have Brianna Gibson, whom wrote a children's book
called Baby Please Be Safe. It's about being safe.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
She's gonna have her daughter there, who's major part of
this book and inspiration, and she's gonna be in her
costume and she's gonna be doing her thing. So you
gotta come on out and support the I youth because
she the little girl gonna be signing books or Leah
that's her name. She's gonna be signing books called Baby
Please Be Safe, all right. So then we have celebrity
(15:29):
character Noirky. We got a costume coming to Malik Books.
The celebrity costume bird is called Noirki, all right. And
they have a book gonna be signing Noirki and the
Dream Factory where Dreams turned into a venture. So you're
(15:52):
gonna gotta come out. This is gonna be a fun day.
Narky a Belief Books. So hey, we're gonna turn the
value up. Let me tell you this. We also have
Nadine Luke. She's all about elevating the mind and conscious
(16:12):
and self esteem of our kids and youth. So she
wrote a gang of books, one of them called The
Veterinarian Fashion Design. Now this is part of what she
called I Can Be That Too series. So she got
a number of books. She gonna be on set. She
gonna be signing at booth five thirty eight. You gotta
(16:34):
come out to see Nadine Luke. He's all about uplifting
our youth and using books to inspire, to encourage, to love,
to create self esteem. And she goes in and out
of the school districts. She travel up and down to California.
She's gonna be in the house Nadan Luke to come
on out at Malik's booths at the Los Angeles Times
(16:57):
Festival Books April twenty second, April two.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's an all day fair ten to six. You gotta
come on out.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We're hosting Mani authors were hosting the children authors at
the Children's stage. So hey, I'm excited. It's a lot
of work, but hey, this is what I do. I'm
a book activist. I get down like this. I get
excited about this. We was out in the community just
this last week doing with the LA Unified School District
(17:28):
organization called BSOP BSAP Black Scholars Achievement Program, all about
lifting up the black and brown and so hey, I
was all part of this event. It was called the
Family Reunion and it was a big hit.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The families came out.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
They gave away a lot of gifts and books and
all of that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So we were doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I broke out the bookmobile, Malik's Bookmobile, and I mean
tell you at the Loss Angeles Times Festival up books,
malit is bringing out the book mobile. I was able
to arrange this year to set it up. I'm excited.
We're going big or go home. We got the book mobile,
(18:15):
we got the booth, we got all that taking place
at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Book the book more Bill is going to be historically
at the festival, books along with self published art, mainstream
published authors, and Malie hosted all the books for the.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Main children's stage as a special seller.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So come on, our family, come support, So we need
to come.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hey listen.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
In the past, in my opinion, black people have been
underrepresented at the Los Angeles Times Festivook Underrepresented. We need
to come out. We read, We love books, and we
need to come out. This is a funday. It's a
community event. Everybody. If you love reading, if you need
(19:07):
to encourage your kids to read, need.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
To come out to the Los Angeles Times Festival.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Book It's a community event. It's free. Only thing you
gotta buy. I think you gotta pay for parking out
there if you can find it.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But other than that, it's free. It don't cost you
nothing to listen.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
But if you need to come and support, you need
to buy some books.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
That's important too.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's important because we put a lot of work in
it and were trying to make all these authors best sellers.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So you gotta come on out, community, Come on out.
I couldn't do no other podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
This week other than announcing what's about to take please
this upcoming week April twenty second, April twenty third, So
come on out. Come, bring a friend, bring the family,
bring the kids, come on out. Let's get down, let's
have fun, let's praise books, Let's show up in the community.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Let's embrace each other.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Le's It's all about unity, Belief's bookshelf, bringing a world
together with books, culture and community and this event signifiance
what Malique Books is all about.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So come on out piece, good evenings, good day to everyone.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This is April from Elik Books. We have Latanya Richardson,
author of Love Sawid. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Thank you April,
about your journey and what made you are inspired you
to write this book.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Let's see, I had this story in my head for years.
I've always loved a good love story, particularly a good
black love story. Black love, yes, and one that wasn't
a struggle love story. And so I started, like I said,
years ago, with this. I needed to sit and kind
(20:57):
of develop the characters.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Once I had that done and I.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Was able to kind of just put everything together with
the plot and all of that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I'm an avid reader, so you know, I've been.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Reading books for years obviously and just wanted to take
a stab.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
At it, you know. Okay, now how long have you
been out? I released the book on Valentine's Day this year.
Oh well, Krack and congratulations we got a new author. Now, yeah, congratulations,
it's a beautiful cover. You have a basketballer here. Is
there any significant for the basketball? Absolutely? So the love
story is about Kevin Peterson. He is a professional basketball player.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
He needs a shrikingly beautiful and cultured young woman named
Layla Simone.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Lane, and it's their love story. It's a love at
first sight.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And their journey to get to their destination.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So, okay, love story. I love love stories. On this journey?
Did it allow you to see yourself in it? Are?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Is it a depiction of things that you've seen?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's a little bit of all of that, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I always say art does imitate life, you know, so
we take our.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Collective experiences and we you know, put them in our arts.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
So yes, there's a tag bit of that, But overall
the story is fiction. Okay, so yeah, just a little
bit of me, but it's predominantly fiction.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, your story. Do you feel that it's a relatable
for male and female or just for just for us?
It is definitely for both male and female.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Obviously with the basketball you have that him being a
professional basketball player.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's a love story. Who doesn't love love?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
You know, it's relatable, it's raw, it's all of that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So I think both men and women will enjoy the story.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Team work makes the dream work, Aprawn, the stomp interviewing
authors in the store Latanya Richison Love sort where here's
the continuation of the organic interview at Malik Books signing
this week.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Sit in the room and block everything out, you just writing,
and everybody's like, well.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What did you do?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
This is my you know, the ideas, my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I just put them in my notes. Take that, you know,
and transcribe them and what have you. But it's just again,
I'm just amazed. At first of all, I've almost sold
three hundred copies.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Come on, and that I have something in my hand
and I'm looking and I still can These are my words,
these are this is my story that I created from
here and it's living, breathing and perpetuity, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
And it's just like it's just it's just God is amazing.
God is amazing.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
And so in December, because I was done and we
just needed to do some editings and some finishing, and.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
God was like, if you don't do this now, you're.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Gonna miss your opportunity. And I was just like, I
gotta get it done. So once I told everybody was like, okay,
just her, just like, when's it coming out?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I said? Valan Guides. Then giving myself.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
The deadline, you know what I mean, because now I'm
flip to the fire.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know what It's like, Okay, because I know my
people would be like, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thought you she said, she said, you know.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
And I never want to. I don't like being that person.
Like I always tell you. If I tell you, I'm
gonna do something that's already dunhu, you.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
And so the fact that people were just like looking forward.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And then Philip was like, so this was like, okay,
we don't have it, so let's just do pre sale.
Let's just let them know.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
It's coming out Valentine's Day on your website, you know,
because they put it on Amazon and all that for
pre sale. But She's like, no, let's do it through
your website and pre sell it. And literally within a week,
I had like eighty ninety people that.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Purchased the rage. That was awesome though, and I was
just like, what is going on? And so it's just
all been just word of mouth, grassroots, just me. So
what I have people do.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And what I have to do today is when they
get the book, I have them. So this has been
my marketing strategy. Everybody's been sending me a picture of
them reading the book.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Okay, And so she's she's in Carousyle.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I had a look. They in the hair salon everywhere.
Love it. Yeah, I mean it's just been like crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Travel consultants don't traveling.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And so everybody's just been more than my one friend
she she was in where she she was in caval
Saint Lucas. My other friend was literally on the Nile
in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Love it, so everybody. So now everybody's like, oh, I
got to get my picture to you. Let me get
my picture to you. Let me get my picture to you.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And I've just been posting it on you know, social media,
and so now everybody's like they want their picture with
the I got the books I'm gonna take, I'm gonna
send it to you, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So I'm like, okay, that's a that's an awesome marketing track. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I also want to thank you for choosing on these
books to have this beautiful book signing.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
In here today. You can pick up your autograph copies.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Online or you could come in here the Cover City Mall,
Bawen Hills Mall to pick up your autograph copies at
any time would you like to tag or plug yours?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You can find me at Hey Lady by Tanya and
at t A n i A on all social media platforms.
My website if you do want to get an autographed
copy of the book is Heylady by Tanya dot com
and again it's Tanya at t A ni A.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, thank you so much. I'm going to have
a successful book signing today. Absolutely can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Thanks for listening to Malik's bookshelf, where topics on the
shelf are books, culture, and community. Be sure to subscribe
and leave me a review. Check out my instagram at Malakbooks.
See you next time.
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