Robin Bailey Announces The Release of Her New Book 'Flamingos Aren't Born Pink'

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Appe Robin Now with Chios the podcast Very exciting day
for you today, wis it's so exciting. Let me just
say that I never knew how long it took for
books to actually see the light of day. And I
don't just mean writing them. It's taken me six years
to write, let's be fair. But in terms of the

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process of getting it out there. So from eight o'clock
this morning, so like twenty two minutes ago, my book
went live for pre order. So if you go to
my social media you'll be able to follow it in
the bio. But book Topia QBD and also Amazon you
can now pre order the books. So you guys know
nothing about this. You haven't seen the cover, you haven't

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seen the name. So without further ado, here it is.
So this is the That is the cover. Okay, explain
what you see. It's a family photo you three boys.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Man, there's so much taller than you, aren't they. Yeah,
And Flamingos Aren't Born Pink. That is the name of
the title of the book. Flamingos Aren't Born Pink.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I really like that. That's a really nice cover.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Don't be so surprised. The family photos black and white,
but the writings all in pink, and then my family's
story of healing, hope and living life in color Robin Bailey.
So if you take take the first page off and
you'll see the press release that is behind it, just
read the top blurb. That'll that'll give you enough. I

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think the Robin Bailey's memoir.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Flamingo's Aren't Born Pink is filled with deep insights into grieving, parenting, working,
and living, all told with verve and transparency, including how
each other, how each of her sons found their own
ways through grief, from anger, sorrow and acceptance and into
the light of love and hope. That's really nice.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Cory's first books. Let me tell you one of the
things that's quite extraordinary about this book is that the
boys have written their own chapter. So the way that
we did it is that I kind of did my
bit and they didn't read it. A ghostwriter read my
story and then interviewed each of them so that they

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weren't impacted by anything I said. But the questions that
were given to them were very, very direct, and so
then their chapters were written, and they've gone backwards and
forwards with the wonderful ghostwriter Sam and so their chapters
then are now in the back of the book. Can
I tell you what absolute glory and horror it is

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as a parent to read what your children really think
about you? Yeah? Is it about just actually about you?
What they think about you? Well, Finn, this is my
wonderful eldest son a Finn.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hello, Bob, good morning you mate.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Did you write did you really write? Like this is what?
This is how I feel mum when as a.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Parent, I don't know if it was that harsh, but
it was. Yeah, definitely our story based off the questions
we were given. But no, it was really good to
actually hear Mum's story as well being her son, because
there's things you forget, like I forgot a lot of
the good things like growing up and stuff. So I
actually kind of had a trip down memory lane and

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kind of related some things as I was reading. So yeah,
I really liked it. I think Australia will hopefully, and yeah,
it's exciting.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's a really big day and each of the boys'
personalities are so different and each of them come through
in their own chapters, which was wonderful for me to read.
I am being I am saying, you know, like I
was terrified about reading it, fin know, but it was
so glorious and I'm so proud of you. Are you
proud of you or are you now just terrifying?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm meekly proud and terrified, But I'm not proud of you, mum,
because there was a lot to write, a lot in there,
and we've read it, but a lot of no one
has yet, so I think once it comes up, people
sort of understand us as a family and you as
a person. So yeah, it's exciting.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh thanks mate, Yes, Flamingos aren't born pink. You can
now pre order. As I said, there's a long lead
up with books, and it's actually super important if you
do want a pre order, because that's how retailers and
also the publishers know whether the book has got legs
and what can happen to it moving forward. So it
has been specifically put out now so that people can

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give it as Christmas gifts, but it's as a pre
order form and it'll be out for Mother's Day.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Have the boys done an audio park? Because I reckon
I've listening to their voice. That's ned.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well we come back. Can we do the audio? There
will be an audio book, so I will read my
bits and each of the boys will read their.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Did you know about that a ship?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
So pre order? What does that mean? So when you
get it? So okay, So as soon as yeah, you
order it today. So you know how I was waiting
for Kevin Federline's book and I pre ordered it. So
as soon as it comes out live, I got it.
That's what will happen. So but it is super important.
So if you are interested in reading our book, then
then just go to social media. It's on our socials,

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it's on Harpercolins socials, it's on all of mine. You
just click and pre order and I'd be eternally grateful