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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Luck. Gentlemen, May I have your attention? Please? The show
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starts in ten line seven. Attention please. The show starts
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Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey everyone, this is your girl. Hey everyone, this is
a girl se book yard eight four three Yes since Monday, Yes,
I'm here. So why are y'all questioning me? Am? I
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supposed to sit on these good authors. And I tell y'all,
come on, now, y'all, this author here, this fire a
beautiful disaster. How many of us have been involved with
one of those? My beautiful disaster created a ten year
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old who is up forget grabs. If anybody wants her,
just give me a coat. But tonight, you guys have
another wonderful author who is here with us. She's gonna
tell us a little bit about this beautiful book that
I must say. Guess what, you guys. She's gonna tell
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you all about her publishing how she would who I love?
Oh my God, which is one of my favorite publishing houses.
I stay in their Facebook group. I'm always in their
Facebook group, and the way they interact keeps the readers involved. Okay,
So I am about to bring up author tay Leise Nicole.
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Come on up.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey, it's like that intro girl.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Welcome to sc bookyuds and friends. How is your day been?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you so much. It's been okay today. I've been
traveling this weekend, so stillo jet lag, and then I
had to get home traveling, I had to get home
go to work. So I'm just I'm glad to just
sit down and you know, relax.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, see, we thank you for going to these events
and just blessing us with your talents. So thank you
for all the hard work you do.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, since we got all that nice stuff out the way,
tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Okay, a little bit about me. I'm Talise Nicole. I
am very very very new as a writer. I started
off doing coaching, so life coaching, self love coach, and
then I had a blog on talisaquote dot com that
did pretty good. And then I would write short stories
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here and there and put them out. I put one
out to this Facebook group. I think it's black Girls
right too. I want to say that's the one. And
I came across this other author named Samira Alexander. I
always shout her out every time because she really, she's
very Uh, she's my career wouldn't have I wouldn't have
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started without her. But she read that the short story
of a beautiful disaster, and she reached out to me
and she was like, you know, I'm very active just
as a reader in the community. So she was like,
Bata read for her, which I did, and she put
me in this other group I see you reading whose
event I was at this weekend and she was like,
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they do freestyle Fridays. I want you to just you know,
sign up for one. Just it's a random topic. You
don't know what it is until Friday, and then writes
a story. Then I wrote one and she was like, no,
you're not sitting on this no more. This is a gift.
She was like, let's do this, and we me and
her got together and we did. We co authored a
book called Silent Night, Dark Desires that happened in November
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and ever since then. It's a it's actually a Christmas book,
so but it's a it's a it's a horror. So
it's like a Christmas you think Christmas time, you think
it's cute, but no, it's like what could go wrong
at Christmas? Everything can go wrong in this book, everything
did go wrong, so and yeah, so ever since then,
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I was like, okay, I'm gonna do this, you know.
So she took me under her wing. I learned a
lot in a short time. And yeah, that's pretty much
my story of becoming a writer. So I like to
write thrillers. Thrillers are thriller and horror is probably gonna
be my first love. But I like romance too, so.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thrillers and horrors. So when the purge happened, I'm gonna
need you to come down here in so see.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I know I know what's gonna happen because if I
write that, oh, I got you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You can give me all kinds of ideas. How you're
right here? Were so tell us about a beautiful disaster.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Okay. So it started off as that short story and
black Girl's right too, and I wrote it. I was
very upset. I actually named the character and from the
short story after the person I was upset with. So yeah,
and he gets ended with the hammer, very very brutally.
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So I wrote that and I put it out there
and everybody loved it. It's something that you can really
relate to just anybody, women, men. Once you are scorned
or you know, you put so much into something a
relationship or anything and you just you it's like you
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just snapped, Like no, I've been doing this this whole time.
So it's more I like, I like to write stories
that blend with twisted, like beautiful with the twisted, because
that's really just what life is. Life is just beautiful
moments mixed with unfortunate things. And I wanted to be realistic.
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But at the same time, I was very angry, so
it was like, no, you're about to get it. So
that's how the story came about. But when I published
the full novel, I really got into a lot. I
went through a little crime, a little crime, thriller, a
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lot of thrills, and I just made it. I made
it a full story. So it's it's I like it.
I'm proud of what it came to.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So in other words, you like, I like to say,
you kill them softly?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yes, yes, okay, She.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Says she wrote the book about someone in the end
with the Hamilton, How in the world did you do it?
I was just about to ask, do the characters talk
to you? But I'm scared to ask.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, they do they talk, they do they talk. I'm like,
there's a one one detective in there that is really
he's just a grumpy old detective. And I was up late,
I was I don't I didn't know what direction I
wanted to go with him. And I was just like,
if I was just a like a forty five year
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old man that's just hit it like a brick wall
in my career and some little young guy comes around
and takes all thunder, well, how would I feel? So yep,
I had to stay up with him, with that detective
Roland Greer, stay up with him and really figure him out.
But I liked how it all came.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So you started out with your blog Life Coach blog
Short Stories. How has been a life coach? And we
just talked backstage at your mother. How has that played
into your writing? Do you use some of the things
for your writing or how? How does it tie in? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yep, it all times in when I was coaching and
just listening to other people's issues and what they wanted
to get sorted out, I will put myself in their
place too. I would say, you know, I maybe would
not have done that that way, but I understand why
you did because of you know what you were going through.
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So yeah, a lot of that, and just being a
mom and having to figure things out. You know, I
was a young mother. We talked about that too. I
was a young mom, a teen mom, and I had
to figure out everything. I had to figure out relationships,
how to be a mom, how to cope with the
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reality of you're gonna do this by yourself that wasn't
the plan. And just learned a lot of different life skills.
And I always loved writing. I wrote all types of papers,
and I want awards. When I think I was like
third or fifth grade, I wrote something about Lisa Left
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Eye Lopez. I wrote something about her when she died,
and it won some kind of award. I can't really remember.
My mom she talks about it a lot. So yeah,
I just blended all my life experiences. And some of
the characters are a lot of me myself, but others
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are the other people. If I, if I was going
through this, you know, these actions that this character does
in this story will make sense, So I try to
make them very relatable.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. And
I know a lot of authors they they use their
life experience, So I like that that gives the book
a personal touch, personal feel, So you know, I sometimes
feel that reading in the author, sometimes you're looking at
a part of their soul. So I like that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Why why killing them? Why horror? It's a very genre
when it comes to African American readers. So why that genre?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's a good question. I just first of all, I'm
a little different than a lot of people. I like
to be scared. I like to that thrill of not
knowing what's about to happen. It gets me like my
heart gets it pumping, and I like it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, we cannot go two movies together because I'm talking
to you about to die? What about to happen?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah? And then it's so funny because I'm the one
that's under the blanket. I'm at the movies like this
under the blanket. They're like, you the one one to
come see this, movies like yep, and we're gonna stay.
We don't stay. But I just like I like that thrill.
I like to not know and I like to really
be surprised. And I'm like, oh, that's you know that?
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So I think thriller and horror just does that for me.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I guess your book has a lot of twists
and turns.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, the Beautiful Disaster does. Yeah, even in the opening
you didn't You would never see it coming if I
didn't just tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So, you, guys, I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
I have not read this book. This book is on
my to be read list. Did y'all know me? Your
girl was a cover girl and this book by itself,
with that cover, which we won't talk about a little later,
was enough for me to add it to my list.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You're welcome, but we're going any father. Let's talk about Nicole.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I understand by the synopsis Botanical Shop, which is I
love the fact that your characters are not the typical
African American characters. Thank you because it makes me. It
makes me think more. Okay, I have to really put
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myself in the book, bical what are you doing? Plaints for?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But it's the way from the more so I like that.
And Detroit Botanical shop in Detroit. I'm gonna tell you
what I'm thinking. We shop in Florida. But tell me
about this character in the inspiration for her hmmm.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Okay, Nicole was inspired a lot from Talis Nicole. For myself,
she's very there's a part of me which I feel
like is every woman where you can be very, very
very sweet and very naive. And you know, you put
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yourself in these situations, these relationships with people that you
know you don't need to be around. You know you
should have been stopped, but you keep going anyway, and
it's like you cutting yourself. You already hurting yourself by
just saying, but you stay anyway because you really want
it to work. But when you get tired, when you
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get to that point and you snap, it's like I
did everything that I could do. Why would you do that?
And this is the consequence of doing that? So, yeah,
Nicola is she's very soft, she's very fragile. She's been
hurt a lot, and when she gets hurt, people start
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going missing, people go missing. And her plants are shining
even brighter and healthier.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And the plant is what kind of murderous stuff you
got going on here?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
The plants are healthy, vibrants and beautiful and bouncy. You
can buy them, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Sell, y'all. This is okay, this is getting scary. The
next thing, you know, I'm gonna ask this question because
y'all don't mean is she fleeting feeding the plants the blood?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Please say no, I don't know. You gotta read the book.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You gotta read author, like, look the book. I'm working
on a review right now. Your book might be pushed
to side. I'm sorry, but this isn't kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I understand my TBR.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Girl, I don't. I don't even want to talk about
a TVR list. I just's laun jesus, I can't even
go down that road. So Detective Eric Robinson tell us
a little about about him, says, my understanding is that
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there's some nopsist and I'm like, y'all know that I've
not read the book. But he meets the poet and
I'm far fetching she not killed a poet?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh, yeah, he's gone in chapter one. Yeah. The whole
story is about Detective Eric Robinson trying to solve the
case of a missing person who happens to be Jamal
the poet. What she had to kill him? Dad? In
the first chapter, you know what, I asked a question,
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I said, what what makes a thriller book a five star?
For you? And everybody? Most people were like somebody needs
to die immediately. Okay, I get people what they want.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
In the first chapter. Come on, first.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Chapter to give you people what they want.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Y'all know what it's always them offers with the smile
that will kill you with the pen and then come
back to you the next day. How you doing, girl?
You know, kill we with the opinion? Yep.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I was just yeah. So the whole book is just
based off that short story. So that's what happened in
the short story, and it's already out there, so you know,
they're like, well, what happens next? So I just continued
it from what happened next? But the chapter one is
just a short recap of what happened and then we
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go into what happens next.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh god, she's kevin people and then she talking about
short recaps. I just don't even understand what to do
with my life with you with this book. So we
already told y'all a little bit about the book. So
now we're about to go to these funs questions I've
been telling you about. Okay, okay, alrighty. I love music,
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I love movies mhm, and I like to incorporate that
into my books.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Who would pay Nicole if your book was turned to
a movie, and why would they play her?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'm gonna tell you a little bit of what I'm thinking,
and I know it's not the situation of the book,
but I'm thinking about that chicken acrimony because Nicole sound
three read How do you see three winds shy of
a sale or something like that?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Mm hmmm, yeah, so you mean Taragia Taragi.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There you go. I'm thinking that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Would be I could see Taragi playing call. I could
see that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But if you can get as who would it be?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Whom? That's so hard? If I could get anybody. I
was thinking me Along at first in my head. She
still looks so young, Nicole is. She's a little young,
she's like thirty. But me along still, but she's still
a good.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, me along, I can see that. I can see that. Okay,
I can see me along. I can see that. Okay,
So we did an actress. Let's think of a singer.
Who would she be? Singer? Huh? I'm thinking Monica. And
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the only reason why I'm thinking Monica because I know
there is something not right upstairs with Monica.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
She's from Atlanta. So she a hood for sure?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Monica or little more or Michelle she's another one that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, probably Ca Michelle. I could seek Michelle doing it
because you know, you seek Michelle in a movie you like,
because she she's already a little some screw's missing, so
you already expect, like, okay, she about to be somebody. Yeah,
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I would say Michelle, that's a good Yeah, Ca Michelle, alrighty?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Which Rapper would play Detective Eric?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Who somebody fine? Because Detective Eric Robinson was fine in
my head when I was writing, Man, I know that
would be that would be that would be really nice.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Man. Yeah, yeah, I just had a moment I apologize.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh Rapper, Oh I'm bad with this. I'm so bad
with it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know That's why I don't give you all these questions.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You got me want to look up Rapper. I can't
even think of nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I also saw k R S one.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
KRS maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I know. I don't think he can be a
DMX DMS is this bad boy all the way. I
can't see DMX ever being any type of law enforcement figure.
But if you can't think of Rapper, how about I'm
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male actor? Who would it be? And why.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It had to be somebody that plays like really noble characters,
like really noble.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Men, noble characters.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I'm not gonna I would say Loreen's taped, Yeah, Loreene
s Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He's a cute lit shit or the one, Yeah, I
can see that, or what's the dude who Makai Pfiffer.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, Makai Pfiffer. Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yes, from what I've read, I can see those two characters.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
But wait, hold up, Lifetime is on the line and
they love the fact that your movie about a beautiful
disaster was a hit, so they say, you know what,
We're gonna do a biopic on you. Who would you
give the honor of playing you? And why?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh dang see I oh man, And I keep thinking
about just like local Detroit actresses and things like that.
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So I would hope, you know, because if something like
that wasn't happen, I would definitely be all hometown. Like
I'm starting from home first, you know, black black authors, writers.
I want like a full black studio, and I want
Detroit first. So I keep thinking about, Shoot, I'm gonna
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mess her name up, makiwa Albritton. She does some local movies,
she do a lot of local movies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I would think her and why did you choose her?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I feel like our personalities are similar on the screen.
She's a great actress. And then just even like her
tiktoks and her or her skit videos and stuff, she
just seems so like she seems a lot like me.
So I would think I would think she'll do good job.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Well if she seems to not like you, she seems
like she is a wonderful and great person.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I try to be she you know what. You can't
see that, and you a horror writer and you be
killing people in your book.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To be I try. I'm nice. I let people, you know,
go out, and I'm like, okay, and keep talking. You're
gonna be next in the book, so listen.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I can see her at the desk right now. Yeah,
she kill your characters smaller at you're like, yeah, you did.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
When I first wrote A Beautiful Disaster, that's short story,
I was on this laptop and I was just going
and it had got dark. I didn't even notice. I
started in the daytime and it got dark and it
was just the light from my laptop. I said, oh,
it's like, oh, shoot, I ain't feed my child baby
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like you, coach. She said, yeah, I was some chicken
nuggets and okay.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Right after just get finished killing this person, we're going
to McDonald's need Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Right, I was going, Man, So.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
What does literary success look like in me?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
To you?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh? See, that is so loaded, But it's really a
simple answer. It's whatever you want it to be. It's
different for everybody, and for me, it just looks like
people really enjoying my book. That means that I've done
all the research to make great characters. I keep taking
these different writers versus trying to expand how I write.
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That means I really took it serious and I really
put it all in and that people like it. So
I mean, yeah, you know, money and stuff that would
be nice. I don't want to work. I would rather
have I'd rather write full time. I mean, that's the goal.
But to be successful in it, I just feel like
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you are somebody's favorite author. That to me, that's success
right there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So, and the fact that you're actually still evolving your
craft is beautiful. A lot of people, once they put
out that first book, they don't think to go back
and take writing classes. They don't think to go back
and read other authors. They just think, Okay, I did
and I've arrived and that's it. But the fact that
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you are investing in yourself, investing in your craft, that's
for me a reader like me. That makes me want
to go get your book and just be like, I
read it. I just bought it because she cool like that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I appreciate it. I do. Yeah, I'm always a student.
I'll forever be a student. And I love all these
indie authors. I'm just I'm obsessed with them. I think
they threw me in the group with them, so we
have like little messages every day, and I learned so
much from them. They always throwing things that they probably
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don't even realize, and I'm like, oh that makes sense,
So I take it, I apply it, I forever. I
love different elements in all of them, so the best
parts of them, I try to take it and make
it my own. Like Octavia Grant, She's so unhinged her characters,
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like you think what I did with a hammer? She
doing all kind of stuff and I'm just like, how
you even think of that? So she makes me want
to oh, Octavia Grant, hold on, I'm gonna get Grant.
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And then there's Kenya mass Dime. She is like, she's
a O G. I don't even see how I didn't
know about her prior to last year. So when I
first found out about her, her stories are timeless, They're
so well crafted.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Samirah Alexander, she's the one that put me on. She
brought me into the the reader's world. She opened that
door her hers the first story that I read by her,
she has so much going on. It was all psychological
and I like to think. So I was like, Wow,
this is amazing, keep on going. Then there's Kara and James,
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She's amazing. There's Anna j Anna j was I think
I believe she started off Rodica. Yeah see, uh huh,
and now she writing thriller and so she when I
got from her was that if you want to write,
just write. You don't have to be boxed into one
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genre if you want to expand. So like my new
book that's coming out September ninth is a romance. So oh,
I'm trying to find where I'm you know, my love
after man.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I love authors that do not put theirself in a box.
Because what you don't think you might be successful in
you may be way successful than you thought. So I
love the fact that that's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So we're getting close to the end of our time.
But before we let you go, please tell us how
we could follow you on social media, get a copy
of your book, just give us the rundown.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So Facebook is I'm talisn Coole. Everywhere you can type
me talis Nicole. Instagram and TikTok are a little different.
It's Love Talise Nicole. That was my blog when I
had my my blog. So it's at love talis Nicole
talisnico dot com. You can subscribe to my mailing list
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and I got all kinds of stuff like exclusive. I
got a little games that I play. I like to
do giveaways. Yeah, talis nico dot com. You can find me.
You can find any anything on Twisa, code dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So you guys, you know that all the information that
you have, But this author is scrolling at the bottom
of the screen. The replay will be instant as as
soon as we get off. If you go on YouTube,
you can get the replay. I thank you for being
with me tonight and being my friend. During the purge,
I got you. We're gonna have to exchange number because
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when we hear that sound and we'll be like, hey,
she got my back.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And I'm gonna tell you this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna stay inside. Okay, we gotta stay inside.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean, come on, man, I got one person I
want to get sorry, I want to get a love.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I write too much, I read too much. We're gonna
be inside. Don't trust nobody, nobody.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So should I go with that mindset in your book
to not trust anybody, don't trust nobody. I like a
book like that. Well, thank you for joining us tonight
and giving us another great read. You guys should go
out and get a beautiful disaster onside. Look right there,
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Look at that cover, y'all. You can't. I thought the
book was about romance. She ain't loving them, she's killing them.
See it's a real poetic. It's like a love letter.
And then it's yeah, see you said that, And I'm
gonna tell you what came in my mind. One two spirit,
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He's coming for you, that's in my mind. But she
doesn't kill a man in the first chapter.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, you'll see if you just read the first chapter.
I think that you'll you'll get exactly what I'm saying.
Go ahead, just read chapter one and then let me
know what you think.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'm going to read the book, but I'm also scared
that she's so calm at killing people.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Don't trust nobody, not even your local Floris.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you again for being with us tonight, you guys.
Remember I'm gonna be back tomorrow with another author, author
Black Queen. Please remember there's no such thing as a
old book because not everybody has read every book. Again,
thank you, miss Nicole for joining us tonight. Y'all, go
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grab the book. A Beautiful Disaster, good Night everywhere. Bye. No,
she's killing people in the book. I don't even know
what thing. I'm actually really have to go, y'all, mea
get this
Luck. Gentlemen, May I have your attention? Please? The show
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starts in ten line seven. Attention please. The show starts
in ten line seven six five four three two go.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey everyone, this is your girl. Hey everyone, this is
a girl se book yard eight four three Yes since Monday, Yes,
I'm here. So why are y'all questioning me? Am? I
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supposed to sit on these good authors. And I tell y'all,
come on, now, y'all, this author here, this fire a
beautiful disaster. How many of us have been involved with
one of those? My beautiful disaster created a ten year
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old who is up forget grabs. If anybody wants her,
just give me a coat. But tonight, you guys have
another wonderful author who is here with us. She's gonna
tell us a little bit about this beautiful book that
I must say. Guess what, you guys. She's gonna tell
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you all about her publishing how she would who I love?
Oh my God, which is one of my favorite publishing houses.
I stay in their Facebook group. I'm always in their
Facebook group, and the way they interact keeps the readers involved. Okay,
So I am about to bring up author tay Leise Nicole.
(03:25):
Come on up.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey, it's like that intro girl.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Welcome to sc bookyuds and friends. How is your day been?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you so much. It's been okay today. I've been
traveling this weekend, so stillo jet lag, and then I
had to get home traveling, I had to get home
go to work. So I'm just I'm glad to just
sit down and you know, relax.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, see, we thank you for going to these events
and just blessing us with your talents. So thank you
for all the hard work you do.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, since we got all that nice stuff out the way,
tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Okay, a little bit about me. I'm Talise Nicole. I
am very very very new as a writer. I started
off doing coaching, so life coaching, self love coach, and
then I had a blog on talisaquote dot com that
did pretty good. And then I would write short stories
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here and there and put them out. I put one
out to this Facebook group. I think it's black Girls
right too. I want to say that's the one. And
I came across this other author named Samira Alexander. I
always shout her out every time because she really, she's
very Uh, she's my career wouldn't have I wouldn't have
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started without her. But she read that the short story
of a beautiful disaster, and she reached out to me
and she was like, you know, I'm very active just
as a reader in the community. So she was like,
Bata read for her, which I did, and she put
me in this other group I see you reading whose
event I was at this weekend and she was like,
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they do freestyle Fridays. I want you to just you know,
sign up for one. Just it's a random topic. You
don't know what it is until Friday, and then writes
a story. Then I wrote one and she was like, no,
you're not sitting on this no more. This is a gift.
She was like, let's do this, and we me and
her got together and we did. We co authored a
book called Silent Night, Dark Desires that happened in November
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and ever since then. It's a it's actually a Christmas book,
so but it's a it's a it's a horror. So
it's like a Christmas you think Christmas time, you think
it's cute, but no, it's like what could go wrong
at Christmas? Everything can go wrong in this book, everything
did go wrong, so and yeah, so ever since then,
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I was like, okay, I'm gonna do this, you know.
So she took me under her wing. I learned a
lot in a short time. And yeah, that's pretty much
my story of becoming a writer. So I like to
write thrillers. Thrillers are thriller and horror is probably gonna
be my first love. But I like romance too, so.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thrillers and horrors. So when the purge happened, I'm gonna
need you to come down here in so see.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I know I know what's gonna happen because if I
write that, oh, I got you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You can give me all kinds of ideas. How you're
right here? Were so tell us about a beautiful disaster.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Okay. So it started off as that short story and
black Girl's right too, and I wrote it. I was
very upset. I actually named the character and from the
short story after the person I was upset with. So yeah,
and he gets ended with the hammer, very very brutally.
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So I wrote that and I put it out there
and everybody loved it. It's something that you can really
relate to just anybody, women, men. Once you are scorned
or you know, you put so much into something a
relationship or anything and you just you it's like you
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just snapped, Like no, I've been doing this this whole time.
So it's more I like, I like to write stories
that blend with twisted, like beautiful with the twisted, because
that's really just what life is. Life is just beautiful
moments mixed with unfortunate things. And I wanted to be realistic.
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But at the same time, I was very angry, so
it was like, no, you're about to get it. So
that's how the story came about. But when I published
the full novel, I really got into a lot. I
went through a little crime, a little crime, thriller, a
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lot of thrills, and I just made it. I made
it a full story. So it's it's I like it.
I'm proud of what it came to.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So in other words, you like, I like to say,
you kill them softly?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yes, yes, okay, She.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Says she wrote the book about someone in the end
with the Hamilton, How in the world did you do it?
I was just about to ask, do the characters talk
to you? But I'm scared to ask.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, they do they talk, they do they talk. I'm like,
there's a one one detective in there that is really
he's just a grumpy old detective. And I was up late,
I was I don't I didn't know what direction I
wanted to go with him. And I was just like,
if I was just a like a forty five year
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old man that's just hit it like a brick wall
in my career and some little young guy comes around
and takes all thunder, well, how would I feel? So yep,
I had to stay up with him, with that detective
Roland Greer, stay up with him and really figure him out.
But I liked how it all came.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So you started out with your blog Life Coach blog
Short Stories. How has been a life coach? And we
just talked backstage at your mother. How has that played
into your writing? Do you use some of the things
for your writing or how? How does it tie in? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yep, it all times in when I was coaching and
just listening to other people's issues and what they wanted
to get sorted out, I will put myself in their
place too. I would say, you know, I maybe would
not have done that that way, but I understand why
you did because of you know what you were going through.
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So yeah, a lot of that, and just being a
mom and having to figure things out. You know, I
was a young mother. We talked about that too. I
was a young mom, a teen mom, and I had
to figure out everything. I had to figure out relationships,
how to be a mom, how to cope with the
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reality of you're gonna do this by yourself that wasn't
the plan. And just learned a lot of different life skills.
And I always loved writing. I wrote all types of papers,
and I want awards. When I think I was like
third or fifth grade, I wrote something about Lisa Left
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Eye Lopez. I wrote something about her when she died,
and it won some kind of award. I can't really remember.
My mom she talks about it a lot. So yeah,
I just blended all my life experiences. And some of
the characters are a lot of me myself, but others
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are the other people. If I, if I was going
through this, you know, these actions that this character does
in this story will make sense, So I try to
make them very relatable.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. And
I know a lot of authors they they use their
life experience, So I like that that gives the book
a personal touch, personal feel, So you know, I sometimes
feel that reading in the author, sometimes you're looking at
a part of their soul. So I like that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Why why killing them? Why horror? It's a very genre
when it comes to African American readers. So why that genre?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's a good question. I just first of all, I'm
a little different than a lot of people. I like
to be scared. I like to that thrill of not
knowing what's about to happen. It gets me like my
heart gets it pumping, and I like it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, we cannot go two movies together because I'm talking
to you about to die? What about to happen?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah? And then it's so funny because I'm the one
that's under the blanket. I'm at the movies like this
under the blanket. They're like, you the one one to
come see this, movies like yep, and we're gonna stay.
We don't stay. But I just like I like that thrill.
I like to not know and I like to really
be surprised. And I'm like, oh, that's you know that?
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So I think thriller and horror just does that for me.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I guess your book has a lot of twists
and turns.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, the Beautiful Disaster does. Yeah, even in the opening
you didn't You would never see it coming if I
didn't just tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So, you, guys, I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
I have not read this book. This book is on
my to be read list. Did y'all know me? Your
girl was a cover girl and this book by itself,
with that cover, which we won't talk about a little later,
was enough for me to add it to my list.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You're welcome, but we're going any father. Let's talk about Nicole.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I understand by the synopsis Botanical Shop, which is I
love the fact that your characters are not the typical
African American characters. Thank you because it makes me. It
makes me think more. Okay, I have to really put
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myself in the book, bical what are you doing? Plaints for?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But it's the way from the more so I like that.
And Detroit Botanical shop in Detroit. I'm gonna tell you
what I'm thinking. We shop in Florida. But tell me
about this character in the inspiration for her hmmm.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Okay, Nicole was inspired a lot from Talis Nicole. For myself,
she's very there's a part of me which I feel
like is every woman where you can be very, very
very sweet and very naive. And you know, you put
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yourself in these situations, these relationships with people that you
know you don't need to be around. You know you
should have been stopped, but you keep going anyway, and
it's like you cutting yourself. You already hurting yourself by
just saying, but you stay anyway because you really want
it to work. But when you get tired, when you
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get to that point and you snap, it's like I
did everything that I could do. Why would you do that?
And this is the consequence of doing that? So, yeah,
Nicola is she's very soft, she's very fragile. She's been
hurt a lot, and when she gets hurt, people start
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going missing, people go missing. And her plants are shining
even brighter and healthier.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And the plant is what kind of murderous stuff you
got going on here?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
The plants are healthy, vibrants and beautiful and bouncy. You
can buy them, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Sell, y'all. This is okay, this is getting scary. The
next thing, you know, I'm gonna ask this question because
y'all don't mean is she fleeting feeding the plants the blood?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Please say no, I don't know. You gotta read the book.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You gotta read author, like, look the book. I'm working
on a review right now. Your book might be pushed
to side. I'm sorry, but this isn't kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I understand my TBR.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Girl, I don't. I don't even want to talk about
a TVR list. I just's laun jesus, I can't even
go down that road. So Detective Eric Robinson tell us
a little about about him, says, my understanding is that
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there's some nopsist and I'm like, y'all know that I've
not read the book. But he meets the poet and
I'm far fetching she not killed a poet?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh, yeah, he's gone in chapter one. Yeah. The whole
story is about Detective Eric Robinson trying to solve the
case of a missing person who happens to be Jamal
the poet. What she had to kill him? Dad? In
the first chapter, you know what, I asked a question,
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I said, what what makes a thriller book a five star?
For you? And everybody? Most people were like somebody needs
to die immediately. Okay, I get people what they want.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
In the first chapter. Come on, first.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Chapter to give you people what they want.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Y'all know what it's always them offers with the smile
that will kill you with the pen and then come
back to you the next day. How you doing, girl?
You know, kill we with the opinion? Yep.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I was just yeah. So the whole book is just
based off that short story. So that's what happened in
the short story, and it's already out there, so you know,
they're like, well, what happens next? So I just continued
it from what happened next? But the chapter one is
just a short recap of what happened and then we
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go into what happens next.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh god, she's kevin people and then she talking about
short recaps. I just don't even understand what to do
with my life with you with this book. So we
already told y'all a little bit about the book. So
now we're about to go to these funs questions I've
been telling you about. Okay, okay, alrighty. I love music,
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I love movies mhm, and I like to incorporate that
into my books.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Who would pay Nicole if your book was turned to
a movie, and why would they play her?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'm gonna tell you a little bit of what I'm thinking,
and I know it's not the situation of the book,
but I'm thinking about that chicken acrimony because Nicole sound
three read How do you see three winds shy of
a sale or something like that?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Mm hmmm, yeah, so you mean Taragia Taragi.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There you go. I'm thinking that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Would be I could see Taragi playing call. I could
see that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But if you can get as who would it be?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Whom? That's so hard? If I could get anybody. I
was thinking me Along at first in my head. She
still looks so young, Nicole is. She's a little young,
she's like thirty. But me along still, but she's still
a good.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, me along, I can see that. I can see that. Okay,
I can see me along. I can see that. Okay,
So we did an actress. Let's think of a singer.
Who would she be? Singer? Huh? I'm thinking Monica. And
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the only reason why I'm thinking Monica because I know
there is something not right upstairs with Monica.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
She's from Atlanta. So she a hood for sure?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Monica or little more or Michelle she's another one that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, probably Ca Michelle. I could seek Michelle doing it
because you know, you seek Michelle in a movie you like,
because she she's already a little some screw's missing, so
you already expect, like, okay, she about to be somebody. Yeah,
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I would say Michelle, that's a good Yeah, Ca Michelle, alrighty?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Which Rapper would play Detective Eric?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Who somebody fine? Because Detective Eric Robinson was fine in
my head when I was writing, Man, I know that
would be that would be that would be really nice.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Man. Yeah, yeah, I just had a moment I apologize.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh Rapper, Oh I'm bad with this. I'm so bad
with it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know That's why I don't give you all these questions.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You got me want to look up Rapper. I can't
even think of nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I also saw k R S one.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
KRS maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, I know. I don't think he can be a
DMX DMS is this bad boy all the way. I
can't see DMX ever being any type of law enforcement figure.
But if you can't think of Rapper, how about I'm
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male actor? Who would it be? And why.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It had to be somebody that plays like really noble characters,
like really noble.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Men, noble characters.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I'm not gonna I would say Loreen's taped, Yeah, Loreene
s Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He's a cute lit shit or the one, Yeah, I
can see that, or what's the dude who Makai Pfiffer.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, Makai Pfiffer. Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yes, from what I've read, I can see those two characters.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
But wait, hold up, Lifetime is on the line and
they love the fact that your movie about a beautiful
disaster was a hit, so they say, you know what,
We're gonna do a biopic on you. Who would you
give the honor of playing you? And why?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh dang see I oh man, And I keep thinking
about just like local Detroit actresses and things like that.
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So I would hope, you know, because if something like
that wasn't happen, I would definitely be all hometown. Like
I'm starting from home first, you know, black black authors, writers.
I want like a full black studio, and I want
Detroit first. So I keep thinking about, Shoot, I'm gonna
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mess her name up, makiwa Albritton. She does some local movies,
she do a lot of local movies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I would think her and why did you choose her?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I feel like our personalities are similar on the screen.
She's a great actress. And then just even like her
tiktoks and her or her skit videos and stuff, she
just seems so like she seems a lot like me.
So I would think I would think she'll do good job.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Well if she seems to not like you, she seems
like she is a wonderful and great person.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I try to be she you know what. You can't
see that, and you a horror writer and you be
killing people in your book.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To be I try. I'm nice. I let people, you know,
go out, and I'm like, okay, and keep talking. You're
gonna be next in the book, so listen.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I can see her at the desk right now. Yeah,
she kill your characters smaller at you're like, yeah, you did.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
When I first wrote A Beautiful Disaster, that's short story,
I was on this laptop and I was just going
and it had got dark. I didn't even notice. I
started in the daytime and it got dark and it
was just the light from my laptop. I said, oh,
it's like, oh, shoot, I ain't feed my child baby
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like you, coach. She said, yeah, I was some chicken
nuggets and okay.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Right after just get finished killing this person, we're going
to McDonald's need Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Right, I was going, Man, So.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
What does literary success look like in me?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
To you?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Oh? See, that is so loaded, But it's really a
simple answer. It's whatever you want it to be. It's
different for everybody, and for me, it just looks like
people really enjoying my book. That means that I've done
all the research to make great characters. I keep taking
these different writers versus trying to expand how I write.
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That means I really took it serious and I really
put it all in and that people like it. So
I mean, yeah, you know, money and stuff that would
be nice. I don't want to work. I would rather
have I'd rather write full time. I mean, that's the goal.
But to be successful in it, I just feel like
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you are somebody's favorite author. That to me, that's success
right there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So, and the fact that you're actually still evolving your
craft is beautiful. A lot of people, once they put
out that first book, they don't think to go back
and take writing classes. They don't think to go back
and read other authors. They just think, Okay, I did
and I've arrived and that's it. But the fact that
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you are investing in yourself, investing in your craft, that's
for me a reader like me. That makes me want
to go get your book and just be like, I
read it. I just bought it because she cool like that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I appreciate it. I do. Yeah, I'm always a student.
I'll forever be a student. And I love all these
indie authors. I'm just I'm obsessed with them. I think
they threw me in the group with them, so we
have like little messages every day, and I learned so
much from them. They always throwing things that they probably
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don't even realize, and I'm like, oh that makes sense,
So I take it, I apply it, I forever. I
love different elements in all of them, so the best
parts of them, I try to take it and make
it my own. Like Octavia Grant, She's so unhinged her characters,
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like you think what I did with a hammer? She
doing all kind of stuff and I'm just like, how
you even think of that? So she makes me want
to oh, Octavia Grant, hold on, I'm gonna get Grant.
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And then there's Kenya mass Dime. She is like, she's
a O G. I don't even see how I didn't
know about her prior to last year. So when I
first found out about her, her stories are timeless, They're
so well crafted.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Samirah Alexander, she's the one that put me on. She
brought me into the the reader's world. She opened that
door her hers the first story that I read by her,
she has so much going on. It was all psychological
and I like to think. So I was like, Wow,
this is amazing, keep on going. Then there's Kara and James,
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She's amazing. There's Anna j Anna j was I think
I believe she started off Rodica. Yeah see, uh huh,
and now she writing thriller and so she when I
got from her was that if you want to write,
just write. You don't have to be boxed into one
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genre if you want to expand. So like my new
book that's coming out September ninth is a romance. So oh,
I'm trying to find where I'm you know, my love
after man.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I love authors that do not put theirself in a box.
Because what you don't think you might be successful in
you may be way successful than you thought. So I
love the fact that that's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So we're getting close to the end of our time.
But before we let you go, please tell us how
we could follow you on social media, get a copy
of your book, just give us the rundown.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So Facebook is I'm talisn Coole. Everywhere you can type
me talis Nicole. Instagram and TikTok are a little different.
It's Love Talise Nicole. That was my blog when I
had my my blog. So it's at love talis Nicole
talisnico dot com. You can subscribe to my mailing list
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and I got all kinds of stuff like exclusive. I
got a little games that I play. I like to
do giveaways. Yeah, talis nico dot com. You can find me.
You can find any anything on Twisa, code dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So you guys, you know that all the information that
you have, But this author is scrolling at the bottom
of the screen. The replay will be instant as as
soon as we get off. If you go on YouTube,
you can get the replay. I thank you for being
with me tonight and being my friend. During the purge,
I got you. We're gonna have to exchange number because
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when we hear that sound and we'll be like, hey,
she got my back.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And I'm gonna tell you this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna stay inside. Okay, we gotta stay inside.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean, come on, man, I got one person I
want to get sorry, I want to get a love.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I write too much, I read too much. We're gonna
be inside. Don't trust nobody, nobody.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So should I go with that mindset in your book
to not trust anybody, don't trust nobody. I like a
book like that. Well, thank you for joining us tonight
and giving us another great read. You guys should go
out and get a beautiful disaster onside. Look right there,
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Look at that cover, y'all. You can't. I thought the
book was about romance. She ain't loving them, she's killing them.
See it's a real poetic. It's like a love letter.
And then it's yeah, see you said that, And I'm
gonna tell you what came in my mind. One two spirit,
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He's coming for you, that's in my mind. But she
doesn't kill a man in the first chapter.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, yeah, you'll see if you just read the first chapter.
I think that you'll you'll get exactly what I'm saying.
Go ahead, just read chapter one and then let me
know what you think.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'm going to read the book, but I'm also scared
that she's so calm at killing people.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Don't trust nobody, not even your local Floris.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you again for being with us tonight, you guys.
Remember I'm gonna be back tomorrow with another author, author
Black Queen. Please remember there's no such thing as a
old book because not everybody has read every book. Again,
thank you, miss Nicole for joining us tonight. Y'all, go
(35:06):
grab the book. A Beautiful Disaster, good Night everywhere. Bye. No,
she's killing people in the book. I don't even know
what thing. I'm actually really have to go, y'all, mea
get this
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