December 9, 2025 • 36 mins
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Hey, everyone, this is your girl. Sci book out eight
eighty four three, and it is after Tuesday night, So
you guys, you gotta bring you a new author, right,
So you guys. The craziest thing about this author, I
was already following him on TikTok, right, he had already
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signed up for the date of tonight. So I'm scrolling
through TikTok and I'm like, you know, checking out books
and authors, and his story just stood out to me.
Is like the fact that he was like, look, I'm
gonna keep on making a due with the dude, and
I'm gonna make a name myself. And I'm like, why
does this man look familiar? And then I look at
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my candle that oh he gonna be on my show.
So let me go ahead and just follow him again.
Make sure I have it on all my platforms and
you'll see his information at the bottom. But I am
bringing up off their cold and it's not C you
got it is K. Come on up, come on up, hey.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Hello, how are you.
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make it.
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Do with it too.
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So can you hear me?
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No?
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The music?
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I hear the music.
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Music, wonder why hold on to me? Take it out
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So here you now you hear me?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Awesome. So welcome to sc book, gals and friends, and
I thank you for being with me tonight. How are you?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm doing good? How you doing? I'm good?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
So before we go any father, please tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I go by author Cole.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I am.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
He I call myself a writer. I don't want to
box myself in because I'm not limited to just one genre.
But I am a Clurksfield, Tendessee native, so I'm putting
on for my city always, and this year I've published
thirteen books so far, with the plan to publish one
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more before the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Hold them now, I mean, you got about three weeks.
You got something you're about to bring out in three weeks.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I'm always writing what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So what made you want to become a writer?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I mean I very first started writing like poetry music
as a kid because I was in a juvenile facility
growing up, so I kind of needed something to like release,
So of course I got as an angry kid, I
put it in music first, and then that kind of
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I kind of expressed myself through poetry. But when it
comes to books, I was incarcerated in and out honestly
all the way till twenty twenty two. But in twenty
fifteen I was down like serving more on my twenty
three year sentence, and we only had a limited number
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of books by black authors and other inmates around me.
We felt like the true streets wasn't really presented in
those books like if they was there was like a
far fetched way or wasn't really like our story. So
like we were sitting around talking about some of them
one day and I was like, man, I could do better,
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and they challenged me to do that. So I went
to my cell that night and I started working on
my very first book, called The Bottom, and I just
went I just based the story off the things I experience,
like being in the street life. I just applied it
to it, and like stuff plays in my head like
a movie or like a TV show, So I literally just.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Daydream it out and write it down in the way
that I hear it or see it.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So I had a homeboy who came to my cell
the next day and like back then, I used to
write it and kind of like grab the typewriter and
type it up or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So he was pulling off the typewriter and reading it.
He was like, man, this shit dope.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
So at that time, I'm thinking like he just playing
because like we like to like boost people's heads up
when we locked up, like we might hear somebody wrapping,
but like, yeah you got all bars, or like see
him hooping, be like yeah you the coders hoo. Whoever,
like just on some playing shit, so I ain't really
believe them. But the next day I knew. I knew
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everybody was like coming to my cell trying to pay
me noodles and bags of coffee to read it, you
know what I'm saying. So I kind of just kept
going from there.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Okay, So did you publish your books while you weren't
across to read it or did you wait until you
got it? Nah?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I stacked him up.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
H I wrote thirty three books while I was locked
up during that eight year bid right there. So once
I got out, though I had, I was gone from
the street so long that I focused on like my
parole stuff I had to do because I went to
a halfway house at first when I got out, so
I didn't have like access to stuff. And then I
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wanted to work on, like my relationship with my kids
since I missed so much time, had to focus on
getting a job. So I just started publishing this year.
I believe January something was when I first put out
my first book this year.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Okay, so how hard is it? Well, let's back up.
Let's back up, because this question is in my mind mine.
Do you want to be called an author or would
you rather be called a writer?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I mean, I'm a writer, honestly.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I guess there are term of be an author obamba
writer though, like I like all things that deal with
expression and whether it's music or like I was in
playwright too.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I was a playwriter.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I had plays published while I was incarcerated, because I
mean I learned how to write comedy plays that were
done on live stages.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
While I was behind the fence, you know. So there's
no limit to what I can do.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
If I can, if I could put a story or
bring entertainment in it, then I'm gonna write it.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
So oh wow. So I mean that wasn't anything that
was in your way. You just kept going and plugging through.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
I had to keep out my occupied you know, in there,
like when I first got locked up, like I was
with the prison politics. You know, I was still heavily
involved in a game, and like those the politics went
on when I first got there. But it was a
phone call with my daughter that I had where I
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heard that she was stealing and then I asked her
why she was stealing, and she was like, so I
could be in there with you, so after I got
off the phone that day, I told everybody I'm done
with that shit, you know, and I just locked in.
I knew I needed something to still release, you know
what I'm saying. So I was like, well, I'm not
gonna be in the streets, but I'm gonna live them
out in these stories though, So I just started writing
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the stories to escape the prison.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Stood.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Wow, I can see how that can change it.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I really do.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But this cover, because we're about to bring up this book,
cup and y'all know me, y'all know I'm a book
cover girl. If you cover tracks me, it's going to
go in there be readless. So first of all, how
did you pronounce the title? I do not want to
butcher it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'll do Katie Mile mhm.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Well, the cover is done by Telena. That's my go
to lady right now probably forever. She'll get onto me.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But when I wrote this, I wrote this this year,
right So when I came out, I was like, I want.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
To put a book out every month. And I had
Tasha Marie, who is like my only ARC reader that
I have. I sent her all my stories before I
publish him, and she was like, you should do a motorcycle.
Uh no, she's the expecting book wrecks on TikTok Tasha
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Marie on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Uh just like I call her. She like my family.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So she was like, you should do a book about
Moorcycle Club. And I don't like doing I don't like
writing stuff that I'm not experienced with, you know. So
I was hesitant, but I was like, Okay, I'll challenge myself.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll do it. And at that time, all I knew
was like the biker.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Boys, sons and anarchy and the Mayans. That's the only
Mortcycle stuff I knew. But at the time when I
started writing it, I had like some stuff going on
with people close to me, you know, like where I
felt like they was like betrayed, betraying me or whatever
and didn't really want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
To see me, you know, shine or anything.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
So I was like, well, I'm gonna just write this
character Deuce, where he got people against him, you know
what I'm saying. So he's the leader of the Ducati mob,
but he's got snakes in his ranks. He's and it
seems like the whole city is against him because Deuce
isn't like other street dudes, like he doesn't want to
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make his come up by selling dope. He does it
by like heist, you know, he's a jack boy whatever
I would say. So the people and the crew don't
like that because they want fast money. They feel like
they'll get faster money from the dope game or wherever.
But he's highly against it because his parents. He feels
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his parents' downfall was the dope. He had a mother
who overdose, saying, he had a father who went to
prison and end up getting killed behind the dope game.
So that's not his thing and he won't do it,
and he has to fight against all these crews and
stuff because he won't allow it to happen in his state.
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Like he's not letting nothing get distributed through his state.
So it's really other crews coming at him and the
people in his own ranks coming at him, you know
that he don't even know about.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I mean, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I just I just carried it the same way that
I did my other books, like I put all the
authenticity in there, you know, because at the same time,
even though I don't I've never been in a moorcycle,
prow or whatever. I've been in the game, so I
know how that operate. So I just applied those experiences
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in life to doce, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And then I used dou Katie Mob to address situations
in the book community. So if something was going on
at the time, now I'm writing it, I'm gonna talk
about it in there, you know, because this is my
platform to express myself through my writing, So people gonna
know how I feel about a situation. And I wanted
it to be like I wrote it like a TV show,
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so it's short, you know, novella's that play like like
TV episodes in the head So.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Okay, okay, how did you come up with Dakati? Where
where did that come from? That's very unique?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
So like, like, even though I've never been on more Crew,
my favorite motorcycle is the Dukati. I don't know how
pronounce the name, but like a pangara, I know to
start with a peak, you know. So that's my favorite bike,
and red and black is my favorite color. So it
was kind of easy, honestly, just to come up with
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the Dukatti Mob squad pretty much.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, okay, you guys, I am so sorry, but just
it's kicking my nerves so I was keep on moving
and I was trying to hide him. And it's like, so,
how did you feel when you publish your first book.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I felt.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I felt green, you know, because I ain't know what
I was doing, like very when I first published it
too the streets, it was it was an eight y ten.
It wasn't like formatted, I guess correctly, and I mean
it was just I mean, you could see my inexperience
in it. But at the same time, I felt good
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because I'm like, for me, it was alreadysed success to
me because no matter who read it or not, my
goal when I got out of prison was that I
was going to do something with all the books I
wrote while I was in there, so putting it, publishing it,
regardless if it gainered, garnered any traction or anything, I
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already felt the success like I did something because I
didn't do it for nothing, you know, so the work
I did in prison.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Didn't go to waste at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Wow, you just said so much that I commend you
because a lot of people will be highly upset that
it didn't take any traction, and it's like they'll give up,
but you kept on pounding and you are you say,
thirteen books.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
In yes this year?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Yeah, six of them are Six of them are the
thirty three I wrote, but all the rest are our
new stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So are you going to go.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Back and you know, release some of those ones that
you have sitting in there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh? Yeah, they're all stacked up in the closets.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So, like, I tried to grab two of them and
type them up, because that's all I mean, this is
how they all look, you know, their on pen and
papers is what I do. So I'll write all my
stories on paper first, and then now it's just me
typing them up, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But then I'll get inspired to do something else.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So then I'm working on, Like I got five things
I'm working on right now because I'm just inspired by
different things every day, you know. But I try to
work on my old stuff too because I do want
to get all of them out, you know. And I
got people that be like, well, let me type them
for you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Nah.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's like my that's my process right there. When I
get to go back and look at them, I could
add stuff in or like take stuff out.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, okay, So do you see your growth? How does
it feel to actually see the growth from book one
to book thirteen.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I definitely see the growth.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
That's why I tell people I don't really care too
much to change anything like in my first books that
I wrote, because I want people to see how I've
grown as a writer, you know what I'm saying. So
if you've picked up New to the Streets or the
Bottom and you read those, but then you come over
here to do Scotti Mob or Love, you see I'm
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very different from where I started at because I've learned
as I went and new experiences have happened to make
the stories better, you know. So it definitely, I mean
I like it. It's not something I can see myself
not doing.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
You know. Okay, So I don't think you remember or
you might have that I told you. We have these
fun questions that always has to deal with music and.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Acting.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Okay, okay, my friend, let's start here. You mean, what
is your favorite character in Ducatti Mob?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Your favorite Deuce?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Okay? So Deuce is an old school rapper.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Who would he be?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
And why.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
A school? I say Nas? Because Nas?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Okay, yeah, Nas came out like he's from the streets,
but he got a message, you know, for the world
and induces from the streets, saying like, regardless of what
he do, he has like good intentions for people. You know,
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he's not a person that's he's not honoring or like grimy,
you know what I'm saying. So I feel like Nas
is that type of rapper from back in the day,
you know, like you don't hear nas and scandals and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Like he's a genuine dude, you know what.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
You are totally right, because I am the only time
I've ever heard of them being in and then it
wasn't even the scandals divorce. Other than that, it's like
everybody gets the doors. Okay, So I understand that there
is the character by the name of Stormy in this book. Yes,
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tell us a little bit about Stormy.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh that bad?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
So Stormy like explaining right, because everybody that knows me
in the book community like they don't want to be
a character in my book, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So Stormy is on like she's a friend, like she's
my people go on TikTok.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
But like we had like a back and forth, you know,
I was like I want to throw you in the book,
and she challenged me, and I was like, I'm gonna
make you the character that don't nobody like, I'm gonna
make you the worst character in the book, you know.
And she she's like, well pretty much bed like called
me out. So I wrote Stormy thinking about like my
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honor as baby mama. Everybody knows the story of my
big mama that snitched on me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So I thought about her out through her and her,
I just thought about, like the the worst.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Woman I could think about doing the most honoring shit,
you know what I'm saying, to do like multiple dudes though,
you know what I'm saying. She a manipulator. She thinks
she a puppet master, you know, and and it catches
up with her. So yeah, that's Stormy.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Remind me to never leave a bad review. I would
not want to be in them.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I don't even don't. I don't check reviews and nothing.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
It usually be like the people who like and dukai
my six, Like I went after the people that had
something to say about black Romance book fits, and like five,
it was the public situation pulling out the books, the
book event going on, you know how they pulled their sponsorship,
you know what I'm saying. Like four, what four was
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about the the white lady who stole the idea of
the bookmark person, you know what I'm saying, And then
and then try to act like she didn't. You know
what I'm saying. So I checked issues in the book community.
I don't play about authors. I don't play about if
they talk about Jacque well j. I don't play about
my goat.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You know what I'm saying. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
talk bad. They're gonna be a chapter.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Okay, he said it's gonna be a chapter. So now
we got Stormy. What actress would please Stormy?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And why?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh, it definitely gotta be one that character people hate
all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I say, no, I don't know, ain't but the one
from Daddy's Little Girls, the mama Tasha or what she's Tasha?
And why did I get married and stuff? Realma's yeah,
her real name is Tasha though, yeah her. But this
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is definitely Stormy, cause man, she's she's terrible. She play
a villain perfectly, you know what I'm saying. Like I
hated her so much and they little Girls, and I
hate the way like she'd be talking back to Marcus
and and all that.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Like she's she's perfect, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So Tasha Smith. All right, so you know how Lifetime
is on this new thing. They like to meet books
in the movies, right. They picked up your book and said,
you know what, we can't do this, but we're gonna
give this the black channel, all black. Who would you want? Two? No,
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let's back this up. What would be the title track
for your book? To copy?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Mom? The title track? The title track?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And I've made playlists for it too, so it's like, uh, hum,
it would be a Wayne song though, that for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Uh A little.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would have not thought that. I would have never
thought you would have said, a.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Little wing, Yeah, it's gonna be a it's gonna be
a probably probably have some music because because.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Just wanted his money. Man, he just wanted his money.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Okay, so now we said little wind, I would have
I would have thought the song between him and what's
the one who does him in t pain? Whether they
got moneys, win got money? Yes, I would have thought, now.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Nah, that's too that's too powerful, and what if it one?
How some music would have been a block aside.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Oh okay, I can see that all right. So now
we have your title track, we have your actor, your actress.
But you know what they said. You know what, because
they adore your story and they see you they want
others to see. Who would you give the opportunity of
playing you in a biopic.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Plan? Oh dang, playing me is crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I don't know nobody that could get with this pr
my fact probably Bruh from Well he ain't light enough,
you know?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Yeah, because you know I'm light skinned. But I was
gonna say brother from the Ghost the Power Ghost series.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Uh, Mary j blind Son?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Your blind son? Okay? Which one are you talking about?
The one from South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yes? I can hear you Power Book two? So yes,
s'all know. I like to look up. I Keith that
having little I'm right here. Ah can you hear me? Okay,
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so I he's gonna come back up.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I think he's talking about here.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Okay, are you talking about Woody McLean.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Thee Yeah, the dark Skin went definitely not Tyreek.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
He's a mom.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You didn't like Tyreek?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
No, I don't take him serious as nothing.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
He's not a He's not nobody else see as a
killer or no a strong mind to run nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He's just the hurt little boy that he ain't get
time with his daddy.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Oh you know what, I never thought of it that way.
I thought he was trying.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Of course they were given the narrative that he was
trying to step in the role of his father. So
that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Can't be spoon fed and try to step into their life?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Why you do that way? Don't do that way?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
But that's all he is.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I can't see what he So we got your theme song,
We got your actress, your actress, yeah, actor, your actress,
the person who is going to play you. But you
now have to write your biopic with your favorite author
or your mentor. Who would that be? And how has they?
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How have they? How would they contribute to your journey
as an author writer.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's funny because everybody know who I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I'm gonna say Joaquell j because when I so like
when I first started, you know, I'm gonna say, she's
the one that like gave me the opportunity, my very
first opportunity, you know, like to be president, like one
of her events, and just like just when I was
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on a zoom with her, like my very first zoom
with her, she gave me like advice, you know what
I'm saying, like, and she ain't have to do that,
and like I just kind of to getting ran, you know.
So and then like just to look at how long
she's been in it, you know, writing eleven years, and
like just her after reading the Dell Got All series
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and stuff, I could see like the vision like that
she has because like I feel like I kind of
have close to the same thing, you know what I'm
saying of seeing my characters and how I play them out,
and it's just dope, like to know that, like she's
one of the first.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
People that gave me the opportunity or whatever.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
So and then she gave me more advice at the
event that we just had in Augusta, you know, the
family first Fire always just back in October.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So just knowing that she will go out her way to.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Tell me like what I need to do, you know,
get on to me when I need to tighten up,
that's definitely shaped me.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
So, so give us some down of your catalog.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I'm gonna say New to the Streets because that's the
first one I published this year, and that is like, uh,
that's that's some people favorite series. The New to the streets,
hardest streets, still in the streets. My favorite book isn't
out yet. I tell people that all the time. I
haven't put it out yet because I won't wait till
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i'm higher up. But if you need a quick read
to like just know my style, then it would be
Ducatti Mob because they're they're quick.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Novella's uh and it's season one is complete.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Right now, so.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Mhm m.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
M yeah, to be part of Cole's crew. But I'll be.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Let's see, I'm not like it's a lot, like I know.
I got the Melanin Ball in February out in Vegas.
I have let In Local in a part of Mississippi
I want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Then I have the.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Chocolate City Lit Fest in d C. That's in April.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Then Made Black Romance Book Fest June. I have the
Repio City in Dayton, Ohio. July have thees Lit City
book Fest, another job Quill event in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Uh. I have.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Books on the Ground in Houston in November and Bookmark
Kerr also with.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
H mm hmm, yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to that one.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
All of my social no matter if it's TikTok, Facebook,
uh threads, anything is.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Gonna be author Coed k O L D. Please don't
spell it with us. See, don't do that. Yeah, don't disrespect.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
What the scene. Don't do If you look at the
bottom of the screen, you see all the information of
his right there at the bottom. We gonna let you
close it out. Tell us what would you like to
say to your new readers, your old readers, your up
and coming readers.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
What would you like to say any readers?
Speaker 6 (34:15):
I just asked, y'all give me a chance to earn
your readership. My mantra is now trying to be your
favorite if I ain't already. But if you want stories
that's gonna read like movies or TV shows, I mean
every review I believe has said I do that, that
is my style, then I believe you'll enjoy my books
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because it'll give you that chance to get lost from
the bullshit we got going on in the world and
escape into into what I built for you.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
And that's the reason why a lot of people read
is just to escape. I know that's one of the
reasons why I read. So I would like to thank
you for being with us tonight after Cole, thanks, thank you,
you guys, guess what y'all got to make sure that
if you've read his books, and you know we have
the little awards coming up, the SCA Book Gal and
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Aspiring Author of Award that's coming up, make sure you
nominate your favorite in all the category you have until
Christmas Day. I'm pretty sure the cole might be in
one of y'all listens, so y'all make sure y'all go
ahead and vote him in. Also, remember we're coming back
season four. Okay. I am now getting all my information
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together so I can present it to you guys in
the beginning of February. You might even show little segments
throughout your January and tell you how you can book
your interview here with me sc Book Gal. What else
do we have going on? That's about all we got
going on you guys. I want you to enjoy your
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holidays for me.
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So you guys. The craziest thing about this author, I
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Is like the fact that he was like, look, I'm
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Do with it too.
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I hear the music.
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Yeah?
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Awesome. So welcome to sc book, gals and friends, and
I thank you for being with me tonight. How are you?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm doing good? How you doing? I'm good?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
So before we go any father, please tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I go by author Cole.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I am.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
He I call myself a writer. I don't want to
box myself in because I'm not limited to just one genre.
But I am a Clurksfield, Tendessee native, so I'm putting
on for my city always, and this year I've published
thirteen books so far, with the plan to publish one
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more before the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Hold them now, I mean, you got about three weeks.
You got something you're about to bring out in three weeks.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I'm always writing what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So what made you want to become a writer?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I mean I very first started writing like poetry music
as a kid because I was in a juvenile facility
growing up, so I kind of needed something to like release,
So of course I got as an angry kid, I
put it in music first, and then that kind of
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I kind of expressed myself through poetry. But when it
comes to books, I was incarcerated in and out honestly
all the way till twenty twenty two. But in twenty
fifteen I was down like serving more on my twenty
three year sentence, and we only had a limited number
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of books by black authors and other inmates around me.
We felt like the true streets wasn't really presented in
those books like if they was there was like a
far fetched way or wasn't really like our story. So
like we were sitting around talking about some of them
one day and I was like, man, I could do better,
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and they challenged me to do that. So I went
to my cell that night and I started working on
my very first book, called The Bottom, and I just
went I just based the story off the things I experience,
like being in the street life. I just applied it
to it, and like stuff plays in my head like
a movie or like a TV show, So I literally just.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Daydream it out and write it down in the way
that I hear it or see it.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So I had a homeboy who came to my cell
the next day and like back then, I used to
write it and kind of like grab the typewriter and
type it up or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So he was pulling off the typewriter and reading it.
He was like, man, this shit dope.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
So at that time, I'm thinking like he just playing
because like we like to like boost people's heads up
when we locked up, like we might hear somebody wrapping,
but like, yeah you got all bars, or like see
him hooping, be like yeah you the coders hoo. Whoever,
like just on some playing shit, so I ain't really
believe them. But the next day I knew. I knew
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everybody was like coming to my cell trying to pay
me noodles and bags of coffee to read it, you
know what I'm saying. So I kind of just kept
going from there.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Okay, So did you publish your books while you weren't
across to read it or did you wait until you
got it? Nah?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I stacked him up.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
H I wrote thirty three books while I was locked
up during that eight year bid right there. So once
I got out, though I had, I was gone from
the street so long that I focused on like my
parole stuff I had to do because I went to
a halfway house at first when I got out, so
I didn't have like access to stuff. And then I
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wanted to work on, like my relationship with my kids
since I missed so much time, had to focus on
getting a job. So I just started publishing this year.
I believe January something was when I first put out
my first book this year.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Okay, so how hard is it? Well, let's back up.
Let's back up, because this question is in my mind mine.
Do you want to be called an author or would
you rather be called a writer?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I mean, I'm a writer, honestly.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I guess there are term of be an author obamba
writer though, like I like all things that deal with
expression and whether it's music or like I was in
playwright too.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I was a playwriter.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I had plays published while I was incarcerated, because I
mean I learned how to write comedy plays that were
done on live stages.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
While I was behind the fence, you know. So there's
no limit to what I can do.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
If I can, if I could put a story or
bring entertainment in it, then I'm gonna write it.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
So oh wow. So I mean that wasn't anything that
was in your way. You just kept going and plugging through.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
I had to keep out my occupied you know, in there,
like when I first got locked up, like I was
with the prison politics. You know, I was still heavily
involved in a game, and like those the politics went
on when I first got there. But it was a
phone call with my daughter that I had where I
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heard that she was stealing and then I asked her
why she was stealing, and she was like, so I
could be in there with you, so after I got
off the phone that day, I told everybody I'm done
with that shit, you know, and I just locked in.
I knew I needed something to still release, you know
what I'm saying. So I was like, well, I'm not
gonna be in the streets, but I'm gonna live them
out in these stories though, So I just started writing
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the stories to escape the prison.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Stood.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Wow, I can see how that can change it.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I really do.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But this cover, because we're about to bring up this book,
cup and y'all know me, y'all know I'm a book
cover girl. If you cover tracks me, it's going to
go in there be readless. So first of all, how
did you pronounce the title? I do not want to
butcher it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'll do Katie Mile mhm.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Well, the cover is done by Telena. That's my go
to lady right now probably forever. She'll get onto me.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But when I wrote this, I wrote this this year,
right So when I came out, I was like, I want.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
To put a book out every month. And I had
Tasha Marie, who is like my only ARC reader that
I have. I sent her all my stories before I
publish him, and she was like, you should do a motorcycle.
Uh no, she's the expecting book wrecks on TikTok Tasha
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Marie on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Uh just like I call her. She like my family.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So she was like, you should do a book about
Moorcycle Club. And I don't like doing I don't like
writing stuff that I'm not experienced with, you know. So
I was hesitant, but I was like, Okay, I'll challenge myself.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll do it. And at that time, all I knew
was like the biker.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Boys, sons and anarchy and the Mayans. That's the only
Mortcycle stuff I knew. But at the time when I
started writing it, I had like some stuff going on
with people close to me, you know, like where I
felt like they was like betrayed, betraying me or whatever
and didn't really want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
To see me, you know, shine or anything.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
So I was like, well, I'm gonna just write this
character Deuce, where he got people against him, you know
what I'm saying. So he's the leader of the Ducati mob,
but he's got snakes in his ranks. He's and it
seems like the whole city is against him because Deuce
isn't like other street dudes, like he doesn't want to
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make his come up by selling dope. He does it
by like heist, you know, he's a jack boy whatever
I would say. So the people and the crew don't
like that because they want fast money. They feel like
they'll get faster money from the dope game or wherever.
But he's highly against it because his parents. He feels
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his parents' downfall was the dope. He had a mother
who overdose, saying, he had a father who went to
prison and end up getting killed behind the dope game.
So that's not his thing and he won't do it,
and he has to fight against all these crews and
stuff because he won't allow it to happen in his state.
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Like he's not letting nothing get distributed through his state.
So it's really other crews coming at him and the
people in his own ranks coming at him, you know
that he don't even know about.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I mean, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I just I just carried it the same way that
I did my other books, like I put all the
authenticity in there, you know, because at the same time,
even though I don't I've never been in a moorcycle,
prow or whatever. I've been in the game, so I
know how that operate. So I just applied those experiences
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in life to doce, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And then I used dou Katie Mob to address situations
in the book community. So if something was going on
at the time, now I'm writing it, I'm gonna talk
about it in there, you know, because this is my
platform to express myself through my writing, So people gonna
know how I feel about a situation. And I wanted
it to be like I wrote it like a TV show,
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so it's short, you know, novella's that play like like
TV episodes in the head So.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Okay, okay, how did you come up with Dakati? Where
where did that come from? That's very unique?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
So like, like, even though I've never been on more Crew,
my favorite motorcycle is the Dukati. I don't know how
pronounce the name, but like a pangara, I know to
start with a peak, you know. So that's my favorite bike,
and red and black is my favorite color. So it
was kind of easy, honestly, just to come up with
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the Dukatti Mob squad pretty much.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, okay, you guys, I am so sorry, but just
it's kicking my nerves so I was keep on moving
and I was trying to hide him. And it's like, so,
how did you feel when you publish your first book.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I felt.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I felt green, you know, because I ain't know what
I was doing, like very when I first published it
too the streets, it was it was an eight y ten.
It wasn't like formatted, I guess correctly, and I mean
it was just I mean, you could see my inexperience
in it. But at the same time, I felt good
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because I'm like, for me, it was alreadysed success to
me because no matter who read it or not, my
goal when I got out of prison was that I
was going to do something with all the books I
wrote while I was in there, so putting it, publishing it,
regardless if it gainered, garnered any traction or anything, I
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already felt the success like I did something because I
didn't do it for nothing, you know, so the work
I did in prison.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Didn't go to waste at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Wow, you just said so much that I commend you
because a lot of people will be highly upset that
it didn't take any traction, and it's like they'll give up,
but you kept on pounding and you are you say,
thirteen books.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
In yes this year?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Yeah, six of them are Six of them are the
thirty three I wrote, but all the rest are our
new stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So are you going to go.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Back and you know, release some of those ones that
you have sitting in there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh? Yeah, they're all stacked up in the closets.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So, like, I tried to grab two of them and
type them up, because that's all I mean, this is
how they all look, you know, their on pen and
papers is what I do. So I'll write all my
stories on paper first, and then now it's just me
typing them up, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But then I'll get inspired to do something else.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So then I'm working on, Like I got five things
I'm working on right now because I'm just inspired by
different things every day, you know. But I try to
work on my old stuff too because I do want
to get all of them out, you know. And I
got people that be like, well, let me type them
for you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Nah.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's like my that's my process right there. When I
get to go back and look at them, I could
add stuff in or like take stuff out.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, okay, So do you see your growth? How does
it feel to actually see the growth from book one
to book thirteen.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I definitely see the growth.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
That's why I tell people I don't really care too
much to change anything like in my first books that
I wrote, because I want people to see how I've
grown as a writer, you know what I'm saying. So
if you've picked up New to the Streets or the
Bottom and you read those, but then you come over
here to do Scotti Mob or Love, you see I'm
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very different from where I started at because I've learned
as I went and new experiences have happened to make
the stories better, you know. So it definitely, I mean
I like it. It's not something I can see myself
not doing.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
You know. Okay, So I don't think you remember or
you might have that I told you. We have these
fun questions that always has to deal with music and.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Acting.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Okay, okay, my friend, let's start here. You mean, what
is your favorite character in Ducatti Mob?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Your favorite Deuce?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Okay? So Deuce is an old school rapper.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Who would he be?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
And why.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
A school? I say Nas? Because Nas?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Okay, yeah, Nas came out like he's from the streets,
but he got a message, you know, for the world
and induces from the streets, saying like, regardless of what
he do, he has like good intentions for people. You know,
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he's not a person that's he's not honoring or like grimy,
you know what I'm saying. So I feel like Nas
is that type of rapper from back in the day,
you know, like you don't hear nas and scandals and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Like he's a genuine dude, you know what.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
You are totally right, because I am the only time
I've ever heard of them being in and then it
wasn't even the scandals divorce. Other than that, it's like
everybody gets the doors. Okay, So I understand that there
is the character by the name of Stormy in this book. Yes,
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tell us a little bit about Stormy.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh that bad?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
So Stormy like explaining right, because everybody that knows me
in the book community like they don't want to be
a character in my book, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So Stormy is on like she's a friend, like she's
my people go on TikTok.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
But like we had like a back and forth, you know,
I was like I want to throw you in the book,
and she challenged me, and I was like, I'm gonna
make you the character that don't nobody like, I'm gonna
make you the worst character in the book, you know.
And she she's like, well pretty much bed like called
me out. So I wrote Stormy thinking about like my
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honor as baby mama. Everybody knows the story of my
big mama that snitched on me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So I thought about her out through her and her,
I just thought about, like the the worst.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Woman I could think about doing the most honoring shit,
you know what I'm saying, to do like multiple dudes though,
you know what I'm saying. She a manipulator. She thinks
she a puppet master, you know, and and it catches
up with her. So yeah, that's Stormy.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Remind me to never leave a bad review. I would
not want to be in them.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I don't even don't. I don't check reviews and nothing.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
It usually be like the people who like and dukai
my six, Like I went after the people that had
something to say about black Romance book fits, and like five,
it was the public situation pulling out the books, the
book event going on, you know how they pulled their sponsorship,
you know what I'm saying. Like four, what four was
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about the the white lady who stole the idea of
the bookmark person, you know what I'm saying, And then
and then try to act like she didn't. You know
what I'm saying. So I checked issues in the book community.
I don't play about authors. I don't play about if
they talk about Jacque well j. I don't play about
my goat.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You know what I'm saying. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
talk bad. They're gonna be a chapter.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Okay, he said it's gonna be a chapter. So now
we got Stormy. What actress would please Stormy?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And why?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh, it definitely gotta be one that character people hate
all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I say, no, I don't know, ain't but the one
from Daddy's Little Girls, the mama Tasha or what she's Tasha?
And why did I get married and stuff? Realma's yeah,
her real name is Tasha though, yeah her. But this
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is definitely Stormy, cause man, she's she's terrible. She play
a villain perfectly, you know what I'm saying. Like I
hated her so much and they little Girls, and I
hate the way like she'd be talking back to Marcus
and and all that.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Like she's she's perfect, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So Tasha Smith. All right, so you know how Lifetime
is on this new thing. They like to meet books
in the movies, right. They picked up your book and said,
you know what, we can't do this, but we're gonna
give this the black channel, all black. Who would you want? Two? No,
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let's back this up. What would be the title track
for your book? To copy?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Mom? The title track? The title track?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And I've made playlists for it too, so it's like, uh, hum,
it would be a Wayne song though, that for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Uh A little.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would have not thought that. I would have never
thought you would have said, a.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Little wing, Yeah, it's gonna be a it's gonna be
a probably probably have some music because because.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Just wanted his money. Man, he just wanted his money.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Okay, so now we said little wind, I would have
I would have thought the song between him and what's
the one who does him in t pain? Whether they
got moneys, win got money? Yes, I would have thought, now.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Nah, that's too that's too powerful, and what if it one?
How some music would have been a block aside.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Oh okay, I can see that all right. So now
we have your title track, we have your actor, your actress.
But you know what they said. You know what, because
they adore your story and they see you they want
others to see. Who would you give the opportunity of
playing you in a biopic.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Plan? Oh dang, playing me is crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I don't know nobody that could get with this pr
my fact probably Bruh from Well he ain't light enough,
you know?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Yeah, because you know I'm light skinned. But I was
gonna say brother from the Ghost the Power Ghost series.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Uh, Mary j blind Son?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Your blind son? Okay? Which one are you talking about?
The one from South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yes? I can hear you Power Book two? So yes,
s'all know. I like to look up. I Keith that
having little I'm right here. Ah can you hear me? Okay,
(27:50):
so I he's gonna come back up.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I think he's talking about here.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Okay, are you talking about Woody McLean.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Thee Yeah, the dark Skin went definitely not Tyreek.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
He's a mom.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You didn't like Tyreek?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
No, I don't take him serious as nothing.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
He's not a He's not nobody else see as a
killer or no a strong mind to run nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He's just the hurt little boy that he ain't get
time with his daddy.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Oh you know what, I never thought of it that way.
I thought he was trying.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Of course they were given the narrative that he was
trying to step in the role of his father. So
that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Can't be spoon fed and try to step into their life?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Why you do that way? Don't do that way?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
But that's all he is.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I can't see what he So we got your theme song,
We got your actress, your actress, yeah, actor, your actress,
the person who is going to play you. But you
now have to write your biopic with your favorite author
or your mentor. Who would that be? And how has they?
(29:15):
How have they? How would they contribute to your journey
as an author writer.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's funny because everybody know who I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I'm gonna say Joaquell j because when I so like
when I first started, you know, I'm gonna say, she's
the one that like gave me the opportunity, my very
first opportunity, you know, like to be president, like one
of her events, and just like just when I was
(29:49):
on a zoom with her, like my very first zoom
with her, she gave me like advice, you know what
I'm saying, like, and she ain't have to do that,
and like I just kind of to getting ran, you know.
So and then like just to look at how long
she's been in it, you know, writing eleven years, and
like just her after reading the Dell Got All series
(30:11):
and stuff, I could see like the vision like that
she has because like I feel like I kind of
have close to the same thing, you know what I'm
saying of seeing my characters and how I play them out,
and it's just dope, like to know that, like she's
one of the first.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
People that gave me the opportunity or whatever.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
So and then she gave me more advice at the
event that we just had in Augusta, you know, the
family first Fire always just back in October.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So just knowing that she will go out her way to.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Tell me like what I need to do, you know,
get on to me when I need to tighten up,
that's definitely shaped me.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
So, so give us some down of your catalog.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I'm gonna say New to the Streets because that's the
first one I published this year, and that is like, uh,
that's that's some people favorite series. The New to the streets,
hardest streets, still in the streets. My favorite book isn't
out yet. I tell people that all the time. I
haven't put it out yet because I won't wait till
(31:32):
i'm higher up. But if you need a quick read
to like just know my style, then it would be
Ducatti Mob because they're they're quick.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Novella's uh and it's season one is complete.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Right now, so.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Mhm m.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
M yeah, to be part of Cole's crew. But I'll be.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Let's see, I'm not like it's a lot, like I know.
I got the Melanin Ball in February out in Vegas.
I have let In Local in a part of Mississippi
I want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Then I have the.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Chocolate City Lit Fest in d C. That's in April.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Then Made Black Romance Book Fest June. I have the
Repio City in Dayton, Ohio. July have thees Lit City
book Fest, another job Quill event in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Uh. I have.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Books on the Ground in Houston in November and Bookmark
Kerr also with.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
H mm hmm, yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to that one.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
All of my social no matter if it's TikTok, Facebook,
uh threads, anything is.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Gonna be author Coed k O L D. Please don't
spell it with us. See, don't do that. Yeah, don't disrespect.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
What the scene. Don't do If you look at the
bottom of the screen, you see all the information of
his right there at the bottom. We gonna let you
close it out. Tell us what would you like to
say to your new readers, your old readers, your up
and coming readers.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
What would you like to say any readers?
Speaker 6 (34:15):
I just asked, y'all give me a chance to earn
your readership. My mantra is now trying to be your
favorite if I ain't already. But if you want stories
that's gonna read like movies or TV shows, I mean
every review I believe has said I do that, that
is my style, then I believe you'll enjoy my books
(34:35):
because it'll give you that chance to get lost from
the bullshit we got going on in the world and
escape into into what I built for you.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
And that's the reason why a lot of people read
is just to escape. I know that's one of the
reasons why I read. So I would like to thank
you for being with us tonight after Cole, thanks, thank you,
you guys, guess what y'all got to make sure that
if you've read his books, and you know we have
the little awards coming up, the SCA Book Gal and
(35:07):
Aspiring Author of Award that's coming up, make sure you
nominate your favorite in all the category you have until
Christmas Day. I'm pretty sure the cole might be in
one of y'all listens, so y'all make sure y'all go
ahead and vote him in. Also, remember we're coming back
season four. Okay. I am now getting all my information
(35:34):
together so I can present it to you guys in
the beginning of February. You might even show little segments
throughout your January and tell you how you can book
your interview here with me sc Book Gal. What else
do we have going on? That's about all we got
going on you guys. I want you to enjoy your
(35:55):
holidays for me.
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