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Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey everyone, this is your girl se book out eight
four three. Yes it's Tuesday. No, sorry, it's Thursday. And yes,
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
With two not one. I got two options for you
guys tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Remember Tuesday night, I told y'all I was having a
double feature, my first double feature. I am so excited.
We were already talking behind the scenes. We have a
good conversation going on. But you know, I got to
bring you out these books. So two authors, one miss
(02:03):
Edwena Ford. Y'all her cover, y'all, The Hit, the Hidden,
the Body, the y'all know. I like me, y'all know,
I like me a good Okay, I'm gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm sorry. Let me tell you a little bit about
moseb Buenaford. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
She is a writer who writes with a passion and
a purse purpose.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
She was born and raised in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We talked a little bit about that behind the scenes,
but now she resides in the South. Although she is
new to many, this author has been writing for many
years and has given her a unique style of writing
away freely at no cost to those who would receive.
Her passion for writing comes along, comes about at an
(02:53):
early age and develop into what is today based on
her experience and her life lessons. We're gonna have to
get into them lessons and we're gonna get into the
experience because if she got somebody like that main cover
and her mm yeah, we will talk about that lad,
y'all that that cover.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Y'all know, I'm a cover girl.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
With her story, she wants to redefine all that have
been taught to believe and shed light on our truth
and our potentials. So first tonight we're gonna bring up
miss Edmena Fort. Come on out, Miss Fort and that
beautiful red orange get tired, you got going on me?
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And then you guys, we I'm gonna say her name
wrong and I apologize.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is your car? Yes she is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
She is from Suburbia, Chicago, nator with a heart that
beats for bucks. From the Owen Tells by Louise Louisa
may I'll call to Soga influ wisdom of Miss Maya Angelo.
Her love for literature started at a very early age.
When she's not lost in the novel. You'll find her
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gold trotting. We're gonna have to talk about that. It's
sewing up a song.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Sewing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That's one thing I always wanted to know how to do.
I think my shirts would be like tense and an
Uno expert. So what you know about that?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Na man, I'm the queen.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Thank you guys for being with us tonight. I've told
them a little bit about you, guys, but tell us
something that you didn't put in your bio about yourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm a chocoholic.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh what's your favorite?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh? My new favorite is do buy chocolate?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have not had it looks like wheat.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It is so good. It is so good.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh my god, I see people eating us like y'all
that looks like, hey, weet, what is this?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You're gonna try?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
My daughter, my daughter in law got me to try.
It's so good. So mm hmm okay, so.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We got a chocolatelic at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
In the sport. Something about you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'm an avid gardener. So a lot of people don't
know I'm a gardener. First, Well, actually I have a farm,
so I have goats, I have chickens, dogs.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Like like I'm gonna I have a farm. A lot
of people don't know that. It's a lot, lot of work.
A lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Acts like, oh my god, I'm a city girl because
you know me, I see a cop coming.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm the opposite the break.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I mean, really as mean as people say they are goats, like, no,
they're not.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
They're really playful.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I guess you know, I think I was blessed. I
have some great goats. Like, Okay, so my boy goat
he's a little you know, but he's he's so sweet.
You know, you give him a little biscuit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
He's sweet.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He will he will have but you though he will. Yeah,
but it's not it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, all right, I'm sure she said it's not bad.
All right. The hit is tea maker.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Tell us about is working for a man on the covers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Y'all laughing at me. But I like him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Good.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Hitter Hitter is a gooon, Like I like to put
a warning label on Hitter.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Hitter is a goon.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
He's like, out of all my male characters, he's the
most I mean, I think I got one other that
can compete with him, But he's the most he's a
goon like he will snatch, he don't, he don't repeat hisself,
say what he what he thinks, he don't bite his tongue.
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You know, he is a goom period. I don't know
how else to describe it. And the only person, the
only person he's sweet to, the only person he's nice to,
the only person that see the other side of him,
is Angel.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's his I mean, yeah, it's his. It's his lady.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So so why make them so hard? You know, I'm
not complaining.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I don't know what happened with that one. So like, so, okay,
these characters. I have so many characters in my head
talking to me. Now today they call it a writer.
Before they called it like schizophrenic or something. But anyway,
so they're in my head and hid it was just okay,
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you know what?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
So okay.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Biblically, so we all know Bible stories, correct, correct. So
let's take Moses for example.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We all know the story of Moses. Moses. Moses was this.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Warrior, but he was really humble, but really vicious, like
like when you hear the stories of Moses, Moses was
a warrior. Moses was vicious, and he had this speech impediment,
and so when he talked, people kind of looked at
him as like you know, you know, And so Moses
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actually was the the uh essence of Hitter for me,
because when I read Moses, I read about this warrior
who slayed you know, it was Moses that killed by
Lamb and Baalamb was like this big time sorcerer that
everybody was like, you know, using or.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Whatever, but it was Moses who took him out, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
And so Moses was this you know, he was vicious,
you know, but he was humble. And so the same
thing with hit Her, like hit Her don't mind that
people look at him a certain way because of the
way he talked or how he carried hisself. People look
at him him as if he's unintelligent, but he has
a very high IQ and different things like that. But
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he don't mind because he's he's actually very humble, even
though he's still a good and he still will he
don't speak well, you know, he has a very rough,
rough appearance, you know. But I mean, Angel loved him.
Somebody for everybody, you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Don't the only one. I'm sorry, I don't see.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Sorry Angel, Now we're gonna go to you miss ma'am,
Someone to Watch Over Me. Your cover is beautiful. It
speaks for itself. It's just it's one. Both of your
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novels are like night and Day.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Why I say that is because it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Two different genres, but they speak so much through the covers,
you know what I'm saying. And your your book brings
out the softer side in me. Oh he's so sweet
(11:23):
and yeah the other book, ye, So tell us a
little bit about your Someone to Watch Over Me.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So Someone to Watch Over Me?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
First of all, as Edwina was talking about her book,
I was thinking, well, my book has a.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Goon in it too.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You got.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Imperial Is he's a goon, but he just wears fancy
clothes and has an Ivy League education, but he's he's.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
About that action. So there's a goon.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In there too.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And I was like wow.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
So anyway, Someone to Watch Over Me is something of
a coming.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Of age story, but I don't.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Want it to be relegated to that coming of age
genre because we'll see these characters.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Grow up and become full blown adults.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
That's why I don't aagorize my That's why I'll categorize
Someone to Watch Over me that way. But the first
two books are definitely coming of age stories. You have
to start somewhere with the characters, and so I believe
in giving their origin story as much as I can,
which is what I've done. And Someone to Watch Over
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Me Part one and two. But Part one and two
are a part of about a ten book series, so
there are eight more books to come.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But my main character, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Is she's a very sweet young lady, but she's also
very afraid because she is growing up in the foster
care system and she doesn't want to get lost in
the system. As a result, you see her doing whatever
she needs to do and saying whatever she needs to
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say to stay on the safe side and to keep
moving in the direction that she wants her life to go.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So we introduced Imperial, and he.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Becomes so many different things to her. He becomes everything
she needs but also everything she does not need.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So I don't want to give away spoilers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So he's what she needs what she do need. That
sounds like a power episode. That's Angela and and what's
his name?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:55):
That sounds like yeah a little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So what made you guys want to write your books?
Anybody can go first, what what was your inspiration.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
For your books?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
For me?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
So, Hitta appeared in Falling for Rome, and so in
Falling for Rome, Hitter was one of Rome's best friends,
and he was kind of like, you know this, this this,
I don't know, some people kind of looked at him
as kind of like this dark character because he he
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didn't speak much, and you know, he kind of just
he always seemed kind of angry or whatever may have you,
and I don't know, like he was the underdog and
so like I feel like, you know, I'm always rooting
for the underdogs. I wanted his story like to be
told because I mean when you meet him and Falling
for Rome, all you see is like, you know, they're
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kind of like, you know, picking on him because he
obsessed with a teammaker, you know what I'm saying, and
so they like, you know, are you still stalking that girl?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You know you probably you know here. It's really so he.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Was a he was a an ex boxer, a professional boxer,
like he had you know, belts and everything, and so
he's real big and so now he runs this gym,
so he works out and stuff. He's kind of like
he's kind of like almost like monstrous, you know what
I'm saying. And so they like, are you still stalking
that girl and scaring her? You know what I'm saying.
(15:31):
And so when you first meet him from He's he
appears to be a stalker. I mean, yeah he did stop,
he stopped, you know what I'm saying. But uh, it
was really sweet, you know what I'm saying. It was
really sweet.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Why you know?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, so I'm getting from your book.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm feeling like a Creed the first movie. Yes, the
Hide that I'm getting. And he did, Yeah, he did
stalk her.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
He did. He was a villain.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yeah, he was the villain in Fall of Her Home.
And I just you know, sometime you want to tell
a villain story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
So he was. He was a villain.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
There is nothing wrong with telling the bad boys stories.
Sometimes they need a little light too, They need a
little light.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I agree, And certainly Neede you write yours.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
So I had a theme in mind. There's this thing
that I really wanted to bring draw people's attention to.
I won't say what it is because it sort of
spoils it's a spoiler. But I had more of like
a moral to my story and a theme something that
I really wanted people to pay attention to, and that
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was why I wrote it. Plus, I've always had a
heart for people in foster care, especially those who actually
grow up in age out of the system.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It just always.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Touches my heart to see that, and so I wanted
people's attention to be drawn to that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I like that because I to have a reader read
the book and find that hidden message in it.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I do like that. I do like.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That, But I I'm one of those money got to
tell me what the hidden messages because I get all
wrapped up in the characters' lives and sit up there
talk to the character.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I know you won't let them do. Yeah, I have
a tenden. I'll set up here and talk to the
whole book like ain't nothing to it.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't know why, but I remember off stage we
were talking about characters talking to you. What do you
guys do when all these characters are coming and they talking?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How do you handle everyone? Like Lord fans.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I have had fans that is through with me because
of this, just through with me, like it's like Patreon.
Through Patreon, I've been able to kind of give voice
to all these characters because through Patreon, when they when
they're the ones speaking to me at the time, I
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can just write what you know, what's happening and what
I'm seeing and just posted on Patreon, and the energy
that I get back from my Patreons like helps fuel
fuel how you know what I'm saying, Like you know,
if I'll continue, you know what I'm saying, It's like
they help fuel me, you know what I'm saying. But
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the characters talking to you can be bad and good.
I mean good because you know, when you're working on
their story, you know perfect, you know, but what they
want to do is they want to go quiet when
you're working on their story.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And then another character.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Be like, well, you know, you know it all started
at the cornerston and you're like, oh, you know so,
and now everything you're doing in your hand like you're
cooking dinner, and they was like, so, you know I've
seen it stand at the corner stove. Come on, you
(19:19):
can't keep ignoring me, you know what I'm saying. And
you're like, fine, fine, you sit down at your computer.
It's like it all begin at the cornerstone, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
So is it the same for you. They just start.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
You know what, That is definitely true for me. But
I also find that I don't know. I will hear
a song and the song will produce an entire scene
in my head and I won't be able to do
anything else until I get it out and down.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And so yeah, my characters definitely do talk to me.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
But and I also see their stories play out like
in my mind, almost like a movie.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
It's weird.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So remember those two things you said, music and movie.
Y'all gonna need that in about ten minutes. Just remember
that I have this crazy question that just popping my head.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
So all these.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Characters that talk to you, and they're trying to take over,
where's the craziest place or the craziest time? You had
to stop what you're doing and right because they just
wouldn't stop.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Mmmmmmm. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
It's been some Like I've been in the middle of
shopping like at Walmart. I've been in the middle of
like dropping like I remember one like when I was
working on butter Baby, and while I was working on
butter Baby, the character Solomon came to me Schlomo and
I was put my daughter off and it's somewhere like
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I want to say, like some kind of like program
like taekwondo or something like that. And I'm like, I'm
I'm pulling stuff out the car and I was like, hey,
you gotta hurry up, y'all run up, you know, And
it hit me and I'm like, oh my, oh, yes,
that's wonderful. And so like I'm I have her like
her her her U uniform and everything, and I'm helping
(21:26):
her get drugs. But I'm trying to write down before
I forget, and I'm like and I'm talking to the teacher.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, she So I was supposed to
bring oh cupcase, that's what I forgot.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Okay, yeah, next time I got it. You know. Yeah,
it happens.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh my goodness, it had that happened to you?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Actually, just I've been on a road trip. I'm in
the middle of a road trip now. So I was driving.
I drove about six hours today and I was just
in the zone, just plotting the scene that I couldn't
wait to get here right down. But in the meantime,
since I was driving, I just pulled my phone out
and started recording my notes.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh technology writing, Okay, Okay, So I did say ten minutes, right,
but I'm a shorten back because I got some good questions, so.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I forgot to tell y'all, no I didn't that at
the end of the show we do fun questions.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I love music and I love television, so let's have
a little fun.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, So both of you guys can answer the question.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Someone said that a song can be something that gives
them that launching.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Point for both of your books. If you could.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Choose one theme song, does it depend? It doesn't matter
what genre it is. What would be your theme song?
Who would be singing it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And why? Who as would be singing it?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
As in?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Which character? And why?
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
For me to have to be Benny Siegel?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Uh mm hmmm?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
What is that song?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
It's a Benny Segel song because like all my male characters,
like Hitter is the most vicious all my male characters
goons like you know what I'm saying. He ain't even
the most he ain't even the strongest or the most deadly.
Is he just the most like crass?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You know? But it have to be that Benny single song?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Is it the gouch? What is the name of that song?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm thinking, y'all.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Y'all know, y'all, y'all know I've used it in several
of my videos.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Y'all help me, y'all. Can't me help me out? What's
the name of that song?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh oh?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I can hear it in my head, but I have
no idea.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
This is the melodie, y'all know, y'all, y'all gonna know.
Everybody's listening, gonna know what I'm talking about. That's the
same song. Now look at me down going off the
screen to look at you know.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
While she's looking it up. I don't know. I think
mine would be Is it called do What?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
By Laura Neil?
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Oh? Yes, okay, Soriah would be singing that my main.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Character, Okay, okay, yep, okay, So why she's still looking
for hers?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm gonna ask you this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They just call and say, if we are going to
make your book into a movie, we are going to
give you the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
To cast your mean characters male and female. Who would
it be and why did you choose these two people?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Okay, so I already know who my who Soria is.
She would be played by what's the young lady's name.
Is it sky Skott Jackson?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Is that her name?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
We're both looking. She was a little Disney character, Star Jackson.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Is it Star.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Hold on one second, it's sky s k a I Jackson.
Oh yeah she would.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What is she just in being?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I think so she might have been.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I think she just played it. Yeah, she just played
a girl and be a math.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
She's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
She's supposed to be pregnant for me to next next
go around. Yeah, I love being math. Sorry y'all. She
was in the last episode too, but yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, be Soriah And I hate to be cliche, but
I really think Imperial would be played by Aaron Pierre.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That's stuff up.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
War mom, I love.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, Okay, tianasailor girl, you hit that South Carolina accident?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Come to walk. I am a geechee girl.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I try not to bring it out.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
No, let it come out.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Let somebody make me mad that closing that office.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
It's girl who she thinks she'd be talking to.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Ain't nobody got time to be ghettle.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So now how about your book? They called and they said, hey,
we're gonna let you cast the main characters male and female,
who would they be?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And why?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Okay, now I'm speaking with my South Carolina next I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Actually, let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I'm writing a book about uh, South Carolina characters and
they geechee, you know, And so I I mean, I've
been deep in the trenches nobody were talking about. I mean,
like research reach. Okay, So the song is Bennie Siegel
the Truth, right, all my male characters whenever they introduce
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for the first time, do matter which book? Don't matter
which book. When my male characters are introduced for the
first time, Beanie siegell the Truth playing period, Like, go
listen to the song and just know every male you
could listen. You can play that song when each of
my male characters are introduced, do matter which book?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
If it's okay?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
And as far as characters, if I had to pick,
there's a fighter named Deonte Wilder. Okay, now it's he's
not everybody's cup of tea. Okay, he not everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
He not.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
People be like, oh not my head, my head is.
But you know, if you really read the story, Hitter
is handsome to Angel because that's who, that's who the
most high.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Creative for him.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
But it would be Deontay Wilder, right, and my cousin Angel.
I actually like, I actually took some characteristics from the
character Angel from my cousin Angel, who I'm very proud of.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
She a smart, strong, strong.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
African American baby. And she listen, she is, she has graduated.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
She a nurse.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
She going back to school. No, she's a nurse practitioner.
Don't let me take nothing away from her. What you
know what I'm saying. School, she's doing her thing. She
the only little little pobw child I know that went
to Harvard.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yo, big apps my mind.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I don't know you, but you go girl, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
So that's actually that's who I actually wrote that character after.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So that is awesome. Oh and I'm looking at this
down till Wilder.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And he.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
What made me, what made me like choose him is
because like his style of fighting. Although he not the
champion no more, his style of fighting is it's like
a real you know people they be talking about them like, oh,
he's so hood you know. He fights like a hood limb,
you know, and he fights like he's street fighting, but he.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Was knocking folks out, you know what I'm.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Saying, he was knocking folks out, you know, but he
do he fight like he in the streets.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
That's what I like.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He has that look he has to look like, look,
don't catch me on the alley. But he But those
will be the ones that are like the biggest care bears. Yea, yeah,
they would be the biggest carrec.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Hold on this. You got a cute treace. Back to
the screen. So I haven't finished yet.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now Lifetime is on the line and they said, we
would like to do a Bible pick up you. We're
gonna let you cast the person to be you. Who
would you give that honor to?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And buy them?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Lauryn Hill? Okay, m Lauryn Hill?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And why miss Hill?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Like okay?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
You ever just like I've never been one to like
go google over like you know, superstars anything, but you
ever had one that that when they talk, they like
speaking what's in your mind? You know what I'm saying,
and you just like, yo, you know what I'm saying,
that my you know my thoughts, and like you know
what I'm saying. Lauren Hill like growing up, she was
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like she the one that taught me like it was
okay to embrace me, to embrace my natural hair, to
embrace you know, my skin color, to embrace my uniqueness,
you know what I'm saying. And she made me proud
to look like I look. You know what I mean.
And so definitely Miss Hill.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Oh, I love it, love it, okays, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Lifetime is waiting. They know what to give this check to.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Who don't give the check to? Mmmm? I don't know
why Gabrielle Union is coming to mind?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, okay? And why are is union?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Probably because she has dimples?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Probably would have said Lauren Hill.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
But you know, oh dang it, did I beat you? Sorry?
You know what, Lauren could play us both. She talented
like that, she can do that, she can do it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I love Hill, I know I would she.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I really wish she would come out one more, just
give us one more.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But I think Lauren, like y'all.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
You know, she did she did that song when nos
she did do a most recent song with nas It's
his lap and she ripped it.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
She ripped it or no, I.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Don't know which one, but she she talked about you know,
people talk about like how she don't be old time
and stuff. She was like, I'm saving souls are you
talking about me being on time? And she just like
ripped it. She ripped it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh yeah, I have to go find that.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, she ripped it.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
I'm like, Oh, that's Lauren letting us know she still
got the skill. There's a reason behind why she doing
the things that she's doing. It's kind of like Dave
Chappelle said, these people, you know, they like to label
these people as crazy as weak. These people ain't weak.
These people made it far up in the game. These
not weak people. These are not crazy people. Maybe the
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industry is a little sick.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
I always thought she just wasn't willing to do what
they were asking her to do.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's exactly what I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I felt like she did not want to compromise, like
this is me, tick me how I am, or just
don't take me at all. That that would be the
person they'll label as the difficult one. No, just standing
up because they know who they are. So I truly
think that's one of the things that happened to laur
in hell. And I don't blame in Lauren. So okay,
I ain't got to tell you. I like the money,
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can let me go ahead and do what I need
to do for my people.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I brought she broke records. That's all.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yes, So before we leave tonight, I have one question. Well,
I have two more questions, but the first question I
always ask my author is, well, most of my authors,
what does literary success look like to you?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Using my platform to bring souls to the most high.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Yeah, I would say that, and then I would also
add to it healing people, encouraging people to heal.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Those wounds, those bruised up, broken places. Yeah, that can
be healed.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
I would want to encourage that, but definitely want to
happen on.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
The most SIGs.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I am so loving that. That is beautiful. I am oh,
I am so loving that. That's why you're a YouTube page.
I like that. I saw your YouTube and I saw
a couple of SIPs. I saw that.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
So before leave, I like to do something that's called
the wrap up. So that's you give them all the
information they need to follow you, to follow your books,
to grab your books.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Just give us to us.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Coach you want to go first?
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Sure, So on Instagram, I am at angel your car
because my name is Angel angel a n g E
l y a q a R. On Facebook, I'm at author.
I think it's author Angel your Car on Facebook my
web site.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I won't mention it because last time I did it
it was long and y'all laughed at me. But website,
No worry, we have to scroll.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
At the.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Go ahead again. What's the website.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
It's lovely words imprint dot com slash.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Lovely dash words dash web. So that's my website. You
can find both updates there.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I know it's long. And then she said.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Slash note apo.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And then they're also on Amazon. You know, you find
them there.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
And I have TikTok, but I haven't uploaded anything, and
I think i'm author your Car on TikTok. One of
these days I might put something up there, okay.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I can be found on Facebook under Edwino Ford or
author Duena Fort. I could be found on YouTube. I
have two YouTube channels. I have author edweno Ford where
you can find just regular updates about you know, just
surviving this farm life, writing life, crazy fan life. I
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also have I also write under another name called the
Hebrew Griot, and I have a YouTube channel under there.
I have seven six free stories. Se I don't know
how many free stories, but they are categorized. They are
category under playlists. So you have story one, which is
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the genesis of all my writing, which is the beginning,
the nucleus, the stepping stone of my writing, which is
called butter Baby. I could be found on Amazon under
Edwino for uh, Facebook edwin for I have a chat
room that.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Discussed all my books.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
It's called and ween A for chat with me or
chat with.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
So I'm a I'm a I'm a farmer. I'm a gardener.
I am not a social media person. I don't even
know how to work my own computer. Somebody does this
for me. Okay, so and Weena's place. Chat with me
on Facebook, come through, uh the latest or whatever. You
(39:37):
can find me on Patreon where I'm at, where when
I'm when I'm bleeding Right now, I'm bleeding into Patreon
because Patreon is helping me work through some things. And
my Patreons they are I love them. Uh. They are
helping me overcome one of the biggest obstacles in my life.
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They are helping me overcome it. So you can find
me on Patreon. What I have stories I upload. I
try to get something uploaded every other day. But it
don't work like that sometime. But yeah, and I'm patreon
Edwena Ford there go.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh before we leave you, guys, I would like to
shout out at we the Four's son. He did the
cover for someone to watch over me, so you gotta
give it where it is. Great job.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
So if y'all reach out, if y'all need to come,
heat is silent. The boy is a savant. I didn't
know he had that in him. He just busted out
like what you think it is, and I'm like, oh
my goodness, y'all he's sixteen. He did that cover at fifteen. Yeah,
just he's he's just y'all need to cover let me know.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
There you go, y'all get in contact. Let's go ahead
and boost it and tell your kids. Y'all don't see
I'm talking about my baby girl. She's nigga.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It on my last nerve twitch sometimes, but yes, let's
go and support these kids. So shots out for that
beautiful cover.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Young man.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
You did a great job. Great job, ladies. I thank
you guys for being here with me tonight. I really
do appreciate it. You guys, get these books there, they
are right there on your screens. Go ahead and grab
them and follow them. All the information is scrolling at
the bottom. If you didn't catch this, catch the replay,
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of course, go on my page.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
The divas of the airways.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
They are going to be on all our social medias,
and they're gonna have clips to yourself. Okay, thank you
ladies again with being here with me tonight.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's a lot, it's a lot of fun, you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I would catch you guys next week Tuesday with another author.
But always forget there's no such a thing as an
old book, because not everybody has read every book. Go
grab these to you guys, good night, bye. Go grab books, y'all.
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Go and grab these books. I know I gotta get
in my books. I don't even know which one I
share you. I got to review some book right now.
K k.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
K k k k.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
K k.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
K and gentlemen, lay, I have your attention. Please the
show stop kid righty seven six by fun Cool.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey everyone, this is your girl se book out eight
four three. Yes it's Tuesday. No, sorry, it's Thursday. And yes,
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
With two not one. I got two options for you
guys tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Remember Tuesday night, I told y'all I was having a
double feature, my first double feature. I am so excited.
We were already talking behind the scenes. We have a
good conversation going on. But you know, I got to
bring you out these books. So two authors, one miss
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Edwena Ford. Y'all her cover, y'all, The Hit, the Hidden,
the Body, the y'all know. I like me, y'all know,
I like me a good Okay, I'm gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'm sorry. Let me tell you a little bit about
moseb Buenaford. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
She is a writer who writes with a passion and
a purse purpose.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
She was born and raised in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
We talked a little bit about that behind the scenes,
but now she resides in the South. Although she is
new to many, this author has been writing for many
years and has given her a unique style of writing
away freely at no cost to those who would receive.
Her passion for writing comes along, comes about at an
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early age and develop into what is today based on
her experience and her life lessons. We're gonna have to
get into them lessons and we're gonna get into the
experience because if she got somebody like that main cover
and her mm yeah, we will talk about that lad,
y'all that that cover.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Y'all know, I'm a cover girl.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
With her story, she wants to redefine all that have
been taught to believe and shed light on our truth
and our potentials. So first tonight we're gonna bring up
miss Edmena Fort. Come on out, Miss Fort and that
beautiful red orange get tired, you got going on me?
(03:40):
And then you guys, we I'm gonna say her name
wrong and I apologize.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is your car? Yes she is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
She is from Suburbia, Chicago, nator with a heart that
beats for bucks. From the Owen Tells by Louise Louisa
may I'll call to Soga influ wisdom of Miss Maya Angelo.
Her love for literature started at a very early age.
When she's not lost in the novel. You'll find her
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gold trotting. We're gonna have to talk about that. It's
sewing up a song.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Sewing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That's one thing I always wanted to know how to do.
I think my shirts would be like tense and an
Uno expert. So what you know about that?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Na man, I'm the queen.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Thank you guys for being with us tonight. I've told
them a little bit about you, guys, but tell us
something that you didn't put in your bio about yourselves.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm a chocoholic.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh what's your favorite?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh? My new favorite is do buy chocolate?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh that's so good.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have not had it looks like wheat.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It is so good. It is so good.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh my god, I see people eating us like y'all
that looks like, hey, weet, what is this?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You're gonna try?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
My daughter, my daughter in law got me to try.
It's so good. So mm hmm okay, so.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We got a chocolatelic at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
In the sport. Something about you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'm an avid gardener. So a lot of people don't
know I'm a gardener. First, Well, actually I have a farm,
so I have goats, I have chickens, dogs.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Like like I'm gonna I have a farm. A lot
of people don't know that. It's a lot, lot of work.
A lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Acts like, oh my god, I'm a city girl because
you know me, I see a cop coming.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm the opposite the break.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I mean, really as mean as people say they are goats, like, no,
they're not.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
They're really playful.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I guess you know, I think I was blessed. I
have some great goats. Like, Okay, so my boy goat
he's a little you know, but he's he's so sweet.
You know, you give him a little biscuit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
He's sweet.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He will he will have but you though he will. Yeah,
but it's not it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, all right, I'm sure she said it's not bad.
All right. The hit is tea maker.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Tell us about is working for a man on the covers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Y'all laughing at me. But I like him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Good.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Hitter Hitter is a gooon, Like I like to put
a warning label on Hitter.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Hitter is a goon.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
He's like, out of all my male characters, he's the
most I mean, I think I got one other that
can compete with him, But he's the most he's a
goon like he will snatch, he don't, he don't repeat hisself,
say what he what he thinks, he don't bite his tongue.
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You know, he is a goom period. I don't know
how else to describe it. And the only person, the
only person he's sweet to, the only person he's nice to,
the only person that see the other side of him,
is Angel.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's his I mean, yeah, it's his. It's his lady.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So so why make them so hard? You know, I'm
not complaining.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I don't know what happened with that one. So like, so, okay,
these characters. I have so many characters in my head
talking to me. Now today they call it a writer.
Before they called it like schizophrenic or something. But anyway,
so they're in my head and hid it was just okay,
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you know what?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
So okay.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Biblically, so we all know Bible stories, correct, correct. So
let's take Moses for example.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We all know the story of Moses. Moses. Moses was this.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Warrior, but he was really humble, but really vicious, like
like when you hear the stories of Moses, Moses was
a warrior. Moses was vicious, and he had this speech impediment,
and so when he talked, people kind of looked at
him as like you know, you know, And so Moses
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actually was the the uh essence of Hitter for me,
because when I read Moses, I read about this warrior
who slayed you know, it was Moses that killed by
Lamb and Baalamb was like this big time sorcerer that
everybody was like, you know, using or.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Whatever, but it was Moses who took him out, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
And so Moses was this you know, he was vicious,
you know, but he was humble. And so the same
thing with hit Her, like hit Her don't mind that
people look at him a certain way because of the
way he talked or how he carried hisself. People look
at him him as if he's unintelligent, but he has
a very high IQ and different things like that. But
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he don't mind because he's he's actually very humble, even
though he's still a good and he still will he
don't speak well, you know, he has a very rough,
rough appearance, you know. But I mean, Angel loved him.
Somebody for everybody, you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Don't the only one. I'm sorry, I don't see.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Sorry Angel, Now we're gonna go to you miss ma'am,
Someone to Watch Over Me. Your cover is beautiful. It
speaks for itself. It's just it's one. Both of your
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novels are like night and Day.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Why I say that is because it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Two different genres, but they speak so much through the covers,
you know what I'm saying. And your your book brings
out the softer side in me. Oh he's so sweet
(11:23):
and yeah the other book, ye, So tell us a
little bit about your Someone to Watch Over Me.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So Someone to Watch Over Me?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
First of all, as Edwina was talking about her book,
I was thinking, well, my book has a.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Goon in it too.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You got.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Imperial Is he's a goon, but he just wears fancy
clothes and has an Ivy League education, but he's he's.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
About that action. So there's a goon.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
In there too.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And I was like wow.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
So anyway, Someone to Watch Over Me is something of
a coming.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Of age story, but I don't.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Want it to be relegated to that coming of age
genre because we'll see these characters.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Grow up and become full blown adults.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
That's why I don't aagorize my That's why I'll categorize
Someone to Watch Over me that way. But the first
two books are definitely coming of age stories. You have
to start somewhere with the characters, and so I believe
in giving their origin story as much as I can,
which is what I've done. And Someone to Watch Over
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Me Part one and two. But Part one and two
are a part of about a ten book series, so
there are eight more books to come.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But my main character, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Is she's a very sweet young lady, but she's also
very afraid because she is growing up in the foster
care system and she doesn't want to get lost in
the system. As a result, you see her doing whatever
she needs to do and saying whatever she needs to
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say to stay on the safe side and to keep
moving in the direction that she wants her life to go.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So we introduced Imperial, and he.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Becomes so many different things to her. He becomes everything
she needs but also everything she does not need.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So I don't want to give away spoilers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So he's what she needs what she do need. That
sounds like a power episode. That's Angela and and what's
his name?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:55):
That sounds like yeah a little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So what made you guys want to write your books?
Anybody can go first, what what was your inspiration.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
For your books?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
For me?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
So, Hitta appeared in Falling for Rome, and so in
Falling for Rome, Hitter was one of Rome's best friends,
and he was kind of like, you know this, this this,
I don't know, some people kind of looked at him
as kind of like this dark character because he he
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didn't speak much, and you know, he kind of just
he always seemed kind of angry or whatever may have you,
and I don't know, like he was the underdog and
so like I feel like, you know, I'm always rooting
for the underdogs. I wanted his story like to be
told because I mean when you meet him and Falling
for Rome, all you see is like, you know, they're
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kind of like, you know, picking on him because he
obsessed with a teammaker, you know what I'm saying, and
so they like, you know, are you still stalking that girl?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You know you probably you know here. It's really so he.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Was a he was a an ex boxer, a professional boxer,
like he had you know, belts and everything, and so
he's real big and so now he runs this gym,
so he works out and stuff. He's kind of like
he's kind of like almost like monstrous, you know what
I'm saying. And so they like, are you still stalking
that girl and scaring her? You know what I'm saying.
(15:31):
And so when you first meet him from He's he
appears to be a stalker. I mean, yeah he did stop,
he stopped, you know what I'm saying. But uh, it
was really sweet, you know what I'm saying. It was
really sweet.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Why you know?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Okay, so I'm getting from your book.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm feeling like a Creed the first movie. Yes, the
Hide that I'm getting. And he did, Yeah, he did
stalk her.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
He did. He was a villain.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yeah, he was the villain in Fall of Her Home.
And I just you know, sometime you want to tell
a villain story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
So he was. He was a villain.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
There is nothing wrong with telling the bad boys stories.
Sometimes they need a little light too, They need a
little light.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I agree, And certainly Neede you write yours.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
So I had a theme in mind. There's this thing
that I really wanted to bring draw people's attention to.
I won't say what it is because it sort of
spoils it's a spoiler. But I had more of like
a moral to my story and a theme something that
I really wanted people to pay attention to, and that
(16:51):
was why I wrote it. Plus, I've always had a
heart for people in foster care, especially those who actually
grow up in age out of the system.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It just always.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Touches my heart to see that, and so I wanted
people's attention to be drawn to that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I like that because I to have a reader read
the book and find that hidden message in it.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I do like that. I do like.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That, But I I'm one of those money got to
tell me what the hidden messages because I get all
wrapped up in the characters' lives and sit up there
talk to the character.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I know you won't let them do. Yeah, I have
a tenden. I'll set up here and talk to the
whole book like ain't nothing to it.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't know why, but I remember off stage we
were talking about characters talking to you. What do you
guys do when all these characters are coming and they talking?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How do you handle everyone? Like Lord fans.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I have had fans that is through with me because
of this, just through with me, like it's like Patreon.
Through Patreon, I've been able to kind of give voice
to all these characters because through Patreon, when they when
they're the ones speaking to me at the time, I
(18:23):
can just write what you know, what's happening and what
I'm seeing and just posted on Patreon, and the energy
that I get back from my Patreons like helps fuel
fuel how you know what I'm saying, Like you know,
if I'll continue, you know what I'm saying, It's like
they help fuel me, you know what I'm saying. But
(18:43):
the characters talking to you can be bad and good.
I mean good because you know, when you're working on
their story, you know perfect, you know, but what they
want to do is they want to go quiet when
you're working on their story.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And then another character.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Be like, well, you know, you know it all started
at the cornerston and you're like, oh, you know so,
and now everything you're doing in your hand like you're
cooking dinner, and they was like, so, you know I've
seen it stand at the corner stove. Come on, you
(19:19):
can't keep ignoring me, you know what I'm saying. And
you're like, fine, fine, you sit down at your computer.
It's like it all begin at the cornerstone, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
So is it the same for you. They just start.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
You know what, That is definitely true for me. But
I also find that I don't know. I will hear
a song and the song will produce an entire scene
in my head and I won't be able to do
anything else until I get it out and down.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And so yeah, my characters definitely do talk to me.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
But and I also see their stories play out like
in my mind, almost like a movie.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
It's weird.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So remember those two things you said, music and movie.
Y'all gonna need that in about ten minutes. Just remember
that I have this crazy question that just popping my head.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
So all these.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Characters that talk to you, and they're trying to take over,
where's the craziest place or the craziest time? You had
to stop what you're doing and right because they just
wouldn't stop.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Mmmmmmm. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
It's been some Like I've been in the middle of
shopping like at Walmart. I've been in the middle of
like dropping like I remember one like when I was
working on butter Baby, and while I was working on
butter Baby, the character Solomon came to me Schlomo and
I was put my daughter off and it's somewhere like
(21:03):
I want to say, like some kind of like program
like taekwondo or something like that. And I'm like, I'm
I'm pulling stuff out the car and I was like, hey,
you gotta hurry up, y'all run up, you know, And
it hit me and I'm like, oh my, oh, yes,
that's wonderful. And so like I'm I have her like
her her her U uniform and everything, and I'm helping
(21:26):
her get drugs. But I'm trying to write down before
I forget, and I'm like and I'm talking to the teacher.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, she So I was supposed to
bring oh cupcase, that's what I forgot.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Okay, yeah, next time I got it. You know. Yeah,
it happens.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh my goodness, it had that happened to you?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Actually, just I've been on a road trip. I'm in
the middle of a road trip now. So I was driving.
I drove about six hours today and I was just
in the zone, just plotting the scene that I couldn't
wait to get here right down. But in the meantime,
since I was driving, I just pulled my phone out
and started recording my notes.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh technology writing, Okay, Okay, So I did say ten minutes, right,
but I'm a shorten back because I got some good questions, so.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I forgot to tell y'all, no I didn't that at
the end of the show we do fun questions.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I love music and I love television, so let's have
a little fun.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, So both of you guys can answer the question.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Someone said that a song can be something that gives
them that launching.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Point for both of your books. If you could.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Choose one theme song, does it depend? It doesn't matter
what genre it is. What would be your theme song?
Who would be singing it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And why? Who as would be singing it?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
As in?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Which character? And why?
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
For me to have to be Benny Siegel?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Uh mm hmmm?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
What is that song?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
It's a Benny Segel song because like all my male characters,
like Hitter is the most vicious all my male characters
goons like you know what I'm saying. He ain't even
the most he ain't even the strongest or the most deadly.
Is he just the most like crass?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You know? But it have to be that Benny single song?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Is it the gouch? What is the name of that song?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'm thinking, y'all.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Y'all know, y'all, y'all know I've used it in several
of my videos.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Y'all help me, y'all. Can't me help me out? What's
the name of that song?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh oh?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I can hear it in my head, but I have
no idea.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
This is the melodie, y'all know, y'all, y'all gonna know.
Everybody's listening, gonna know what I'm talking about. That's the
same song. Now look at me down going off the
screen to look at you know.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
While she's looking it up. I don't know. I think
mine would be Is it called do What?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
By Laura Neil?
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Oh? Yes, okay, Soriah would be singing that my main.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Character, Okay, okay, yep, okay, So why she's still looking
for hers?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm gonna ask you this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
They just call and say, if we are going to
make your book into a movie, we are going to
give you the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
To cast your mean characters male and female. Who would
it be and why did you choose these two people?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Okay, so I already know who my who Soria is.
She would be played by what's the young lady's name.
Is it sky Skott Jackson?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Is that her name?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
We're both looking. She was a little Disney character, Star Jackson.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Is it Star.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Hold on one second, it's sky s k a I Jackson.
Oh yeah she would.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
What is she just in being?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I think so she might have been.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I think she just played it. Yeah, she just played
a girl and be a math.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
She's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
She's supposed to be pregnant for me to next next
go around. Yeah, I love being math. Sorry y'all. She
was in the last episode too, but yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, be Soriah And I hate to be cliche, but
I really think Imperial would be played by Aaron Pierre.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That's stuff up.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
War mom, I love.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, Okay, tianasailor girl, you hit that South Carolina accident?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Come to walk. I am a geechee girl.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I try not to bring it out.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
No, let it come out.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Let somebody make me mad that closing that office.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
It's girl who she thinks she'd be talking to.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Ain't nobody got time to be ghettle.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So now how about your book? They called and they said, hey,
we're gonna let you cast the main characters male and female,
who would they be?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And why?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Okay, now I'm speaking with my South Carolina next I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Actually, let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I'm writing a book about uh, South Carolina characters and
they geechee, you know, And so I I mean, I've
been deep in the trenches nobody were talking about. I mean,
like research reach. Okay, So the song is Bennie Siegel
the Truth, right, all my male characters whenever they introduce
(28:09):
for the first time, do matter which book? Don't matter
which book. When my male characters are introduced for the
first time, Beanie siegell the Truth playing period, Like, go
listen to the song and just know every male you
could listen. You can play that song when each of
my male characters are introduced, do matter which book?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
If it's okay?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
And as far as characters, if I had to pick,
there's a fighter named Deonte Wilder. Okay, now it's he's
not everybody's cup of tea. Okay, he not everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
He not.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
People be like, oh not my head, my head is.
But you know, if you really read the story, Hitter
is handsome to Angel because that's who, that's who the
most high.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Creative for him.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
But it would be Deontay Wilder, right, and my cousin Angel.
I actually like, I actually took some characteristics from the
character Angel from my cousin Angel, who I'm very proud of.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
She a smart, strong, strong.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
African American baby. And she listen, she is, she has graduated.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
She a nurse.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
She going back to school. No, she's a nurse practitioner.
Don't let me take nothing away from her. What you
know what I'm saying. School, she's doing her thing. She
the only little little pobw child I know that went
to Harvard.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yo, big apps my mind.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I don't know you, but you go girl, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
So that's actually that's who I actually wrote that character after.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So that is awesome. Oh and I'm looking at this
down till Wilder.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And he.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
What made me, what made me like choose him is
because like his style of fighting. Although he not the
champion no more, his style of fighting is it's like
a real you know people they be talking about them like, oh,
he's so hood you know. He fights like a hood limb,
you know, and he fights like he's street fighting, but he.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Was knocking folks out, you know what I'm.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Saying, he was knocking folks out, you know, but he
do he fight like he in the streets.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
That's what I like.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He has that look he has to look like, look,
don't catch me on the alley. But he But those
will be the ones that are like the biggest care bears. Yea, yeah,
they would be the biggest carrec.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Hold on this. You got a cute treace. Back to
the screen. So I haven't finished yet.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now Lifetime is on the line and they said, we
would like to do a Bible pick up you. We're
gonna let you cast the person to be you. Who
would you give that honor to?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And buy them?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Lauryn Hill? Okay, m Lauryn Hill?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And why miss Hill?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Like okay?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
You ever just like I've never been one to like
go google over like you know, superstars anything, but you
ever had one that that when they talk, they like
speaking what's in your mind? You know what I'm saying,
and you just like, yo, you know what I'm saying,
that my you know my thoughts, and like you know
what I'm saying. Lauren Hill like growing up, she was
(32:13):
like she the one that taught me like it was
okay to embrace me, to embrace my natural hair, to
embrace you know, my skin color, to embrace my uniqueness,
you know what I'm saying. And she made me proud
to look like I look. You know what I mean.
And so definitely Miss Hill.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Oh, I love it, love it, okays, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Lifetime is waiting. They know what to give this check to.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Who don't give the check to? Mmmm? I don't know
why Gabrielle Union is coming to mind?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, okay? And why are is union?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Probably because she has dimples?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Probably would have said Lauren Hill.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
But you know, oh dang it, did I beat you? Sorry?
You know what, Lauren could play us both. She talented
like that, she can do that, she can do it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I love Hill, I know I would she.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I really wish she would come out one more, just
give us one more.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But I think Lauren, like y'all.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
You know, she did she did that song when nos
she did do a most recent song with nas It's
his lap and she ripped it.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
She ripped it or no, I.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Don't know which one, but she she talked about you know,
people talk about like how she don't be old time
and stuff. She was like, I'm saving souls are you
talking about me being on time? And she just like
ripped it. She ripped it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh yeah, I have to go find that.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, she ripped it.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
I'm like, Oh, that's Lauren letting us know she still
got the skill. There's a reason behind why she doing
the things that she's doing. It's kind of like Dave
Chappelle said, these people, you know, they like to label
these people as crazy as weak. These people ain't weak.
These people made it far up in the game. These
not weak people. These are not crazy people. Maybe the
(34:20):
industry is a little sick.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
I always thought she just wasn't willing to do what
they were asking her to do.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's exactly what I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I felt like she did not want to compromise, like
this is me, tick me how I am, or just
don't take me at all. That that would be the
person they'll label as the difficult one. No, just standing
up because they know who they are. So I truly
think that's one of the things that happened to laur
in hell. And I don't blame in Lauren. So okay,
I ain't got to tell you. I like the money,
(34:51):
can let me go ahead and do what I need
to do for my people.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I brought she broke records. That's all.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yes, So before we leave tonight, I have one question. Well,
I have two more questions, but the first question I
always ask my author is, well, most of my authors,
what does literary success look like to you?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Using my platform to bring souls to the most high.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Yeah, I would say that, and then I would also
add to it healing people, encouraging people to heal.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Those wounds, those bruised up, broken places. Yeah, that can
be healed.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
I would want to encourage that, but definitely want to
happen on.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
The most SIGs.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I am so loving that. That is beautiful. I am oh,
I am so loving that. That's why you're a YouTube page.
I like that. I saw your YouTube and I saw
a couple of SIPs. I saw that.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
So before leave, I like to do something that's called
the wrap up. So that's you give them all the
information they need to follow you, to follow your books,
to grab your books.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Just give us to us.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Coach you want to go first?
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Sure, So on Instagram, I am at angel your car
because my name is Angel angel a n g E
l y a q a R. On Facebook, I'm at author.
I think it's author Angel your Car on Facebook my
web site.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I won't mention it because last time I did it
it was long and y'all laughed at me. But website,
No worry, we have to scroll.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
At the.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Go ahead again. What's the website.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
It's lovely words imprint dot com slash.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Lovely dash words dash web. So that's my website. You
can find both updates there.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I know it's long. And then she said.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Slash note apo.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And then they're also on Amazon. You know, you find
them there.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
And I have TikTok, but I haven't uploaded anything, and
I think i'm author your Car on TikTok. One of
these days I might put something up there, okay.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I can be found on Facebook under Edwino Ford or
author Duena Fort. I could be found on YouTube. I
have two YouTube channels. I have author edweno Ford where
you can find just regular updates about you know, just
surviving this farm life, writing life, crazy fan life. I
(38:24):
also have I also write under another name called the
Hebrew Griot, and I have a YouTube channel under there.
I have seven six free stories. Se I don't know
how many free stories, but they are categorized. They are
category under playlists. So you have story one, which is
(38:46):
the genesis of all my writing, which is the beginning,
the nucleus, the stepping stone of my writing, which is
called butter Baby. I could be found on Amazon under
Edwino for uh, Facebook edwin for I have a chat
room that.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Discussed all my books.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
It's called and ween A for chat with me or
chat with.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
So I'm a I'm a I'm a farmer. I'm a gardener.
I am not a social media person. I don't even
know how to work my own computer. Somebody does this
for me. Okay, so and Weena's place. Chat with me
on Facebook, come through, uh the latest or whatever. You
(39:37):
can find me on Patreon where I'm at, where when
I'm when I'm bleeding Right now, I'm bleeding into Patreon
because Patreon is helping me work through some things. And
my Patreons they are I love them. Uh. They are
helping me overcome one of the biggest obstacles in my life.
(39:58):
They are helping me overcome it. So you can find
me on Patreon. What I have stories I upload. I
try to get something uploaded every other day. But it
don't work like that sometime. But yeah, and I'm patreon
Edwena Ford there go.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh before we leave you, guys, I would like to
shout out at we the Four's son. He did the
cover for someone to watch over me, so you gotta
give it where it is. Great job.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
So if y'all reach out, if y'all need to come,
heat is silent. The boy is a savant. I didn't
know he had that in him. He just busted out
like what you think it is, and I'm like, oh
my goodness, y'all he's sixteen. He did that cover at fifteen. Yeah,
just he's he's just y'all need to cover let me know.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
There you go, y'all get in contact. Let's go ahead
and boost it and tell your kids. Y'all don't see
I'm talking about my baby girl. She's nigga.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It on my last nerve twitch sometimes, but yes, let's
go and support these kids. So shots out for that
beautiful cover.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Young man.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
You did a great job. Great job, ladies. I thank
you guys for being here with me tonight. I really
do appreciate it. You guys, get these books there, they
are right there on your screens. Go ahead and grab
them and follow them. All the information is scrolling at
the bottom. If you didn't catch this, catch the replay,
(41:31):
of course, go on my page.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
The divas of the airways.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
They are going to be on all our social medias,
and they're gonna have clips to yourself. Okay, thank you
ladies again with being here with me tonight.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's a lot, it's a lot of fun, you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I would catch you guys next week Tuesday with another author.
But always forget there's no such a thing as an
old book, because not everybody has read every book. Go
grab these to you guys, good night, bye. Go grab books, y'all.
(42:13):
Go and grab these books. I know I gotta get
in my books. I don't even know which one I
share you. I got to review some book right now.
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