June 17, 2025 • 49 mins
Award-Winning Author, # 1 Best Seller and Publishers Choice Award winner Marcy Bialeschki.
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So the fun, you know, this one's going to be
fun because this will to MARSIV. She's always bothering me. Now,
I'm only kidding, but it's one of those things where
it was fun to meet her. I'm intrigued by her
in romance novels. So when you're that best selling author,
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you won that Literary Titan Award, I don't even know
what that is, what she's gonna tell me, but I
know it's something good because I've seen the label for it.
I know it's important, and congratulations on that. But I
think of her books and I've not even read them yet.
Sell it, don't smell it. They remind me of James
Patterson's romance novels, all those romance novels that you see
at the airport, what every woman would buy, That's what
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her books remind me of. Packaging looks like it. It's
enticing to me. You know, it's full of deceptions and consequences.
I'm sure I should be seducted, you know, and I
obviously have revenge there too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What else can I say?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm sure I'll have some knightfares and premonitions and what else.
Let's see the last one. Let's see serious indipidelity. You
can't forget anything like that, right So right, so Marcy
b welcome to the movie Bavis and More. And with that,
we got neuro coach, my good friend Carol Register from Florida.
We got the world's one of the world's leading interior
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to thirty five Injuria Desiers in the world, Howard Riggins.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So I'm in his state.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't even know if you knew or was here
because I've been hiding out, but I'm here. But the
fun thing about this is you never know what's going
to happen with anything. So since it's been raining the
last six days, hopefully I won't have any Howard's technology problems,
but anything, because we just never know, right Howard, You
never know. So Carol, let's storder for you tell everybody
(03:32):
what's going on with you, what's been happening with you,
because I know you've been doing a lot of things
that I haven't talked to my friend in about four
or five days.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know this is so strange.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I like I'm so glad though that you have been
hiding out and been enjoying yourself. It's time for that.
So I'm totally standing behind you with that. I'm Carol Register.
I take women from six to seven figures. I close
the gap. It is one guaranteed. I am a neural
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science based based coach and I created something called the
neural Wealth Method. Using a neural science based process along
with universal wealth laws.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
That are just like the laws of physics.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We go deep into identity work and today Brian was
our opening of the program. I do still have spots left.
If you are interested, please DM me right away because
we had our orientation today and it was incredible. The
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women who have enrolled this year are people you want
to be in community with. My goodness, the beautiful Heather
Marianna shout out to her was there today as well
as Stephanie Steek, both having been on the show.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
And I also co host, as you know, the.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Unleashed and Unstoppable podcast with my partner alex Lean Carter,
who is also certified in neuroscience with me and we
talk about all the.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Neuroscience of the leadership, health and wealth.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
We've been doing that for three years where award winning,
We're over one hundred and sixty episodes we published weekly.
So I'd love to invite you to subscribe and fill
your plate with the amazing tools that are out there
available to you right now. And I'm excited to talk
about Marcy today, super excited. I'm super excited to know
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more about this incredible vengeance series. I saw all of
these multiple awards that you've won, and I am excited
to hear about you starting self publishing to transitioning to
where you are now.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That that was amazing and super interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And then we got Howard Wickins from Brentwood, Tennessee. So Howard,
what's going happened with you? I haven't even called anybody because,
like I said, I've been hiding out. I never get
a chance to rest because when I go back to
Los Angeles for the next six days, I have three
events in three different parts of Los Angles again, and
I'm exhausted already, and we're getting ready to go into
the seventh month of the year. The year is going
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by really really quickly. What say you, Howard? What's been happening?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, it is Howard frozen?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
He can't be I can see him moving.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Hey, Howard, can you hear us?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh? He's got problems. I think, Hey Howard, we're gonna
come back to you. Let's go to Marcy, Howard, come back.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Go ahead, Marcy.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Hey, I'm Marcy b. Thank you guys for having me
here today. I appreciate it. Do you just want me
to tell you about my books or what?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yes, let's talk about what's going on with you.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Well in twenty twenty four, that was a really big
year for me. All four books of the Venchance series
were published by words Matter Publishing. As Carol said, I
did start in self publishing my first two books. I
did myself. And let me tell you, some people are
cut out for that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I am not.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
I am not.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It was a true, true blessing when my publisher found
we kind of found each other, I guess. And you know,
I don't think it happens very often that somebody takes
such a chance on you and takes takes on a
four book series.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
And two of the books have already come out.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But I can tell you that the two books that
Words Matter Publishing published for me are far better book.
I just I mean, I don't have a knack for publishing.
I don't have a knack for all that other stuff.
I can write the books, but I need the professional
people to put their backing behind it. And they really
did back me, and I'm just so thankful for that.
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The books are all like I said, they all came
out in twenty twenty four, and I'm just getting ready
to put out my first standalone novel.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
July fifth is the release date. It's where no one
will look. And I am so excited about that because,
uh I, I you know, I think my books.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
You know, Brian said about the how every woman you know,
they they look like the romance books that that every
woman is appealed to. But I but I really feel like,
and I know you're supposed to have a target audience,
and I get what my target audience is.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It's women.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
But I started this idea, I started this campaign really
a few months ago that I think my books are
uh they're enough mystery, they're enough plot oriented they have
and they have enough male, strong characters that they they
would appeal to men as well.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
It's not just romance, okay.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Uh So I I started this little campaign and I'm
hoping that I get some male readers, some some interest
for a broader audience.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
But it's called men who read romance do it better.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm I'm thinking that, Uh you know, I have shirts,
and I'm I'm thinking I'm gonna maybe send one to Brian.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I don't know, I love them. Would Okay, yeah, I'll
talk later. But but you know, I mean, I I
feel like romance. My books are not so strongly romance
rom common. They're not the I do like a happy ending.
I will tell you that I do like a I do.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Like a fulfilling ending for your characters, even if there's
a lot of time in Uh. But but there's a
lot of twists and turns and plot changes, and and
I really do feel like they would appeal to men,
and the men who have read them say, yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
I can do this. You know I can do this.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So well, I can tell you are guys here are
so supportive of empowering women.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
They are the guys who love women. So that's a
great guys.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, Well I can honestly say too
that I do. I do gravitate toward a very strong
female protagonist. And and what I like my female protagonists
to do is to start either very ordinary and come
into their own power, and not power that's generated by
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a male romance partner, uh, but power that is maybe
lifted by that relationship or an awakening through that relationship.
But the female character does it more on her own,
you know. And and I like for my male characters,
my my, my male lovers to be supportive of that
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and not be threatened and not be challenged by that.
So I have a really uh I guess strong, I
guess you. It's an inclination. And I've noticed that in
all the books that I'm that I'm writing. I kind
of have that theme, you know, I want to I
want an ordinary woman who comes into her own power,
maybe with the help of a male character, but not
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he's not doing it for her.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
She's coming into her own on her own.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh you know, I love that, Brian.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I like that. Pull on from man.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I got a question to ask you, But let me
see if we have Howard, Howard, do we have you?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We have sun with you? Howard? Not yet?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay, I text him, I let him know. And Terry
just from top Terry California. Terry introduced you yourself real
quick because Howard's coming back.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
And again, Hi, Hi Evidy, this is Terry Marie. I'm
in here in southern California, so I was a little late.
I couldn't find the link. I was like running around trying.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
To find it. So nice to me everybody.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
I've been with Bryan since twenty fourteen, been that long,
like eleven years. I do a lot of the red
carpet hosting with celebrities. I'm also a fitness junkie. I
started competing at the age of forty seven, one muscle Beach.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I've been Miss Bikini La Masters.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
I've won he which is the amateur Fitness for Masters
over forty So I'm also I like to dabble in art.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I've been acting often all my whole life.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Brian calls I call I nicknamed myself not stop because
it's always something.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Nice to meet everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And Marcy, if you remember you met Terry and the
Red Carpent outs event.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yes, yes, yes, I met so many people. But I
do recognize your face.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Yeah, good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And then Howard do we have sound with you? Howard
did he freeze again?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Looks like it it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Just got back on.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So Marcie, I was gonna say on your books the
way I perceived them, and I haven't read it yet,
and I have the feeling, and what's the woman's read
your any of your novels. She immediately was looking for
the next guy to attack him, because it's one of
those things where once you read your books, you're like, Okay,
I'm ready to have I'm ready to get down and
have some fun. Where's my husband? Where's my boyfriend? How
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I see this? I could be wrong, but that's how
I see it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Well.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I the first book, the first book, and it was
the first book I ever wrote. I was a little hesitant,
timid on the romance, but I think that was a
good thing because I wanted my my iconic lovers macinaria.
I wanted them to be grounded in something other than
just physical relationship.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
I wanted them to have a connection, and I feel
like that first book did that. But I'm going to
give you a true story here, and my publisher's probably
going to kill me. I know she's watching.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Me.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
So when I got ready to do Seduction and Revenge,
she said to me, she said, you know, she goes you.
Your first one was kind of a slow burn and
it got there, but you know, she goes you need
to have macnaria and I'm just going to say it
doing it in the first chapter. We need this, we
need And she cut the first three chapters off my book.
She said, read it without the first three chapters, and
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see what you think. I'm telling you. When people start
reading that second book, they're like, whoa, Okay, we're in it.
We're in it now. And I didn't need those first
three chapters at all. I mean, when I tell you
that publishers know what they're doing, they really know what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So I was kind of white then, wasn't I Yes.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
You were absolutely right. And another funny story is that
my publisher will sometimes prove my books while they're taken,
like while she's on the road and her husband drives
with her, and she said, she'll text me and say, well,
she goes, we may be a little late getting where
we're going because we're reading I'm proof reading a Marcy
b book and we might have to stop alone. And
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I'm like, sorry, no, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That means you're into it, and that's how I see it,
that's how I perceive it. And I would have never
have known going back to eight, probably even three six,
that we would have been talking to so many authors
around the world, award winning authore, self published and published,
and I think that's great, and I think most of
them are women matv how too, which is actually pretty good.
(14:43):
But I did interview James Pattison and all those fantasy
novelists where we had those we had a luncheon for
Lifetime a Hallmark, and I said, when do you get
all of these great worldwide authors together? And I found
it fascinating and I never forgot that, and ever since then,
I started paying at ten to all of them because
their books were just selling like hotcakes. And then back
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in the day you would see every woman going up
there at the register and buying these books.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I thought that was great. And Howard do we.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Sign with you?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
I hear you now, okay, good, you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes, all right, so do this book because we never
know we're going to lose you or not tell everybody
what you're doing, what room you are. And I've never
seen that painting over your shoulder.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
That's a one grade painting.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
It's his. It was his dog. Russian World found that
he had.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
I'm in the upstairs hallway, which I'll probably be on
most shows since I'm moving, I've got the downstairs with
storage of other stuff I.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Bought for the new house.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
But Howard Wiggins, from the top thirty five leading interior designers,
son of little Roy Wiggins, play still guitar for Eddie Arnold.
Let's see actor dancer podcast hosts, of course, And you
can watch me on Passion TV on a thing called
My Father Forced Me a Billionaire, and I played the billionaire,
(15:59):
I mean the Haunted Farmhouse, which is own TV. I
forgot with channel, but that's what I do, so foll
on my own Facebook.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
That's all I am.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And Terry, you may be interested in writing a book eventually, MARSI,
what advice do you give to those authors soon to
be authors who haven't written yet, whether it's gonna be
self published or gone through a publisher, because there was
more books out there and there's more people doing it
both ways.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, and okay, So this was a lifelong passion
for me. I was a teacher for thirty six years,
taught English, and I taught writing anywhere from seventh grade
to college writing. And I didn't really sit down to
write my own book until after I retired. But it
came out like a flood and it had been sitting there,
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you know, it had just been sitting there. And I
will tell you this that if writing is your passion,
writing the book will be the easy part. I mean,
if you're a writer and you have to write, writing
the book will be the easy part. The hard part
is getting it under people's eyes. Because you can write
the best book in the world, but if nobody knows
about it, if nobody reads it, if it doesn't get marketed,
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then it sits there and and it's the best book
in the world that nobody ever read. And my other
advice that goes along with that, My other advice is this,
don't be in a rush, because you can't sell books
without visibility.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
And you you have to get out there.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You have to you have to go to Oscar's week,
you have to.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Meet Brian Sebastian, you have to do all these things.
You know, you have to.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You have to get in the right track to get
where you want to be. And and that that's what
it's all about. And for me, you know, I don't
be disillusioned and think that I'm going to write a
book it's going to sell a bunch of copies and
I'm going to be rich and it's going to only
take me a couple of months because I really don't
know anybody who's ever done that. Maybe there is, but
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uh didn't happen to me. And and I I have
a feeling that if my books are going to take
off to the capacity that I really want them to
take off, it's going to take even you know, a
couple more years. You just have to put yourself out
there and don't be afraid, and don't give up, and
don't don't you know, put yourself down because you have
bad days.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Just keep pushing, keep pushing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So we got three questions from a studio. Should people
start out self publishing first? And does self publishing pay
off in your point of view?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
My point of view, Yeah, I think self publishing works
for a lot of people. It works for the people
who know technology, They know the right people to contact
for things that they don't know how to do. They
get the right people to do the things they don't
know how to do. But for me, it didn't work.
I after I sold to my family and my friends,
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I was dead in the water.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
And like I said, could be the best book in
the world. It didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
So self publishing, I think if you are gung home
and you are, you are willing to put your foot
to the floor and do it twenty four to seven,
three sixty five as long as you have to. Self
publishing is maybe a way to start. But everyone's different.
Everyone is different.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
I am so in love with having a publisher that
I would never go back.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Hey, Brian, I have a question too, Marcy. You you
also mentioned you know, giving this fantastic advice here based
on your experience. You also mentioned that you were considering
coaching mindset coaching particularly.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Is that still the case.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Well, I got involved with Women Thrive.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I did the Women Thrive stage for twenty five and
I did my big speech and I met a bunch.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Of fabulous women.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I got put myself out there and see I was
a school counselor as well as an English teacher for
many many years, and.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Have a lot of mantras that that I that my
my life is patterned off of. And so I feel like, yes,
that that I am in a good capacity to be
a mindset coach.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I I believe things like you know, uh, investing yourself
because you are your own best asset. Right if if
if you put.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
A lot of time and money and energy into financial investments,
you know, why wouldn't you also do that for yourself,
Like you are your own best asset, you know, And
and so I I I believe that, and and I
live by a saying that from my father all my life.
And it is you are who you think you are.
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And I have always thought that I'm an author, I'm
a winner. I'm I'm going to make it someday. And
when my publisher asked me, when she sat across from me,
and she said, I'm going to take this for a
book deal, but I want to know what you want.
And I said, I want it all, and she said
that's what I need right there.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
I one at all. And I don't know how long
it's going to take me to get there, but I'm
in it. I'm in it to win it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So, hey, Howard, let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
You're in one of the world's leading Anteriorbteria Devine of books.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What say you on the book that you're in.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Because we talk about the book that you're in every
week because it's important.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Well, I'm in several many books actually mentioned it and
a ton of magazines. But I did write my own
book called Costly Mistakes that Everybody Makes. And what I
learned when I did my own book the old expression
they judge you by the cover, because when you do
send it to a publisher, they're not really going to sit.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
There and read that whole book.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
They're gonna look at that cover and see who the
audience is and if it will sell. I should have
spent more time on the cover than I did the book.
I was doing all my philosophies that I've learned through
the years on how to do interior design.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
That nobody knows but me. I can take a sofa, a.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Pair of chairs in one chair and arrange it in
one hundred and eighty eight different ways. Wow, but it's
all mathematical and I can do that. But I love
my book. I mean my book. I planned to leave
it to one of my errors and then maybe they
can take it to the next level.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
But I need it for the future of my clients.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Work hard to do because I got to get permission,
and it costs a lot of money to get professional photographs,
so it takes out of my profit if I do that. So, uh,
it's a hard decision to make. I mean, I think
for self grow it was the best thing I did.
And I also went through a ghost writer helped me
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write the book because I'm an interior designer, so I
talked to the interior design language, but I wanted to
appeal to the common person.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Well, they don't speak my language.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
So I had two ladies that didn't know anything about
interior design.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I said, you understand what I'm.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Trying to say, and understood it. Then it went into
the book. But you know, without using professional terms. Wow,
that's what I learned.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Writers are amazing, right, They're it's super helpful with what
they are that it.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Took two years.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I like them to come up with the rules that
I've been but it only it took two years to
actually go through them.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
And then we went chapter at a time and just
rewrote and rewrote, rewrote too.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We got a pride and Marcie, I'm going through a
publisher to you, and I'm using a ghost writer because
I'm not that writer. I admire you women, you guys
that can do that, because I cannot use that. That's
not my forte. So that's why I like to have
those And I think it's important, uh, to go through
it because everybody's different.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
As Howard would say, he.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Has a language that he speaks and he may not
be able to convey it by writing it. But each
week he's talking about being in that book and his
art and what he's doing, and I think that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
There's another couple of questions. Where can we get your books?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
First of all, Marcy, and are they available on audio tape?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I'll talk about audio in just one second, but my
books are everywhere. Books would be online, Barnes and Noble, Amazon,
Walmart dot com. They're on my website mercyb dot net,
so you know they're they're readily available. About audio because
everyone asked me about audio, and let me tell you
(24:24):
that my standard answer has now become when you see
one of my books as an audiobook, you'll know I
made it because it is so expensive to do it right.
To do it right, yeah, because you pay by the
finished hour, all right, and Deception and Consequences is a
three hundred and sixty four page book, and it was
(24:46):
estimated that it would take I think like nine finished
hours to get it on tape and perfect it. Well,
when you're paying two to three hundred dollars an hour
or a series of four.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
The math, it adds up pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
So yes, when you see the Vengeance series on audio,
Marcy VI's up. Marci has it all, you know. Yeah,
like I said, I want it all. I have it
all when it comes out on audio.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
You know, I look at the title of your new
book where no one will look, and immediately I don't
think romance.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I think suspense right with that title.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
So I'm going to turn for just a second, grab it.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, so there romance in it, and let the book again.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
So Dalton City, Illinois is a real city. That is
a real picture of the elevator, the grain elevator and
the and the water tower that I took myself, that
my my publishers.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hold on, let me see that book again. Turn it around,
we make sure that's correctly. Put it around the other way.
I think it's backwards, No, I guess not.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
It's mirror imaging, yeah, mirror imaging.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah yeah. So but but where no one will look
is basically Dalton City is a is a town of
five hundred people, all right, five hundred people. It has
a super huge grain elevator that that that services the
whole Central Allois pretty much, and it has a pub
(26:18):
and a restaurant.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But the pub is where things start because there are
two people, a man and a woman, who are hiding
out from their past, and they meet there and then
they go on this incredible journey and they realize that
their lives and their their past, their trouble that they're
escaping from, are so intertwined that it becomes this big thing.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Uh. And they think that.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Dalton City will be a place where no one will look,
but they find each other, uh, and they work together
to get out of their mess.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
I guess, okay, okay, that sounds amazing. I when I
first thing, I think, when I see the grain elevators,
you know, with the book title, I'm like.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Well, well so this is another one that it gets spicy.
Page two. All right, So if you're if you're.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
One of those people that has to read and be
like completely enthralled and and caught in the first couple
of pages, that's what I try to do.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
And mars we talk about being at Heather's event, and
do you remember talking to Marcy, because you know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We meet a lot of people and we need.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
To view a lot of people and we'd always know
because everything starts to mix that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
After a while.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I I it was such a surprise to me to
get invited and to and to go and I'll and
I'll be honest that the these things don't happen too.
I consider myself a small town girl with a big dream,
you know. And and uh, when this opportunity came around,
I almost passed on it because I passed on the
Emmy event and I didn't feel like I was ready
(27:54):
and and and then honestly, I have a I have
a community of people who uh have now become my
my my fan base and and my and my real
my sponsors.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
They are sponsors. I I had businesses that I.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Collaborate with, who helped fund me, who dressed me in
their boutique fashions that we you know that uh couple
of days and and so it was a it was
a real community effort and I I'm so grateful for that.
And and those people have have backed me from the beginning.
So when I went to l A, it was a
it was a eye opening I'd never been to l
(28:31):
A and I I I had you know, it was
beyond anything I could have imagined, and I met so
many people, so it was uh and and the connections
that I that I made there are still connecting for me,
and it's wonderful, very wonderful.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So we got some people who are scared to go
to Los Angeles a k a.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Rebel.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Uh So, of course, once you jumped off the plane,
what was your feeling until you got to the hotel,
Because you don't know when you're going into a strange
city what to expect.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You don't know when you get there.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You don't even know who's going to interview, if anybody
interviews you, Terry, you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Know, right.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
And I was by myself, so I flew in by myself.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
But I did meet I did meet Monique Stinson from
LA Talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I met her at the hotel and we you know,
we had a little sit down and things like that.
But the other thing that really helped me was I
have a high school friend who lives in LA and
he has a business there.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
He owns Brown hot Events, Jeffrey Brown.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
And he said, hey, when when you get to your hotel,
you message me and I'll come pick you up. And
he had reservations at Funkies and we went and we
ate supper, we ate dinner at Funkies, and so Jeffrey
just kind of eased me into.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
La a little bit.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You know, He's he was still from the small town
I grew up in, but he'd been in La twenty
six years, you know, so he knew everything and and
he kind of drove me around. And from that very
first night, I felt safe and happy and you know,
like like everything was gonna go okay. But I and
I feel like a lot of that had to do
with with a familial face, with with Jeffrey being there.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So it's Terry, you know, a Red carpet interview. You
did what, uh test man?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Is that? Is it? Two hundred and nine thousand views
in counting since it continuous?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I mean I looked at the number like, holy rap,
that's a lot because I didn't expect that, because I
hadn't looked at numbers in like five days. And I
was like, wow, good for Terry and good for that.
And it was done, you know, at Jonathan Baker's Oscar gifting. Sweet,
So congratulations on that. Because I don't look at them
every day like I used to, nor do I want to.
(30:40):
But when I do look at him like I'm pleasantly
surprised and happy because tests was only on what a
couple of weeks ago, and I think it was set
one hundred and nine at that point something like that.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Well, you always grab we always grab good footage on
the red carpet.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
And you never know what you're going to get. You know,
it's always but it's always exciting.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well, and you never know who you go into interview.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Because what I don't like, and I think it's a
disservice to everyone if you're walking that red carpet and
Howard knows this in Tennessee. I understand people whipping out
their cell phones doing it, but they should be those
big cameras. Getty should be there so people get those images.
They deserve to have that. I think it's disservice. I
understand why they don't have them because it costs money
(31:23):
now for Getty to come out, But when they do
come out, if you can get that photo and your
photo goes to Getty and wire images, that is massive.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's really really important. And Tarol knows from having Amy
drags on.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
When you have that, when you can have that, that
that our.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Own I should say from easy way.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That helps a great deal because those wired those photos
go up and Google and the search engine a long way,
which is really really important. And Marci, for you being
on probably maybe it was missed out your first Red
carpet you were out.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Also, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
What was your feeling like that for you?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I'm sorry, what what was the feeling like for you?
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I I was.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I was just I was starstruck a little bit because, uh,
there were there were people you know that I recognized
and that I knew that you know, the shows and
things they were in, and and I I couldn't. I
felt like I was walking around with this dumb look
on my face all the whole time, you know. But
I was I was trying to to I was trying
to be one of the people on the Red carpet,
but I was so enamored by all the other people,
(32:25):
and uh uh it was.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
It was a surreal, a very surreal feeling. And one
of the one of the ones that that start that
I was just like blubbering, was when Patrika Darbo started
walking toward me, and I'm like, uh uh, you know,
I mean I had this this.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Look on my face, you know, and and it ended
up we we just clicked. I mean, she is fantastic
and she ended up being uh she wrote a celebrity.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Endorsement for me and uh it ended up going on
a on.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
A press wire and so yeah, she she's fantastic. And Brian,
I will say this that I was so impressed with
you because you just came up to me and you're, you're,
you had your camera and you're like, you know, going
across my table and you're and the first thing you
said to me was you look like someone I need
to know.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
And it made me feel so like I belonged there.
Even if I didn't feel like I belonged there, it
made me feel like I did.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
And so I thank you for that. That was that
was so grounding for me. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Well, I'm glad I said that to you because I
was kidding. Now I'm only kidding. No, there was a
presentation of what you had and that's really really important,
you know.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, So that helped. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oy.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So there's another studio question. Do you have to read
the books and series and order? And I always wanted
to know that too.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
And another thing that I have to tell people, is
if because I have a lot of people who think
if they read book one and two that I self published, well,
then I can just skip to book three in the in.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
The publisher version.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Absolutely not, because when my my series was published, we
had to change a few things because no publisher wants
to do the exact same book, you know, so we
had to change a few things. And so I keep saying, no,
it wasn't a ployee for me to get you to
buy more books. But but you're not going to understand
book three if you skip, you know, So yes, you
have to do one, two, three, and four in that order.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Hey, Howard, followed by Terry, then Carroll. Do you remember
the first time you were on the red carpet? What
that was like for you?
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Oh? My god. Actually I had a similar it really
when first Christmas book.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
I went to Vegas and promoted it, and I took
the thing wide all the way out there to the market,
and I'm sitting there with the other people that are
in the book, and everybody just walking by, and I said,
I am not sitting here, flying all the way from Nashville,
and nobody's stopping to look at my book.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
So that's when I went out and started dancing with
the women.
Speaker 11 (35:01):
When I started dancing with the women, they all gathered around,
they got books, they got signatures.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
I made it happen.
Speaker 11 (35:07):
You know, I wasn't just gonna I wasn't gonna just
sit there and say, oh, I've done all this and
just let it go by I do.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
I took it by the horns and just made it happen.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
But when I get that, it brought out that entertainer
in me and I thought, my god, I do like
doing this. And even after the event was over and
I was going to other shows, I just walk up
and I said, you want to dance with me?
Speaker 10 (35:33):
And they would.
Speaker 11 (35:34):
So I just made more and more videos through market
and that just became the thing that I did.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
You know, so now I'm known for it. So I
like it. But you've got to set.
Speaker 11 (35:44):
Yourself apart and do it what makes you feel comfortable
and makes you stand out in the crowd. As Brian says,
every day people comment on the way I drenk. You
don't know what I'm gonna wear. I spent a lot
of money on clothes, but it pays off because when
I'm working, people know you're a designer. I can put
it out same principles, look like what you're doing stage.
(36:11):
I got the world's top thirty five and tier design.
I made the same sat Marcy they asked.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Me to, and I think we lost them.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
We're scared and I.
Speaker 11 (36:20):
Didn't do it, Biggs mistake, because if I had done,
I would have met Jane Churchill, which is Churchill's granddaughter.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
I met the designer George Harris at the Beedles House.
We met all the other things. And knowing where my life,
I don't know who you're gonna need. It's the same
thing I tell all my single leave friends.
Speaker 11 (36:40):
Prince urm knock knocked on your door, asked Mary shoes,
And that's true.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Well that's incredible to you know, to look at what
the possibilities are about who you're gonna meet.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Terry, do you remember the first time you walked the
red carpet?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Not any of youse walked.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
In the first time I walked the red carpet?
Speaker 10 (37:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Do you remember?
Speaker 9 (37:03):
I was probably like, uh six years old first time
I read I walked a red carpet. But I mean,
are you talking well for a movie premiere or for
me walking as to be interviewed.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I mean for a movie premiere.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Probably was like six six years old than my at
Disney because my dad would get invited to a lot
of premieres at Disney Studios. So so yeah, so I've
been walking the red carpet my whole life since I
little kid.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But do you remember what the feeling was for you,
what you got out of it?
Speaker 7 (37:34):
No, I just remember. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
I mean my mom always said that I she gave
birth to me as I was jumping around and I
was always excited. So I was always excited about everything.
So that's my honest answer.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I mean it's wired in terry just you know, it's
totally wired into your neural networks.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
It's your comfort zone in essence, you know.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
I always yeah, I always wanted to be an entertainer.
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I mean when I was little, like I would like
perform a little plays, you know, for my parents, and
I was always acting out stuff.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
I mean, like my dad was an.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Artist, you know, before he worked at Disney that he
ran the printing department. So I come from a background
of creative people and it's just in my genes and
I mean I just like to make people smile. You know,
I've gone through that kind of a dark period in
my life, but that that energy is coming back.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
But yeah, I was just like yeah. So my excitement
on the red carpet was.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
Like, hey, hi, have youre.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
It's a little kid, you.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Know, it was entergizing of Brian.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
So for me, it's interesting because I've had two of
my three daughters have modeled very successfully, my youngest Stephen,
walking in Paris Fashion Week for the designer George Buria,
and so you know, it's funny being their mom, I
(38:58):
felt really awkward, like I didn't have their presence, their ability,
Like they make it look so easy, right, So the
first time that I was on the red carpet, it
wasn't easy. It wasn't they make it look so natural.
And then I had somebody recently who kind of gave
(39:19):
me some instructions on you know, different ways that you
can pose that are flattering rather you know, like angles
that the camera likes as opposed to things that you
know maybe don't look as good. And then also just
bringing my authentic self to the table, letting it be
(39:40):
what it is and being good with that. Being confident
with that is a huge part of the process and
so yeah, that's what it's been like, and especially the
first time out was that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
So two more questions for you, Marcie. When are they
going to be in a box set? And how would
you convelopto a novella series if you had to?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
Okay, so about the box set, I can send them
out as a set. I don't have a box to
put them in, but I can send them out as
a set from from marcibdot net. So that is that is, uh,
you know, my my website store and uh, but they
(40:29):
won't come in a box, but I'll put some cute
little paper or something around them and then we'll pretend
it's a box.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
And then you said something about a novella. How would
you compare your novella to the series? Oh? Okay, so
my novella.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
My novella was published in the back of one of
the editions of one of the series books. But it's
also a free download off of my website marcib dot nett.
So if you sign up for my uh newsletter, which
doesn't spam you, it's one email a month and you
get a free download of.
Speaker 8 (41:04):
The Wanted the Desired The Craved.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
It is a darker psychological thriller with a lot less romance,
So I would say that's a little different than the series.
The series has more relationship love intimacy than I love that.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I like how you said that, Caryl.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
On Fridays, Carol, tell her what you have on Fridays
when it comes to book clubs.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
So on Fridays, I have the Worthy book Club. There's
between sixty and seventy members and we go through books
and really just lean in and have great discussions. The
purpose of the book club is for a gathering of
female leaders where we take a stand for pouring into ourselves,
(41:53):
like filling up our cups, putting.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Our oxygen masks on first.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Because one of the things that I have found is
there's a lot of mindset work with distraction and this
is a free gift. It's a gift, and there's some amazing, powerful,
incredible women in this group and it's turned into something
I didn't expect and that I absolutely love. So I want.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
To ask you too.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I saw a question in the chat how do you
get with a publisher?
Speaker 4 (42:24):
What does that process look like? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (42:29):
I think the traditional route is you you query and
you you try to find a literary agent, or you
try to find a publisher who you know that you
usually have to send off thread to six chapters of
your book and pitch it to them in a in
a query letter, and and and it takes anywhere from
(42:49):
twelve to sixteen weeks to hear back from them. I
think that's the the usual, all right, after you figure
out which publishers are actually taking your genre, you know.
So my case, my story is a little different because
I stumbled. I honestly feel like everything happens for a reason,
(43:10):
and this happened for my reason. Okay, and this is
a true story that I could couldn't make up if
I tried. But I'm sitting at my my stylist who
she's processing my hair, and she was a student of
mine at one point, and she says, you know, Marcy,
She goes, I didn't think about this before, she said,
but and this was when I was still self publishing.
She said, I have this other client that comes in
(43:31):
here every now and then when she's in town and
she she gets her hair done and she's looking for
a romance writer.
Speaker 8 (43:38):
I was like, Camille, why would you not tell me
that before? Now?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (43:43):
And so before the end of my my hair is
in the foil and all you know, and and before
my hair looked good and I left. She had the
woman Tammy corn cornynth On text saying, Hey, I've got
this romance writer sitting here, and so we I was
sending chapters and and about four days later I met
(44:04):
her at a restaurant downtown Decatur, Illinois, and we talked
for the first time. And then I met with her
again about a week later, and I signed my four
book deal.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
So my my situation was completely uh unique, But as
I said, it happened for my reason. It was it
was part of my journey, and it was it was
uh like I get Terry I thinking about it, but
it was it was the best part of my journey
because I would still be founder out there.
Speaker 8 (44:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
She saw something in me and I that I didn't
even see in myself. And I was gung ho I
was I was, and she saw something in me that
fired me up. And uh yeah, So so here I
am pumping out books.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
We got a couple of minutes left. Terry, give your
social media links, everybody.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
Uh, it's Terry Marie NonStop on pretty much all the platforms,
and then my website is Terry Marie.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
And do you still want to write a book in
the future.
Speaker 7 (45:04):
That's down the road?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
What's the future?
Speaker 10 (45:10):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Information? Right, Marcy? You didn't always know?
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Right?
Speaker 8 (45:15):
Oh, anything can happen anything, Hey.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Howard you? Uh did you always know you were going
to be in a book?
Speaker 10 (45:23):
No? But I did.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
Faith if I knew what I was doing, no telling
what would happen. But I do a lot of stuff
that I don't know what I'm doing, and it happened.
So I mean, uh, actually, uh, I post on Facebook
constantly and the producer saw my pictures. I mean the
Patricia Hart McMillan Christmas book that I've been in three
of her books for three different years since last year.
Speaker 10 (45:46):
Was one of them.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (45:47):
She contacted me through Facebook and that's how that happened.
And she tempted me with Christopher Raco, which does all
the Christmas orderment, and uh, let's see who else was
If I forgot the other big designer, a big designer
that I knew already in it, and I thought, if
they're in it, I'm going to be so and I did.
(46:08):
But it's like Marcy said, Marcy, go to wherever you
need to go because you had that chance meeting with
the lady that made your publisher. Like I was trying
to say earlier before I got cut off, you don't
know who you meet and who they know, and it's
all connections no matter what. Like you said, you could
have the best talent in the world, but if you
(46:28):
don't connect to the right person, it's sitting in the
water and it's not going to happen sitting at home.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Howard. Social media, so everybody again.
Speaker 11 (46:37):
Howard Wiggins, Facebook, Playing Simple and of course of movies,
reviews and more.
Speaker 10 (46:42):
And in Instagram.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Carol, that's it.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
I love that, like the exact right timing and thank
you for what you shared, Howard. Super powerful to you
don't know who knows who right and something that you
know just is a great reminder, and so be willing
to meet everybody.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Okay, Instagram.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
I'm at Neurocoach, Carol, just like Neuroscience Neurocoach Carol, And
I'm at success Uniquely Yours dot com. That's my website
and the podcast that you can subscribe to is Unleashed
and Unstoppable where on all the platforms, Spotify, Apple, Amazon,
(47:31):
So I would love to invite you to subscribe if
you're interested in closing the gap from six to seven figures.
It is our time as women in the world to
do this. Please contact me right away. The program won't
be able to handle anybody else coming in very shortly,
so there's a limited window here.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I'd love to have.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
You, Marshall, you get the last word social media links.
Speaker 6 (47:56):
Hey, I'm it's my last name is kind of hard
to spell, but it's Marci Blaski.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
For Instagram and social media. Just Marciblaski. That's it.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
And where can I get you?
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Okay, marcib dot net is my website. You can get
them there, or you can go on Barnes and Noble
dot com, Amazon dot com or Walmart dot com.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
All right, everybody, thank you for today's show.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
And it's a great information on self publishing and publishing
and change of habit and just running into someone that
you would never run into.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
See what happens when you get your hair washed.
Speaker 10 (48:30):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
And as I would always say, have a good night tonight,
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So the fun, you know, this one's going to be
fun because this will to MARSIV. She's always bothering me. Now,
I'm only kidding, but it's one of those things where
it was fun to meet her. I'm intrigued by her
in romance novels. So when you're that best selling author,
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you won that Literary Titan Award, I don't even know
what that is, what she's gonna tell me, but I
know it's something good because I've seen the label for it.
I know it's important, and congratulations on that. But I
think of her books and I've not even read them yet.
Sell it, don't smell it. They remind me of James
Patterson's romance novels, all those romance novels that you see
at the airport, what every woman would buy, That's what
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her books remind me of. Packaging looks like it. It's
enticing to me. You know, it's full of deceptions and consequences.
I'm sure I should be seducted, you know, and I
obviously have revenge there too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What else can I say?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm sure I'll have some knightfares and premonitions and what else.
Let's see the last one. Let's see serious indipidelity. You
can't forget anything like that, right So right, so Marcy
b welcome to the movie Bavis and More. And with that,
we got neuro coach, my good friend Carol Register from Florida.
We got the world's one of the world's leading interior
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to thirty five Injuria Desiers in the world, Howard Riggins.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So I'm in his state.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't even know if you knew or was here
because I've been hiding out, but I'm here. But the
fun thing about this is you never know what's going
to happen with anything. So since it's been raining the
last six days, hopefully I won't have any Howard's technology problems,
but anything, because we just never know, right Howard, You
never know. So Carol, let's storder for you tell everybody
(03:32):
what's going on with you, what's been happening with you,
because I know you've been doing a lot of things
that I haven't talked to my friend in about four
or five days.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know this is so strange.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I like I'm so glad though that you have been
hiding out and been enjoying yourself. It's time for that.
So I'm totally standing behind you with that. I'm Carol Register.
I take women from six to seven figures. I close
the gap. It is one guaranteed. I am a neural
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science based based coach and I created something called the
neural Wealth Method. Using a neural science based process along
with universal wealth laws.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
That are just like the laws of physics.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We go deep into identity work and today Brian was
our opening of the program. I do still have spots left.
If you are interested, please DM me right away because
we had our orientation today and it was incredible. The
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women who have enrolled this year are people you want
to be in community with. My goodness, the beautiful Heather
Marianna shout out to her was there today as well
as Stephanie Steek, both having been on the show.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
And I also co host, as you know, the.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Unleashed and Unstoppable podcast with my partner alex Lean Carter,
who is also certified in neuroscience with me and we
talk about all the.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Neuroscience of the leadership, health and wealth.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
We've been doing that for three years where award winning,
We're over one hundred and sixty episodes we published weekly.
So I'd love to invite you to subscribe and fill
your plate with the amazing tools that are out there
available to you right now. And I'm excited to talk
about Marcy today, super excited. I'm super excited to know
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more about this incredible vengeance series. I saw all of
these multiple awards that you've won, and I am excited
to hear about you starting self publishing to transitioning to
where you are now.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That that was amazing and super interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And then we got Howard Wickins from Brentwood, Tennessee. So Howard,
what's going happened with you? I haven't even called anybody because,
like I said, I've been hiding out. I never get
a chance to rest because when I go back to
Los Angeles for the next six days, I have three
events in three different parts of Los Angles again, and
I'm exhausted already, and we're getting ready to go into
the seventh month of the year. The year is going
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by really really quickly. What say you, Howard? What's been happening?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, it is Howard frozen?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
He can't be I can see him moving.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Hey, Howard, can you hear us?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh? He's got problems. I think, Hey Howard, we're gonna
come back to you. Let's go to Marcy, Howard, come back.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Go ahead, Marcy.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Hey, I'm Marcy b. Thank you guys for having me
here today. I appreciate it. Do you just want me
to tell you about my books or what?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yes, let's talk about what's going on with you.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Well in twenty twenty four, that was a really big
year for me. All four books of the Venchance series
were published by words Matter Publishing. As Carol said, I
did start in self publishing my first two books. I
did myself. And let me tell you, some people are
cut out for that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I am not.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
I am not.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It was a true, true blessing when my publisher found
we kind of found each other, I guess. And you know,
I don't think it happens very often that somebody takes
such a chance on you and takes takes on a
four book series.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
And two of the books have already come out.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But I can tell you that the two books that
Words Matter Publishing published for me are far better book.
I just I mean, I don't have a knack for publishing.
I don't have a knack for all that other stuff.
I can write the books, but I need the professional
people to put their backing behind it. And they really
did back me, and I'm just so thankful for that.
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The books are all like I said, they all came
out in twenty twenty four, and I'm just getting ready
to put out my first standalone novel.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
July fifth is the release date. It's where no one
will look. And I am so excited about that because,
uh I, I you know, I think my books.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
You know, Brian said about the how every woman you know,
they they look like the romance books that that every
woman is appealed to. But I but I really feel like,
and I know you're supposed to have a target audience,
and I get what my target audience is.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
It's women.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
But I started this idea, I started this campaign really
a few months ago that I think my books are
uh they're enough mystery, they're enough plot oriented they have
and they have enough male, strong characters that they they
would appeal to men as well.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
It's not just romance, okay.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Uh So I I started this little campaign and I'm
hoping that I get some male readers, some some interest
for a broader audience.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
But it's called men who read romance do it better.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm I'm thinking that, Uh you know, I have shirts,
and I'm I'm thinking I'm gonna maybe send one to Brian.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I don't know, I love them. Would Okay, yeah, I'll
talk later. But but you know, I mean, I I
feel like romance. My books are not so strongly romance
rom common. They're not the I do like a happy ending.
I will tell you that I do like a I do.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Like a fulfilling ending for your characters, even if there's
a lot of time in Uh. But but there's a
lot of twists and turns and plot changes, and and
I really do feel like they would appeal to men,
and the men who have read them say, yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
I can do this. You know I can do this.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So well, I can tell you are guys here are
so supportive of empowering women.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
They are the guys who love women. So that's a
great guys.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, Well I can honestly say too
that I do. I do gravitate toward a very strong
female protagonist. And and what I like my female protagonists
to do is to start either very ordinary and come
into their own power, and not power that's generated by
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a male romance partner, uh, but power that is maybe
lifted by that relationship or an awakening through that relationship.
But the female character does it more on her own,
you know. And and I like for my male characters,
my my, my male lovers to be supportive of that
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and not be threatened and not be challenged by that.
So I have a really uh I guess strong, I
guess you. It's an inclination. And I've noticed that in
all the books that I'm that I'm writing. I kind
of have that theme, you know, I want to I
want an ordinary woman who comes into her own power,
maybe with the help of a male character, but not
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he's not doing it for her.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
She's coming into her own on her own.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh you know, I love that, Brian.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I like that. Pull on from man.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I got a question to ask you, But let me
see if we have Howard, Howard, do we have you?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We have sun with you? Howard? Not yet?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay, I text him, I let him know. And Terry
just from top Terry California. Terry introduced you yourself real
quick because Howard's coming back.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
And again, Hi, Hi Evidy, this is Terry Marie. I'm
in here in southern California, so I was a little late.
I couldn't find the link. I was like running around trying.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
To find it. So nice to me everybody.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
I've been with Bryan since twenty fourteen, been that long,
like eleven years. I do a lot of the red
carpet hosting with celebrities. I'm also a fitness junkie. I
started competing at the age of forty seven, one muscle Beach.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I've been Miss Bikini La Masters.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
I've won he which is the amateur Fitness for Masters
over forty So I'm also I like to dabble in art.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I've been acting often all my whole life.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Brian calls I call I nicknamed myself not stop because
it's always something.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Nice to meet everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And Marcy, if you remember you met Terry and the
Red Carpent outs event.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yes, yes, yes, I met so many people. But I
do recognize your face.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Yeah, good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And then Howard do we have sound with you? Howard
did he freeze again?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Looks like it it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Just got back on.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So Marcie, I was gonna say on your books the
way I perceived them, and I haven't read it yet,
and I have the feeling, and what's the woman's read
your any of your novels. She immediately was looking for
the next guy to attack him, because it's one of
those things where once you read your books, you're like, Okay,
I'm ready to have I'm ready to get down and
have some fun. Where's my husband? Where's my boyfriend? How
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I see this? I could be wrong, but that's how
I see it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Well.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I the first book, the first book, and it was
the first book I ever wrote. I was a little hesitant,
timid on the romance, but I think that was a
good thing because I wanted my my iconic lovers macinaria.
I wanted them to be grounded in something other than
just physical relationship.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
I wanted them to have a connection, and I feel
like that first book did that. But I'm going to
give you a true story here, and my publisher's probably
going to kill me. I know she's watching.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Me.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
So when I got ready to do Seduction and Revenge,
she said to me, she said, you know, she goes you.
Your first one was kind of a slow burn and
it got there, but you know, she goes you need
to have macnaria and I'm just going to say it
doing it in the first chapter. We need this, we
need And she cut the first three chapters off my book.
She said, read it without the first three chapters, and
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see what you think. I'm telling you. When people start
reading that second book, they're like, whoa, Okay, we're in it.
We're in it now. And I didn't need those first
three chapters at all. I mean, when I tell you
that publishers know what they're doing, they really know what
they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So I was kind of white then, wasn't I Yes.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
You were absolutely right. And another funny story is that
my publisher will sometimes prove my books while they're taken,
like while she's on the road and her husband drives
with her, and she said, she'll text me and say, well,
she goes, we may be a little late getting where
we're going because we're reading I'm proof reading a Marcy
b book and we might have to stop alone. And
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I'm like, sorry, no, that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That means you're into it, and that's how I see it,
that's how I perceive it. And I would have never
have known going back to eight, probably even three six,
that we would have been talking to so many authors
around the world, award winning authore, self published and published,
and I think that's great, and I think most of
them are women matv how too, which is actually pretty good.
(14:43):
But I did interview James Pattison and all those fantasy
novelists where we had those we had a luncheon for
Lifetime a Hallmark, and I said, when do you get
all of these great worldwide authors together? And I found
it fascinating and I never forgot that, and ever since then,
I started paying at ten to all of them because
their books were just selling like hotcakes. And then back
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in the day you would see every woman going up
there at the register and buying these books.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I thought that was great. And Howard do we.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Sign with you?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
I hear you now, okay, good, you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes, all right, so do this book because we never
know we're going to lose you or not tell everybody
what you're doing, what room you are. And I've never
seen that painting over your shoulder.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
That's a one grade painting.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
It's his. It was his dog. Russian World found that
he had.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
I'm in the upstairs hallway, which I'll probably be on
most shows since I'm moving, I've got the downstairs with
storage of other stuff I.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Bought for the new house.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
But Howard Wiggins, from the top thirty five leading interior designers,
son of little Roy Wiggins, play still guitar for Eddie Arnold.
Let's see actor dancer podcast hosts, of course, And you
can watch me on Passion TV on a thing called
My Father Forced Me a Billionaire, and I played the billionaire,
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I mean the Haunted Farmhouse, which is own TV. I
forgot with channel, but that's what I do, so foll
on my own Facebook.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
That's all I am.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And Terry, you may be interested in writing a book eventually, MARSI,
what advice do you give to those authors soon to
be authors who haven't written yet, whether it's gonna be
self published or gone through a publisher, because there was
more books out there and there's more people doing it
both ways.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, and okay, So this was a lifelong passion
for me. I was a teacher for thirty six years,
taught English, and I taught writing anywhere from seventh grade
to college writing. And I didn't really sit down to
write my own book until after I retired. But it
came out like a flood and it had been sitting there,
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you know, it had just been sitting there. And I
will tell you this that if writing is your passion,
writing the book will be the easy part. I mean,
if you're a writer and you have to write, writing
the book will be the easy part. The hard part
is getting it under people's eyes. Because you can write
the best book in the world, but if nobody knows
about it, if nobody reads it, if it doesn't get marketed,
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then it sits there and and it's the best book
in the world that nobody ever read. And my other
advice that goes along with that, My other advice is this,
don't be in a rush, because you can't sell books
without visibility.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
And you you have to get out there.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You have to you have to go to Oscar's week,
you have to.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Meet Brian Sebastian, you have to do all these things.
You know, you have to.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You have to get in the right track to get
where you want to be. And and that that's what
it's all about. And for me, you know, I don't
be disillusioned and think that I'm going to write a
book it's going to sell a bunch of copies and
I'm going to be rich and it's going to only
take me a couple of months because I really don't
know anybody who's ever done that. Maybe there is, but
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uh didn't happen to me. And and I I have
a feeling that if my books are going to take
off to the capacity that I really want them to
take off, it's going to take even you know, a
couple more years. You just have to put yourself out
there and don't be afraid, and don't give up, and
don't don't you know, put yourself down because you have
bad days.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Just keep pushing, keep pushing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So we got three questions from a studio. Should people
start out self publishing first? And does self publishing pay
off in your point of view?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
My point of view, Yeah, I think self publishing works
for a lot of people. It works for the people
who know technology, They know the right people to contact
for things that they don't know how to do. They
get the right people to do the things they don't
know how to do. But for me, it didn't work.
I after I sold to my family and my friends,
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I was dead in the water.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
And like I said, could be the best book in
the world. It didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
So self publishing, I think if you are gung home
and you are, you are willing to put your foot
to the floor and do it twenty four to seven,
three sixty five as long as you have to. Self
publishing is maybe a way to start. But everyone's different.
Everyone is different.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
I am so in love with having a publisher that
I would never go back.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Hey, Brian, I have a question too, Marcy. You you
also mentioned you know, giving this fantastic advice here based
on your experience. You also mentioned that you were considering
coaching mindset coaching particularly.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Is that still the case.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Well, I got involved with Women Thrive.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I did the Women Thrive stage for twenty five and
I did my big speech and I met a bunch.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Of fabulous women.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I got put myself out there and see I was
a school counselor as well as an English teacher for
many many years, and.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Have a lot of mantras that that I that my
my life is patterned off of. And so I feel like, yes,
that that I am in a good capacity to be
a mindset coach.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I I believe things like you know, uh, investing yourself
because you are your own best asset. Right if if
if you put.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
A lot of time and money and energy into financial investments,
you know, why wouldn't you also do that for yourself,
Like you are your own best asset, you know, And
and so I I I believe that, and and I
live by a saying that from my father all my life.
And it is you are who you think you are.
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And I have always thought that I'm an author, I'm
a winner. I'm I'm going to make it someday. And
when my publisher asked me, when she sat across from me,
and she said, I'm going to take this for a
book deal, but I want to know what you want.
And I said, I want it all, and she said
that's what I need right there.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
I one at all. And I don't know how long
it's going to take me to get there, but I'm
in it. I'm in it to win it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So, hey, Howard, let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
You're in one of the world's leading Anteriorbteria Devine of books.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What say you on the book that you're in.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Because we talk about the book that you're in every
week because it's important.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Well, I'm in several many books actually mentioned it and
a ton of magazines. But I did write my own
book called Costly Mistakes that Everybody Makes. And what I
learned when I did my own book the old expression
they judge you by the cover, because when you do
send it to a publisher, they're not really going to sit.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
There and read that whole book.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
They're gonna look at that cover and see who the
audience is and if it will sell. I should have
spent more time on the cover than I did the book.
I was doing all my philosophies that I've learned through
the years on how to do interior design.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
That nobody knows but me. I can take a sofa, a.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Pair of chairs in one chair and arrange it in
one hundred and eighty eight different ways. Wow, but it's
all mathematical and I can do that. But I love
my book. I mean my book. I planned to leave
it to one of my errors and then maybe they
can take it to the next level.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
But I need it for the future of my clients.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Work hard to do because I got to get permission,
and it costs a lot of money to get professional photographs,
so it takes out of my profit if I do that. So, uh,
it's a hard decision to make. I mean, I think
for self grow it was the best thing I did.
And I also went through a ghost writer helped me
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write the book because I'm an interior designer, so I
talked to the interior design language, but I wanted to
appeal to the common person.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Well, they don't speak my language.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
So I had two ladies that didn't know anything about
interior design.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I said, you understand what I'm.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Trying to say, and understood it. Then it went into
the book. But you know, without using professional terms. Wow,
that's what I learned.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Writers are amazing, right, They're it's super helpful with what
they are that it.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Took two years.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I like them to come up with the rules that
I've been but it only it took two years to
actually go through them.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
And then we went chapter at a time and just
rewrote and rewrote, rewrote too.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
We got a pride and Marcie, I'm going through a
publisher to you, and I'm using a ghost writer because
I'm not that writer. I admire you women, you guys
that can do that, because I cannot use that. That's
not my forte. So that's why I like to have
those And I think it's important, uh, to go through
it because everybody's different.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
As Howard would say, he.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Has a language that he speaks and he may not
be able to convey it by writing it. But each
week he's talking about being in that book and his
art and what he's doing, and I think that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
There's another couple of questions. Where can we get your books?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
First of all, Marcy, and are they available on audio tape?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I'll talk about audio in just one second, but my
books are everywhere. Books would be online, Barnes and Noble, Amazon,
Walmart dot com. They're on my website mercyb dot net,
so you know they're they're readily available. About audio because
everyone asked me about audio, and let me tell you
(24:24):
that my standard answer has now become when you see
one of my books as an audiobook, you'll know I
made it because it is so expensive to do it right.
To do it right, yeah, because you pay by the
finished hour, all right, and Deception and Consequences is a
three hundred and sixty four page book, and it was
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estimated that it would take I think like nine finished
hours to get it on tape and perfect it. Well,
when you're paying two to three hundred dollars an hour
or a series of four.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
The math, it adds up pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
So yes, when you see the Vengeance series on audio,
Marcy VI's up. Marci has it all, you know. Yeah,
like I said, I want it all. I have it
all when it comes out on audio.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
You know, I look at the title of your new
book where no one will look, and immediately I don't
think romance.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I think suspense right with that title.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
So I'm going to turn for just a second, grab it.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, so there romance in it, and let the book again.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
So Dalton City, Illinois is a real city. That is
a real picture of the elevator, the grain elevator and
the and the water tower that I took myself, that
my my publishers.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hold on, let me see that book again. Turn it around,
we make sure that's correctly. Put it around the other way.
I think it's backwards, No, I guess not.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
It's mirror imaging, yeah, mirror imaging.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah yeah. So but but where no one will look
is basically Dalton City is a is a town of
five hundred people, all right, five hundred people. It has
a super huge grain elevator that that that services the
whole Central Allois pretty much, and it has a pub
(26:18):
and a restaurant.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
But the pub is where things start because there are
two people, a man and a woman, who are hiding
out from their past, and they meet there and then
they go on this incredible journey and they realize that
their lives and their their past, their trouble that they're
escaping from, are so intertwined that it becomes this big thing.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Uh. And they think that.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Dalton City will be a place where no one will look,
but they find each other, uh, and they work together
to get out of their mess.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
I guess, okay, okay, that sounds amazing. I when I
first thing, I think, when I see the grain elevators,
you know, with the book title, I'm like.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Well, well so this is another one that it gets spicy.
Page two. All right, So if you're if you're.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
One of those people that has to read and be
like completely enthralled and and caught in the first couple
of pages, that's what I try to do.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
And mars we talk about being at Heather's event, and
do you remember talking to Marcy, because you know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We meet a lot of people and we need.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
To view a lot of people and we'd always know
because everything starts to mix that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
After a while.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I I it was such a surprise to me to
get invited and to and to go and I'll and
I'll be honest that the these things don't happen too.
I consider myself a small town girl with a big dream,
you know. And and uh, when this opportunity came around,
I almost passed on it because I passed on the
Emmy event and I didn't feel like I was ready
(27:54):
and and and then honestly, I have a I have
a community of people who uh have now become my
my my fan base and and my and my real
my sponsors.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
They are sponsors. I I had businesses that I.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Collaborate with, who helped fund me, who dressed me in
their boutique fashions that we you know that uh couple
of days and and so it was a it was
a real community effort and I I'm so grateful for that.
And and those people have have backed me from the beginning.
So when I went to l A, it was a
it was a eye opening I'd never been to l
(28:31):
A and I I I had you know, it was
beyond anything I could have imagined, and I met so
many people, so it was uh and and the connections
that I that I made there are still connecting for me,
and it's wonderful, very wonderful.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So we got some people who are scared to go
to Los Angeles a k a.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Rebel.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Uh So, of course, once you jumped off the plane,
what was your feeling until you got to the hotel,
Because you don't know when you're going into a strange
city what to expect.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You don't know when you get there.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You don't even know who's going to interview, if anybody
interviews you, Terry, you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Know, right.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
And I was by myself, so I flew in by myself.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
But I did meet I did meet Monique Stinson from
LA Talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I met her at the hotel and we you know,
we had a little sit down and things like that.
But the other thing that really helped me was I
have a high school friend who lives in LA and
he has a business there.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
He owns Brown hot Events, Jeffrey Brown.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
And he said, hey, when when you get to your hotel,
you message me and I'll come pick you up. And
he had reservations at Funkies and we went and we
ate supper, we ate dinner at Funkies, and so Jeffrey
just kind of eased me into.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
La a little bit.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You know, He's he was still from the small town
I grew up in, but he'd been in La twenty
six years, you know, so he knew everything and and
he kind of drove me around. And from that very
first night, I felt safe and happy and you know,
like like everything was gonna go okay. But I and
I feel like a lot of that had to do
with with a familial face, with with Jeffrey being there.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So it's Terry, you know, a Red carpet interview. You
did what, uh test man?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Is that? Is it? Two hundred and nine thousand views
in counting since it continuous?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I mean I looked at the number like, holy rap,
that's a lot because I didn't expect that, because I
hadn't looked at numbers in like five days. And I
was like, wow, good for Terry and good for that.
And it was done, you know, at Jonathan Baker's Oscar gifting. Sweet,
So congratulations on that. Because I don't look at them
every day like I used to, nor do I want to.
(30:40):
But when I do look at him like I'm pleasantly
surprised and happy because tests was only on what a
couple of weeks ago, and I think it was set
one hundred and nine at that point something like that.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Well, you always grab we always grab good footage on
the red carpet.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
And you never know what you're going to get. You know,
it's always but it's always exciting.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well, and you never know who you go into interview.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Because what I don't like, and I think it's a
disservice to everyone if you're walking that red carpet and
Howard knows this in Tennessee. I understand people whipping out
their cell phones doing it, but they should be those
big cameras. Getty should be there so people get those images.
They deserve to have that. I think it's disservice. I
understand why they don't have them because it costs money
(31:23):
now for Getty to come out, But when they do
come out, if you can get that photo and your
photo goes to Getty and wire images, that is massive.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's really really important. And Tarol knows from having Amy
drags on.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
When you have that, when you can have that, that
that our.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Own I should say from easy way.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That helps a great deal because those wired those photos
go up and Google and the search engine a long way,
which is really really important. And Marci, for you being
on probably maybe it was missed out your first Red
carpet you were out.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Also, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
What was your feeling like that for you?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I'm sorry, what what was the feeling like for you?
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I I was.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I was just I was starstruck a little bit because, uh,
there were there were people you know that I recognized
and that I knew that you know, the shows and
things they were in, and and I I couldn't. I
felt like I was walking around with this dumb look
on my face all the whole time, you know. But
I was I was trying to to I was trying
to be one of the people on the Red carpet,
but I was so enamored by all the other people,
(32:25):
and uh uh it was.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
It was a surreal, a very surreal feeling. And one
of the one of the ones that that start that
I was just like blubbering, was when Patrika Darbo started
walking toward me, and I'm like, uh uh, you know,
I mean I had this this.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Look on my face, you know, and and it ended
up we we just clicked. I mean, she is fantastic
and she ended up being uh she wrote a celebrity.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Endorsement for me and uh it ended up going on
a on.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
A press wire and so yeah, she she's fantastic. And Brian,
I will say this that I was so impressed with
you because you just came up to me and you're, you're,
you had your camera and you're like, you know, going
across my table and you're and the first thing you
said to me was you look like someone I need
to know.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
And it made me feel so like I belonged there.
Even if I didn't feel like I belonged there, it
made me feel like I did.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
And so I thank you for that. That was that
was so grounding for me. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Well, I'm glad I said that to you because I
was kidding. Now I'm only kidding. No, there was a
presentation of what you had and that's really really important,
you know.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, So that helped. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oy.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So there's another studio question. Do you have to read
the books and series and order? And I always wanted
to know that too.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
And another thing that I have to tell people, is
if because I have a lot of people who think
if they read book one and two that I self published, well,
then I can just skip to book three in the in.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
The publisher version.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Absolutely not, because when my my series was published, we
had to change a few things because no publisher wants
to do the exact same book, you know, so we
had to change a few things. And so I keep saying, no,
it wasn't a ployee for me to get you to
buy more books. But but you're not going to understand
book three if you skip, you know, So yes, you
have to do one, two, three, and four in that order.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Hey, Howard, followed by Terry, then Carroll. Do you remember
the first time you were on the red carpet? What
that was like for you?
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Oh? My god. Actually I had a similar it really
when first Christmas book.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
I went to Vegas and promoted it, and I took
the thing wide all the way out there to the market,
and I'm sitting there with the other people that are
in the book, and everybody just walking by, and I said,
I am not sitting here, flying all the way from Nashville,
and nobody's stopping to look at my book.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
So that's when I went out and started dancing with
the women.
Speaker 11 (35:01):
When I started dancing with the women, they all gathered around,
they got books, they got signatures.
Speaker 10 (35:06):
I made it happen.
Speaker 11 (35:07):
You know, I wasn't just gonna I wasn't gonna just
sit there and say, oh, I've done all this and
just let it go by I do.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
I took it by the horns and just made it happen.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
But when I get that, it brought out that entertainer
in me and I thought, my god, I do like
doing this. And even after the event was over and
I was going to other shows, I just walk up
and I said, you want to dance with me?
Speaker 10 (35:33):
And they would.
Speaker 11 (35:34):
So I just made more and more videos through market
and that just became the thing that I did.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
You know, so now I'm known for it. So I
like it. But you've got to set.
Speaker 11 (35:44):
Yourself apart and do it what makes you feel comfortable
and makes you stand out in the crowd. As Brian says,
every day people comment on the way I drenk. You
don't know what I'm gonna wear. I spent a lot
of money on clothes, but it pays off because when
I'm working, people know you're a designer. I can put
it out same principles, look like what you're doing stage.
(36:11):
I got the world's top thirty five and tier design.
I made the same sat Marcy they asked.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Me to, and I think we lost them.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
We're scared and I.
Speaker 11 (36:20):
Didn't do it, Biggs mistake, because if I had done,
I would have met Jane Churchill, which is Churchill's granddaughter.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
I met the designer George Harris at the Beedles House.
We met all the other things. And knowing where my life,
I don't know who you're gonna need. It's the same
thing I tell all my single leave friends.
Speaker 11 (36:40):
Prince urm knock knocked on your door, asked Mary shoes,
And that's true.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Well that's incredible to you know, to look at what
the possibilities are about who you're gonna meet.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Terry, do you remember the first time you walked the
red carpet?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Not any of youse walked.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
In the first time I walked the red carpet?
Speaker 10 (37:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Do you remember?
Speaker 9 (37:03):
I was probably like, uh six years old first time
I read I walked a red carpet. But I mean,
are you talking well for a movie premiere or for
me walking as to be interviewed.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I mean for a movie premiere.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Probably was like six six years old than my at
Disney because my dad would get invited to a lot
of premieres at Disney Studios. So so yeah, so I've
been walking the red carpet my whole life since I
little kid.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
But do you remember what the feeling was for you,
what you got out of it?
Speaker 7 (37:34):
No, I just remember. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
I mean my mom always said that I she gave
birth to me as I was jumping around and I
was always excited. So I was always excited about everything.
So that's my honest answer.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I mean it's wired in terry just you know, it's
totally wired into your neural networks.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
It's your comfort zone in essence, you know.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
I always yeah, I always wanted to be an entertainer.
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I mean when I was little, like I would like
perform a little plays, you know, for my parents, and
I was always acting out stuff.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
I mean, like my dad was an.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Artist, you know, before he worked at Disney that he
ran the printing department. So I come from a background
of creative people and it's just in my genes and
I mean I just like to make people smile. You know,
I've gone through that kind of a dark period in
my life, but that that energy is coming back.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
But yeah, I was just like yeah. So my excitement
on the red carpet was.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
Like, hey, hi, have youre.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
It's a little kid, you.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Know, it was entergizing of Brian.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
So for me, it's interesting because I've had two of
my three daughters have modeled very successfully, my youngest Stephen,
walking in Paris Fashion Week for the designer George Buria,
and so you know, it's funny being their mom, I
(38:58):
felt really awkward, like I didn't have their presence, their ability,
Like they make it look so easy, right, So the
first time that I was on the red carpet, it
wasn't easy. It wasn't they make it look so natural.
And then I had somebody recently who kind of gave
(39:19):
me some instructions on you know, different ways that you
can pose that are flattering rather you know, like angles
that the camera likes as opposed to things that you
know maybe don't look as good. And then also just
bringing my authentic self to the table, letting it be
(39:40):
what it is and being good with that. Being confident
with that is a huge part of the process and
so yeah, that's what it's been like, and especially the
first time out was that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
So two more questions for you, Marcie. When are they
going to be in a box set? And how would
you convelopto a novella series if you had to?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
Okay, so about the box set, I can send them
out as a set. I don't have a box to
put them in, but I can send them out as
a set from from marcibdot net. So that is that is, uh,
you know, my my website store and uh, but they
(40:29):
won't come in a box, but I'll put some cute
little paper or something around them and then we'll pretend
it's a box.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
And then you said something about a novella. How would
you compare your novella to the series? Oh? Okay, so
my novella.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
My novella was published in the back of one of
the editions of one of the series books. But it's
also a free download off of my website marcib dot nett.
So if you sign up for my uh newsletter, which
doesn't spam you, it's one email a month and you
get a free download of.
Speaker 8 (41:04):
The Wanted the Desired The Craved.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
It is a darker psychological thriller with a lot less romance,
So I would say that's a little different than the series.
The series has more relationship love intimacy than I love that.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I like how you said that, Caryl.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
On Fridays, Carol, tell her what you have on Fridays
when it comes to book clubs.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
So on Fridays, I have the Worthy book Club. There's
between sixty and seventy members and we go through books
and really just lean in and have great discussions. The
purpose of the book club is for a gathering of
female leaders where we take a stand for pouring into ourselves,
(41:53):
like filling up our cups, putting.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Our oxygen masks on first.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Because one of the things that I have found is
there's a lot of mindset work with distraction and this
is a free gift. It's a gift, and there's some amazing, powerful,
incredible women in this group and it's turned into something
I didn't expect and that I absolutely love. So I want.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
To ask you too.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I saw a question in the chat how do you
get with a publisher?
Speaker 4 (42:24):
What does that process look like? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (42:29):
I think the traditional route is you you query and
you you try to find a literary agent, or you
try to find a publisher who you know that you
usually have to send off thread to six chapters of
your book and pitch it to them in a in
a query letter, and and and it takes anywhere from
(42:49):
twelve to sixteen weeks to hear back from them. I
think that's the the usual, all right, after you figure
out which publishers are actually taking your genre, you know.
So my case, my story is a little different because
I stumbled. I honestly feel like everything happens for a reason,
(43:10):
and this happened for my reason. Okay, and this is
a true story that I could couldn't make up if
I tried. But I'm sitting at my my stylist who
she's processing my hair, and she was a student of
mine at one point, and she says, you know, Marcy,
She goes, I didn't think about this before, she said,
but and this was when I was still self publishing.
She said, I have this other client that comes in
(43:31):
here every now and then when she's in town and
she she gets her hair done and she's looking for
a romance writer.
Speaker 8 (43:38):
I was like, Camille, why would you not tell me
that before? Now?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (43:43):
And so before the end of my my hair is
in the foil and all you know, and and before
my hair looked good and I left. She had the
woman Tammy corn cornynth On text saying, Hey, I've got
this romance writer sitting here, and so we I was
sending chapters and and about four days later I met
(44:04):
her at a restaurant downtown Decatur, Illinois, and we talked
for the first time. And then I met with her
again about a week later, and I signed my four
book deal.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
So my my situation was completely uh unique, But as
I said, it happened for my reason. It was it
was part of my journey, and it was it was
uh like I get Terry I thinking about it, but
it was it was the best part of my journey
because I would still be founder out there.
Speaker 8 (44:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
She saw something in me and I that I didn't
even see in myself. And I was gung ho I
was I was, and she saw something in me that
fired me up. And uh yeah, So so here I
am pumping out books.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
We got a couple of minutes left. Terry, give your
social media links, everybody.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
Uh, it's Terry Marie NonStop on pretty much all the platforms,
and then my website is Terry Marie.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
And do you still want to write a book in
the future.
Speaker 7 (45:04):
That's down the road?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
What's the future?
Speaker 10 (45:10):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Information? Right, Marcy? You didn't always know?
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Right?
Speaker 8 (45:15):
Oh, anything can happen anything, Hey.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Howard you? Uh did you always know you were going
to be in a book?
Speaker 10 (45:23):
No? But I did.
Speaker 11 (45:25):
Faith if I knew what I was doing, no telling
what would happen. But I do a lot of stuff
that I don't know what I'm doing, and it happened.
So I mean, uh, actually, uh, I post on Facebook
constantly and the producer saw my pictures. I mean the
Patricia Hart McMillan Christmas book that I've been in three
of her books for three different years since last year.
Speaker 10 (45:46):
Was one of them.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (45:47):
She contacted me through Facebook and that's how that happened.
And she tempted me with Christopher Raco, which does all
the Christmas orderment, and uh, let's see who else was
If I forgot the other big designer, a big designer
that I knew already in it, and I thought, if
they're in it, I'm going to be so and I did.
(46:08):
But it's like Marcy said, Marcy, go to wherever you
need to go because you had that chance meeting with
the lady that made your publisher. Like I was trying
to say earlier before I got cut off, you don't
know who you meet and who they know, and it's
all connections no matter what. Like you said, you could
have the best talent in the world, but if you
(46:28):
don't connect to the right person, it's sitting in the
water and it's not going to happen sitting at home.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Howard. Social media, so everybody again.
Speaker 11 (46:37):
Howard Wiggins, Facebook, Playing Simple and of course of movies,
reviews and more.
Speaker 10 (46:42):
And in Instagram.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Carol, that's it.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
I love that, like the exact right timing and thank
you for what you shared, Howard. Super powerful to you
don't know who knows who right and something that you
know just is a great reminder, and so be willing
to meet everybody.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Okay, Instagram.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
I'm at Neurocoach, Carol, just like Neuroscience Neurocoach Carol, And
I'm at success Uniquely Yours dot com. That's my website
and the podcast that you can subscribe to is Unleashed
and Unstoppable where on all the platforms, Spotify, Apple, Amazon,
(47:31):
So I would love to invite you to subscribe if
you're interested in closing the gap from six to seven figures.
It is our time as women in the world to
do this. Please contact me right away. The program won't
be able to handle anybody else coming in very shortly,
so there's a limited window here.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I'd love to have.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
You, Marshall, you get the last word social media links.
Speaker 6 (47:56):
Hey, I'm it's my last name is kind of hard
to spell, but it's Marci Blaski.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
For Instagram and social media. Just Marciblaski. That's it.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
And where can I get you?
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Okay, marcib dot net is my website. You can get
them there, or you can go on Barnes and Noble
dot com, Amazon dot com or Walmart dot com.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
All right, everybody, thank you for today's show.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
And it's a great information on self publishing and publishing
and change of habit and just running into someone that
you would never run into.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
See what happens when you get your hair washed.
Speaker 10 (48:30):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
And as I would always say, have a good night tonight,
a better day tomorrow. You see someone without a smile,
please give them one of yours, because the world needs it.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
The world truly needs it. Brian Sbashing. This is movie
reviews and more and we will see you next week.
Speaker 7 (48:45):
Bye.
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