November 25, 2025 • 41 mins
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“When you inherit wealth, you may die trying to keep it!”The Inheritance of Amaya MontgomeryBy Geletta ShaversPrepare yourself for a chilling journey into the heart of darkness lurking behind privilege and desire. In this gripping psychological thriller, Amaya Montgomery, a young heiress haunted by lifelong insecurities, is swept off her feet by a dazzling, charming new husband. But beneath the veneer of romance lies a man driven by greed and cruelty—a man for whom betrayal, deception, and even murder are small prices to pay for unimaginable wealth.As Amaya’s world spirals into a nightmarish web of lies, manipulation, and blood-curdling suspense, she must summon the courage to face not only the man she thought she loved, but also her own hidden strengths. How far will her husband go to claim the fortune—and what will it cost Amaya to survive?“The Inheritance of Amaya Montgomery” is penned by Geletta Shavers, a licensed mental health therapist in Little Rock, AR, who channels her expertise and her own healing journey into this unforgettable tale. Shavers uses the catharsis of storytelling to shed light on the psychological labyrinth of trauma, power, and survival.Will Amaya lose everything—or will she reclaim her life before it’s too late? Dive into this page-turner to discover how much is too much to pay for an inheritance that might cost you your soul.About the Author: Geletta Shavers is not only an author but also a licensed mental health therapist based in Little Rock, Arkansas. She began writing as a coping tool to process her own past traumas, and now, she invites readers to experience the raw intensities of love, loss, and rebirth through her storytelling.
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“When you inherit wealth, you may die trying to keep it!”The Inheritance of Amaya MontgomeryBy Geletta ShaversPrepare yourself for a chilling journey into the heart of darkness lurking behind privilege and desire. In this gripping psychological thriller, Amaya Montgomery, a young heiress haunted by lifelong insecurities, is swept off her feet by a dazzling, charming new husband. But beneath the veneer of romance lies a man driven by greed and cruelty—a man for whom betrayal, deception, and even murder are small prices to pay for unimaginable wealth.As Amaya’s world spirals into a nightmarish web of lies, manipulation, and blood-curdling suspense, she must summon the courage to face not only the man she thought she loved, but also her own hidden strengths. How far will her husband go to claim the fortune—and what will it cost Amaya to survive?“The Inheritance of Amaya Montgomery” is penned by Geletta Shavers, a licensed mental health therapist in Little Rock, AR, who channels her expertise and her own healing journey into this unforgettable tale. Shavers uses the catharsis of storytelling to shed light on the psychological labyrinth of trauma, power, and survival.Will Amaya lose everything—or will she reclaim her life before it’s too late? Dive into this page-turner to discover how much is too much to pay for an inheritance that might cost you your soul.About the Author: Geletta Shavers is not only an author but also a licensed mental health therapist based in Little Rock, Arkansas. She began writing as a coping tool to process her own past traumas, and now, she invites readers to experience the raw intensities of love, loss, and rebirth through her storytelling.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
K k Luk and gentlemen, I have your attention. Please.
(00:51):
The show starts in lie hard On.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Col Hey everyone, this is a Tuesday night and we
are back another episode of sc Book Gallas and Friends.
And so y'all know I have another book and another
author that is here to talk about their book. Okay,
(01:33):
So first of all, I won't see you guys on Thursdays.
I want to say Happy Thanksgiving and I am very
grateful for you to join me tonight and know all
the other shows that you have joined and the ones
you go back and replay and everything. Okay, make sure
that y'all support these indie authors on Black Friday. Okay.
(01:56):
I know a lot of authors that are have any
specials on their book. I know some authors are giving
away whole sets. So if you grab these books, make
sure you do some reviews. Okay. If you've been noticing,
I have been posting little blurbs because this month I
am celebrating Novella November, where all of the books I'm
(02:19):
reading this month's are novellas, so they're kind of like
quick reads. So I have been posting them, posting little
reviews to TikTok and Instagram, on Facebook. So go back
on my page, look at some of those books and
grab them an adam to your collection. Okay, So tonight, y'all,
(02:45):
let's just say the book cuts close to home for
this author, and I'm gonna let her explain that to you. Okay,
she has this wonderful book that is called The Inherences
of Amaya Montgomery. Okay, there's this young astis right, So
(03:09):
you know we all got an issue with insecurities and
stuff like that, Well she does too, and she finds
herself with this nice, charming husband of hers. But remember
everything that glitter and go. So all you're gonna say
is things start to deteriorate very quickly. But I'm not
(03:33):
gonna tell you much more because I'm gonna let you'll
hear from the author herself. You guys, welcome author Jeletta.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I was gonna I told you I was gonna stay
it wrong. Love you welcome, Welcome, How are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh? Well, happy to be here? How are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I am wonderful with this seventy five degree whether hinch Austin. Yeah,
I know, Turke, You're gonna have him on a baby suit.
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh before we get into your book, can you tell
us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Okay, So I'm Jiletta Shavers. I am a licensed clinical
social worker, and I am a mother of three. I
have a thirty three year old daughter, a twenty three
year old daughter, and surprise, surprise, when I'm forty but
(04:43):
I turned forty one, i got pregnant and I have
a twelve year old son. So every decade I had
a baby. And of course I am an author. I've
been writing most of my life since I was a
little girl. But I decided that I wanted to publish
(05:05):
her Two years ago. I decided, Hey, I want to
publish a book. And I reached out to a couple
of people that I knew had published books and just
asked them some questions. They were very gracious and kind
and you know, to help me along the way. Along
along the way. I have a good friend. Her name
(05:26):
is Latanya Bennett. She's never published a book, but she
provided great insight with marketing and who to reach out
to and different things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And so yeah, wow, you know a lot of people
come on and they say that they started writing when
they were young, Like, what made you want to write
when you were young?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, when I was younger. I'm fit before. So when
I was younger, we didn't have cable. We had four
sevent eleven and PBS, so I was watching soap operas
during the day, even school was out. But in the
evening time there was really nothing for me to watch
(06:18):
on the weekends. I've never really been a cartoon person,
so there's never really anything to really watch on TV.
So I wrote, I wrote, and back then I was
writing the way I wanted life to be. I love
the father who raised me, he is my dad. But
(06:43):
when I was younger, I craved to get to know
my biological father. My mother and grandparents they kept him
away from me for whatever reason they had, and I
would write about meeting him being I'm being a princess
(07:04):
and he was a king, and I'm going to live
in a castle, all that fairy tale stuff. Then when
I became when I gotten older, I started reading. Oh
so embarrassed to say this. When I was like twelve thirteen,
I was reading like Edgar at Edgar Allan Poe's like
(07:27):
The Telltale Hard and the House of Usher. I was
reading those and Stephen King. As I. As I've gotten older,
I started reading like Carrie Street. No, I'm wrong. I
actually saw the movie Carrie first, and I went back
and reading the book. But yeah, pet Cemetery the Shining.
(07:53):
Even at a young age, I've always liked horror and
suspense and thriller and like The Exorcist. It didn't scare me.
I was I was a weird kid. It didn't scare me.
What scared me they have scared me now is real
life stuff. It's real, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I couldn't do the existem that that was.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I couldn't do the system. I love Carrie. My favorite
was Kojo.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh it cooled you? I read cold, Yes, I read cool.
I never saw the movie Cool Joe. Believe it or not,
I never saw the movie. But yes, oh my.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
God, No, you gotta look at the movie.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They're coming up with a remake. I don't know while
they Yep, it's supposed to be coming out next year.
Summer of next year. They're doing a whole nother remakelio
be that dog alone. Okay, so but listen, I say this,
(09:05):
and I say this to you, never be ashamed of
what you read. I had a director whose name is Nicole,
and lord, I wish she was still with us, but
she's at a different library system. And I was so embarrassed.
I was working in children's and I was just helping
(09:26):
them out that morning and I used to wear headphones
are listening to books. And she said, what are you
listening too? And I was like. She looked at me
and she said, you never be ashamed of what you
will listen to or what you read. She says, what
you do. And the book was named Choked Me, spanked me,
pull my haird.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
So I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I said it to her. She said, oh okay, and
she walked up. So never feel embarrassed what you read.
It's what you love. It is your comforts. Nobody should
be able to tell you what to read. Okay, So
this book you have. First, let's talk about the cover. Okay.
(10:19):
Tell us a little bit of your vision for your
cover and why did you choose it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay. So the vision that I gave j R. Mason,
who did the cover, I just wanted a mansion and
I wanted a man to be looking at the women
the window. And it to look ominous, and the lady
(10:50):
she's I wanted you to see the back of her
walking toward the house because I wanted you to wonder
if she's excited about walking toward the house, is she
nervous about walking toward the house. How is she feeling
about walking toward the house. So that's why I want
you to see the back of her. So but yeah,
(11:10):
so since she's rich, I want to be a mansion,
and since her husband is charming, but remember he's gaslighting her.
He's not a good person. So I want that ominous feeling.
And she exactly what I asked her to do.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And the great thing about it, this is why I
love the offense to tell us about their covers, because
there are meanings to their covers which we would never know.
And to look at that, I am now just seeing
dudes sitting up in the window, and really, you just
not noticing that I am just seeing dude sitting there
and I'm pointing like he's I'm just now seeing dude.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
In the windows waiting for her to come home? Or
is he waiting for her to come home? Yeah? What
is it? Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So, so tell us a little bit about the book now, Okay,
So why don't I tell you a little bit about
without giving any spoilers.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So I'm bad about spoilers. Uh So the book is
loosely based on me. This this fiction, but it's lucy
based on my life. Amaya. She struggles with anxiety. I
(12:43):
struggle with anxiety as well, not to the magnitude that
Amaya struggles with it. So everything is exaggerated in the book,
you know, for the reader's pleasure. And Amaya she was
lonely growing up. She was with her mother and her father.
(13:08):
Her mother and father were both on heroin. My parents
were not on heroin, not no mes at all. They
were not on heroin. But her parents were on heroin.
Her mother was physically and emotionally abusive to her. So
some things happened and she ended up living with her grandparents.
(13:29):
And she had trust issues because she was bullied growing up.
So with me, I had trust issues. In school, I
was bullied because the school I went to it was
(13:50):
very few darker skinned children there. It was only a
few of us, so I was bullied for being darker skinned.
I developed early, so I had breast when I was
nine adriere and I was pigeon told so yes, so yeah,
(14:12):
being dar skinned, developed butt sticking out and walking pigeon tod.
So with that, Amaya and I can relate with Amaya.
I moved in with my grandma. I was given to
my grandparents when I was an infant, so and I
(14:32):
always longed to want to stay with my mother. And
my mother and I we did not have a best
of a relationship, but I moved in with her when
I was thirteen. And my mother now has advanced dementia.
So I started writing The Inherits of Amaya Montgomery as
(14:57):
a therapeutic tool for me as a mental health therapist.
I like to tell my clients, you can write your
own story and write yourself a happy ending. So I
wrote my own story, and I wrote myself a happy
ending for Amaya and her mother, since I won't get
the happy ending I want with my mom with advanced
(15:19):
de Mitchell. But about the book. Amaya parents grandparents. They
were very wealthy and they died when she was eighteen,
and when she turned thirty she was going to get
(15:39):
multimillions of dollars. Her husband married her in college because
he had a plan from college until she turned twenty
nine that he was planning on gaslighting her to have
power of attorney over her and her money. And when
he gaslight her, he gassed light I'm gonna give you
(16:00):
one spoiler. He gas likes her in this one scene
where he actually has uh. He pays for a technician
to come and to rig up the house and he
has it where she's seeing her grandparents as ghosts, but
(16:25):
they don't look like ghosts. They look real and they're
talking to her. And that's just one thing, and it's
more to that. I just don't want to give everything away.
But that's how far he will go. And he's done
some crazy things and he will kill anyone that gets
(16:48):
in his way. So yeah, it's gas lighting on hydraulics,
is what I call it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You telling me this man was crazy enough to pay
someone to do images of her grandparents so that he can.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Mm hm.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Okay, you have a very powerful thoughts patterned. Oh, come
up with that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, I have a vivid imagination, a vivid imagination, and
I learned that when I was a child. I don't
know if those thingsons popped in my head. Yeah, I'm
a mental health therapist and these these crazy things locked up.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
In mind, but yeah, yeah, like what what? And there's
twists after this, plot twist after plot twist in this book.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So how did you keep up with your plot twists?
Did you use like a writing journal or you just
let it flow? Like?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So, how did you keep up with every day it
was coming? Things come to me when I'm in my shower.
Things come to me if I'm watching TV and I
would just pick up my phone and I would just
text it to myself whatever whatever. Like the scene I
was getting ready. I don't want to give this one away,
(18:39):
but there's one really intense scene and it's really really intense,
and I was just thinking about her. The character is Sandra.
She's the housekeeper, but she was also Amaya's confidante and
(19:02):
she knew Quentin wasn't right, so something happened to her
and it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild, and I just
thought about that and then I just started typing in
my phone and then it was so much coming. I
end up getting my laptop out and I end up
(19:23):
typing that scene, that entire scene. So sometimes these just
come to me. I do start out with an outline,
but then I end up being a pants so so.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
How do you are you an author where your characters
talk to you or you like, how do you get
your characters to interact?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And see? This is the thing I hear people say,
the characters talk to them. I guess I haven't built
that ability yet. What I do is I see my
characters like in a movie. I vividly see my characters.
I can visualize them, and it plays in my mind
(20:11):
like a movie, and I'm basically putting them in place,
and as the movie is going, I'm visualizing how they
will react to what the other person is saying or
the environment. So yes, I'm ready for the character to
start talking to me. You know, I have some author
friends that say that they're not gonna write until the
(20:35):
characters start talking to them, so I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I am so glad you talk by characters and watching
the movie in your mind, because remember behind the scenes,
I told you about those fun questions. I hope you ready.
It's just time for them, right, Okay, Oh no, don't.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Get nervous on me now, because you're halfway there.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You are halfway there.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, all right, I'm Maya Amaya.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Who would play her?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But oh it's a catch.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A cat the catches. It has to be an eighties
R and B artist.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Oh, eighties R and B artists. Okay, okay, I'm shot
to con I love Oh no, no, I'm gonna take
it back. Tina Turner because I was born in every Okay,
So we end it up on top. So yes, I
(21:52):
would say Tina Turner.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So we got Tina before she discovered Tina or Tina
after she and I beat the nothing out of Ike? Tina,
which Tina.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Don't the brights oft of Ike? All right? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So and now now we have your male character. What's
this theme again?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Quentin?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Who would play Quentin? But he has to be an
eighties movie star?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Hm mm hmmm. I love Denzel. I wouldn't put Denzel
in Quinn because Quinn is a horrible person. Let's seem, oh, well,
(22:53):
this person's not a movie star though, but he's been
in movies.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Is it mcguel? He was in a show called Sparts.
He plays on Carl Weber's family business. I think his
name is Miguel.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do this?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All right, y'all know me, y'all know, I'm gonna go look.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, he played and he was the son the man
that played on Fresh Press of bel Air, the Dad
upper Field. He had two sons, Terrence Howard and the
other man, Miguel. I think it's new but it would
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be him that would play Quentin.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I think I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And it's family business, right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, he's in a family business. Let me see. His
name is Miguel miguel A new Yeah, miguel a new
NaN's junior. Oh, I remember him.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He's one of my favorite movies. It was well, he
played the lady. It was a basketball movie. He played
the lady. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, he was in movies. I can't remember any movies.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That you want a man?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yes, okay, I can see, I can.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
See all right. We are Lifeline, Lifetime on the line. Okay,
they love your book. Okay, you already have your two
main characters. But now they need a soundtrack? What sound
What song will be the feature song to represent your
(25:07):
book on the soundtrack? And from the eighties, it could
be from anywhere?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
How about Danger?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The girl in Danger, y'all, she do mystical.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So, why did you choose that song?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
First of all, there was the first thing that popped
in my head. And because she is in danger and
she doesn't know it. She believes that her marriage is perfect,
and we know nothing's perfect, but she believes her husband's
perfect and her marriage is perfect, and she just basical
because he's killing folks, gas slighting her, poisoning people, you know,
(26:04):
just all those things. So just danger. If you meet
someone named Quentin, just run.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm sorry all the Quentin's out there.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm sorry everybody's like that Quintin. I made my next husband,
maybe Quentin, not this Quinto that you know that want
to take care of me and my son and love
us both and not want to kill us for our money.
(26:38):
I imagine every money, because we don't have any money.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, I understand the She just gave a whole deep nap.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So make sure y'all check up all the boxes. Okay,
you got to check off the boxes. So we have
the soundtrack is Danger. We have Tina Turner, and we
have Michuel Newness. So Lifetown says this, The movie was awesome. Okay,
(27:09):
now we want to do a movie about you. Who
would you get to play you? And why would you
give them such a title?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Oh my h mm hmmm, you know what Kelly Rowland.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now, that is the first time I've heard that name.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I really like Kelly Roland. I think she's beautiful.
I love her beautiful dark skin. I think she is
a great actress. I think she's a great singer beyond say,
you know her didn't shine when she was in Destiny's Child,
(28:04):
but I believe her life's shine now and I would
love for her to play me. I would.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Now, we gotta get somebody to write and well, co
author your biopic for lifetime. So what author have you
always wanted to write a book with and why them?
Or if you don't have an author you ever wanted
to write a book with? Who is your favorite author?
(28:35):
And wife?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So I would okay, I would say I was able
to co write a book with someone. I would say,
I'll tell you a grant because her stories are just
(29:04):
as crazy as mine, crazy crazier. Okay. I can see
us writing a book so unhinged that people would probably
read it in one city. They wouldn't put it down,
(29:26):
they wouldn't go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Now that is what's up. Yeah, that is what's up.
Whoa not to go eat a snack?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
They won't even go eat a snack, there could be
too busy engulfed in the book.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I had a book like that in a long time.
Oh when y'all took delivrate that place.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You need to you need to read. Have you read
The Babysitter by Tunisia Steward?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
What the name of that one called The baby Swetter?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
The Babysitter? That was a book that I read and
I stayed up most of the night. It was sleepy
the next day. And it's coming out of them. It's out.
It's out now on audible. Is this a scary book?
(30:28):
The Babysitter by Tanisian Steward. It's a thriller. It's not scary,
it's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Okay, Okay, y'all this might be very crazy. Okay, So
I'm gonna tell y'all a little bit about one little
thing about me. I can't read scary books. But one
of my favorite movies of all time, favorite movie series
of all time, it's The Purt Oh really, but you
(30:56):
can't read scary I can't read scary books.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I need to know what up you got to read?
It's a horror thriller. I wrote the book and the
audio it scared me and I wrote it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Everything. I just said. This is an audio book, I said,
read it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
But I love books with sound effects. Man. This new
thing that authors are doing adding sound effects to the books.
I love it. It takes the book to a whole separate,
a whole separate.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's a smatic experience, experience.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I've never for my first time listening to an audio
book that had the additional sound effects. Kind of got
me in trouble at work because my epiece came out
and were you know, but it was like WHOA. So
I love that. So it's great to know you guys
(32:12):
that if you get that book that she just showed,
it has audio and it has the sound effects. So
y'all want to go grab that one and tell me
how it is. Because I don't want to have to
sleep for the night light. I will be forty five
(32:33):
next week, I don't me Jesus No, I'll be forty
six next week. I don't need to be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
No night light. Well, you won't need a night light.
You're gonna need an overhead light with this one. See
just read, just read the first two chapters and tell
me what you think.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
She said for the first two chapters. Okay, you know what,
you know what step me. The link to it is
that one out.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's so uh, I'll say I was sending. I would
send the e book to you for free. Just read
it in the daytime. Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So what I'll do? No, I'm actually going to somebody house.
Oh okay, I ain't cooking the ship. Oh well, okay,
you know what, and you can read here's here's here's
the bed, here's this. I'll pause the book that I'm
reading right now, okay, and I'll read the first two
(33:47):
chapters tomorrow morning, and I'll have something in your inbox
telling you if I can continue.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay, how about that? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And you guys, I will. I'll put it on my
Facebook page and you know how I did my little
blurt to my books, and y'all will tell me. I'll
tell y'all if I can continue. So if you send
it to me tonight, I can do it tomorrow, and
I promise two chapters.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
You got this?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So before we leave, what would you like to say
to your old readers, your new readers, and the readers
you are again after this podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I would just like to tell them thank you for
supporting me, and I also want to say thank you
for the people who tuned in tonight. And I'm hoping
to invoke different feelings for our readers as they read.
(34:59):
I would love for them to feel love and excitement
for the protagonists. I would love for them to have
anger for the antagonists. I would like for them to
hopefully appreciate that. You know, a lot of my books
(35:21):
have female lead characters. We don't have very much of
female lead characters. I guess in the books that I
read there's only a few. And just to reading is
good for the mind. So keep reading, and please support me,
(35:43):
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please please please leave reviews. You just don't know how
important reviews are to us and for us, especially with
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Amazon will put our books, you know, where readers can
(36:06):
see them in the not the spotlight, but just to
be seen. Otherwise we're just here, so yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Otherwise they'll just fade and you won't see their books
and you will see people wonder why they keep seeing
the same books over and over and over again. Well,
one of the reasons why is because you didn't plase
the review for that book that you loved so much.
You didn't give that author a chance to be pushed
(36:35):
out in an actor. Okay, so tell us where we
can follow you and any upcoming events that you may
have that we can see you in person.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So I will be in Mississippi for Oh let me
look on here, you have it right here, So the
Black Girl Who Black Girl Who Read Books Summit April
third through the fifth. That'll be in Dallas, Texas. I
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will be in Mississippi on March the twenty eighth and
twenty ninth for the Literary All Star Expo. And then
I will be in Nashville, Tennessee October twenty three through
the twenty fourth for license for the Licensed to Thrill
(37:30):
Book Fair and October. So I'm excited about those upcoming events.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And then you guys, if you look at the bottom
of your screen, you will see all of social media information,
so on case she goes someplace else, she'll post a
turk page and you'll be able to follow her angle
more So, I would like to thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I enjoyed it. I enjoy you too.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
So I got the two two chapter challenge tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Getting ready to send it to you.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I'm scared, y'all because I don't do scary books.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I will tell you this. The first chapter is not
scary at all. Okay, so you're gonna bote me up
to it, but you have to read chapter two as well.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I'm gonna read chapter one. In chapter two, I am
going to step out of my comfort zone and you, guys,
I will report back to you guys about chapter one
in chapter two, okay, if I can continue now, okay,
y'all see me in one one or on if y'all
(38:48):
see the Amazon truck and there's a well you know what,
I got the little wallflowers from uh which called bath
and Body.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
I have the.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Trade and want to get the one with the night light.
Y'all blame her?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well, all right, all right, giving it a dance. I
will kay.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I will thank you. It takes me out of my
comfort zone, and that's one of the things I do
want to do in twenty twenty six. Knowing that way
I work, coming out of the comfort zone and helping
other people find great books to take their mind off
of things. It's something that I want to do so.
All right, you guys, before we leave, we're going to
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tell miss Shavers thank you for being with us tonight. Okay, Shavers,
see I did it.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I did it.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
You guys, y'all know I'm bad with me. Thank you
to be with us tonight. So you guys, before we leave,
y'all know you still have time to nominate those authors,
Nominate those podcasts, Nominate those book clubs, Nominate those books.
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For the twenty twenty six aspiring author book gall of Wards. Okay,
if you look on my Facebook page and any of
our social media you will see the link. Once we
get off here tonight, I'm gonna put the link back
on again so you guys can continue to nominate authors. Okay,
Remember you have until the end of no the twenty
(40:35):
fifth I want to say it's twenty fifth I might
if you're wrong, but the twenty fifth of December to
nominate your authors, your books, your podcasts, authors, book podcasts, reviews, magazine.
There are different categories just to make sure that you complete,
(40:56):
and you can nominate as many people and as many
times you like. Okay, so you guys, there's another Tuesday
Night in the book. Thank you guys for being with
me tonight. Remember I got a two chapter challenges and
I'm a post tomorrow. You guys, pray for me. Okay,
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you guys. Remember there's no such thing as an old
book because not everybody has read every book. Happy Thanksgiving,
much love for me, good night everyone, Bye,
K k Luk and gentlemen, I have your attention. Please.
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The show starts in lie hard On.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Col Hey everyone, this is a Tuesday night and we
are back another episode of sc Book Gallas and Friends.
And so y'all know I have another book and another
author that is here to talk about their book. Okay,
(01:33):
So first of all, I won't see you guys on Thursdays.
I want to say Happy Thanksgiving and I am very
grateful for you to join me tonight and know all
the other shows that you have joined and the ones
you go back and replay and everything. Okay, make sure
that y'all support these indie authors on Black Friday. Okay.
(01:56):
I know a lot of authors that are have any
specials on their book. I know some authors are giving
away whole sets. So if you grab these books, make
sure you do some reviews. Okay. If you've been noticing,
I have been posting little blurbs because this month I
am celebrating Novella November, where all of the books I'm
(02:19):
reading this month's are novellas, so they're kind of like
quick reads. So I have been posting them, posting little
reviews to TikTok and Instagram, on Facebook. So go back
on my page, look at some of those books and
grab them an adam to your collection. Okay, So tonight, y'all,
(02:45):
let's just say the book cuts close to home for
this author, and I'm gonna let her explain that to you. Okay,
she has this wonderful book that is called The Inherences
of Amaya Montgomery. Okay, there's this young astis right, So
(03:09):
you know we all got an issue with insecurities and
stuff like that, Well she does too, and she finds
herself with this nice, charming husband of hers. But remember
everything that glitter and go. So all you're gonna say
is things start to deteriorate very quickly. But I'm not
(03:33):
gonna tell you much more because I'm gonna let you'll
hear from the author herself. You guys, welcome author Jeletta.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I was gonna I told you I was gonna stay
it wrong. Love you welcome, Welcome, How are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh? Well, happy to be here? How are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I am wonderful with this seventy five degree whether hinch Austin. Yeah,
I know, Turke, You're gonna have him on a baby suit.
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I heard that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh before we get into your book, can you tell
us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Okay, So I'm Jiletta Shavers. I am a licensed clinical
social worker, and I am a mother of three. I
have a thirty three year old daughter, a twenty three
year old daughter, and surprise, surprise, when I'm forty but
(04:43):
I turned forty one, i got pregnant and I have
a twelve year old son. So every decade I had
a baby. And of course I am an author. I've
been writing most of my life since I was a
little girl. But I decided that I wanted to publish
(05:05):
her Two years ago. I decided, Hey, I want to
publish a book. And I reached out to a couple
of people that I knew had published books and just
asked them some questions. They were very gracious and kind
and you know, to help me along the way. Along
along the way. I have a good friend. Her name
(05:26):
is Latanya Bennett. She's never published a book, but she
provided great insight with marketing and who to reach out
to and different things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And so yeah, wow, you know a lot of people
come on and they say that they started writing when
they were young, Like, what made you want to write
when you were young?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, when I was younger. I'm fit before. So when
I was younger, we didn't have cable. We had four
sevent eleven and PBS, so I was watching soap operas
during the day, even school was out. But in the
evening time there was really nothing for me to watch
(06:18):
on the weekends. I've never really been a cartoon person,
so there's never really anything to really watch on TV.
So I wrote, I wrote, and back then I was
writing the way I wanted life to be. I love
the father who raised me, he is my dad. But
(06:43):
when I was younger, I craved to get to know
my biological father. My mother and grandparents they kept him
away from me for whatever reason they had, and I
would write about meeting him being I'm being a princess
(07:04):
and he was a king, and I'm going to live
in a castle, all that fairy tale stuff. Then when
I became when I gotten older, I started reading. Oh
so embarrassed to say this. When I was like twelve thirteen,
I was reading like Edgar at Edgar Allan Poe's like
(07:27):
The Telltale Hard and the House of Usher. I was
reading those and Stephen King. As I. As I've gotten older,
I started reading like Carrie Street. No, I'm wrong. I
actually saw the movie Carrie first, and I went back
and reading the book. But yeah, pet Cemetery the Shining.
(07:53):
Even at a young age, I've always liked horror and
suspense and thriller and like The Exorcist. It didn't scare me.
I was I was a weird kid. It didn't scare me.
What scared me they have scared me now is real
life stuff. It's real, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I couldn't do the existem that that was.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I couldn't do the system. I love Carrie. My favorite
was Kojo.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh it cooled you? I read cold, Yes, I read cool.
I never saw the movie Cool Joe. Believe it or not,
I never saw the movie. But yes, oh my.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
God, No, you gotta look at the movie.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They're coming up with a remake. I don't know while
they Yep, it's supposed to be coming out next year.
Summer of next year. They're doing a whole nother remakelio
be that dog alone. Okay, so but listen, I say this,
(09:05):
and I say this to you, never be ashamed of
what you read. I had a director whose name is Nicole,
and lord, I wish she was still with us, but
she's at a different library system. And I was so embarrassed.
I was working in children's and I was just helping
(09:26):
them out that morning and I used to wear headphones
are listening to books. And she said, what are you
listening too? And I was like. She looked at me
and she said, you never be ashamed of what you
will listen to or what you read. She says, what
you do. And the book was named Choked Me, spanked me,
pull my haird.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
So I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I said it to her. She said, oh okay, and
she walked up. So never feel embarrassed what you read.
It's what you love. It is your comforts. Nobody should
be able to tell you what to read. Okay, So
this book you have. First, let's talk about the cover. Okay.
(10:19):
Tell us a little bit of your vision for your
cover and why did you choose it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay. So the vision that I gave j R. Mason,
who did the cover, I just wanted a mansion and
I wanted a man to be looking at the women
the window. And it to look ominous, and the lady
(10:50):
she's I wanted you to see the back of her
walking toward the house because I wanted you to wonder
if she's excited about walking toward the house, is she
nervous about walking toward the house. How is she feeling
about walking toward the house. So that's why I want
you to see the back of her. So but yeah,
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so since she's rich, I want to be a mansion,
and since her husband is charming, but remember he's gaslighting her.
He's not a good person. So I want that ominous feeling.
And she exactly what I asked her to do.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And the great thing about it, this is why I
love the offense to tell us about their covers, because
there are meanings to their covers which we would never know.
And to look at that, I am now just seeing
dudes sitting up in the window, and really, you just
not noticing that I am just seeing dude sitting there
and I'm pointing like he's I'm just now seeing dude.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
In the windows waiting for her to come home? Or
is he waiting for her to come home? Yeah? What
is it? Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So, so tell us a little bit about the book now, Okay,
So why don't I tell you a little bit about
without giving any spoilers.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So I'm bad about spoilers. Uh So the book is
loosely based on me. This this fiction, but it's lucy
based on my life. Amaya. She struggles with anxiety. I
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struggle with anxiety as well, not to the magnitude that
Amaya struggles with it. So everything is exaggerated in the book,
you know, for the reader's pleasure. And Amaya she was
lonely growing up. She was with her mother and her father.
(13:08):
Her mother and father were both on heroin. My parents
were not on heroin, not no mes at all. They
were not on heroin. But her parents were on heroin.
Her mother was physically and emotionally abusive to her. So
some things happened and she ended up living with her grandparents.
(13:29):
And she had trust issues because she was bullied growing up.
So with me, I had trust issues. In school, I
was bullied because the school I went to it was
(13:50):
very few darker skinned children there. It was only a
few of us, so I was bullied for being darker skinned.
I developed early, so I had breast when I was
nine adriere and I was pigeon told so yes, so yeah,
(14:12):
being dar skinned, developed butt sticking out and walking pigeon tod.
So with that, Amaya and I can relate with Amaya.
I moved in with my grandma. I was given to
my grandparents when I was an infant, so and I
(14:32):
always longed to want to stay with my mother. And
my mother and I we did not have a best
of a relationship, but I moved in with her when
I was thirteen. And my mother now has advanced dementia.
So I started writing The Inherits of Amaya Montgomery as
(14:57):
a therapeutic tool for me as a mental health therapist.
I like to tell my clients, you can write your
own story and write yourself a happy ending. So I
wrote my own story, and I wrote myself a happy
ending for Amaya and her mother, since I won't get
the happy ending I want with my mom with advanced
(15:19):
de Mitchell. But about the book. Amaya parents grandparents. They
were very wealthy and they died when she was eighteen,
and when she turned thirty she was going to get
(15:39):
multimillions of dollars. Her husband married her in college because
he had a plan from college until she turned twenty
nine that he was planning on gaslighting her to have
power of attorney over her and her money. And when
he gaslight her, he gassed light I'm gonna give you
(16:00):
one spoiler. He gas likes her in this one scene
where he actually has uh. He pays for a technician
to come and to rig up the house and he
has it where she's seeing her grandparents as ghosts, but
(16:25):
they don't look like ghosts. They look real and they're
talking to her. And that's just one thing, and it's
more to that. I just don't want to give everything away.
But that's how far he will go. And he's done
some crazy things and he will kill anyone that gets
(16:48):
in his way. So yeah, it's gas lighting on hydraulics,
is what I call it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You telling me this man was crazy enough to pay
someone to do images of her grandparents so that he can.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Mm hm.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Okay, you have a very powerful thoughts patterned. Oh, come
up with that?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, I have a vivid imagination, a vivid imagination, and
I learned that when I was a child. I don't
know if those thingsons popped in my head. Yeah, I'm
a mental health therapist and these these crazy things locked up.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
In mind, but yeah, yeah, like what what? And there's
twists after this, plot twist after plot twist in this book.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So how did you keep up with your plot twists?
Did you use like a writing journal or you just
let it flow? Like?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So, how did you keep up with every day it
was coming? Things come to me when I'm in my shower.
Things come to me if I'm watching TV and I
would just pick up my phone and I would just
text it to myself whatever whatever. Like the scene I
was getting ready. I don't want to give this one away,
(18:39):
but there's one really intense scene and it's really really intense,
and I was just thinking about her. The character is Sandra.
She's the housekeeper, but she was also Amaya's confidante and
(19:02):
she knew Quentin wasn't right, so something happened to her
and it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild, and I just
thought about that and then I just started typing in
my phone and then it was so much coming. I
end up getting my laptop out and I end up
(19:23):
typing that scene, that entire scene. So sometimes these just
come to me. I do start out with an outline,
but then I end up being a pants so so.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
How do you are you an author where your characters
talk to you or you like, how do you get
your characters to interact?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And see? This is the thing I hear people say,
the characters talk to them. I guess I haven't built
that ability yet. What I do is I see my
characters like in a movie. I vividly see my characters.
I can visualize them, and it plays in my mind
(20:11):
like a movie, and I'm basically putting them in place,
and as the movie is going, I'm visualizing how they
will react to what the other person is saying or
the environment. So yes, I'm ready for the character to
start talking to me. You know, I have some author
friends that say that they're not gonna write until the
(20:35):
characters start talking to them, so I hadn't.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I am so glad you talk by characters and watching
the movie in your mind, because remember behind the scenes,
I told you about those fun questions. I hope you ready.
It's just time for them, right, Okay, Oh no, don't.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Get nervous on me now, because you're halfway there.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You are halfway there.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, all right, I'm Maya Amaya.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Who would play her?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But oh it's a catch.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A cat the catches. It has to be an eighties
R and B artist.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Oh, eighties R and B artists. Okay, okay, I'm shot
to con I love Oh no, no, I'm gonna take
it back. Tina Turner because I was born in every Okay,
So we end it up on top. So yes, I
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would say Tina Turner.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So we got Tina before she discovered Tina or Tina
after she and I beat the nothing out of Ike? Tina,
which Tina.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Don't the brights oft of Ike? All right? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So and now now we have your male character. What's
this theme again?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Quentin?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Who would play Quentin? But he has to be an
eighties movie star?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Hm mm hmmm. I love Denzel. I wouldn't put Denzel
in Quinn because Quinn is a horrible person. Let's seem, oh, well,
(22:53):
this person's not a movie star though, but he's been
in movies.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Is it mcguel? He was in a show called Sparts.
He plays on Carl Weber's family business. I think his
name is Miguel.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do this?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All right, y'all know me, y'all know, I'm gonna go look.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, he played and he was the son the man
that played on Fresh Press of bel Air, the Dad
upper Field. He had two sons, Terrence Howard and the
other man, Miguel. I think it's new but it would
(23:42):
be him that would play Quentin.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I think I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And it's family business, right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, he's in a family business. Let me see. His
name is Miguel miguel A new Yeah, miguel a new
NaN's junior. Oh, I remember him.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He's one of my favorite movies. It was well, he
played the lady. It was a basketball movie. He played
the lady. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, he was in movies. I can't remember any movies.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
That you want a man?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yes, okay, I can see, I can.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
See all right. We are Lifeline, Lifetime on the line. Okay,
they love your book. Okay, you already have your two
main characters. But now they need a soundtrack? What sound
What song will be the feature song to represent your
(25:07):
book on the soundtrack? And from the eighties, it could
be from anywhere?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
How about Danger?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The girl in Danger, y'all, she do mystical.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So, why did you choose that song?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
First of all, there was the first thing that popped
in my head. And because she is in danger and
she doesn't know it. She believes that her marriage is perfect,
and we know nothing's perfect, but she believes her husband's
perfect and her marriage is perfect, and she just basical
because he's killing folks, gas slighting her, poisoning people, you know,
(26:04):
just all those things. So just danger. If you meet
someone named Quentin, just run.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm sorry all the Quentin's out there.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm sorry everybody's like that Quintin. I made my next husband,
maybe Quentin, not this Quinto that you know that want
to take care of me and my son and love
us both and not want to kill us for our money.
(26:38):
I imagine every money, because we don't have any money.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, I understand the She just gave a whole deep nap.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So make sure y'all check up all the boxes. Okay,
you got to check off the boxes. So we have
the soundtrack is Danger. We have Tina Turner, and we
have Michuel Newness. So Lifetown says this, The movie was awesome. Okay,
(27:09):
now we want to do a movie about you. Who
would you get to play you? And why would you
give them such a title?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Oh my h mm hmmm, you know what Kelly Rowland.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now, that is the first time I've heard that name.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I really like Kelly Roland. I think she's beautiful.
I love her beautiful dark skin. I think she is
a great actress. I think she's a great singer beyond say,
you know her didn't shine when she was in Destiny's Child,
(28:04):
but I believe her life's shine now and I would
love for her to play me. I would.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Now, we gotta get somebody to write and well, co
author your biopic for lifetime. So what author have you
always wanted to write a book with and why them?
Or if you don't have an author you ever wanted
to write a book with? Who is your favorite author?
(28:35):
And wife?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So I would okay, I would say I was able
to co write a book with someone. I would say,
I'll tell you a grant because her stories are just
(29:04):
as crazy as mine, crazy crazier. Okay. I can see
us writing a book so unhinged that people would probably
read it in one city. They wouldn't put it down,
(29:26):
they wouldn't go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Now that is what's up. Yeah, that is what's up.
Whoa not to go eat a snack?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
They won't even go eat a snack, there could be
too busy engulfed in the book.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I had a book like that in a long time.
Oh when y'all took delivrate that place.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You need to you need to read. Have you read
The Babysitter by Tunisia Steward?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
What the name of that one called The baby Swetter?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
The Babysitter? That was a book that I read and
I stayed up most of the night. It was sleepy
the next day. And it's coming out of them. It's out.
It's out now on audible. Is this a scary book?
(30:28):
The Babysitter by Tanisian Steward. It's a thriller. It's not scary,
it's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Okay, Okay, y'all this might be very crazy. Okay, So
I'm gonna tell y'all a little bit about one little
thing about me. I can't read scary books. But one
of my favorite movies of all time, favorite movie series
of all time, it's The Purt Oh really, but you
(30:56):
can't read scary I can't read scary books.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I need to know what up you got to read?
It's a horror thriller. I wrote the book and the
audio it scared me and I wrote it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Everything. I just said. This is an audio book, I said,
read it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
But I love books with sound effects. Man. This new
thing that authors are doing adding sound effects to the books.
I love it. It takes the book to a whole separate,
a whole separate.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's a smatic experience, experience.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I've never for my first time listening to an audio
book that had the additional sound effects. Kind of got
me in trouble at work because my epiece came out
and were you know, but it was like WHOA. So
I love that. So it's great to know you guys
(32:12):
that if you get that book that she just showed,
it has audio and it has the sound effects. So
y'all want to go grab that one and tell me
how it is. Because I don't want to have to
sleep for the night light. I will be forty five
(32:33):
next week, I don't me Jesus No, I'll be forty
six next week. I don't need to be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
No night light. Well, you won't need a night light.
You're gonna need an overhead light with this one. See
just read, just read the first two chapters and tell
me what you think.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
She said for the first two chapters. Okay, you know what,
you know what step me. The link to it is
that one out.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's so uh, I'll say I was sending. I would
send the e book to you for free. Just read
it in the daytime. Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So what I'll do? No, I'm actually going to somebody house.
Oh okay, I ain't cooking the ship. Oh well, okay,
you know what, and you can read here's here's here's
the bed, here's this. I'll pause the book that I'm
reading right now, okay, and I'll read the first two
(33:47):
chapters tomorrow morning, and I'll have something in your inbox
telling you if I can continue.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay, how about that? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And you guys, I will. I'll put it on my
Facebook page and you know how I did my little
blurt to my books, and y'all will tell me. I'll
tell y'all if I can continue. So if you send
it to me tonight, I can do it tomorrow, and
I promise two chapters.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
You got this?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
So before we leave, what would you like to say
to your old readers, your new readers, and the readers
you are again after this podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I would just like to tell them thank you for
supporting me, and I also want to say thank you
for the people who tuned in tonight. And I'm hoping
to invoke different feelings for our readers as they read.
(34:59):
I would love for them to feel love and excitement
for the protagonists. I would love for them to have
anger for the antagonists. I would like for them to
hopefully appreciate that. You know, a lot of my books
(35:21):
have female lead characters. We don't have very much of
female lead characters. I guess in the books that I
read there's only a few. And just to reading is
good for the mind. So keep reading, and please support me,
(35:43):
and support indie authors, and support black indie authors, and
please please please leave reviews. You just don't know how
important reviews are to us and for us, especially with
the Amazon algorithms. The more reviews we get, the more
Amazon will put our books, you know, where readers can
(36:06):
see them in the not the spotlight, but just to
be seen. Otherwise we're just here, so yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Otherwise they'll just fade and you won't see their books
and you will see people wonder why they keep seeing
the same books over and over and over again. Well,
one of the reasons why is because you didn't plase
the review for that book that you loved so much.
You didn't give that author a chance to be pushed
(36:35):
out in an actor. Okay, so tell us where we
can follow you and any upcoming events that you may
have that we can see you in person.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So I will be in Mississippi for Oh let me
look on here, you have it right here, So the
Black Girl Who Black Girl Who Read Books Summit April
third through the fifth. That'll be in Dallas, Texas. I
(37:09):
will be in Mississippi on March the twenty eighth and
twenty ninth for the Literary All Star Expo. And then
I will be in Nashville, Tennessee October twenty three through
the twenty fourth for license for the Licensed to Thrill
(37:30):
Book Fair and October. So I'm excited about those upcoming events.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And then you guys, if you look at the bottom
of your screen, you will see all of social media information,
so on case she goes someplace else, she'll post a
turk page and you'll be able to follow her angle
more So, I would like to thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I enjoyed it. I enjoy you too.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
So I got the two two chapter challenge tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Getting ready to send it to you.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I'm scared, y'all because I don't do scary books.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I will tell you this. The first chapter is not
scary at all. Okay, so you're gonna bote me up
to it, but you have to read chapter two as well.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
I'm gonna read chapter one. In chapter two, I am
going to step out of my comfort zone and you, guys,
I will report back to you guys about chapter one
in chapter two, okay, if I can continue now, okay,
y'all see me in one one or on if y'all
(38:48):
see the Amazon truck and there's a well you know what,
I got the little wallflowers from uh which called bath
and Body.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
I have the.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Trade and want to get the one with the night light.
Y'all blame her?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well, all right, all right, giving it a dance. I
will kay.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I will thank you. It takes me out of my
comfort zone, and that's one of the things I do
want to do in twenty twenty six. Knowing that way
I work, coming out of the comfort zone and helping
other people find great books to take their mind off
of things. It's something that I want to do so.
All right, you guys, before we leave, we're going to
(39:40):
tell miss Shavers thank you for being with us tonight. Okay, Shavers,
see I did it.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I did it.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
You guys, y'all know I'm bad with me. Thank you
to be with us tonight. So you guys, before we leave,
y'all know you still have time to nominate those authors,
Nominate those podcasts, Nominate those book clubs, Nominate those books.
(40:11):
For the twenty twenty six aspiring author book gall of Wards. Okay,
if you look on my Facebook page and any of
our social media you will see the link. Once we
get off here tonight, I'm gonna put the link back
on again so you guys can continue to nominate authors. Okay,
Remember you have until the end of no the twenty
(40:35):
fifth I want to say it's twenty fifth I might
if you're wrong, but the twenty fifth of December to
nominate your authors, your books, your podcasts, authors, book podcasts, reviews, magazine.
There are different categories just to make sure that you complete,
(40:56):
and you can nominate as many people and as many
times you like. Okay, so you guys, there's another Tuesday
Night in the book. Thank you guys for being with
me tonight. Remember I got a two chapter challenges and
I'm a post tomorrow. You guys, pray for me. Okay,
(41:18):
you guys. Remember there's no such thing as an old
book because not everybody has read every book. Happy Thanksgiving,
much love for me, good night everyone, Bye,
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