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Speaker 1 (01:17):
Welcome everyone. This is your girl sc book got eight
four three, and we are here on a Tuesday night
and it is time for a new book and a
new author. But first I would like to thank everyone
for their prayers for my little girl. She going to school.

(01:38):
Mark Okay, Covid has left the building. I want to
thank you guys for your prayers, your call, your Texas
and everything. She is fine, she's thriving. We did all
about schoolwork today and we are off tomorrow. She is
going and she's going to be sitting in that msay.

(02:01):
Thank you okay, and also thank you guys for congratulating
me and being the final listening to twenty twenty five
sisters and leadership. It's an honor. I mean what I
do and why I do it is for the people,
our people, our culture, our authors, our kids, our families,

(02:26):
our friends, my way of putting back in the community.
And I am so honored. Okay, So all that good
stuff out the way you all ready for tonight. Grace
is what we're talking about. Grace everyone. I feel that

(02:47):
that word is so powerful for the times that we
are in right now, and a lot of people don't
understand just a little of it can go such a
long way. So I have an author that is coming
up tonight that's gonna tell us about her book. Y'all.

(03:10):
You know I'm a cover girl, right. I loved us
book cover. It is so awesome. It is one of
those books that you give a family member, and for me,
it would be my granny if she was still here.
I can see her got this book and just putting
it by the Bible, just sitting up there just so
people can look at the cover. I am so so

(03:34):
honored to have miss Dorothy bullaware with us tonight. Come
on up, girly, come on up. Hello. I am I
am afraid. How are you?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm good. I'm happy to be here with you today.
That's how I am.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I am so honored to have you here tonight. But
before we go any further, tell us a little bit
about yourself.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Wow, just a little bit, huh.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I am a child of God and a recipient of
extravagant grace. I am a writer, a preacher. Everything ever
having to do with church I've done or am learning
to do. At this point. I have I have. Next week,

(04:32):
I will have been married fifty seven years and I
have Okay, I'll give you a minute.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
A little pretty.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I have four children and you know, sons in love.
And I have five granddaughters and two great grandsons, and
my family is just the light of my life and
so I thank God for them every day. I'm a
journalist right now with Word in Black, and so people

(05:05):
can see my writing on that website. It is a
black owned press company and our work is strictly digital.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
And that's a little bit.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Word in black, y'all. Remember that. Yeah, no test to replay.
I'm a do So what made you want to become
an author?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I have absolutely no idea. I've always been a writer.
People have always complimented me on my writing, and friends
have said to me, you need to write a book.
I did not do that until after I retired. The
first time I was writing and editing for the Afro

(05:54):
American newspaper I hope you know about that oldest continuously
I reading family owned black newspaper in the country, yes,
one hundred and thirty three years. So I worked for
them for a long time. And when I retired the
first time, the Lord started to tell me about writing

(06:17):
a book. Because it wasn't ever anything that I ever said.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I love to read books, but I never even thought
about writing books except for what my friend said to me.
So that's what I did. When I retired. I wrote
my first book and I was sixty five years old.
So it's never too late.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now. See hold up, you are not y'all. Y'all need
to get that melani in your system. You see this
beauty right here? Do you see this beauty that is
on the screen. Get the melanin in your.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Stop because I wouldn't have thought then, Well, if I've
been married fifty seven years, you know I can't be
but so young.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
You right? Okay, See I kind of miss math class.
You should see me helping my daughter with her math.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's me.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I just put it on the paper. The teacher'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah. But I mean I didn't start writing.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
I mean I wrote professionally as a journalist, but I
didn't start writing books until I was sixty five.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh my god, So how did it feel to have
that first book in your hand? Once you published?

Speaker 3 (07:38):
So exciting, I'm telling you, And the Lord gave me
a particular pattern timetable in everything, and the first book
I had published by a Vanity Publishing company, and when
I looked at the services they offered, I realized, because

(07:58):
of my experience as a writer and editor, a lot
of those things I could do myself. So when I
did the second book, I published it myself on KDP
on Kendle Direct Publishing, and that's what I've been doing
ever since then.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
So how many books do you have out right now?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think I have eleven. Oh yeah, I think I
have eleven. Now those are the ones that I have
written myself. I have some other books that I have
curated where other people have written chapters in the book,
so I don't take credit for those, but I have
eleven that I've written totally myself.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Awesome. So how is being a journalist help you with
your writing?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Being a journalist has exposed me to a lot of situations,
a lot of people. I have learned a lot having
been a writer for a long period of time. It
helps me with my writing to a degree because I'm

(09:11):
sort of a freestyle writer when I do my books,
and it's a different thing than when I'm doing articles,
you know, when I have to be concerned about format
and and all that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
It's it's a really different thing.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
So it's a whole different feeling when I'm doing work,
writing for work, and when I'm writing books.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, so how does your family feel about you being
an author?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
They were pretty exciting excited about it. When I did
my first book, my middle daughter was also doing a book,
so we pretty much published at the same time.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So that was that was in witing.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
And then this year one of the books I did
was published simul taneously with my other daughter and her daughter,
so we had three generations publishing in December together.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
But that is awesome.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
I try to stay ahead of the game and you know,
keep them encouraged all the time. And my friends too.
It's like, you can still do it. Whatever it is
you want to do, you can still do it, and
you can always try something new. It's no need to
sit down and be old. Anybody could do that.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Truly, anybody can do that. So what is what is
your writing style? If you had to place yourself in
a box, and I know a lot of people do
not like to be placed in a box and I
hate people in the box. But if you were to
be placed in this box and you have to do
a genre style for your writing, which genre would it be?

(10:59):
And why did you use that one?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, it's it's nonfiction, okay, inspirational. Oh, and I call
it conversational because when I'm writing, I feel like I'm
talking to a particular person, and so I just I
just my writing I think sounds like I'm having a
conversation with somebody. So a lot of it is story format.

(11:26):
I'm telling a story of an experience I've had or
something I've learned, or I'm telling a scriptural principle and
easy to read language.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I like that. All of my years working at a library,
I've never heard of a book genre being conversational. I
love that.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
But that's my mindset. When I'm writing.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I'm writing to somebody who might not understand something, especially
you know. My stuff is on grace, it's on prayer,
it's on particular principles. One of my favorite books is
Make Yourself at Home in God's Love, and it's that
and that answers the question does God love me? Because

(12:20):
most of us believe that God loves the world, God
loves the church, God loves the old people, and God
loves the children, But we don't have that specific knowledge
that God loves me, that God made me for his
own pleasure, and he loves me the way I am.

(12:41):
He's not gonna leave me the way I am, but
he loves me just the way I am today. And
so that book has again the forty days, so it's
forty days of scripture and encouragement all about the love
of God.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
You just blew my mind. This is nothing because I'm sorry,
you're you're absolutely absolutely right, absolutely right, because when I
thought about it, I don't say God loves the world,
God loves the kids, God loves the older individuals, God
loves the church. But you're Raldom. You ran You hardly

(13:24):
hear anybody said God loves me. You did that. You
just blew my mind with that. And I can I
can really count on my fingers how many times I
said God loves me. Wow.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I have had the experience as a pastor to be
preaching and or teaching and to see somebody get it.
And sometimes it's somebody who's young and never heard it before.
But I have seen people who have been in church
there entire lives, and you can tell when they get it.

(14:04):
You see something change on their face, you see nicey
tears run out of their eyes. But it's that that
In that moment, they finally understand that God has specific
pointed love of them and just for them.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, you mean that light bulb came on? It is
literally on, Like I can't, I can, I can barely
put on. Wow. God loves you, trees, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
He has your face engraved on the palm of his hand.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Now that's right out the Bible. I didn't make that up.
He has your face engraved on the palm of his hand.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, see all right, see okayes, get it together, get
it together. Don't you do it? Don't you do it?
Don't you just start crying. I use to start crying.
So this cover I love it. It makes me smile

(15:19):
and it makes me laugh. You guys, here's your chance
to see the cover of her book, thirty one Days
of Grace.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I think it's the joy of knowing God's grace. And again,
we talk about grace, we say it's the unmerited favor
of God, or we lift up grace as something I
have that somebody else doesn't have. But grace again, is
something that God extends to us just because God chooses to.

(16:15):
He's never gonna run out of grace. There's always going
to be enough grace for everybody who chooses to be
a recipient of his grace. And the thing is that
He loves us, and he does not allow us to
suffer the things that we could suffer as a result

(16:36):
of our behavior. He receives us into the family of
God forgiving our sins and clothing us in the righteousness
of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now that's something to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
What means you want to do the book thirty one days?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Grace principally that.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
But let me tell you something about what happened with
the book I had. I had not been writing for
a while, and so grace came to me to be
to begin writing again. And I knew I wanted to
be something with a number. But I listen, I get

(17:26):
all my instructions from the Lord through the Holy Spirit. Okay,
So I started on the book. I wrote every day,
and so at the end of thirty one days, the
book was finished. I am pastor at large at a
church called The Hill in Jessup, Maryland, and the leaders

(17:49):
had a retreat right around the time I was finishing
the book, and one of the presenters, a profit from
DC Bishop band de Cisco, gave a presentation at the retreat,
and she was talking about unique ways of giving and

(18:10):
some incidents that had happened at her church. And while
I was listening to her, it came to me that
this could be a unique way for me to give.
And so when I finished the book, I gave it
to my church as a fundraiser for a huge project

(18:32):
that we have coming up called Project Ephesus. And so
every diamond dollar that comes through this book goes to
the Hill because it's my joy to be a part
of the gracegiving that's going to make Project ephicis happen.
And you know, get the information out anyway, get the

(18:54):
word out anyway. I even had our pastor, who was
Bishop Antoine oh M Clerken right forward for this book.
So this book means a lot to me, and I
hope it means a lot to the future of our church.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
So what your readers look forward to when they read
this book.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Little bits of little bits of things. The first thing
you'll see is a scripture about grace, and then you
will see either an inspirational writing. You might see some
quotes from somebody other than myself. Every day is something
different from thirty one for thirty one days.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Okay, so you should really treat this like a journal
for grace.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Loving the I'm loving there.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
So if I pick up, if I pick up Day
twenty four, it says grace is for everyone. The thing
I love about grace is that it can never run out.
The thing I love about grace is that it is
multi layered and multi colored. According to Eugene Peterson's interpretation
in the message, his point is that there's no limit
to God's grace, whether you're purple or pink green, or

(20:12):
gray blue or black, or whether you're a child of
the rainbow. There are no boundaries, there are no specifications,
there is no one upon whom God's grace cannot operates.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I really think this is grace is something that we
need right now. Grace, understanding, empathy, love, We need those
things right now because the stuff that's going on in
this world it is bananas, and bananas is really not

(20:54):
the word I can use or would like to use,
but it's the first thing that comes in the mind.
And I think if we are all can take a
moment just to just focus on that, it will make
things just, It'll make it better. Yeah, I won't say
it will solve everything, that it will make it.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Better, because we want grace for ourselves, but we're not
always so fast to give other people the same grace
that we want.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
And that's one thing I had to realize as where
I'm working at, a lot of the people that come
in they just need a little bit of grace, a
little bit of patience, and a little bit of understanding.
So sometimes I have to forget what I have going
on and understand that that's what they need. And I've

(21:49):
even helped one lady one time where I work at,
and just helping her made me forget about everything else
I had going on. So you never know how you
show that grace, give that grace, and give that patience
and give that understanding, how.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Would it affect your exactly?

Speaker 1 (22:13):
And God got all of it. He's just saying, just
listen to me. I got you. There's a reason why
that word grace is in the bouty and you're giving
us thirty one days to figure So remember offline, I

(22:34):
told you I had some fun questions.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh oh you.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Hard right, So here we go.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Here we go your book, Who would you like to
play if your book had a main character and it
was a female and it was a female.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
God, I'll spoil artists. Who would you want to be
that female? And why did you choose them?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah? That's a fun one, all right, Yolanda Adams.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh, because she sings one of my favorite songs, The
battle is not yours, it's the Lord's.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, I see it, I see it. Yeah. Now it's
a male.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Oh lord, And why it's got me tied Trivia because
he gives me so much energy, just.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Me and my daughter. We love we love it. Oh
my god, we love him. Yeah, my baby, Oh my god,
we loved in this house. Hey, Ti, Tripa, we come
back to Charleston again. We apologize if you missed your
last show, but it was on the school night. Can
you come on a weekend? Please? You can't be coming

(24:02):
on a motive of a week But yes, I love Ti,
I love it, I love it, I love it. We're
gonna take this a step father. We're making your book
into a movie. We want to do a soundtrack that

(24:24):
has a mass choir mm hmm, because Lord knows, I
haven't on this Pandora kick with these mass choirs and
the later remember them days. If you could choose one
mask choir or a conductor.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
No, I want the mass choir will Avenue Baptist Church
in Houston, Texas.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh, I never heard about Nama people.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Boys, check them out and I got a Baptists in
fact that they're doing the recording this week. That's a
good they are.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Ooh okay, okay, I'm been on this mass choir kick.
I love the song I cannot remember. The church is
right across my house. You got tray and they got
the song called You Fight On. I love that song.
And it's the reason reason why I love the song

(25:25):
because I remember being a church kid when I grew
up all for my grannies. One of my grannies, I
never even went to her church, but when I went
there and her house on the weekend, I have no choice.
You get up, you go to church. And it was
funny because I was saying Easter speeches and I had

(25:47):
to go to two churches to do them. But it's
just something about that footstumping on the floor, that that
cow fell, that oh my god, the hand clapping, the
double clap, that.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
The tambourines, Oh what God, Joe.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Actually, I'm sorry Lord, and I'm sorry grannies, but I'm
I'm gonna reveal this what I actually didn't like going
to service during the day. I go to the Usher anniversaries.
Oh my god, they have to come in and they're
doing a little walk, but you can double.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
I'm sorry, y'all, I just went down. I'm just like,
it's you don't have that nowadays, man, You just you
can't find it nowadays. And notice I said, I love
time tripping, the honor the past in order to see

(26:55):
the future. So and I ain't finished with you yet now, No, ma,
I'm the boweler. No. Lifetime loved the soundtrack, they loved
tie Trivia, and they loved Yolanda and your movie did great. Okay,

(27:17):
now they want to do an autobiography on you. Would
you give the honor of playing you? And why.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Alfred Wooded?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh I haven't heard him even loon? And why do
you choose her?

Speaker 3 (27:39):
The first time I saw Alfred Woodard, it was before
we had clear DC stations, and so when you wanted
to watch something on Channel twenty, you had to watch
it through so much fog and whatever that stuff was
that you could barely see it.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
But one of the first things I saw was Alfred wooded.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Doing the your poem for colored Girls, and she did
the poem somebody took all my stuff and she's she's
been my best actress every since then.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
So I would definitely want her to play my partner.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I love it. I love it. See the questions weren't
that bad there?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
They weren't.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
But before we close out, what would you like to
say to your old readers you're new readers and the
readers you'll gain from watching this podcast, what would you
like to say to them?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I want to thank the I want to thank
the old readers, although I wouldn't call them old readers,
especially those that have been kind enough to say that
they find they find life and they find joy in
reading my books, and they find them easy to read,
because that's a that's a part of my my process

(28:57):
is to have something that people can pick up and
read very easily. And so thank you for all those
who have bought my books, especially those who have bought
them as gifts, and for a new readers, give one
to try. I think if you if you read one,
you'll come back for more. They're very short books. They're

(29:18):
usually very poignant on a particular subject and they're useful
not only for your own personal meditation, but they're used
forul as teaching tools. They're good for gifts and.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Try that.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
So before we leave, you have to give us the
run down. Your information has been scrolling at the bottom
of the screen, and in case you miss anything, you know,
give us how we can follow you on social media,
how we can get your books, or if you have
any special book signers or anything coming out.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
So well, unfortunately I don't have any book signings coming up,
but my books are available on Amazon, and you can
contact me through my website which is Dorothy Scott Bolwear
dot com and we will send you an autograph copy
of the books. And I'm on Facebook, I'm on x

(30:20):
or used to be Twitter.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
I'm on.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Igs as the kids say, and threads and it's just
my name, Dorothy Bowlwear, so I'm easy to find.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, thank you for being with us tonight's with Bowlwear.
Y'all go ahead and get that thirty one days if Grade.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
One Days of Grace issue. Yeah, it'll be a blessing
to the hill when you get that book. I love it.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I love it, I love it. Thank you for being
with us tonight. You guys go ahead and grab it.
The information is at the bottom. If you miss anything,
catch the replay. You know. If you ruin it real quick,
head on over to YouTube. But guess what if you
just want to listen to it and you can't watch it,

(31:14):
I'm a post where you can find us on Amazon.
We got YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, We got some other ones too,
but I'll post some on my page tonight. Again, we
thank you miss bowl over being for us tonight. Remember you, guys,
there's no such thing as an old book because not

(31:35):
everybody is read every book. You guys, have a great night.
See you next Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Bye, Thank you very very much.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
You're welcome.

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