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Speaker 1 (00:13):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in ten.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
By eight.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. We are still sinking
on a couple of channels, but we are live. I
think he says we're live on Facebook, so I want
to welcome you guys too. Another episode of Up Close
and Personal with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Authors Magazine
and The Crew podcast. Y'all, we are showcasing and sharing
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these amazing, amazing authors a part.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Of the one hundred Authors to Watch.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
On behalf of Aspiring Authors Magazine. I tell you, I
truly have been inspired. I truly have been encouraged. I
have been uplifted by hearing some of these amazing testimonies.
They've been sharing their journeys, They've been sharing why they
became authors, and I am so grateful for them giving
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me the opportunity to share their brand and to share
them with those that may not know who they are.
They have stories that individuals need to hear. Oftentimes we
think that that there is y'all, there is something hold
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on let me see what's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Am I ever gonna have a show? Hey, y'all, Am
I ever gonna have a show where there's no there's
there's no interruptions because it keeps and then I don't
know what happened to me, But then I went somewhere.
But yeah, I'm here, y'all were gonna keep pressing, Yet
we press y'all know, y'all know what happens when we're
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dealing with technology and dealing with these different platforms, Internet,
satellites and all of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So without delay, I'm gonna go ahead and move out
the way.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Because I know Patrice may be on break, she is
at work, so I want to go ahead and give
her an opportunity to share about her brand and share
with you you all what she has coming up for
twenty twenty five. So I'm gonna move out the way
and allow her to come on the screen so she
can share you guys, So let me move out the way.
(04:15):
It seems like I'm all over the place, but there she.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Is pay per trees.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Hey, I can music, not only.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
There's no music plan now I don't think, Yeah, there's
no music plan on.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You then we won't work with it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, that's not no music.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
On here. Here we go, it's gone. Yeah, y'all know.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
See, technology is trying to mess with my intentions.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I am being more intentional in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So technology trying to do this thing, but we ain't
trying to hear that because I took my break because
I'm at work at my library, and I made sure
that I made this time out. I got a second
opportunity and I told my boss, I said, look, if
you don't mind, I'm gonna use my lunch break to
be intentional in my brand in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So my name is Patrese Scrimble. A lot of you
might know me as sc book Gal A four to three.
That is me, and I am the host of sc
Book Gals and Friends Chats. So why am I here
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for at a one hundred office Because That's what I'm
doing this year. Okay, I'm gonna be co authoring my
first book. Okay you guys, and I am starting to
step in the mind of things that me and my
what I love to do coloring. We love coloring, we
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love journals, and that's one of the things that I'll
also be doing this year being more intentional, what making
my brand out there, still doing book reviews, helping those
with questions that they want to know about marketing or
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about publishing their books.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm learning just like they're learning. And I am so
ready to see what twenty twenty five is actually going
to bring me. Okay, I am very grateful this opportunity,
And just to know you guys at work, I found
out that January is National Mentor Month, so I would
(06:52):
like to say it, thank you to my sister mentor,
Angela Thomas Smith, the Queen of collaboration, and forgiving me
this opportunity to actually that spray my wings, you know
what I'm saying. So that's a little bit what I had,
(07:21):
and she just got she just got disconnected. So y'all,
whenever she come back, I'm onna bring her back on.
But I don't know what happened. She's in the car
on her break, so I have to applaud her for that.
And she definitely is being more intentional about her brand.
Just to see where she has come from and where
(07:42):
she is now, I remember her, so I'm excited to
see her expanding her wings and doing some things outside
the box. I think she's coming back on. Let's say
we can get her back on the screen. There she is. See,
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I told you, when God has something for you to do,
the devil will do everything in his power to stop
you from doing what you're supposed to do. Yeah, and
that's the IMP's job. That's the IMP's job. That's that's
what they come to do. But I'm grateful that you know,
we have that pressing spirit, so we don't stop. We
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keep going, you see, we keep coming back on when
the enemy try to keep us down.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We can excited for you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I was sharing with them while the enemy was doing
what they were doing. How I am so proud of
how you're bossoming and stepping outside of the box. And
I'm just excited about twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Five and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You know, I hope that you will do in twenty
twenty five. So if you would, I want to share
with them. You know, you've been a librarian for what
nineteen twenty years?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Now this year is twenty years, twenty years?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What is that like?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now? I know you are an avid reader, so going
from avid reader to now writer. You've dabbled in a
couple anthologies, but now you are really diving in.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You're going in.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You actually are collaborating more, you are doing journals like
what has truly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Inspired you to step from reader to writer and creator?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think one of the things is I was actually
I met someone earlier last year, okay, and.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
They wrote the book, but they were having a problem
getting it publish. I want to say, my head.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Goes out to you off this.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
As the reader, we do not see all of the blood,
sweat and tears that you guys put into your work.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
We appreciate it, we know that there is.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Trials and tribulations to get that book published, but to
actually be on this end because one author said it
isn't as easy as you said, and I saw the
process that made me respected more, and I said, why
not me.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Give this a try? I have stories. I feel I
can do this. I am creative. Why not try?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What's stopping me?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But me?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
If I could see, for example, my year old get out.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
There and jump and dance and learn these lines, and
her go through her anxiety to stand in the front
of the stage where people she doesn't even know and
can't even see because the lights are so bright, tell
me why I can't do that? Why can't have her
look at me and said, Mommy, I'm proud of you
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because you actually did it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So yes, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a dream that I always had, but I always
stopped like, how did they how did they come up
with the cach how did they come up with their
their storylines?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
How did they keep us straight?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know what, God, you gave me the vision, so
I'm gonna carry it through.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And I know you won't help me carry me because
you gave me the vision. So yeah, that's one of
the reasons why that I feel that I can do this.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And then twenty years of working.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
With the library, I've seen the rise, the steadiness, the
rise even more and now the steady decline.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And the decline is because so many people.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Are closed mouth, closed minded to the johnre the Aptrican
Americans we are. So I get judged for what I
read all the time. But when I actually give a
reader a book and they read it and it's like,
oh my god, it kept my attention.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh I see the story behind it. Oh I see
the attention. Oh I see why the off the road
that I see the now you see why it's not
because of the naked person on the cover the only person.
The only difference between our books and Caucasian book is
they naked inside the book, but the covers are plain.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
We're naked on the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know what you're gonna get, You know what I'm saying,
And so I always give a reference of fifty shades great.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You read that book. The cover of the book is
a bow tide if you only knew who was inside
of that book. And now you see why it's the best.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Seller because those mommy and means were working that book
out and they support their authors. So I I feel like,
you know what, let's keep this momentum going.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So that's my.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Intention.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Every word, everything that I'm doing, I'm making an intentional
holding myself accountable.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
So yes, So do you have a particular.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jar that you're playing on writing in or you just
gonna just put your hands wherever you you feel it?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
If you know me, I like And we don't say
urban litt anymore. Okay, why we do not say urban
lit is because the whole urban scene is totally changed.
So for me, I think this first book is going
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to be erotica in trees. Why because I love to
read something that's juicy. Okay, that's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I love that book that leaves that burning desire, Okay,
and then I want to do contemporary.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Something that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Something that has a little bit of everything to make
that cake perfectly. So that's what I consider contemporary. In
your contemporary, you have books.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
That have violence, love, romance, women's fiction all le together
in that one little perfect to give you contemporary. So
that's another I think erotica and contemporary those would be
the two that I dabbling.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Wow, So now that you are transitioning from reader to writer,
what are some of the things that you would like
to share through your writing. What are some of the
messages that you would like to get out.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Well, one of the first things that I want to
get out is you can do it. A lot of
my stuff, A lot of things that I would do
would come from my daughter, Okay, and she is her
and my son.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
They are my inspirations for everything that I do.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And while working on the book that we're currently working on,
I am also on the side doing this colored book
for her because.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I know, we said black girl magic, we were doing
that all the time, but then that magic d one
build out and now Little Girls don't really know who
they want to be, you know, and even some of
us just grown woman, we don't know because of the
I would say, disappointment of what happened at the last election.
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So one of those first things would be to create
that book, to say, a book of pure affirmations you
can do this, you can do that, you are.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
This, you are that. So that would be.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
That would be it, Yes, that would be one of
the first things that would be and intentional and letting
that message be known that you can be whatever you
want to be. And are you going the route of
a self publisher or you doing traditional publishing? You know
(17:19):
what to tell you truth, I want to try both,
and people be like why because I want to see
the ins and out of self publishing and then I
want to see what the traditional publishing does. And the
reason being because I hear a lot of independent authors
are saying, oh, it's hard to market my book, it's
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hard to get editors, and it's hard to get this,
and then get that, and then I see people who
are under a publishing house feeling that they're lost in
a number or lost their book gets lost. You know,
there are other authors who are more priority. So I
would like to see both of them and then on
top for that costs, because this journey isn't going to
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be free, so then you have to look.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
At the cost factors. So I would like to try
both of them.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Actually, I actually did an article in this month's magazine
about the pros and cons of both and compare them,
because someone shared with me that they had got picked
up by an agent, and I was pretty much telling them,
you you you sign you allow an agent to take
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over when you're doing what the agent is doing for you,
because if they were already doing that, what the agent
is doing for them, they were already doing.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So why not just go and and present your stuff
and do your proposal. You can present, you can put
proposals together. Like I don't see. I can't see if
I'm working that hard to PUBLISHABLEOK. I wouldn't go to a.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
An agent and let them get fifteen percent of everything
that I'm on be in royalties. But this particular I
don't know what all of the agents do, but this
particular agent is gonna be getting fifteen percent of everything
that they that they booked for them, plus they get
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fifteen percent of their royalty. So why do you get
to get fifteen percent of my stuff for the rest stuff?
And they had that, Yeah, I put a whole article.
I got an article because I want people to know,
like a lot of the stuff that I post on
social media and a lot of people are coming my inbox.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They didn't know this.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
They didn't know that I've started to put these things
in the magazine so that they can know. Like this
young lady didn't know that if you published on a
certain platform, that your book can be in a lot
of different places that people tell you your book can't
like they it's it's really not that hard to get
your book in the library if you go through these
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different systems there, did.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You do you know Baker and Taylor? Do you know
Baker and Taylor? Yes? Do you know what's the name
of the other company, Baker and Taylor. What's the other one, Patrice?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
The other one that's just like Baker and Taylor. Baker
and Taylor is in Charlotte. So there they helped get
books inside of academic libraries like college libraries, high school libraries,
things of that nature.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
And I thank you for doing that, because there was
a young, a young man about early twenties Okay, he's
in school. He wrote a book.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
He said, I don't have time for the marketing part
of so he was looking online and he was telling
me about this lady that is charging him three hundred dollars,
you guys for two weeks of marketing.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, and then half of them. I look at a
lot of these people that that.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So called marketers, Like, these people just keep coming to
my inbox, but all they want to do, they want
to charge you an arm and a leg. They're only
gonna post ten times, ten times a week on social
media sites and on their website.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And I'm looking at.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
How many followers you got, you got? How is that
gonna help me? When you don't even have as many
followers as I do. So how is that gonna help me?
That's what I'm wondering. How do you if you have
something that's saying that they are a marketer, someone that
says that they market Because we get this all the
time in different groups, and that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
There's a guy and I thank him. He's been on
your show. His name is Kevin. He comes into these
groups and he tells people, he say, this.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Is a scam because they asking you blind questions They
just trying to get your information so they can pitch you.
That's how they're trying to do is figure out what
you've done so they can go look at your stuff
and pitch you.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
That's all they do. And then all these people. I
just want you to know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That I appreciate you as a book reviewer. Those that
have not taken advantage of you so far, they need
to start taking advantage of you. Because what these other
people charging and you do.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
For free, thank you, And that's crazy. Like at one
time I just wanted to start charging people and I
felt like my time wasn't being worth it. But I'm actually, God,
I see you're gonna have to you have to guide
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me with this.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
But I tell them this.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All my authors, Oh I would like to do a
book review. I wanted to do my book review. Okay, cool,
send me the book, will work something out. You don't
follow up people, but then you come and you be like,
oh I thought you were going to do my book.
You never contact me again. I have one lady who
just yesterday asked me to review her book. She already
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sent me the arc copy at three fifty nine this morning,
and I was like, oh, these are people that are intentional,
These are people that really want, they really want, they
really believe in themselves, they really believe in their brand,
and they really want to see their brands go somewhere.
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Now the ones that say they're gonna do it and
then you don't hear from them until three four weeks later, Like,
those are the ones that are not intentional about we
all are busy.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We all work jobs. You work a full time job,
you work at the library, You got a nine year old.
We are all busy. You got a.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Podcast, I'm in school, I run a podcast, I do magazines.
I'm over here right books, I'm helping people publish. I'm
constantly doing stuffing. It's not like I'm over here twiddling
my thumbs and just waiting for stuff to drop.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So we're all busy. But yes, time for those things, Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That we enjoy doing, those things that we love doing,
those things that we want to grow, those things that
we want people to remember us by. Like we all
say we want to create a legacy, But how are
you creating a legacy if you're not even pushing your brand?
You're not even, you don't even And it takes you
(24:50):
a second, Like I don't tell everybody to just get
on here and stay on here, but.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Do some reals you have and it could be the
easy the easiest reals you guys like I am.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Now, when I start to review books, I put a
I'm just currently reading, share that picture twice, share the
subnopsis twice. And now I'm starting to place messages saying,
oh such and such as this, and oh such and
such as that.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Those are the posts right there.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
It shows people, oh, okay, well girl, what is that
you're reading? And then they'll start to follow you. It's
the littlest things you do. It's the littlest things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You do, engage and getting their attention. Something to get
their attention and engage with them. Because once they engage,
once they ask you I have to do is respond back.
People like for you to respond, and when you respond
to them, you make them feel special. You go down
to your timeline, you can see some people like your stuff,
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and then when they see people responding, they be don't
like it, and they'll come back a couple of hours
later and then you'll see them putting a comment, yeah,
I'll be watching.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So right.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So I had one thing I said something only eight
people comment, but it had.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Three hundred something reach mm hmm. See you all ya
saw that, but nobody wanted to comment.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But you know what, I'm gonna keep on posting because
the three hundred is something, they're gonna comment. They're gonna
keep on and let me tell you what I do
every now and then I'll ask, well, why are you
following me? And then people that never like anything, people
that never share anything, people that you don't even know
that that's on your page. They are the ones that
(26:47):
always say because I like your content, because because you're inspirational,
because of this, because of this, and but you never
see them say nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And then this with somebody today.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Just because they're not saying anything or sharing it does
not mean that they are not reading and paying attention
and observing. Because some people they just jump on and
they just read and they don't they don't have time.
They're just trying to, you know, see what's going on,
and they just check out what you got going on.
If it's something that if it's something that they won't
(27:19):
you know what, they sometimes will just save it and
you'll never know because it's saved.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I'm that personal.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
If you guys can only imagine how many screen shots
of books that I have in my phone just because
I love the real or just because I'm saving it
because I'm gonna go back and read it. That many
screen shots. I think I've got over two to three
thousand screen shots. And now half of that is my child,
(27:51):
my kids, y'all, I'm a suck of them.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Mom.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
If you go down my page, you see my kid, sorry, okay,
or my nephew. Sorry. But then the rest of it,
it's nothing. Book book, book, book, book book.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And now it's even turning to movies because a lot
of these indie authors, they are now saving up and
doing movies. Like I have one author reach out to
me and she said, you read my book, Jay Jones.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Here is the movie. Oh I'm gonna look at that
movie this weekend.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, everybody doing movies.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Pam got two more in the works. What she's working on,
two more she's working on false Falsely Accused two Side
Chick and something else.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You might like that side Chick book, y'all know that
type of book, like that one, So you might want
to reach out to her and and do a review,
and she may can get the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
She might come on your podcast when we start at that.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
But yeah, my podcast, I forgot about my post and
a lot.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Of people are doing that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So what does.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
What does twenty twenty five look like for you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
As a podcaster and as a book reviewer because you
are over the book review what?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
What does what does all that side look like?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I am excited. I want to It's the hunger of
the new offer that gets me.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's that hunger like when they when they're hitting me up,
like Okay, so this is we're gonna do, We're gonna
talk about this is? Oh you and oh I like
that little segment when you did when I have to
compare my characters to real people.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I love that. So I am wanting to get new
authors old authors.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
My only requirement you guys, is that you be serious
and hungry about your book. Okay, I'm gonna come out
and I'm gonna be totally honest with you. Don't play,
Please don't play, because I'm serious because that time that
you take can be the time that somebody else wanted.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Okay, a lot of times last year, I don't know.
It might be stage fright.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And that's why when my authors come on, I try
to talk to you beforehand, smooth it out, like, Hey,
we're just gonna have a regular conversation.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Some of them get stage fright, and you know what,
I totally understand Andrew. Look, I told you tell you at.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
My first show, I held my breath through the whole
what five minutes, So I understand that.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
But I want you to know that.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Nobody knows your book, but you, nobody can sell your
book better than you.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Why not have the opportunity to come do it on
my show and you can.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Block out those Look, you're gonna be right there in
the in the video, You're gonna be inside a virtual studio.
You're gonna be right there beside Patricia, just like we're
on this screen. Ain't nobody. Can't nobody see you but
Patresea and me? So and then what you're gonna say,
Oh what you're thinking? No? And then I'm making it
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even easier you guys, because remember we used to do
Saturday nights, and I know Saturday night was party night.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We coming to Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
We getting you before you go to church Wednesday night. Yes,
so it's gonna be Tuesday nights at eight pm. I'm
gonna run from this job right here and I'm running
home because I want to meet that new author, that
new Amazon bestseller than New York but yet start getting
more African, African American and diverse off of.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Colors on the best sellers.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Fust.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I am soon tired of seeing Jens Patterson. Y'all, yeah,
Jeens Patterson, it ain't even writing his books. They're other
people that's writing his books. He's geen those people to
write the books. And he gets all the money. Why
because it says Jans Patterson, the book can suck. But
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the fact that there's Jeans Patterson, you know what I mean?
You know the only Jens Patterson and Pat Oh no
it's not Pat there's another author. Are the only two
authors that I've ever seen do an advertisement for their
book on regular TV.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Tell me why the.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
People of the whoever they they publishing house standing? Well,
they they got the budget to do it. And that's
why people got to understand these people they market when
when these publishing houses are looking for people, they're finding
people that can be marketable. They are looking for and
most of the time they they usually go with celebrities.
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If you look at if you look at they usually
go with celebrities or they go with somebody that they
feel is really really marketable. If you if they don't
think they can market you, they're not gonna.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
They're not going, not going going.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
So let me tell y'all even before I leave, because
I gotta get back in this building. There was an
NFL player who was reading a book on the sideline
this past Sunday at a playoff game. Do y'all know
know that that book has sold out.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
And all the bookstores in the area. I forgot the time.
It's a motivational book. If you go on CBS News,
they have the article mm HM TV show.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
In the right hand the experience to happen, So you
never know what may happen that somebody that that just
just decided that they just wanted to write a book
and just put it out there. And he could have
been a friend of a friend and just was reading
it just because he just needed some motivation or whatever
on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Waiting to get in the game.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Bingal. And it's even happening to our kids.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Disney Channel, I want parents, African American parents, I want
you to go look at season two of.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Proud Family. There is a character one of the newer characters.
African American girl, she's the one where her.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Her She had the two dads every time she has
a book in her hand, and they showed the cover
of the book.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
All they do me as a parent, they know exactly
what they're doing. Because me as a parent of people
that said, does she have a.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Book of her hand? Everybody gonna say, well what they what?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
And that's that's a commercial.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
That that's a that's a commercial inside of the show,
advertising and tide of the show. And I'm telling how
much they paid for that, but or if they paid
for it, because it could have been just picked up.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Inside of shore An exactly, you guys, you should have
I looked at every single.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Every She's gonna kick her off, y'all.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
And she was getting ready to go because she got
to get ready to go back to work. Hopefully she'll
come back in and close us out, y'all.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It was getting good.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I tell you, it's nothing like being able to sit
down with the library and talk about things. I tell you,
if you are not attached to the one hundred authors moving,
I want to encourage you to get attached. Because she
is one of the group leaders. She's one of the leaders.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So she's back.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
She's back, but I'm gonna give her a chance to
close out y'all so she can tell y'all how to
contact her and how to.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
How to stay connected. Patrice, are you there because you're
black on the screen, can't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Hear you.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
My podcast? Send me email okay and see bookouts and friends.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I tell you it was getting good. So it kicked
out again, but we don't stop here. She come, she
coming back.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I'm ready. I'm ready to come back in February. I
can stop the interviewing y'all some more all the other
unless we have read he please.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Use I don't know why I keep kicking that out.
But it kicked out again, y'all, but I didn't. I
want to thank you, guys. It kicked her offline, but
I want to thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
For tuning in again. I repeat. She is one of
the group leaders for the one hundred Author's Movement.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
She is.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
A new author that she is releasing a book this year.
She has co authored in a couple of books. She's
wrote in a couple of anthologies with me, but she's
going to be releasing a book that she co wrote
just her and one other person. They worked on this
book together, so I'm excited for all the things that
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she's getting ready to do. So I want to encourage
you guys to get attached to the one hundred Authors
Movement Aspiring Authors Magazine if you need a book review,
and I tell you. And I'm not just saying it
because it's my magazine or because she's a part of
my magazine, but she is very good at what she does.
She's done some amazing book reviews and they're very professional
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in detail.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
So if you're looking for opportunity to allow.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Your book to be shared through a book review, she
shares it on various platforms. She has her own platform
and she shares own Mario's platform, So this is an
opportunity for you guys to just share your book.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Again. I want to thank you guys for tuning in.
I have another interview at six pm.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
We have another amazing author that's going to be stopping
by Apostle, doctor Kimberly Thomas. It's gonna be shop stopping
by sharing her and sharing what she has coming up
in twenty twenty five. So I want to encourage you
guys to come on back and join me and get
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to know some of these amazing authors that are part
of the one hundred Authors to Watch and twenty twenty
five and I want to encourage you. If you are
an author, a new author, a seasoned author, if you're
just looking for an opportunity and outlet to connect with
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other authors, if you would like to be a mentor,
we are here to support, educate, empower and encourage each
other on this journey. It's not about a contest, it's
not about a competition. We are here to encourage.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So I want to encourage you. If you're looking for
a family to help.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Support you on this literary journey, then come on over
to the one hundred Authors to Watch for twenty twenty
five
Speaker 5 (40:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in ten.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
By eight.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Seven six five all three feo one go.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. We are still sinking
on a couple of channels, but we are live. I
think he says we're live on Facebook, so I want
to welcome you guys too. Another episode of Up Close
and Personal with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Authors Magazine
and The Crew podcast. Y'all, we are showcasing and sharing
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these amazing, amazing authors a part.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Of the one hundred Authors to Watch.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
On behalf of Aspiring Authors Magazine. I tell you, I
truly have been inspired. I truly have been encouraged. I
have been uplifted by hearing some of these amazing testimonies.
They've been sharing their journeys, They've been sharing why they
became authors, and I am so grateful for them giving
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me the opportunity to share their brand and to share
them with those that may not know who they are.
They have stories that individuals need to hear. Oftentimes we
think that that there is y'all, there is something hold
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on let me see what's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Am I ever gonna have a show? Hey, y'all, Am
I ever gonna have a show where there's no there's
there's no interruptions because it keeps and then I don't
know what happened to me, But then I went somewhere.
But yeah, I'm here, y'all were gonna keep pressing, Yet
we press y'all know, y'all know what happens when we're
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dealing with technology and dealing with these different platforms, Internet,
satellites and all of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So without delay, I'm gonna go ahead and move out
the way.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Because I know Patrice may be on break, she is
at work, so I want to go ahead and give
her an opportunity to share about her brand and share
with you you all what she has coming up for
twenty twenty five. So I'm gonna move out the way
and allow her to come on the screen so she
can share you guys, So let me move out the way.
(04:15):
It seems like I'm all over the place, but there she.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Is pay per trees.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Hey, I can music, not only.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
There's no music plan now I don't think, Yeah, there's
no music plan on.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You then we won't work with it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, that's not no music.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
On here. Here we go, it's gone. Yeah, y'all know.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
See, technology is trying to mess with my intentions.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I am being more intentional in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So technology trying to do this thing, but we ain't
trying to hear that because I took my break because
I'm at work at my library, and I made sure
that I made this time out. I got a second
opportunity and I told my boss, I said, look, if
you don't mind, I'm gonna use my lunch break to
be intentional in my brand in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So my name is Patrese Scrimble. A lot of you
might know me as sc book Gal A four to three.
That is me, and I am the host of sc
Book Gals and Friends Chats. So why am I here
(05:45):
for at a one hundred office Because That's what I'm
doing this year. Okay, I'm gonna be co authoring my
first book. Okay you guys, and I am starting to
step in the mind of things that me and my
what I love to do coloring. We love coloring, we
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love journals, and that's one of the things that I'll
also be doing this year being more intentional, what making
my brand out there, still doing book reviews, helping those
with questions that they want to know about marketing or
(06:27):
about publishing their books.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm learning just like they're learning. And I am so
ready to see what twenty twenty five is actually going
to bring me. Okay, I am very grateful this opportunity,
And just to know you guys at work, I found
out that January is National Mentor Month, so I would
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like to say it, thank you to my sister mentor,
Angela Thomas Smith, the Queen of collaboration, and forgiving me
this opportunity to actually that spray my wings, you know
what I'm saying. So that's a little bit what I had,
(07:21):
and she just got she just got disconnected. So y'all,
whenever she come back, I'm onna bring her back on.
But I don't know what happened. She's in the car
on her break, so I have to applaud her for that.
And she definitely is being more intentional about her brand.
Just to see where she has come from and where
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she is now, I remember her, so I'm excited to
see her expanding her wings and doing some things outside
the box. I think she's coming back on. Let's say
we can get her back on the screen. There she is. See,
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I told you, when God has something for you to do,
the devil will do everything in his power to stop
you from doing what you're supposed to do. Yeah, and
that's the IMP's job. That's the IMP's job. That's that's
what they come to do. But I'm grateful that you know,
we have that pressing spirit, so we don't stop. We
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keep going, you see, we keep coming back on when
the enemy try to keep us down.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We can excited for you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I was sharing with them while the enemy was doing
what they were doing. How I am so proud of
how you're bossoming and stepping outside of the box. And
I'm just excited about twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Five and all that.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You know, I hope that you will do in twenty
twenty five. So if you would, I want to share
with them. You know, you've been a librarian for what
nineteen twenty years?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Now this year is twenty years, twenty years?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What is that like?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now? I know you are an avid reader, so going
from avid reader to now writer. You've dabbled in a
couple anthologies, but now you are really diving in.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You're going in.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You actually are collaborating more, you are doing journals like
what has truly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Inspired you to step from reader to writer and creator?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think one of the things is I was actually
I met someone earlier last year, okay, and.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
They wrote the book, but they were having a problem
getting it publish. I want to say, my head.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Goes out to you off this.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
As the reader, we do not see all of the blood,
sweat and tears that you guys put into your work.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
We appreciate it, we know that there is.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Trials and tribulations to get that book published, but to
actually be on this end because one author said it
isn't as easy as you said, and I saw the
process that made me respected more, and I said, why
not me.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Give this a try? I have stories. I feel I
can do this. I am creative. Why not try?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What's stopping me?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But me?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Right?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
If I could see, for example, my year old get out.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
There and jump and dance and learn these lines, and
her go through her anxiety to stand in the front
of the stage where people she doesn't even know and
can't even see because the lights are so bright, tell
me why I can't do that? Why can't have her
look at me and said, Mommy, I'm proud of you
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because you actually did it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So yes, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a dream that I always had, but I always
stopped like, how did they how did they come up
with the cach how did they come up with their
their storylines?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
How did they keep us straight?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know what, God, you gave me the vision, so
I'm gonna carry it through.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And I know you won't help me carry me because
you gave me the vision. So yeah, that's one of
the reasons why that I feel that I can do this.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And then twenty years of working.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
With the library, I've seen the rise, the steadiness, the
rise even more and now the steady decline.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And the decline is because so many people.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Are closed mouth, closed minded to the johnre the Aptrican
Americans we are. So I get judged for what I
read all the time. But when I actually give a
reader a book and they read it and it's like,
oh my god, it kept my attention.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh I see the story behind it. Oh I see
the attention. Oh I see why the off the road
that I see the now you see why it's not
because of the naked person on the cover the only person.
The only difference between our books and Caucasian book is
they naked inside the book, but the covers are plain.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
We're naked on the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know what you're gonna get, You know what I'm saying,
And so I always give a reference of fifty shades great.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You read that book. The cover of the book is
a bow tide if you only knew who was inside
of that book. And now you see why it's the best.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Seller because those mommy and means were working that book
out and they support their authors. So I I feel like,
you know what, let's keep this momentum going.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So that's my.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Intention.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Every word, everything that I'm doing, I'm making an intentional
holding myself accountable.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
So yes, So do you have a particular.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jar that you're playing on writing in or you just
gonna just put your hands wherever you you feel it?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
If you know me, I like And we don't say
urban litt anymore. Okay, why we do not say urban
lit is because the whole urban scene is totally changed.
So for me, I think this first book is going
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to be erotica in trees. Why because I love to
read something that's juicy. Okay, that's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I love that book that leaves that burning desire, Okay,
and then I want to do contemporary.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Something that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Something that has a little bit of everything to make
that cake perfectly. So that's what I consider contemporary. In
your contemporary, you have books.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
That have violence, love, romance, women's fiction all le together
in that one little perfect to give you contemporary. So
that's another I think erotica and contemporary those would be
the two that I dabbling.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Wow, So now that you are transitioning from reader to writer,
what are some of the things that you would like
to share through your writing. What are some of the
messages that you would like to get out.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Well, one of the first things that I want to
get out is you can do it. A lot of
my stuff, A lot of things that I would do
would come from my daughter, Okay, and she is her
and my son.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
They are my inspirations for everything that I do.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And while working on the book that we're currently working on,
I am also on the side doing this colored book
for her because.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I know, we said black girl magic, we were doing
that all the time, but then that magic d one
build out and now Little Girls don't really know who
they want to be, you know, and even some of
us just grown woman, we don't know because of the
I would say, disappointment of what happened at the last election.
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So one of those first things would be to create
that book, to say, a book of pure affirmations you
can do this, you can do that, you are.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
This, you are that. So that would be.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
That would be it, Yes, that would be one of
the first things that would be and intentional and letting
that message be known that you can be whatever you
want to be. And are you going the route of
a self publisher or you doing traditional publishing? You know
(17:19):
what to tell you truth, I want to try both,
and people be like why because I want to see
the ins and out of self publishing and then I
want to see what the traditional publishing does. And the
reason being because I hear a lot of independent authors
are saying, oh, it's hard to market my book, it's
(17:40):
hard to get editors, and it's hard to get this,
and then get that, and then I see people who
are under a publishing house feeling that they're lost in
a number or lost their book gets lost. You know,
there are other authors who are more priority. So I
would like to see both of them and then on
top for that costs, because this journey isn't going to
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be free, so then you have to look.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
At the cost factors. So I would like to try
both of them.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Actually, I actually did an article in this month's magazine
about the pros and cons of both and compare them,
because someone shared with me that they had got picked
up by an agent, and I was pretty much telling them,
you you you sign you allow an agent to take
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over when you're doing what the agent is doing for you,
because if they were already doing that, what the agent
is doing for them, they were already doing.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So why not just go and and present your stuff
and do your proposal. You can present, you can put
proposals together. Like I don't see. I can't see if
I'm working that hard to PUBLISHABLEOK. I wouldn't go to a.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
An agent and let them get fifteen percent of everything
that I'm on be in royalties. But this particular I
don't know what all of the agents do, but this
particular agent is gonna be getting fifteen percent of everything
that they that they booked for them, plus they get
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fifteen percent of their royalty. So why do you get
to get fifteen percent of my stuff for the rest stuff?
And they had that, Yeah, I put a whole article.
I got an article because I want people to know,
like a lot of the stuff that I post on
social media and a lot of people are coming my inbox.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
They didn't know this.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
They didn't know that I've started to put these things
in the magazine so that they can know. Like this
young lady didn't know that if you published on a
certain platform, that your book can be in a lot
of different places that people tell you your book can't
like they it's it's really not that hard to get
your book in the library if you go through these
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different systems there, did.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You do you know Baker and Taylor? Do you know
Baker and Taylor? Yes? Do you know what's the name
of the other company, Baker and Taylor. What's the other one, Patrice?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
The other one that's just like Baker and Taylor. Baker
and Taylor is in Charlotte. So there they helped get
books inside of academic libraries like college libraries, high school libraries,
things of that nature.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
And I thank you for doing that, because there was
a young, a young man about early twenties Okay, he's
in school. He wrote a book.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
He said, I don't have time for the marketing part
of so he was looking online and he was telling
me about this lady that is charging him three hundred dollars,
you guys for two weeks of marketing.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, and then half of them. I look at a
lot of these people that that.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So called marketers, Like, these people just keep coming to
my inbox, but all they want to do, they want
to charge you an arm and a leg. They're only
gonna post ten times, ten times a week on social
media sites and on their website.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And I'm looking at.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
How many followers you got, you got? How is that
gonna help me? When you don't even have as many
followers as I do. So how is that gonna help me?
That's what I'm wondering. How do you if you have
something that's saying that they are a marketer, someone that
says that they market Because we get this all the
time in different groups, and that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
There's a guy and I thank him. He's been on
your show. His name is Kevin. He comes into these
groups and he tells people, he say, this.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Is a scam because they asking you blind questions They
just trying to get your information so they can pitch you.
That's how they're trying to do is figure out what
you've done so they can go look at your stuff
and pitch you.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
That's all they do. And then all these people. I
just want you to know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That I appreciate you as a book reviewer. Those that
have not taken advantage of you so far, they need
to start taking advantage of you. Because what these other
people charging and you do.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
For free, thank you, And that's crazy. Like at one
time I just wanted to start charging people and I
felt like my time wasn't being worth it. But I'm actually, God,
I see you're gonna have to you have to guide
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me with this.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
But I tell them this.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All my authors, Oh I would like to do a
book review. I wanted to do my book review. Okay, cool,
send me the book, will work something out. You don't
follow up people, but then you come and you be like,
oh I thought you were going to do my book.
You never contact me again. I have one lady who
just yesterday asked me to review her book. She already
(23:28):
sent me the arc copy at three fifty nine this morning,
and I was like, oh, these are people that are intentional,
These are people that really want, they really want, they
really believe in themselves, they really believe in their brand,
and they really want to see their brands go somewhere.
(23:50):
Now the ones that say they're gonna do it and
then you don't hear from them until three four weeks later, Like,
those are the ones that are not intentional about we
all are busy.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We all work jobs. You work a full time job,
you work at the library, You got a nine year old.
We are all busy. You got a.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Podcast, I'm in school, I run a podcast, I do magazines.
I'm over here right books, I'm helping people publish. I'm
constantly doing stuffing. It's not like I'm over here twiddling
my thumbs and just waiting for stuff to drop.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
So we're all busy. But yes, time for those things, Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That we enjoy doing, those things that we love doing,
those things that we want to grow, those things that
we want people to remember us by. Like we all
say we want to create a legacy, But how are
you creating a legacy if you're not even pushing your brand?
You're not even, you don't even And it takes you
(24:50):
a second, Like I don't tell everybody to just get
on here and stay on here, but.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Do some reals you have and it could be the
easy the easiest reals you guys like I am.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Now, when I start to review books, I put a
I'm just currently reading, share that picture twice, share the
subnopsis twice. And now I'm starting to place messages saying,
oh such and such as this, and oh such and
such as that.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Those are the posts right there.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
It shows people, oh, okay, well girl, what is that
you're reading? And then they'll start to follow you. It's
the littlest things you do. It's the littlest things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You do, engage and getting their attention. Something to get
their attention and engage with them. Because once they engage,
once they ask you I have to do is respond back.
People like for you to respond, and when you respond
to them, you make them feel special. You go down
to your timeline, you can see some people like your stuff,
(26:00):
and then when they see people responding, they be don't
like it, and they'll come back a couple of hours
later and then you'll see them putting a comment, yeah,
I'll be watching.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So right.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So I had one thing I said something only eight
people comment, but it had.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Three hundred something reach mm hmm. See you all ya
saw that, but nobody wanted to comment.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But you know what, I'm gonna keep on posting because
the three hundred is something, they're gonna comment. They're gonna
keep on and let me tell you what I do
every now and then I'll ask, well, why are you
following me? And then people that never like anything, people
that never share anything, people that you don't even know
that that's on your page. They are the ones that
(26:47):
always say because I like your content, because because you're inspirational,
because of this, because of this, and but you never
see them say nothing.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And then this with somebody today.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Just because they're not saying anything or sharing it does
not mean that they are not reading and paying attention
and observing. Because some people they just jump on and
they just read and they don't they don't have time.
They're just trying to, you know, see what's going on,
and they just check out what you got going on.
If it's something that if it's something that they won't
(27:19):
you know what, they sometimes will just save it and
you'll never know because it's saved.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I'm that personal.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
If you guys can only imagine how many screen shots
of books that I have in my phone just because
I love the real or just because I'm saving it
because I'm gonna go back and read it. That many
screen shots. I think I've got over two to three
thousand screen shots. And now half of that is my child,
(27:51):
my kids, y'all, I'm a suck of them.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Mom.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
If you go down my page, you see my kid, sorry, okay,
or my nephew. Sorry. But then the rest of it,
it's nothing. Book book, book, book, book book.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And now it's even turning to movies because a lot
of these indie authors, they are now saving up and
doing movies. Like I have one author reach out to
me and she said, you read my book, Jay Jones.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Here is the movie. Oh I'm gonna look at that
movie this weekend.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, everybody doing movies.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Pam got two more in the works. What she's working on,
two more she's working on false Falsely Accused two Side
Chick and something else.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You might like that side Chick book, y'all know that
type of book, like that one, So you might want
to reach out to her and and do a review,
and she may can get the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
She might come on your podcast when we start at that.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
But yeah, my podcast, I forgot about my post and
a lot.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Of people are doing that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So what does.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
What does twenty twenty five look like for you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
As a podcaster and as a book reviewer because you
are over the book review what?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
What does what does all that side look like?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I am excited. I want to It's the hunger of
the new offer that gets me.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's that hunger like when they when they're hitting me up,
like Okay, so this is we're gonna do, We're gonna
talk about this is? Oh you and oh I like
that little segment when you did when I have to
compare my characters to real people.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I love that. So I am wanting to get new
authors old authors.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
My only requirement you guys, is that you be serious
and hungry about your book. Okay, I'm gonna come out
and I'm gonna be totally honest with you. Don't play,
Please don't play, because I'm serious because that time that
you take can be the time that somebody else wanted.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Okay, a lot of times last year, I don't know.
It might be stage fright.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And that's why when my authors come on, I try
to talk to you beforehand, smooth it out, like, Hey,
we're just gonna have a regular conversation.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Some of them get stage fright, and you know what,
I totally understand Andrew. Look, I told you tell you at.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
My first show, I held my breath through the whole
what five minutes, So I understand that.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
But I want you to know that.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Nobody knows your book, but you, nobody can sell your
book better than you.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Why not have the opportunity to come do it on
my show and you can.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Block out those Look, you're gonna be right there in
the in the video, You're gonna be inside a virtual studio.
You're gonna be right there beside Patricia, just like we're
on this screen. Ain't nobody. Can't nobody see you but
Patresea and me? So and then what you're gonna say,
Oh what you're thinking? No? And then I'm making it
(31:29):
even easier you guys, because remember we used to do
Saturday nights, and I know Saturday night was party night.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We coming to Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
We getting you before you go to church Wednesday night. Yes,
so it's gonna be Tuesday nights at eight pm. I'm
gonna run from this job right here and I'm running
home because I want to meet that new author, that
new Amazon bestseller than New York but yet start getting
more African, African American and diverse off of.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Colors on the best sellers.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Fust.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I am soon tired of seeing Jens Patterson. Y'all, yeah,
Jeens Patterson, it ain't even writing his books. They're other
people that's writing his books. He's geen those people to
write the books. And he gets all the money. Why
because it says Jans Patterson, the book can suck. But
(32:23):
the fact that there's Jeans Patterson, you know what I mean?
You know the only Jens Patterson and Pat Oh no
it's not Pat there's another author. Are the only two
authors that I've ever seen do an advertisement for their
book on regular TV.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Tell me why the.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
People of the whoever they they publishing house standing? Well,
they they got the budget to do it. And that's
why people got to understand these people they market when
when these publishing houses are looking for people, they're finding
people that can be marketable. They are looking for and
most of the time they they usually go with celebrities.
(33:06):
If you look at if you look at they usually
go with celebrities or they go with somebody that they
feel is really really marketable. If you if they don't
think they can market you, they're not gonna.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
They're not going, not going going.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
So let me tell y'all even before I leave, because
I gotta get back in this building. There was an
NFL player who was reading a book on the sideline
this past Sunday at a playoff game. Do y'all know
know that that book has sold out.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
And all the bookstores in the area. I forgot the time.
It's a motivational book. If you go on CBS News,
they have the article mm HM TV show.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
In the right hand the experience to happen, So you
never know what may happen that somebody that that just
just decided that they just wanted to write a book
and just put it out there. And he could have
been a friend of a friend and just was reading
it just because he just needed some motivation or whatever
on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Waiting to get in the game.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Bingal. And it's even happening to our kids.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Disney Channel, I want parents, African American parents, I want
you to go look at season two of.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Proud Family. There is a character one of the newer characters.
African American girl, she's the one where her.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Her She had the two dads every time she has
a book in her hand, and they showed the cover
of the book.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
All they do me as a parent, they know exactly
what they're doing. Because me as a parent of people
that said, does she have a.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Book of her hand? Everybody gonna say, well what they what?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
And that's that's a commercial.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
That that's a that's a commercial inside of the show,
advertising and tide of the show. And I'm telling how
much they paid for that, but or if they paid
for it, because it could have been just picked up.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Inside of shore An exactly, you guys, you should have
I looked at every single.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Every She's gonna kick her off, y'all.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
And she was getting ready to go because she got
to get ready to go back to work. Hopefully she'll
come back in and close us out, y'all.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It was getting good.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I tell you, it's nothing like being able to sit
down with the library and talk about things. I tell you,
if you are not attached to the one hundred authors moving,
I want to encourage you to get attached. Because she
is one of the group leaders. She's one of the leaders.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So she's back.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
She's back, but I'm gonna give her a chance to
close out y'all so she can tell y'all how to
contact her and how to.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
How to stay connected. Patrice, are you there because you're
black on the screen, can't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Hear you.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
My podcast? Send me email okay and see bookouts and friends.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I tell you it was getting good. So it kicked
out again, but we don't stop here. She come, she
coming back.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I'm ready. I'm ready to come back in February. I
can stop the interviewing y'all some more all the other
unless we have read he please.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Use I don't know why I keep kicking that out.
But it kicked out again, y'all, but I didn't. I
want to thank you, guys. It kicked her offline, but
I want to thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
For tuning in again. I repeat. She is one of
the group leaders for the one hundred Author's Movement.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
She is.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
A new author that she is releasing a book this year.
She has co authored in a couple of books. She's
wrote in a couple of anthologies with me, but she's
going to be releasing a book that she co wrote
just her and one other person. They worked on this
book together, so I'm excited for all the things that
(38:04):
she's getting ready to do. So I want to encourage
you guys to get attached to the one hundred Authors
Movement Aspiring Authors Magazine if you need a book review,
and I tell you. And I'm not just saying it
because it's my magazine or because she's a part of
my magazine, but she is very good at what she does.
She's done some amazing book reviews and they're very professional
(38:27):
in detail.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
So if you're looking for opportunity to allow.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Your book to be shared through a book review, she
shares it on various platforms. She has her own platform
and she shares own Mario's platform, So this is an
opportunity for you guys to just share your book.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Again. I want to thank you guys for tuning in.
I have another interview at six pm.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
We have another amazing author that's going to be stopping
by Apostle, doctor Kimberly Thomas. It's gonna be shop stopping
by sharing her and sharing what she has coming up
in twenty twenty five. So I want to encourage you
guys to come on back and join me and get
(39:12):
to know some of these amazing authors that are part
of the one hundred Authors to Watch and twenty twenty
five and I want to encourage you. If you are
an author, a new author, a seasoned author, if you're
just looking for an opportunity and outlet to connect with
(39:34):
other authors, if you would like to be a mentor,
we are here to support, educate, empower and encourage each
other on this journey. It's not about a contest, it's
not about a competition. We are here to encourage.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So I want to encourage you. If you're looking for
a family to help.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Support you on this literary journey, then come on over
to the one hundred Authors to Watch for twenty twenty
five
Speaker 5 (40:26):
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