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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
show starts in ten life eight seven, six, five four
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three two one go.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, Hello, Hello, Hello. I want to welcome you guys
to another episode of Up Close and Personal within Jeluly
on behalf of Aspiring Office Magazine and The Crew podcast
as I am super super excited to be bringing to
you guys the one hundred authors to watch for twenty
twenty five. I am super super excited to be able
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to share them with you guys. If you would take
a moment to share this out in your circle of influence,
share this with somebody, You'll never know what the next
person may be in need of and what nuggets may
be dropped. On tonight, we have one of the amazing
authors that's a part of this amazing movement. Gonna bring
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him up and allow him to introduce hisself on tonight.
Let me get him in the screen, y'all. This new
platform got me kind of got me kind of slow, y'all.
But I'm okay. We yet pressing, We yet pressing, We
yet pressing. See if I can get him on the screen.
(01:53):
Doctor carry Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hello? Hello. I am well. How are you you deny,
I'm great.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can't complain.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Ain't no neat complaining.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
If you would introduce yourself to those that are tuned in,
let them.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Know who you are. Absolutely hello everyone. I am doctor
Carry Brackett, writer, professor, author Helen from Bromham, Alabama. I
write poetry and I also write fiction, suspense, mystery. Uh.
Just published two novels this past year. One is called
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Shadows at Sundown and the other was called The Spirit
of Kwansa, you know inu of the Kwanza holiday. Shadows
at Sundown it's actually part of the series called Journeys
of the Unseen, where we center around a black couple
James and Nikki, where they encounter different towns that have
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different vibes as far as as history and also climates
as well. Shout Out said Sundown. This is where they
actually encounter a sundown town while on vacation. So definitely,
you know, get a copy of that. It is available
now on Amazon and Kindle, and the next edition or
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the nest installment will be Echoes of the Past that's
coming out next month February first. Exactly where James and
Nikki they will be at the site of the last
racial riots where basically they encounter some of the ghosts
and spirits you know, from around that racial riot, around
that town, and basically trying to survive, just like these
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survived the sundown town.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So definitely get look at that and just go from there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you are traditional publisher or you a self published author.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So with the novels I self published, I've been playing
around with traditional and self publishing, you know, here and there.
I felt like with the self publishing it would allow
me the freedom to tell the story of going through
sundown town, say racial climates and so on and so forth.
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Because I try to shop around with traditional publishers, but
it was like each time I did, they wanted to
change some aspect of it, and I wanted to make
sure that the authenticity and also the message from this
story was still going to be told the way I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So that's why I stuck with self publishing for the novels.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wow, So what have been some of the challenges that
you have experienced as a self published author.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
One main thing with the self publishing is that basically
you're the one man band, likeasically you're responsible for the
success of the book. Basically, you know, you market the book,
you edit the book, you're promoted. You're pramatic, and even
though you know what I'm saying, the reward is twofold. However,
basically you know the amount of time and energy that
you have to spend as far as you know, trying
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to make sure the books are successful. Uh, there will
be sometimes where you know you have to you know,
spend long nights just make sure that the books are successful. Also,
you know, basically take a gauge as far as the
interest of the book from.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Your audience or what have you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So being a teacher myself, you know, I had to
put myself, you know, in the seat of a student
as far as learning the ins and outs of self publishing,
you know that kind of thing. Uh, just the truth,
I understand. You know what I'm saying. How can I
make this, uh novel and a novel series you know,
more successful?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So what have been what have been some of your
challenging points and what is your most proudest point as
a self published author?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Some of the challenging points I would say definitely the
timing because basically, as a step up. So, like I said,
basically you're responsible for a success of the novel. So
no matter you know what, however, you know, the time
and energy you spent UH is basically going to reflect that,
you know, as far as the seis of the novel.
Uh So there's been a lot of times where you know,
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I would have to learn you know, the marketing aspect.
You know, do I do it through social media? Do
I go through newspaper, Do I go through book groups?
And so on and so forth. It's just basically you know,
learning more on you know, gauging the audience. You know,
how can I utilize these channels to make sure you know,
these books are actually being reached you know, to you know,
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different audience and so on and so forth.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I have been both you know, available both.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
On Amazon and Kindle, and what I've noticed was that,
you know, I've had a lot of success you know,
selling the print option, but as far as Kendle, uh,
I was quite surprised knowing that, you know, there's not
a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Of people that actually use Kindle.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So with that, I still you know, still utilized that
option just in case, you know, I even use the
you know, have it offered through the Kendle unlimited program.
Uh So basically, you know, learning more on how to
market as an ebook, you know, and basically staying consistent
as far as you know marketing.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You know, that was something the challenge that space, but
the main uh.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I would say success that I've heard that I've had
with us, especially with Shot as a sundown. I was
at event for work, you know, as my job as
an educator where basically I was supposed to you know,
talk about my research for a project that I was in,
and one of the higher ups from the administration basically
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stopped me because she has a copy of my book,
and she basically told me to tell everybody about my book.
And I actually had copies you know, on hand, and
I sold out of them back in about an hour
at that event. Uh So that was my problem moment
because you know, especially me coming from the poetry ranks
and now you know, switching over to fiction and suspense.
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Uh that that that just made me you know, humble,
knowing that you know, people wanted to learn more about
some downtowns and wanted to know more about my story.
Uh And even after you know that, I still have
people asking me, hey, do you have copies of this book.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Hey, when this book two coming out? You know that
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So just hear that ascitement definitely humble me, you know,
with that experience.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And to hear you say that that you have trouble
with e books when I hear the opposite for other
people like they they they have problems selling the paperback books.
They can't they can't get the paperbacks to go nowhere,
but they can get the e books to fly off
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the shelf. Where your particular group leader for the one
hundred Authors movement, she's a librarian. She works at one
of the libraries in Charleston, and she loves ebooks because
while she's sitting at those desks, she can be reading
those books.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well the books can be reading to her.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So she loves ebooks. And and what I've come and
I've been telling a lot of We're gonna have to
work on some stuff with you with the e books
so we can get your ebooks to go in because
if you can, if you can help us share how
you got your your paperbacks to flying off the shelf
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with the group, then yeah, see see that's what I
That's what I'm telling people. If that's somebody over here
that is good at one thing, and if somebody over
here good at something else, and that we can come together,
then we all can sell some good books, y'all. We
all can rank up. Because we've had people say that
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they can't get a paperback book the sell off the shelf,
but they can sell and get people to buy the
e book.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So I'm definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Glad to have you in the fold, to be able
to share your insights and the information that you have
utilized and the things that have worked for you. You know,
they may not work for everybody, but at least we'll
have that nugget. We'll have that that insight that has
worked for you. So so thank you for sharing that
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on tonight.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I want to know, on this journey, where did you
find that that discover that that that niche, that that
where you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Felt like you were you were truly writing and expressing.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Doctor carry oh.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Man, I would say, when I made that decision to
you know, start exploring other genres, because you know, my
first love was basically poetry.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
When I went to grad school, you know you had
to train and you know two genres. So my first
genre was poetry and I've obviously the second wood was
fiction and a lot of my homework assignments, you know,
from the fishing classes.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Basically, you know, I had professor said, oh, those are
great stories. Oh that's a great you know viewpoint, and
so on and so forth. But even after that, you know,
I basically sat on those stories, and recently, you know,
I was you know, taking refleshing of myself.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And they're thinking, okay, okay, what can I do. Now
I've got the.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Awards, I've you know, performed this, you know this many times,
I've been you know, widely recognized as a poet. What
else can I do? And so just hit me. I
was like, wait, I got all these short stories. I've
got all these opportunities to you know, publish you know,
short stories or fiction. So I started you know, investigating
you know, different avenues as far as a small presses,
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anthologies and so on and so forth. And once my
first and second short story got published and anthologies, now
started looking at okay, just look at the positib basically possibility.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
As far as you know doing novels, you know that
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And you know, once I started with Shadows and Sundown, uh,
I realized that with my voice because I'm always a
fan of you know, becoming a voice for our culture.
And you know, me coming coming up from Birmingham, Alabama. Uh,
obviously you know the history as far as like the
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Civil rights movement and so and so forth.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know, we've been widely recognized by that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But you know, we still have towns, you know, in
the state they are recognized their sundown towns. Case in point, Uh,
there is a sundowntown that is literally not not even
an hour away from our location.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They recently was trying to do an attraction, trying to
recruit or try to basically get you know, more people
of our community to come, you know, celebrate you know,
the holidays and so on and so forth. And they
got a lot of backlash because that that city still
is widely known as a sundown town. So it's like, oh,
you can celebrate the holidays, but then until the sun sets,
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you know. So it was like basically funny that you know,
said they had that concept. So when I released Shadows
at Sundown, that was when the backlash happened. And what
was even more interesting was the fact that I had
done I had basically published a TikTok talking about the
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irony of shadows at sundown and how it was going
on around the same time where this town, this actual
town in Alabama was getting the backlash as far as
you know, trying to rewrite, you know, rewrite the wrongs
of their you know, their history. And I actually got
respond wanted to buy a biggie if you will, basically
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saying how I'm still talking about the same thing that
I'm pushing a certain narrative that and quote this was
the funniest quote that I was the author for the
Book of Shame for White People. And this shocked me
because I was like, wait what And you know, the
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more more I heard about it, the more I was
listening to.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It, the more I was like, oh, I touched a nerve.
Oh I know, if I say.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Like my my mentor, I would say all the time,
you know, saying people I'm not talking about so not
talking about you, you're not doing anything. So for the
same fact that somebody responding to this, that means I'm
doing something, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So with that.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Me being myself and me being passionate about our culture,
you know back and the thing I took it as Okay,
now I'm doing something so now they got to go
even further just to make sure that our stories are
being told, just so that make sure that, you know,
saying our culture is still being recognized and still being promoted,
you know, saying a monster letterary community.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's amazing, that is so amazing. I'm glad that you
are attached to this movement. I'm excited about the perspective
that you can help bring to this movement, just seeing
Brown authors to be able to come together and to
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share their different perspectives and their different insights on the
different experiences, the different things. Because they're taking everything away
from us, They're taking everything out of the school. They
want to take our history away. They want to take
those things that define who we are and are helping us,
you know, still find out who we are. Because Wow,
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thank you for what you are doing and for allowing
your voice to be heard. What are some things that
you would like to take away from this movement?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Absolutely, obviously you know the networking park. Like you said,
you just hit it on the head. As far as
being in this community of other Brown authors. You know
what I'm saying, basically hearing the different perspectives from different genres,
you know, fiction, non fiction, self help, you know, mysteries
and so and so forth. Just hearing you know, the
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different perspectives from the different genres, while at the same time,
you know, we're coming together to see, Okay, what issue
that we got to talk about, that we got to promote,
to make sure that you know, it's being you know,
promoted while it's still you know, still creating awareness for
you know, as far as our community, because like you said, there, uh,
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there's a lot of gatekeeping as far as us.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You know, think about it.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, you go to the books of minions or
you know, your airport bookstores and so on and so on,
for you know, a lot of our books are either
on the bottom shelf or hidden, you know, in a
way that you can't really reach it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Or even further, are they just not there. They're just
not there.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No, absolutely, And especially you know what I'm saying for
those of us that you know, even going through the
traditional publishing or even the self publishing ranks. Uh, you know,
you you know, there's this this there's still this perception.
I don't know why, but it's still this perception that
you know that our community don't like to read.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And I got that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Actually from I was actually at the conference recently for
you know, INCLIS professors, and they, you know, I told them, Hey,
I was teaching that an HBCU a sort to do
Black college, you know, being an English professor. You know,
I told them about the books I was, you know, writing,
And the first question they asked was, Okay, uh are
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you writing it at their level? At the reading level?
Try to indicate that, you know what I'm saying, they
don't read.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
And it shocked me.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But it didn't shock me just because of the fact that,
you know, there's still this you know, uh, I don't
want to say how you want to say, like perception
or this ah nuance as far as you know, people
automatically assuming that.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We don't read or we don't like to read, you
know that they when in natuality. That's so but all
the total opposite, you know what.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But it's so crazy because if you go back and
you really look at history, who you think taught all.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Those those other kids.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Absolutely our ancestors, our mothers that were the house moms
that they were teaching those kids how to read. Because
eight parents show wasn't doing it right right. That perception
there is just yeah, that if you put it in
a book, they'll never find it. Yeah, that's that's been
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the perception for for many years. But lo and behold,
we do like to read.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And then on top of that, especially with you know,
I can tell you like how many of my you know,
especially my family members or even my friends, like they
brag about their libraries. And you know, I said, I
we even have conversations so like, hey, have you read
this book or have you read this book? Have you
read this author? Have you think about this perspective? You know,
that kind of thing, like we're even working on at
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the school, the school that I teach you that we're
actually working on, you know, the ten the ten books
that you have three as an HBCU student, Like what
what books that you know you have to have in
your library?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Being part of this community, you know, we were talking
about the likes of Cargi Woods and twenty Morris and
the late Nigger Giovanni and on and so forth, you know,
because there's different way points that we have to consider
while at the same time, you know, thinking about the
issues that you know, we we have to you know,
a poll or that we've got to talk about just
so that we can learn to advance as a community.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know exactly well, I tell you this has been
amazing tonight and we're definitely gonna have to get together
and talk more because we need to see how we
can bring this movement to Birmingham. That's how we could
impact the community and more, HBCUs. We definitely need to
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see how we can get involved and get some of
these authors books and some of their libraries and different
other things. Absolutely, so I'm excited about twenty twenty five.
I want you to share with the listeners. I heard
you mentioned that you have some new projects that you're
working on and some new projects that you have coming out.
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What can we expect for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh man, twenty five it's going to be the year
that you fully see you know, the plethora of Doctor
Carry Brackett. Like I said, the Journeys of the Unseenior series,
Book two and book three are gonna come out. Book
two is Echoes of the Past, This is where James
and NICKI will be at the site of the last
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racial riots. And then book three, the final installment, will
be Light on the Hell Horizon that's coming out in June.
This is where James and NICKI will be at the
Civil War site. But here's the kicker. James will find
out that his ancestors fought for the Union in the
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Civil War. Well, Nikki will find out that her ancestors
fought for the Confederacy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
For the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And they will encounter their little spirits and so on
and so forth, and then their relationship will be challenged
because of the fact that, you know what I'm saying,
it's not uncoma where you had blacks fighting for both
sides in the Civil War. So how do you you know,
address that then modern times. So that series, you know,
will being complete in June. And I even published a
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Juneteenth story called Whispers of Juneteenth.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
This is where you know, a historian, a black his
story will encounter you know, his ancestor who was one
of the first to celebrate you know, Juneteenth. That's gonna
come out actually on June tenth. I'm definitely excited about that.
And that's gonna be on Kendle as well.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Uh. And then I am going to switch.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Viewpoints, if you will, in July with my Echoes of
Valor series Echos of Valor basically center around a black veteran.
He was served in the Navy. He was the last surviving,
last survival of one of the ships that actually suffered
from the War on Terror, and basically you're going to
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send them around basically hits upbringing and his journey basically
overcoming you know, the PTSD, the UH doubt, self doubt,
basically his inner battles as a black veteran, and so
on and so forth. So that first book, the Memory
of Thunder, that will come out in July, and then
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also in November of the second book, the Echoes of War,
that's going to come out with that. And I even
came out coming out with a short story collection which
is going to be you know, a series of suspense stories,
ghost stories and so on and so forth basically called
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Window Ancestors Whisper Tells of Suspense and Mystery.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
That's going to come out in October.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
The reason I come up with that, which is basically
to bring different perspectives as far as you know, what
what what will happen if we actually learn what the
ancestors are thinking or you know, how they encounter you know,
aarder times you know basically, you know, and this book
actually came from a dream that I had basically where
I was at this dinner table and everyone that was
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around was either a past loved one or ancestor that
I learned about, and basically they was offering like words
of encouragement or different perspectives you know that and the
thing or just definitely you know, questions that they had
about why the community has termed this direction or why
we had we stopped you know, pushing this issue, you
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know that kind of thing. So you know, taking that
experience and putting it into a book that was you know,
a great experience, and it was actually challenging because you know,
you're thinking about, you know, the different issues and the
different concepts, you know, what do we want to include
into a book? And I didn't want it to put
too many in there to actually use interest. So it
was like basically I had to pick like the top
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ten to fifteen topics to you know talk about so
you know, to include in this collection.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
So I'm definitely scerited about that. And like I said,
this year is basically.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You know showing flexing, you know, the plantthora of you know,
my pen as far as you know, suspense and mystery,
different viewpoints as far as black veterans and you know
civil war and you know racial riots and so on
and so forth. So you know, with that, I'm definitely
decided about twenty five and definitely look out, you know,
for these releases and this.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Year, well, I'm definitely excited for you in the work
that you're doing and the perspective that you can bring
to the one hundred Authors movement, For that author or
for that expiring author that maybe losing hope or think
that their voice is is not as loud or they light,
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it's deming, what would you say to them to encourage
them to stay on the journey and to keep paying.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, basically that this is a This is a journey,
not a forty yard spread.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And I say that because I've you know, this is
one of those journeys that you know it's going to
be ups and downs, but as long as you keep going,
you know, saying, you're going to reach your destination and
your story is going to touch someone, whether it's one
or ten or even a hundred, it's.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Going to read someone.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And so basically, as us writers, you know, we have
this gift to actually put thoughts and feelings onto paper,
actually make it make sense to be able to communicate
our feelings, our feelings, our issues, what have you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just keep going.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Somebody's going to see your book, somebody's going to see
your writing, and they're going to connect with you. And basically,
you know, as long as you keep going, as long
as you you know, keep writing, someone is going to
you know, connect with your writing and they're going to
be inspired. They are going to you know, consider your viewpoint.
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They are going to adopt you know, your voice. So
just keep going and never give up.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So if individuals want to support you, they want to
follow you, they want to grab some books, they want
to you know, check out what you're doing. How can
they stay connected to you?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh man, So you can definitely follow me on Amazon
also good Reads. I also have my website, Doctor carry
Bracket as you see on my nameplate doctor doctor Kerry
Bracket dot com. You'll have all of my books on
there and they'll send you directly over to the Amazon site,
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you know, as far as you know how to download
or how to purchase you know, a printed copy on
good Reads. I've been doing a blog as well. Think
about different aspects as far as culture awareness, writing and
so on and so forth. So definitely follow me on that.
I am also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, same handle
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at doctor carry Bracket. That is for two hours Roy
and that's with two t's. We are ack E T
T well.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I definitely want to thank you for
stopping by and sharing with us on tonight. And if
y'all want to get them autograph copies of those books,
y'all always can go to their websites, order it from
their website, get that autograph copy of that book, and
that's how you truly support the authors. I say only
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go to Amazon and the other places if you all
the way on the other side of the country. But
if I can get it to you, go to the website,
get it, because that's how you support your local author.
So y'all go out support them, get some books, check
out his blog, see what he got going on. Make
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sure you're following them for twenty twenty five because you
may see us in his town. You may see aa
LAC and Aspiring Author's magazine in the town. So again
I want to thank you doctor Brackett for stopping by
and sharing with us on tonight before we leave. I
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always asked my guess to share something positive and encouraging,
to leave those that are tuned in encouraged and wanting
to want and more so they'll go follow.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
You absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The year twenty four, you know, we've said a lot
of things, what we are going to do, what we
plan on doing, what we may consider or we may
have writing it down or put it on the vision board.
Twenty five is the year of confirmation. This year that
we actually followed through what we said were going to do.
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So that book that you said that you was going
to write, write it, that's the book that you was
going to publish, publish it. The thing that you said
you was going to do, do it. This is the
year that we confirm what we plan on doing. Yes,
it may be scary, Yes it might be frightened, but
just know that you know there are people there that
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support you and just with a little faith.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Things will follow for that story. So just do even
if you're scared, just follow through.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's the faith in that part right there. I'm telling
you you drop some nuggets on today. I hope someone
tuning in have been blessed before we go. I have
to give you some love before we got happen, and
some love, y'all. Clap it out, clap it out, clap
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it out. Let's show him some love that's going then,
clap it out, clap it out.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We appreciates me so much for being the part of
the one hundred Authors Movement. I hope you guys have
enjoyed it on tonight. Please join us back here tomorrow night.
We're gonna have six more amazing individuals stopping by through
out the day on tomorrow, y'all, I tell you I
have truly been blessed by these amazing authors. You're gonna
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have an opportunity to go over follow them on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
We have blocks up of them.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
If you've not checked out our U forty two page,
go over and check it out. They have some clips,
they have pictures, they have full videos. All I'm telling
you you're gonna really get an opportunity to know who
each and every one of these amazing authors are attached
to the one hundred Authors movement. If you are an
author and you're not attached, I want to encourage you
to get attached because you're missing a great opportunity to
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connect and collaborate with some amazing like minded individuals.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Y'all be blessed. Hell, good night,
Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
show starts in ten life eight seven, six, five four
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three two one go.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, Hello, Hello, Hello. I want to welcome you guys
to another episode of Up Close and Personal within Jeluly
on behalf of Aspiring Office Magazine and The Crew podcast
as I am super super excited to be bringing to
you guys the one hundred authors to watch for twenty
twenty five. I am super super excited to be able
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to share them with you guys. If you would take
a moment to share this out in your circle of influence,
share this with somebody, You'll never know what the next
person may be in need of and what nuggets may
be dropped. On tonight, we have one of the amazing
authors that's a part of this amazing movement. Gonna bring
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him up and allow him to introduce hisself on tonight.
Let me get him in the screen, y'all. This new
platform got me kind of got me kind of slow, y'all.
But I'm okay. We yet pressing, We yet pressing, We
yet pressing. See if I can get him on the screen.
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Doctor carry Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hello? Hello. I am well. How are you you deny,
I'm great.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can't complain.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Ain't no neat complaining.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
If you would introduce yourself to those that are tuned in,
let them.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Know who you are. Absolutely hello everyone. I am doctor
Carry Brackett, writer, professor, author Helen from Bromham, Alabama. I
write poetry and I also write fiction, suspense, mystery. Uh.
Just published two novels this past year. One is called
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Shadows at Sundown and the other was called The Spirit
of Kwansa, you know inu of the Kwanza holiday. Shadows
at Sundown it's actually part of the series called Journeys
of the Unseen, where we center around a black couple
James and Nikki, where they encounter different towns that have
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different vibes as far as as history and also climates
as well. Shout Out said Sundown. This is where they
actually encounter a sundown town while on vacation. So definitely,
you know, get a copy of that. It is available
now on Amazon and Kindle, and the next edition or
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the nest installment will be Echoes of the Past that's
coming out next month February first. Exactly where James and
Nikki they will be at the site of the last
racial riots where basically they encounter some of the ghosts
and spirits you know, from around that racial riot, around
that town, and basically trying to survive, just like these
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survived the sundown town.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
So definitely get look at that and just go from there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you are traditional publisher or you a self published author.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So with the novels I self published, I've been playing
around with traditional and self publishing, you know, here and there.
I felt like with the self publishing it would allow
me the freedom to tell the story of going through
sundown town, say racial climates and so on and so forth.
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Because I try to shop around with traditional publishers, but
it was like each time I did, they wanted to
change some aspect of it, and I wanted to make
sure that the authenticity and also the message from this
story was still going to be told the way I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So that's why I stuck with self publishing for the novels.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wow, So what have been some of the challenges that
you have experienced as a self published author.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
One main thing with the self publishing is that basically
you're the one man band, likeasically you're responsible for the
success of the book. Basically, you know, you market the book,
you edit the book, you're promoted. You're pramatic, and even
though you know what I'm saying, the reward is twofold. However,
basically you know the amount of time and energy that
you have to spend as far as you know, trying
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to make sure the books are successful. Uh, there will
be sometimes where you know you have to you know,
spend long nights just make sure that the books are successful. Also,
you know, basically take a gauge as far as the
interest of the book from.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Your audience or what have you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So being a teacher myself, you know, I had to
put myself, you know, in the seat of a student
as far as learning the ins and outs of self publishing,
you know that kind of thing. Uh, just the truth,
I understand. You know what I'm saying. How can I
make this, uh novel and a novel series you know,
more successful?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So what have been what have been some of your
challenging points and what is your most proudest point as
a self published author?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Some of the challenging points I would say definitely the
timing because basically, as a step up. So, like I said,
basically you're responsible for a success of the novel. So
no matter you know what, however, you know, the time
and energy you spent UH is basically going to reflect that,
you know, as far as the seis of the novel.
Uh So there's been a lot of times where you know,
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I would have to learn you know, the marketing aspect.
You know, do I do it through social media? Do
I go through newspaper, Do I go through book groups?
And so on and so forth. It's just basically you know,
learning more on you know, gauging the audience. You know,
how can I utilize these channels to make sure you know,
these books are actually being reached you know, to you know,
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different audience and so on and so forth.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I have been both you know, available both.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
On Amazon and Kindle, and what I've noticed was that,
you know, I've had a lot of success you know,
selling the print option, but as far as Kendle, uh,
I was quite surprised knowing that, you know, there's not
a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Of people that actually use Kindle.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So with that, I still you know, still utilized that
option just in case, you know, I even use the
you know, have it offered through the Kendle unlimited program.
Uh So basically, you know, learning more on how to
market as an ebook, you know, and basically staying consistent
as far as you know marketing.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You know, that was something the challenge that space, but
the main uh.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I would say success that I've heard that I've had
with us, especially with Shot as a sundown. I was
at event for work, you know, as my job as
an educator where basically I was supposed to you know,
talk about my research for a project that I was in,
and one of the higher ups from the administration basically
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stopped me because she has a copy of my book,
and she basically told me to tell everybody about my book.
And I actually had copies you know, on hand, and
I sold out of them back in about an hour
at that event. Uh So that was my problem moment
because you know, especially me coming from the poetry ranks
and now you know, switching over to fiction and suspense.
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Uh that that that just made me you know, humble,
knowing that you know, people wanted to learn more about
some downtowns and wanted to know more about my story.
Uh And even after you know that, I still have
people asking me, hey, do you have copies of this book.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Hey, when this book two coming out? You know that
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So just hear that ascitement definitely humble me, you know,
with that experience.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And to hear you say that that you have trouble
with e books when I hear the opposite for other
people like they they they have problems selling the paperback books.
They can't they can't get the paperbacks to go nowhere,
but they can get the e books to fly off
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the shelf. Where your particular group leader for the one
hundred Authors movement, she's a librarian. She works at one
of the libraries in Charleston, and she loves ebooks because
while she's sitting at those desks, she can be reading
those books.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well the books can be reading to her.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So she loves ebooks. And and what I've come and
I've been telling a lot of We're gonna have to
work on some stuff with you with the e books
so we can get your ebooks to go in because
if you can, if you can help us share how
you got your your paperbacks to flying off the shelf
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with the group, then yeah, see see that's what I
That's what I'm telling people. If that's somebody over here
that is good at one thing, and if somebody over
here good at something else, and that we can come together,
then we all can sell some good books, y'all. We
all can rank up. Because we've had people say that
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they can't get a paperback book the sell off the shelf,
but they can sell and get people to buy the
e book.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So I'm definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Glad to have you in the fold, to be able
to share your insights and the information that you have
utilized and the things that have worked for you. You know,
they may not work for everybody, but at least we'll
have that nugget. We'll have that that insight that has
worked for you. So so thank you for sharing that
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on tonight.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I want to know, on this journey, where did you
find that that discover that that that niche, that that
where you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Felt like you were you were truly writing and expressing.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Doctor carry oh.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Man, I would say, when I made that decision to
you know, start exploring other genres, because you know, my
first love was basically poetry.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
When I went to grad school, you know you had
to train and you know two genres. So my first
genre was poetry and I've obviously the second wood was
fiction and a lot of my homework assignments, you know,
from the fishing classes.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Basically, you know, I had professor said, oh, those are
great stories. Oh that's a great you know viewpoint, and
so on and so forth. But even after that, you know,
I basically sat on those stories, and recently, you know,
I was you know, taking refleshing of myself.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And they're thinking, okay, okay, what can I do. Now
I've got the.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Awards, I've you know, performed this, you know this many times,
I've been you know, widely recognized as a poet. What
else can I do? And so just hit me. I
was like, wait, I got all these short stories. I've
got all these opportunities to you know, publish you know,
short stories or fiction. So I started you know, investigating
you know, different avenues as far as a small presses,
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anthologies and so on and so forth. And once my
first and second short story got published and anthologies, now
started looking at okay, just look at the positib basically possibility.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
As far as you know doing novels, you know that
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And you know, once I started with Shadows and Sundown, uh,
I realized that with my voice because I'm always a
fan of you know, becoming a voice for our culture.
And you know, me coming coming up from Birmingham, Alabama. Uh,
obviously you know the history as far as like the
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Civil rights movement and so and so forth.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know, we've been widely recognized by that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But you know, we still have towns, you know, in
the state they are recognized their sundown towns. Case in point, Uh,
there is a sundowntown that is literally not not even
an hour away from our location.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They recently was trying to do an attraction, trying to
recruit or try to basically get you know, more people
of our community to come, you know, celebrate you know,
the holidays and so on and so forth. And they
got a lot of backlash because that that city still
is widely known as a sundown town. So it's like, oh,
you can celebrate the holidays, but then until the sun sets,
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you know. So it was like basically funny that you know,
said they had that concept. So when I released Shadows
at Sundown, that was when the backlash happened. And what
was even more interesting was the fact that I had
done I had basically published a TikTok talking about the
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irony of shadows at sundown and how it was going
on around the same time where this town, this actual
town in Alabama was getting the backlash as far as
you know, trying to rewrite, you know, rewrite the wrongs
of their you know, their history. And I actually got
respond wanted to buy a biggie if you will, basically
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saying how I'm still talking about the same thing that
I'm pushing a certain narrative that and quote this was
the funniest quote that I was the author for the
Book of Shame for White People. And this shocked me
because I was like, wait what And you know, the
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more more I heard about it, the more I was
listening to.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It, the more I was like, oh, I touched a nerve.
Oh I know, if I say.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Like my my mentor, I would say all the time,
you know, saying people I'm not talking about so not
talking about you, you're not doing anything. So for the
same fact that somebody responding to this, that means I'm
doing something, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So with that.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Me being myself and me being passionate about our culture,
you know back and the thing I took it as Okay,
now I'm doing something so now they got to go
even further just to make sure that our stories are
being told, just so that make sure that, you know,
saying our culture is still being recognized and still being promoted,
you know, saying a monster letterary community.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's amazing, that is so amazing. I'm glad that you
are attached to this movement. I'm excited about the perspective
that you can help bring to this movement, just seeing
Brown authors to be able to come together and to
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share their different perspectives and their different insights on the
different experiences, the different things. Because they're taking everything away
from us, They're taking everything out of the school. They
want to take our history away. They want to take
those things that define who we are and are helping us,
you know, still find out who we are. Because Wow,
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thank you for what you are doing and for allowing
your voice to be heard. What are some things that
you would like to take away from this movement?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Absolutely, obviously you know the networking park. Like you said,
you just hit it on the head. As far as
being in this community of other Brown authors. You know
what I'm saying, basically hearing the different perspectives from different genres,
you know, fiction, non fiction, self help, you know, mysteries
and so and so forth. Just hearing you know, the
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different perspectives from the different genres, while at the same time,
you know, we're coming together to see, Okay, what issue
that we got to talk about, that we got to promote,
to make sure that you know, it's being you know,
promoted while it's still you know, still creating awareness for
you know, as far as our community, because like you said, there, uh,
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there's a lot of gatekeeping as far as us.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You know, think about it.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, you go to the books of minions or
you know, your airport bookstores and so on and so on,
for you know, a lot of our books are either
on the bottom shelf or hidden, you know, in a
way that you can't really reach it.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Or even further, are they just not there. They're just
not there.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No, absolutely, And especially you know what I'm saying for
those of us that you know, even going through the
traditional publishing or even the self publishing ranks. Uh, you know,
you you know, there's this this there's still this perception.
I don't know why, but it's still this perception that
you know that our community don't like to read.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And I got that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Actually from I was actually at the conference recently for
you know, INCLIS professors, and they, you know, I told them, Hey,
I was teaching that an HBCU a sort to do
Black college, you know, being an English professor. You know,
I told them about the books I was, you know, writing,
And the first question they asked was, Okay, uh are
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you writing it at their level? At the reading level?
Try to indicate that, you know what I'm saying, they
don't read.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
And it shocked me.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
But it didn't shock me just because of the fact that,
you know, there's still this you know, uh, I don't
want to say how you want to say, like perception
or this ah nuance as far as you know, people
automatically assuming that.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We don't read or we don't like to read, you
know that they when in natuality. That's so but all
the total opposite, you know what.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But it's so crazy because if you go back and
you really look at history, who you think taught all.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Those those other kids.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Absolutely our ancestors, our mothers that were the house moms
that they were teaching those kids how to read. Because
eight parents show wasn't doing it right right. That perception
there is just yeah, that if you put it in
a book, they'll never find it. Yeah, that's that's been
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the perception for for many years. But lo and behold,
we do like to read.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And then on top of that, especially with you know,
I can tell you like how many of my you know,
especially my family members or even my friends, like they
brag about their libraries. And you know, I said, I
we even have conversations so like, hey, have you read
this book or have you read this book? Have you
read this author? Have you think about this perspective? You know,
that kind of thing, like we're even working on at
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the school, the school that I teach you that we're
actually working on, you know, the ten the ten books
that you have three as an HBCU student, Like what
what books that you know you have to have in
your library?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Being part of this community, you know, we were talking
about the likes of Cargi Woods and twenty Morris and
the late Nigger Giovanni and on and so forth, you know,
because there's different way points that we have to consider
while at the same time, you know, thinking about the
issues that you know, we we have to you know,
a poll or that we've got to talk about just
so that we can learn to advance as a community.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know exactly well, I tell you this has been
amazing tonight and we're definitely gonna have to get together
and talk more because we need to see how we
can bring this movement to Birmingham. That's how we could
impact the community and more, HBCUs. We definitely need to
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see how we can get involved and get some of
these authors books and some of their libraries and different
other things. Absolutely, so I'm excited about twenty twenty five.
I want you to share with the listeners. I heard
you mentioned that you have some new projects that you're
working on and some new projects that you have coming out.
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What can we expect for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh man, twenty five it's going to be the year
that you fully see you know, the plethora of Doctor
Carry Brackett. Like I said, the Journeys of the Unseenior series,
Book two and book three are gonna come out. Book
two is Echoes of the Past, This is where James
and NICKI will be at the site of the last
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racial riots. And then book three, the final installment, will
be Light on the Hell Horizon that's coming out in June.
This is where James and NICKI will be at the
Civil War site. But here's the kicker. James will find
out that his ancestors fought for the Union in the
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Civil War. Well, Nikki will find out that her ancestors
fought for the Confederacy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
For the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And they will encounter their little spirits and so on
and so forth, and then their relationship will be challenged
because of the fact that, you know what I'm saying,
it's not uncoma where you had blacks fighting for both
sides in the Civil War. So how do you you know,
address that then modern times. So that series, you know,
will being complete in June. And I even published a
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Juneteenth story called Whispers of Juneteenth.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
This is where you know, a historian, a black his
story will encounter you know, his ancestor who was one
of the first to celebrate you know, Juneteenth. That's gonna
come out actually on June tenth. I'm definitely excited about that.
And that's gonna be on Kendle as well.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Uh. And then I am going to switch.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Viewpoints, if you will, in July with my Echoes of
Valor series Echos of Valor basically center around a black veteran.
He was served in the Navy. He was the last surviving,
last survival of one of the ships that actually suffered
from the War on Terror, and basically you're going to
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send them around basically hits upbringing and his journey basically
overcoming you know, the PTSD, the UH doubt, self doubt,
basically his inner battles as a black veteran, and so
on and so forth. So that first book, the Memory
of Thunder, that will come out in July, and then
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also in November of the second book, the Echoes of War,
that's going to come out with that. And I even
came out coming out with a short story collection which
is going to be you know, a series of suspense stories,
ghost stories and so on and so forth basically called
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Window Ancestors Whisper Tells of Suspense and Mystery.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
That's going to come out in October.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
The reason I come up with that, which is basically
to bring different perspectives as far as you know, what
what what will happen if we actually learn what the
ancestors are thinking or you know, how they encounter you know,
aarder times you know basically, you know, and this book
actually came from a dream that I had basically where
I was at this dinner table and everyone that was
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around was either a past loved one or ancestor that
I learned about, and basically they was offering like words
of encouragement or different perspectives you know that and the
thing or just definitely you know, questions that they had
about why the community has termed this direction or why
we had we stopped you know, pushing this issue, you
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know that kind of thing. So you know, taking that
experience and putting it into a book that was you know,
a great experience, and it was actually challenging because you know,
you're thinking about, you know, the different issues and the
different concepts, you know, what do we want to include
into a book? And I didn't want it to put
too many in there to actually use interest. So it
was like basically I had to pick like the top
(24:50):
ten to fifteen topics to you know talk about so
you know, to include in this collection.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
So I'm definitely scerited about that. And like I said,
this year is basically.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You know showing flexing, you know, the plantthora of you know,
my pen as far as you know, suspense and mystery,
different viewpoints as far as black veterans and you know
civil war and you know racial riots and so on
and so forth. So you know, with that, I'm definitely
decided about twenty five and definitely look out, you know,
for these releases and this.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Year, well, I'm definitely excited for you in the work
that you're doing and the perspective that you can bring
to the one hundred Authors movement, For that author or
for that expiring author that maybe losing hope or think
that their voice is is not as loud or they light,
(25:43):
it's deming, what would you say to them to encourage
them to stay on the journey and to keep paying.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, basically that this is a This is a journey,
not a forty yard spread.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And I say that because I've you know, this is
one of those journeys that you know it's going to
be ups and downs, but as long as you keep going,
you know, saying, you're going to reach your destination and
your story is going to touch someone, whether it's one
or ten or even a hundred, it's.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Going to read someone.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And so basically, as us writers, you know, we have
this gift to actually put thoughts and feelings onto paper,
actually make it make sense to be able to communicate
our feelings, our feelings, our issues, what have you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just keep going.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Somebody's going to see your book, somebody's going to see
your writing, and they're going to connect with you. And basically,
you know, as long as you keep going, as long
as you you know, keep writing, someone is going to
you know, connect with your writing and they're going to
be inspired. They are going to you know, consider your viewpoint.
(26:55):
They are going to adopt you know, your voice. So
just keep going and never give up.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So if individuals want to support you, they want to
follow you, they want to grab some books, they want
to you know, check out what you're doing. How can
they stay connected to you?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh man, So you can definitely follow me on Amazon
also good Reads. I also have my website, Doctor carry
Bracket as you see on my nameplate doctor doctor Kerry
Bracket dot com. You'll have all of my books on
there and they'll send you directly over to the Amazon site,
(27:35):
you know, as far as you know how to download
or how to purchase you know, a printed copy on
good Reads. I've been doing a blog as well. Think
about different aspects as far as culture awareness, writing and
so on and so forth. So definitely follow me on that.
I am also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, same handle
(27:56):
at doctor carry Bracket. That is for two hours Roy
and that's with two t's. We are ack E T
T well.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I definitely want to thank you for
stopping by and sharing with us on tonight. And if
y'all want to get them autograph copies of those books,
y'all always can go to their websites, order it from
their website, get that autograph copy of that book, and
that's how you truly support the authors. I say only
(28:26):
go to Amazon and the other places if you all
the way on the other side of the country. But
if I can get it to you, go to the website,
get it, because that's how you support your local author.
So y'all go out support them, get some books, check
out his blog, see what he got going on. Make
(28:48):
sure you're following them for twenty twenty five because you
may see us in his town. You may see aa
LAC and Aspiring Author's magazine in the town. So again
I want to thank you doctor Brackett for stopping by
and sharing with us on tonight before we leave. I
(29:09):
always asked my guess to share something positive and encouraging,
to leave those that are tuned in encouraged and wanting
to want and more so they'll go follow.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
You absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The year twenty four, you know, we've said a lot
of things, what we are going to do, what we
plan on doing, what we may consider or we may
have writing it down or put it on the vision board.
Twenty five is the year of confirmation. This year that
we actually followed through what we said were going to do.
(29:49):
So that book that you said that you was going
to write, write it, that's the book that you was
going to publish, publish it. The thing that you said
you was going to do, do it. This is the
year that we confirm what we plan on doing. Yes,
it may be scary, Yes it might be frightened, but
just know that you know there are people there that
(30:11):
support you and just with a little faith.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Things will follow for that story. So just do even
if you're scared, just follow through.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's the faith in that part right there. I'm telling
you you drop some nuggets on today. I hope someone
tuning in have been blessed before we go. I have
to give you some love before we got happen, and
some love, y'all. Clap it out, clap it out, clap
(30:44):
it out. Let's show him some love that's going then,
clap it out, clap it out.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We appreciates me so much for being the part of
the one hundred Authors Movement. I hope you guys have
enjoyed it on tonight. Please join us back here tomorrow night.
We're gonna have six more amazing individuals stopping by through
out the day on tomorrow, y'all, I tell you I
have truly been blessed by these amazing authors. You're gonna
(31:12):
have an opportunity to go over follow them on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
We have blocks up of them.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
If you've not checked out our U forty two page,
go over and check it out. They have some clips,
they have pictures, they have full videos. All I'm telling
you you're gonna really get an opportunity to know who
each and every one of these amazing authors are attached
to the one hundred Authors movement. If you are an
author and you're not attached, I want to encourage you
to get attached because you're missing a great opportunity to
(31:41):
connect and collaborate with some amazing like minded individuals.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Y'all be blessed. Hell, good night,
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