March 15, 2025 • 56 mins
Tune in to the Off The Shelf Books podcast, where military secrets, 1980s hustle, and the creative brilliance of a multi-talented artist collide! This week’s special guest is Dante Terese. Dante describes herself as a writer, baker, and gardener with a deep love for books, libraries, and the art of storytelling. Her literary works include The Base and Sex, Death & Diane. Don’t miss this insightful conversation with an incredibly versatile creator!
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We have an awesome author on deck for you today.
She's just such a wonderful, wonderful creative Arthur and this artist.
But before we do, I want to ask you just
how good of a mystery sleuth do you think you are?
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Do you think you are you somebody who could figure
out what happened? Who did it? And why I love
this TV series Colombo. They tell you, actually they show
you at the beginning who did it? Are you still
clinging to the end of your seat to figure out why?
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How they did it, how it all, how it all
worked the way they did that that mystery? Can you
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you somebody who loves it? And miss and you think
I can? I can? I know what's happening. I know
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let's see good, how good of a mystery Sloop? This
story takes place in a small town Memphis in the
nineteen forties. You su have some historical fiction going on
here as well, with World War two and just what's
going on the climate in the country at that time.
But then there's some mystery and it's a little bit
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Denise Turney in ebook or in print book. Treat yourself
to a copy today. And now let us go and
meet today special Off the Shelf guests. And our special
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off the Shelf guest this morning is Dante Darisa. At
her website, Dante describes herself as a writer, baker, and gardener.
She is a lover of books, appreciating libraries, bookstores and
all things storytelling. Books Dante has written include The Base
and Sex Death and Diane. You just have to visit
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her website. I mean, when I was doing the research,
it's one of my fun parts. It takes time, but
it's one of my fun parts of being a host
of Off the Shof. I actually researched and it can
take me an hour more for each show. And when
I was researching for her, so I said, oh my god,
I had to let you all know. You have to
visit her website. And her website is Dante to Resay
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dot com. And I'm gonna spell that d a n
t e t e r e s e dot com again,
that's d a n t e t e r e
s e dot com. You can actually hop over there now,
check out the pictures her gardening and baking, and I
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mean you gonna really her website as an author, website
is very, very unique. You will love being over there
and it's just simply amazing. And while you're there, check
out her blog. It's just fun and engaging. And she
believes that people have more power than the they realize
and I love that thought. And again I encourage you
to check Dante Teresa out online. Again, I'm gonna spell
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it d a n t e t e r e
s e dot com. You're gonna be happy you went
over there. We're just honored to have Dante Teresa here
on off the show this morning. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Dante, thank you so much for having me. Denise.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh, you got amazing website. You are multi, multi talented.
We're gonna dig into a little bit of that during
today's show. The first few questions I'm gonna ask you,
I ask every guest who comes on, so they get
a little backstory on the guests far I start talking
about their books. So could you kick it off and
tell our off the self listeners where you grew up
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and what life was like for you growing up.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, The the fun part about answering that is it
because it enables me to sort of plug a book.
Uh sex death and Diane is, let me see somewhat
of a memoir. It's got uh, it's I take liberties there.
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But the two best friends in the book are from
a small town where nothing ever happens, And that's pretty
much describes where I grew up, small town USA, where
nothing ever happens. And one of the best friends goes
to the big city and the other best friend stays
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home in that town where nothing happens, but something happens.
I'm building that mystery and intrigue here because I you
just said how much you do the detective work and
how how much you like Colombo, and I think we're
probably both around the same vintage. I just turned the
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Big six to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Zero, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And one of one of the really fun things about
writing and writing from a time that isn't the present time,
is that you get to revisit all of those things.
And the eighties, which is the period when these two
friends graduate high school, there was great music, really really
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great music. And you know it's interesting the kids today
still love it, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes, yes, So what can you give us? The state
or where you grew up?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sure, sure it's and after let me see, I grew
up in New York for the most part. I was
born in North Carolina, and my family moved there when
I was five, and after I graduated, I became somewhat
of a gypsy or serial mover. I mean, yes, I
do have Allied Van Lines number on speed dial. A
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little embarrassed to admit that, but I lived around the country,
and when I was pastry cheffing and got a little
all these different characters and stories just sort of came
from my experiences. Yes, I did live in South Dakota
for five years, and that's why I refused to complain
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about snow down here in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay, oh my goodness. And as we go through, I'm
sure your travels have influenced their writing. I think all
of our experiences do influence us, whether we're an an
artist or a writer or not. And when you were
a little girl coming from North Carolina to New York
and then traveling as an adult, But when you were
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a kid, what did you want to be when you
grew up?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It depended on the day. I mean, I was one
of those and I still am one of those people
who has a bouncing brain. And they say that creative
people that their left brain is more developed, and I'm
I think that my left brain is pretty much the
only side of my brain that works, and it's just
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a bouncing brain. And so I wanted to, you know,
I wanted to do everything. And that's what I think
a lot of people in the art community are like that.
We you are just not a creative artistic person unless
you have at least three unfinished projects.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that's a pice. I've never heard that. Who are
What inspired your love for books?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, above all, I'd say my parents were just so
important with that because they stuck a book under our noses,
you know, before we could read, and they read it
to us every night, and that is such an important thing.
And you know, my parents also took us to library
and that was a real gift because libraries have so
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much in there and it's all for free, and it
just opens up the mind of children, opens up just
a huge world to them. It was really a gift.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Okay, now to your books. Please tell us what's the
inspiration behind your books? And you told us it's sort
of a semi memoir you took liberties with, but what
was what was the inspiration behind you actually sitting down
and writing Sex Death and Dianne Well.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Sex Death and Diane. I was in a very very
long blizzard season in South Dakota, and where you did,
the only thing you could really venture out for is work,
and that, you know, it was kind of confining. But
a lot of people in South Dakota, especially in areas
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that are impacted by severe ways other a lot of
the time they become good at things. I mean, there
are some phenomenal quilters and stuff like that, and so
Sex Death and Diane, I wanted to, you know, acknowledge
some of the heroes and some of the wonderful things
that existed during the eighties. And during the eighties, I
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mean there there were there was an explosion of activism,
especially on the medical front, where unfortunately there was an epidemic.
I mean, there was the AIDS epidemic. But it made
so many courageous people come out and really speak in
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favor of medical research and you know, getting resources to
people who needed it. And you know, those of us
who have like a chronic condition, we really owe them
a big thank you because the research was not only
done in the field of HIV and AIDS. They opened
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the door for research to be done for everything, and
you know, medications that used to come to market a
very very long time. It shortened that amount of time
and it helped they helped so many people with their activism.
And so that's that's a small piece of the story.
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I don't want to give it all away.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So as those things were happening in the eighties, you
wanted to capture that. You wanted to capture that time,
as seemed, so you sat down and wrote the book
Sex Step and Diane, now please introduce us to Sarah.
Tell us about her background, her motivations, her personality.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, so Sarah is the protagonist, which is you know,
based on me. And Sarah comes from this very sheltered
life and really has her eyes opened in the big city,
even though she's in a college and that's a semi
sort of protected environment where people recognize that even though
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you're eighteen and you know, legally an adult, that you
do need someone to kind of watch over you and
help you, you know, with your decisions and such. But
you know, Sarah is a witness to all these big
changes going on around her, all these movements starting up
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and all these big events happening, and these are all
experiences that she never thought she would ever experience in
the small town.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Is she quiet? You said she came from a Celta background.
Is she shy? Is she quiet? Is she is she outgoing?
She hauld go get her or she cannot sit back
and just let others lead away.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Sarah is let me see. Was sort of raised to
be more of an observer. The household was a bit
more strict, and some of that came from experiences that
happened to her mother. Her mother lost a child and
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was very very protective after that. You know, some would
say maybe over protective. And Sarah had a chronic medical condition,
so she really was, you know, very very protective. She
didn't want to go through that again. And so Sarah
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isn't really someone who initiates things. But if every if
other people initiate, you know, she'll participate.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Okay, Okay, Now how old are Sarah and Ianne when
they meet? You say they grew up together. How old
are they when they meet?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, they they were neighbors and they met very early childhood,
like maybe round five or so, through the schools and
all of that, and they grew up. They grew up together,
and Diane's household was sort of a second home for Sarah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can you that was making me interested? Can you give
us a like a like a little mini overview of Diane,
just the pain her, what she's like. I want to
see how similar and different they are. If you could
describe Diane, what drives her, what she like, what's her
personality like.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Diane is a little bit more adventurous, and some of
that is because she had lost her father and because
she lost her father kind of young, and you know,
her mother was left to raise the kids on her own.
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She you know, she had a more freedom and her
mother was really not over overbearing or micromanaging or anything
like that. So that household was a really good influence
on Sarah because Diane's mother kept it real. You could
go up to Diane's mother and ask her anything and
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she would give you an answer. And it was really
important to Sarah to have someone like that in her life,
you know, a mother who would acknowledge, you know, reality
and keep it real and you know, talk to them
and always have an open door for them when it
came to communicating.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Okay, now, for off the Chef listeners who did grow
up during the nineteen eighties and they would not have
a clue about that time. Can you give us a
window into what's going on in the area Sarah and
Diane live in at the start of the story.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Okay, in the in the start of the story, they
are there two very very bonded friends that are young,
and they are growing up together, almost like sisters, because
they live so close and one was either at one's
house most of the time. Sarah was at Diane's house
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because Sarah's mother was, you know, just had had some
issues and was one of the ways that she expressed
her grief and everything like that, was constantly sort of
cleaning the house and managing the house. So Sarah going
over to Diane's place where they could experiment and try
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to make food and things like that and just in
general make a mess sometimes. That was that was really
important for them growing up. And they could, you know,
with the mother Nancy supervision, experiment with makeup and things
like that, whereas in Sarah's household that was, you know,
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just something that never came up.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why they are different, I like how you it's good
they're friends, but they came from different backgrounds, so they're
not going to be just the same, which can be
very good for creating reader interest in what's going to
happen in a story. Now, how did you say there's
a lot going on nineteen eighties and the age epidemic HIV,
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people scared of death, of different things. How does what's
happening in the country in this time of the story,
the eighties, does it impact or change? I mean, jaszidically
changed Sarah and Diane.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, I think in a lot of ways they they
had sort of their perfect little bubble of this small
town that was where nothing ever happened. The veil was lifted.
I mean, it's that sort of coming of age tail
where you where you suddenly learn that the protective little
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cocoon that you live in and stuff, that the real
world isn't always totally like that, that there are some
bumps in the road, there are some unpleasant things that
you would kind of shelter a child from. And so
when they both went there separate ways, when Sarah went
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to school in the big city and Diane stayed in
the small town. Of course the news and the TV
talk shows of the day, we're talking about the real
world issues. It's just that the real world was coming
into their world.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Oh my gosh, there's the one. Oh and I want
to grew up protected. She's the one. Oh my goodness.
Are any scenes in Sex, Death and Diane based on
I know you said it's kind of a memoir, but
if you could tell us maybe two scenes that happened
in the book that readers would know this actually did happen.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay, one thing that so many females have called me
out on and everyone laughs at it. So if you're
a man in the audience. I'm not offending you with this,
but the lady in your life will be able to
relate to this. It's how when you go into the
store and you try on a color of makeup on
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the back of your hand, which is the way they
let you try that, and then you look at it
and looks great, and then you go home and you
put it on looks awful. And so there's sort of
this urban myth about how makeup looks different in the
store because they have different lights there, or they have
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some kind of checked remlins there or whatever, so that
it's a conspiracy. And then what happens is is you
buy this makeup and you can't return it, you know,
and then you have to go out and buy more
makeup because it doesn't work with their skin, and you
can't give it to your friend because you've already put
it on your mouth, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So yeah, oh, that's a good one. What what have
readers been saying about sex death and Diane? What have
some of the feedback you've been getting from readers.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, I think a lot of people have gone on
YouTube and looked up things about the the the organizations
that were doing the activism on campuses and by City
Hall and down by Wall Street and such with regard
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to the AIDS epidemic.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
They they reported things back to me, and I went
on YouTube, and yeah, I looked on some of these videos,
and you know, you know, I remember what I had
gone through, but I didn't realize how intense that was.
I didn't realize how how many communities had people that
you know, would like, want to quarantine a house, you know,
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the things that we later sort of experienced in the
very early stages of the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yes, yeah, interesting, very interesting. Now pivoting to what your
next book, can you give us an brief overview of
your book The Base?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, Well, when I first wrote the Bass, people said
you can't just you can't kill these characters. You can't
end the story we want. We don't kill a bug man.
Everyone was in love with the bug Man, and they
all said, you need to write a sequel. And so
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I wrote a sequel, and folks encouraged me to adapt
it to film, which is what I'm presently doing. And
we're shooting a trailer and we are trying to make
the series, the book series into a streaming series. Okay,
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which has you know, it's crazy, but I love dealing
with actors now and seeing three dimensional living people who
are portraying the people that I had on a page.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wow, So can you tell us? You said the bug man?
What is the story about? For our listeners who's never
this is the first time hearing about the base?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Okay, So the base, I'll summarize it really tightly here.
The base is the story of a special military base
where if you are really really good at something, if
you're a really good research scientist, what they will do
is instead of transfer you, like every three to four
years to random bases around the country, you are going
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to get transferred to the base. And that is where
they send people like you, people who are just absolutely
obsessed about one piece of knowledge and perfecting that. And
so these scientists are together and they each have vastly
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different areas of expertise, but the military coops them up
in this very very remote base and tells them that
they have to make these top secret inventions quickly before
a deadline, and they keep them on this very remote
area with really bad weather, kind of like what I
experienced in South Dakota, because yeah, they want to keep
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others from coming over there too, you know, to steal
this stuff. But the spies, the thieves and the other
their evildoers are not deterred, and they try to creep
in there and steal that invention.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Wow, is the base? Is this a work of fiction?
As I was researching, I'm like, this is this a
work of fiction or non fiction? And this is very
different than your first book? What attracted you to this
particular story?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Well, I'm I'm a daughter of a research scientist. He
was not a military research scientist. But the idea of
creating some characters that are military research scientists and have
them make an invention. That sort of gave me the
opportunity to do tons of research on these inventions that
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these guys were working to create and the research phase.
And I think we're both on the same page with
this because you had mentioned and how you research means
and things. Research is fun, really really fun. And then
creating your characters and making sure that they are factually accurate,
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like the bugman who is a military entomologist, which means
he is an expert on insects, and so they fight
with a much different arsenal. It isn't like your stereotypical
Hollywood thing, like let's pull out a gun and go
bang bang. As you can imagine an expert on insects
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and bugs like he would have a whole different palette
of things that he could throw at you if you
were bad.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes, I vacuumed one of them up before I started
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh my god, is this a comedy.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
There's a lot of very very funny scenes in there.
I am very blessed that when we started to do
some of the filming, some of the actors, I mean,
they they caught onto that, they caught onto the fact
that their character isn't you know, you know, really stodgy,
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like an old science teacher that's a little too monotonous
or boring. They they really had fun with it, and yeah,
it's a lot of fun. And the spies, the spies
love being spies. Especially. We have a female villain, the
young lady who portrayed Venus in this little clip of
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the trailer. I mean, she was just just so funny
and so good at being it rhymes with rich that,
you know. It was a very very enjoyable clip there.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
We got to talk about the film, but I want to.
I want to get a little bit more into Can
you tell us about the character Colleen, as any of
these based on a real person, Where did you come
up with the idea? What it's different characters? And can
you introduce us to Colleen?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Okay, let me see Cullen. Yes, he is also a
military research scientist. Now on the book covers you'll see
three military research scientists. However, there are you know, a
couple in the series, a few more because the military
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keeps transferring scientists to the base and giving them new assignments,
so they mix it up. So anyway, so Cullen, his
area of expertise is artificial cartilage and what and they
want to make artificial cartilage that can multiply on its own.
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And it surprised me when I thought this thing up
and I started doing research on it. There is a
lot of research in that area.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, because if you think about it, and when if
you know people who are getting knee replacements and things
like that, and what wouldn't it be great if all
you had to do is just get an injection?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Have any of that, you know, after rehab, you know,
physical therapy all these other things that people go through
and then sometimes they need to go through second surgery.
And it also works for like spinal column and stuff
that people have degenerative discs. And so it was really
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surprising to me when I was researching culin and I was,
you know, sort of giving him the uh specialized knowledge
and his little specialty that he contributes to the project.
It was very surprising to me to see how much
of these things.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Are actually happening. Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, Oh mister Clark.
What's he like and what does he do?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What mister Clark is and if you see him on
the book covers, he's the gentleman who wears the helmet.
Mister Clark's passion and his specialized area of knowledge is
he can animate anything. So, for instance, if you were
to make a robot, and let's say you were to
make that robot out of the cartilage, because there's a
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lot of advantages to that, and the books go into it,
what mister Clark could do is thread some Michael micro
filaments through that and then make that robot respond to
his commands, but also tell him if a spy or
some other outside source is trying to command it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Wow, oh my gosh, I listened to you. Oh my goodness.
The more. This is one thing I do love about
authorship is the authors talk about the book inspire them.
They go deeper into the inner workings. It's something you
can't do with a book description. It's uh uh. You
almost have to talk to the to the author long
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enough to start digging into the real making this other story,
the idea for this, This is so unique to me
that I could see where if you, if you're like
your social media or whatever, if you got a strong
promo abilities you understand the algorithms, I can see where
this could take off. Now introduces please to the bug
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Man and where and why did you get this the Bugman?
And how did you get this? Get this name?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, the thug Man is someone who grew up obsessed
with insects and he always wanted to study them and
he continues to study them passionately. Now it's not too
much of a stretch to think that you would have
someone who's an expert in insects in the military doing
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design on some of their weaponry and stuff like that,
because if you look at a helicopter, it does have
similar properties to a dragonfly. And there are several pieces
of military equipment that you know, if you look at
them and and you look at how they use they
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do their mobility or like some of the exoskeleton, if
you will, characteristics on these things, there are similarities to insects.
And so what he does is he combined, he combines
his brain power with Cullen and with Clark to make
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this invention the first one, and then they they're they're
constant throughout the series. They are always fabricating these things.
The military gives them a wish list of attributes. They
call that a spec sheet. They want different characteristics to
be in these inventions. Like it has to be able
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to withstand a certain temperature range because those are the
temperatures it would be exposed to on the battlefield. It
has to be able to withstand, you know, getting wet,
and it has to be able to also recognize when
someone else is trying to jam at signals and you know,
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operate it that shouldn't be doing that. And so you know,
every couple of weeks or months, the military gives them
a spec sheet and these the scientists, they have to
pool their talent expertise and energies into making this thing.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So Book one is they're getting sent to the base
and they are they have directions to create this like
a robot. Uh that's that? Is that accurate? And then
can you tell us, if so, what's going on in
book two? Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So Book one sort of does what we authors refer
to as world building. It defines their little world and
and then it defines, you know, the expectations that you have.
It starts with the newest scientist arriving. The other two
Cullen and mister Clark have worked together, and the bugman
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moves in, so you know, so you start to learn.
And then of course the day after someone moves in,
the military gives you your top secret folder and here's
the wish list, here's what you guys need to do.
And so the Book one spends I would say a
good degree of time just uh, you know, getting you
(34:59):
into their world. A good book and I know you
write also, a good book should feel like a vacation.
When you open that thing up and you start reading,
or you can also listen to it on the audio book,
you should be completely sucked out of your world and
transported into their world. And so what book two and
(35:25):
book three, which is which will be happening soon. What
they do is they just now that you sort of
know the foundation and you know their world. What book
two does and what book three is doing is it's further,
you know, going on with that theme, and you get
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to meet some new villains, some new scientists, and there
are new top secret projects that the military wants them
to complete. And then there are more spies and more
thieves that are trying to steal it.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now, now, what's the title of book two? Book three?
You're still working on? What's the title of book two?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Book two? Is the base? Book two?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Okay, okay, okay? Are are as you were writing the base,
did you, in your mind see the story Unvoting as
a movie? So it's not coming to you and more
maybe just words, but you're literally getting a visual image
of the story of the story as it's coming to you.
(36:35):
Is that how you did you see it Umvoting as
a movie while you were actually writing it?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well, when when I write, I try to immerse myself
in the surroundings the same way I would expect a
reader to. I would expect that reader to feel like
they're there because when I read other people's books, that
is how I experience them. I feel like I am there,
and and so you know, I knew what the bug
(37:04):
man would have in his house. I knew what, you know,
the base, the employee cafeteria. I knew what that would
look like and what would have in it. I have
a little bit of an advantage there because I have
visited military bases. I have had some friends in there
and stuff. But you know, so that is the mindset
(37:28):
that I went into that I have to immerse myself
the same way I expect the readers to and if
my picture isn't clear enough, I have to make it clear.
And the science has to be accurate. I was really
afraid of my father reading the book because he's a
real scientist. Ah okay, and I thought he was going
(37:50):
to be like, oh, this is not accurate or whatever.
But I passed the dad test.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm very ex Okay, what have rated been saying about
books one and book two of the Base, Well.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
People encouraged me to try to film it. They just
they said that they they thought it would really really
be cool if this could be a three dimensional thing
that people could look at and you know, see the bugman,
and then see some of the villains like Venus, especially
(38:27):
Venus has so many love haters, you know. And Venus
is the lady like she's one of the chief spies.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Is she the only woman in the story?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Okay, now, okay No.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
In book two we are introduced to Morgan, who is
a scientist also and has a very advanced expertise in
her field of study.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
And then there are the wives who are the mothers
of the children of the two scientists, Cullen and mister Clark,
who are featured in and out of the script at
different parts. And so there it's a diverse cast, and
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it is proudly diverse because the military is diverse.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Now are you actively involved? You said, Now you're filming
and you're loving it, and the actors and actresses and
the who are doing the trailer are really enjoying it.
Are you actually on set? Are you actively involved in
the makings of the trailer? And then if it does
(39:42):
take off, you're doing the streaming. Will you be actively
involved in on set?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I really want to be. I will I will be
off screen, but I really I love the process of
you know, interacting with the actor and bringing it to life.
I love I love shopping, so of course we have
to go shopping and get props and get some of
the clothes and things like that, you know. And the
(40:12):
cool thing is that the book series is based on
an earlier time. It is based on late seventies, and
so the technology and the spy capabilities and stuff like
that are much different then. And so it really posed
(40:32):
a lot of dilemmas for me when I was going
to bars to look for a bar to do a
bar scene where Venus, the villain is trying to pick
up a stolen device from a bed another villain. I
had to find a bar that didn't have a flat
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screen TV.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Wow, Oh my god, Oh my god. Yeah, And so
how hard was that.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
We were very very fortunate that a restaurant in the area,
really really big restaurant had a counter in it that
looked similar enough to a bar that we could also
remove the tech identifiers there as I call them, like
(41:24):
an actor wearing an eyewatch or Apple Watch or whatever.
And everyone has to hide their cell phones and silence them,
and so it has you know, it's it's been very
funny for us who who are working on the other
side of the camera, you know, to get creative. The
funniest thing and the hardest thing for me. We are
(41:49):
shooting a gym scene at the end of this month.
We have two scenes left, and so I had to
find a gym without mirrors, because if you're filling people
in a gym, you're going to get the camera crew.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
In all oh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah. So finding finding sets is it is very challenging.
It can you can rip your hair out and stuff,
but when you finally find it, it's like hitting the lottery.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
You're like, yay, oh, my goods. When when if if
if let's say you finished the trailer and everything's a success,
if you do start to stream it and people can
watch every every week, the next the next installment, when
would you think that the streaming of the story would begin.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Well, the last shoot date is an outdoor scene. It's
the only outdoor scene. We decided to film the indoor
scenes through the winter, which and then save the outdoor
scene for last and that will be filmed on April thirteenth,
weather permitting. Pray for good weather please we need it
(43:05):
because you know, getting twenty five people together is not easy,
especially when there are two holidays in the month of April,
and what we are really really hoping for is that
after April thirteenth, we can go straight to editing. Tomorrow
we're finishing the backup music recording, which will you know,
(43:32):
if everything goes well and there's no tech gremlins, that
will be the foundation to layer the video clips on
and you know, so I'm hoping that after April thirteenth,
we will you know, be able to go and do
the editing process, and then the trailer will be on
(43:53):
my website and we will have it there for everyone
to see, and then we will also use that as
a marketing tool to get it into a streaming series.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh my gosh, I got to put that on my calendar.
I want to. I got to check out that you
know a lot about film. Did you ever study film
or how did you get your knowledge? This isn't a
question I was going to ask you, but just listening
to you, how did you get the knowledge you have
(44:28):
about film?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I was fortunate that when I've always been in some
facet of the arts, I spent a lot of years
as a baker and pastry chef and working for a
catering house so some of the food that we shipped
out in different catering houses I have worked in did
go to film sets and so I got to see
some of that. And I also studied music and made
(44:55):
some music before, so I got to have some knowledge
in that area. Yeah, there are pictures on the website. Also,
I should mention if you go in under the blog section,
that are from the shoots that we have done already.
But you know, so you can see there's a city
(45:16):
hall scene and yeah, a press conference scene and stuff.
So we have just little photos from that, but not
the actual video clips up. Okay, But you know, I
was fortunate that I was able to experience a lot
of things, and then I did a lot of self education.
But most importantly I got qualified people. Yeah, because I mean,
(45:42):
you can only wear so many hats, and you are
so much better if you admit what you don't know.
Then if you presume that you are just someone who
could wear fifty hats.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, No, that's good. That's a good tip. Now, in
addition to writing, as we come to the end of
the day show, in addition of writing, I mean, I
just love your website. In addition of writing, you also
loved gardening and baking. What you mentioned the caterine that
you did. When did you start baking? And do you
still like bake for weddings, birthdays, etc. Today.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Okay, I've taken a bit of a leave of absence
from the baking to focus everything full time on the writing.
My last baking thing was I was working as a
cake decorater and that is just that's really really something
(46:41):
experiencing that. But the cool thing about it is it
gives you experience in making things because cakes today are
not the cakes that I grew up with. I mean,
people have they want a battlefield on their cake. And
I got to learn air brushing and all of these
other things you know to make mountains and things like that,
(47:04):
and then you put soldiers on the cake or else
spider Man cake where you're air brushing and you have
to mask different things off and stuff. All of that
knowledge comes in really handy later when you're doing lighting
in film.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Mmmm.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And all the everything you learn in your life, you'll
find another place to put it.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
So wow, interesting. Interesting. You do a lot of other
banking for those who visit your website, and I'll give
your website you r l out again to our listeners.
It's uh d A N T E T E R
E s C. You do other bank I mean your pictures.
I was like, oh, my gosh, religion. You do other
(47:50):
things uh at your website as well, all the types
of Uh. What was your favorite thing you baked that
really stands out? You talk about these cakes and these
sam cakes like your favorite that you either enjoy creating
or you enjoy just eating yourself.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Well, I think the breads, yeast leaven breads like the
traditional Italian or French or sour doughs and other things
like that shibata those have those are actually a lot
more risky. And the reason I say that is because
when you do cookies or cakes or something, you are
(48:30):
using what we call chemical leaveners, which are very reliable.
You're using your baking soda and you're using your baking powder,
and you know you can't really screw that up. But
when you're and then if you do, I mean, it's
an easy remedy. Like if you see your cookies have
not spread or something in the oven, you can just
(48:50):
work a little more of the leavening into the dough
and the work for the rest of your batches. But
if when you have bread dough, you can't taste it
to see if something's wrong, because it tastes nasty and
it is very susceptible to any sort of environmental changes,
(49:11):
especially temperature. And so every time you every time you
do a bread and you know, especially ones that utilize
preferments like sourdough and stuff, you know, it's it's risky.
I mean it's like throwing dice. And if you can
pull it off, you really feel like, wow, I did it.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Okay. Now you also garden. You are so creative and
I love the outdoors. So I again visiting your website,
do you still do gardening? Your gardening work was really
and I find gardening very relaxing. Yes, do you still
Is that something that you still love? And do?
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I love it? And the pictures that you see on
there are all volunteer gardens that I've made.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
And so.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Fall fall is when you plant things like daffodils and iris,
and so this fall I was very honored the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial. You know, I approached them and they said, yeah,
go for it. And so they gave me a little
spot where I could plant daffodils and some other things,
and so I am looking forward to continuing putting those
(50:25):
on places where, you know, where people need a spirit lift.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Wow, what amazing thing. Oh my goodness, thank you for
doing it. It's just such a beautiful work to do.
Now we just have a few more minutes. Laugh. What
for our listeners who are listening to you and they're like, maybe, like, wow,
you do so many different things when it comes to
actually writing a book. Can you tell us the writing
(50:51):
process you follow? Do you work with outlines, characters, schedules?
How do you get started?
Speaker 3 (50:58):
You know, I wish I were more organized and more
and better at taming my brain. Anyone who has an
artistic brain can sort of tell you that it bounces
off the walls and that thoughts happen anytime of day
or night, and so you just have to find a
(51:18):
way to catch those ideas and then later at a
later time, not lose them and develop them. And so
sometimes I'll wake up and I'll text myself an idea
because I'm like, oh wow, I just had this in
a dream and I can't lose that idea. And other times,
you know, I'll be in the supermarket and stuff like that,
(51:41):
so I'm cheating. Now I'm texting myself. Before the advent
of me getting a cell phone, you know, I carried
a little notepad and a pen in my purse and
did it that way.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Okay, now can you share three to four three let's say,
three steps that you found to be effective at getting
the word out about your stories and now coming up
your film?
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Okay, I would say things that are effective is you
just constantly have to think of expanding your circle. And
so for me expanding my circle, I mean, when you're
a writer, you're just cooped up alone on your laptop
or something like that, you need to, you know, get
(52:29):
get people involved. And so one of the things, and
I very much thank you, is you know, reach out
to podcasts. Once you have your works published and copyrighted,
ready to roll in all of that, then reach out
to podcasts and ask very humbly if they would let
(52:50):
you be a guest, because then you're reaching outside your circle.
Another thing is most local library have a space for
local authors. So that's another way that you can expand
your circle. And I have done book signings at arts
(53:13):
and crafts fares. They are they're considering us writers crafters.
In some cases and so you can get a little
table and you know, autograph your book, sign and sell,
and if you're like me, you'll have a strategically placed
bowl with candy. That's that always helps.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Oh my goodness, you are just a wonderful, wonderful guest
lower Spirit. Where can off the shelf listeners get a
copy of your books?
Speaker 3 (53:45):
The links are on my website, but my books are
sold on Amazon. And if you are not a person
who likes the the written books and turning the pages
and all of that, I found a phenomenal, phenomenal narrator
and I have book one and book two available. His
(54:06):
name is Stephen Gannett. And it's amazing to me that
this guy can do so many different voices, like when
he's voicing the mother, or when he's voicing the young
daughter of a character, or mister Clark or the bugman.
He has his whole library of voices, and it is
it's amazing, you know, and so and it's very well acted.
(54:31):
I think he's an actor too. I mean you can
tell when they're suspense or things like that. So all
of those are on my website and also on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Okay, we have had the absolute pleasure of having on
off the shelf this morning. Dante Teresa and her website
again is d A n T E p E R
E s E. She's the author of the book Sex
and Diane, and she's written the first two books, The
Base and The Base Book two, and she's working on
(55:03):
book three. Also working on a trailer where she's hoping
to finish in mid April and then when the edits
are done, So if you bookmark her website, you can
go back, hopefully late April early May, and watch the
trailer and then her goal is to get it to
where it's like a streaming series. And I'm praying for
(55:25):
that that that it lands, that that actually happened. Is
this story if you if you came in mid streams
no worries. Once the show finished the streaming, you can
go back and listen to it in it's entirety and
as many times as you like, and you can hear
her talk about the Base. And I say that because
as you listen to her talk about it, it does
sound like a very it would be a very interesting
(55:49):
a series. So she could stream with each different episode
or installment each week. Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
Don K. We really appreciate you being here with us.
She's amazing baker and she does gardening and volunteer work
with her gardening. Just wonderful. And I thank all of
(56:09):
you are listeners. As I tell you, you are awesome.
You are amazing. Go out and create a fabulous day
for yourself. See you back here next Saturday. On off
the show tell book lovers everywhere and people who love
all things story to catch off the show, Diane, I
(56:30):
will send you a link to the show once it
finishes streaming. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate what you're doing.
I think it's great that you are promoting authors and
literacy and positivity. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Thank you so much. Have a blessed ay. By for now.
Speaker 3 (56:51):
Okay,
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We have an awesome author on deck for you today.
She's just such a wonderful, wonderful creative Arthur and this artist.
But before we do, I want to ask you just
how good of a mystery sleuth do you think you are?
(02:08):
Do you think you are you somebody who could figure
out what happened? Who did it? And why I love
this TV series Colombo. They tell you, actually they show
you at the beginning who did it? Are you still
clinging to the end of your seat to figure out why?
(02:30):
How they did it, how it all, how it all
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you somebody who loves it? And miss and you think
I can? I can? I know what's happening. I know
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You can get it in print or ebook format. And
(02:54):
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here as well, with World War two and just what's
going on the climate in the country at that time.
But then there's some mystery and it's a little bit
(03:15):
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to a copy today. And now let us go and
meet today special Off the Shelf guests. And our special
(03:37):
off the Shelf guest this morning is Dante Darisa. At
her website, Dante describes herself as a writer, baker, and gardener.
She is a lover of books, appreciating libraries, bookstores and
all things storytelling. Books Dante has written include The Base
and Sex Death and Diane. You just have to visit
(04:00):
her website. I mean, when I was doing the research,
it's one of my fun parts. It takes time, but
it's one of my fun parts of being a host
of Off the Shof. I actually researched and it can
take me an hour more for each show. And when
I was researching for her, so I said, oh my god,
I had to let you all know. You have to
visit her website. And her website is Dante to Resay
(04:23):
dot com. And I'm gonna spell that d a n
t e t e r e s e dot com again,
that's d a n t e t e r e
s e dot com. You can actually hop over there now,
check out the pictures her gardening and baking, and I
(04:44):
mean you gonna really her website as an author, website
is very, very unique. You will love being over there
and it's just simply amazing. And while you're there, check
out her blog. It's just fun and engaging. And she
believes that people have more power than the they realize
and I love that thought. And again I encourage you
to check Dante Teresa out online. Again, I'm gonna spell
(05:08):
it d a n t e t e r e
s e dot com. You're gonna be happy you went
over there. We're just honored to have Dante Teresa here
on off the show this morning. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Dante, thank you so much for having me. Denise.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh, you got amazing website. You are multi, multi talented.
We're gonna dig into a little bit of that during
today's show. The first few questions I'm gonna ask you,
I ask every guest who comes on, so they get
a little backstory on the guests far I start talking
about their books. So could you kick it off and
tell our off the self listeners where you grew up
(05:47):
and what life was like for you growing up.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, The the fun part about answering that is it
because it enables me to sort of plug a book.
Uh sex death and Diane is, let me see somewhat
of a memoir. It's got uh, it's I take liberties there.
(06:13):
But the two best friends in the book are from
a small town where nothing ever happens, And that's pretty
much describes where I grew up, small town USA, where
nothing ever happens. And one of the best friends goes
to the big city and the other best friend stays
(06:34):
home in that town where nothing happens, but something happens.
I'm building that mystery and intrigue here because I you
just said how much you do the detective work and
how how much you like Colombo, and I think we're
probably both around the same vintage. I just turned the
(06:56):
Big six to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Zero, okay.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And one of one of the really fun things about
writing and writing from a time that isn't the present time,
is that you get to revisit all of those things.
And the eighties, which is the period when these two
friends graduate high school, there was great music, really really
(07:24):
great music. And you know it's interesting the kids today
still love it, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes, yes, So what can you give us? The state
or where you grew up?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sure, sure it's and after let me see, I grew
up in New York for the most part. I was
born in North Carolina, and my family moved there when
I was five, and after I graduated, I became somewhat
of a gypsy or serial mover. I mean, yes, I
do have Allied Van Lines number on speed dial. A
(07:58):
little embarrassed to admit that, but I lived around the country,
and when I was pastry cheffing and got a little
all these different characters and stories just sort of came
from my experiences. Yes, I did live in South Dakota
for five years, and that's why I refused to complain
(08:22):
about snow down here in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay, oh my goodness. And as we go through, I'm
sure your travels have influenced their writing. I think all
of our experiences do influence us, whether we're an an
artist or a writer or not. And when you were
a little girl coming from North Carolina to New York
and then traveling as an adult, But when you were
(08:49):
a kid, what did you want to be when you
grew up?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
It depended on the day. I mean, I was one
of those and I still am one of those people
who has a bouncing brain. And they say that creative
people that their left brain is more developed, and I'm
I think that my left brain is pretty much the
only side of my brain that works, and it's just
(09:14):
a bouncing brain. And so I wanted to, you know,
I wanted to do everything. And that's what I think
a lot of people in the art community are like that.
We you are just not a creative artistic person unless
you have at least three unfinished projects.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that's a pice. I've never heard that. Who are
What inspired your love for books?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, above all, I'd say my parents were just so
important with that because they stuck a book under our noses,
you know, before we could read, and they read it
to us every night, and that is such an important thing.
And you know, my parents also took us to library
and that was a real gift because libraries have so
(10:05):
much in there and it's all for free, and it
just opens up the mind of children, opens up just
a huge world to them. It was really a gift.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Okay, now to your books. Please tell us what's the
inspiration behind your books? And you told us it's sort
of a semi memoir you took liberties with, but what
was what was the inspiration behind you actually sitting down
and writing Sex Death and Dianne Well.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Sex Death and Diane. I was in a very very
long blizzard season in South Dakota, and where you did,
the only thing you could really venture out for is work,
and that, you know, it was kind of confining. But
a lot of people in South Dakota, especially in areas
(10:58):
that are impacted by severe ways other a lot of
the time they become good at things. I mean, there
are some phenomenal quilters and stuff like that, and so
Sex Death and Diane, I wanted to, you know, acknowledge
some of the heroes and some of the wonderful things
that existed during the eighties. And during the eighties, I
(11:22):
mean there there were there was an explosion of activism,
especially on the medical front, where unfortunately there was an epidemic.
I mean, there was the AIDS epidemic. But it made
so many courageous people come out and really speak in
(11:42):
favor of medical research and you know, getting resources to
people who needed it. And you know, those of us
who have like a chronic condition, we really owe them
a big thank you because the research was not only
done in the field of HIV and AIDS. They opened
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the door for research to be done for everything, and
you know, medications that used to come to market a
very very long time. It shortened that amount of time
and it helped they helped so many people with their activism.
And so that's that's a small piece of the story.
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I don't want to give it all away.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So as those things were happening in the eighties, you
wanted to capture that. You wanted to capture that time,
as seemed, so you sat down and wrote the book
Sex Step and Diane, now please introduce us to Sarah.
Tell us about her background, her motivations, her personality.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, so Sarah is the protagonist, which is you know,
based on me. And Sarah comes from this very sheltered
life and really has her eyes opened in the big city,
even though she's in a college and that's a semi
sort of protected environment where people recognize that even though
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you're eighteen and you know, legally an adult, that you
do need someone to kind of watch over you and
help you, you know, with your decisions and such. But
you know, Sarah is a witness to all these big
changes going on around her, all these movements starting up
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and all these big events happening, and these are all
experiences that she never thought she would ever experience in
the small town.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Is she quiet? You said she came from a Celta background.
Is she shy? Is she quiet? Is she is she outgoing?
She hauld go get her or she cannot sit back
and just let others lead away.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Sarah is let me see. Was sort of raised to
be more of an observer. The household was a bit
more strict, and some of that came from experiences that
happened to her mother. Her mother lost a child and
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was very very protective after that. You know, some would
say maybe over protective. And Sarah had a chronic medical condition,
so she really was, you know, very very protective. She
didn't want to go through that again. And so Sarah
(14:35):
isn't really someone who initiates things. But if every if
other people initiate, you know, she'll participate.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Okay, Okay, Now how old are Sarah and Ianne when
they meet? You say they grew up together. How old
are they when they meet?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, they they were neighbors and they met very early childhood,
like maybe round five or so, through the schools and
all of that, and they grew up. They grew up together,
and Diane's household was sort of a second home for Sarah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can you that was making me interested? Can you give
us a like a like a little mini overview of Diane,
just the pain her, what she's like. I want to
see how similar and different they are. If you could
describe Diane, what drives her, what she like, what's her
personality like.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Diane is a little bit more adventurous, and some of
that is because she had lost her father and because
she lost her father kind of young, and you know,
her mother was left to raise the kids on her own.
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She you know, she had a more freedom and her
mother was really not over overbearing or micromanaging or anything
like that. So that household was a really good influence
on Sarah because Diane's mother kept it real. You could
go up to Diane's mother and ask her anything and
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she would give you an answer. And it was really
important to Sarah to have someone like that in her life,
you know, a mother who would acknowledge, you know, reality
and keep it real and you know, talk to them
and always have an open door for them when it
came to communicating.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Okay, now, for off the Chef listeners who did grow
up during the nineteen eighties and they would not have
a clue about that time. Can you give us a
window into what's going on in the area Sarah and
Diane live in at the start of the story.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Okay, in the in the start of the story, they
are there two very very bonded friends that are young,
and they are growing up together, almost like sisters, because
they live so close and one was either at one's
house most of the time. Sarah was at Diane's house
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because Sarah's mother was, you know, just had had some
issues and was one of the ways that she expressed
her grief and everything like that, was constantly sort of
cleaning the house and managing the house. So Sarah going
over to Diane's place where they could experiment and try
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to make food and things like that and just in
general make a mess sometimes. That was that was really
important for them growing up. And they could, you know,
with the mother Nancy supervision, experiment with makeup and things
like that, whereas in Sarah's household that was, you know,
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just something that never came up.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why they are different, I like how you it's good
they're friends, but they came from different backgrounds, so they're
not going to be just the same, which can be
very good for creating reader interest in what's going to
happen in a story. Now, how did you say there's
a lot going on nineteen eighties and the age epidemic HIV,
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people scared of death, of different things. How does what's
happening in the country in this time of the story,
the eighties, does it impact or change? I mean, jaszidically
changed Sarah and Diane.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, I think in a lot of ways they they
had sort of their perfect little bubble of this small
town that was where nothing ever happened. The veil was lifted.
I mean, it's that sort of coming of age tail
where you where you suddenly learn that the protective little
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cocoon that you live in and stuff, that the real
world isn't always totally like that, that there are some
bumps in the road, there are some unpleasant things that
you would kind of shelter a child from. And so
when they both went there separate ways, when Sarah went
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to school in the big city and Diane stayed in
the small town. Of course the news and the TV
talk shows of the day, we're talking about the real
world issues. It's just that the real world was coming
into their world.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Oh my gosh, there's the one. Oh and I want
to grew up protected. She's the one. Oh my goodness.
Are any scenes in Sex, Death and Diane based on
I know you said it's kind of a memoir, but
if you could tell us maybe two scenes that happened
in the book that readers would know this actually did happen.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay, one thing that so many females have called me
out on and everyone laughs at it. So if you're
a man in the audience. I'm not offending you with this,
but the lady in your life will be able to
relate to this. It's how when you go into the
store and you try on a color of makeup on
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the back of your hand, which is the way they
let you try that, and then you look at it
and looks great, and then you go home and you
put it on looks awful. And so there's sort of
this urban myth about how makeup looks different in the
store because they have different lights there, or they have
(20:54):
some kind of checked remlins there or whatever, so that
it's a conspiracy. And then what happens is is you
buy this makeup and you can't return it, you know,
and then you have to go out and buy more
makeup because it doesn't work with their skin, and you
can't give it to your friend because you've already put
it on your mouth, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So yeah, oh, that's a good one. What what have
readers been saying about sex death and Diane? What have
some of the feedback you've been getting from readers.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, I think a lot of people have gone on
YouTube and looked up things about the the the organizations
that were doing the activism on campuses and by City
Hall and down by Wall Street and such with regard
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to the AIDS epidemic.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
They they reported things back to me, and I went
on YouTube, and yeah, I looked on some of these videos,
and you know, you know, I remember what I had
gone through, but I didn't realize how intense that was.
I didn't realize how how many communities had people that
you know, would like, want to quarantine a house, you know,
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the things that we later sort of experienced in the
very early stages of the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yes, yeah, interesting, very interesting. Now pivoting to what your
next book, can you give us an brief overview of
your book The Base?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, Well, when I first wrote the Bass, people said
you can't just you can't kill these characters. You can't
end the story we want. We don't kill a bug man.
Everyone was in love with the bug Man, and they
all said, you need to write a sequel. And so
(22:56):
I wrote a sequel, and folks encouraged me to adapt
it to film, which is what I'm presently doing. And
we're shooting a trailer and we are trying to make
the series, the book series into a streaming series. Okay,
(23:18):
which has you know, it's crazy, but I love dealing
with actors now and seeing three dimensional living people who
are portraying the people that I had on a page.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wow, So can you tell us? You said the bug man?
What is the story about? For our listeners who's never
this is the first time hearing about the base?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Okay, So the base, I'll summarize it really tightly here.
The base is the story of a special military base
where if you are really really good at something, if
you're a really good research scientist, what they will do
is instead of transfer you, like every three to four
years to random bases around the country, you are going
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to get transferred to the base. And that is where
they send people like you, people who are just absolutely
obsessed about one piece of knowledge and perfecting that. And
so these scientists are together and they each have vastly
(24:26):
different areas of expertise, but the military coops them up
in this very very remote base and tells them that
they have to make these top secret inventions quickly before
a deadline, and they keep them on this very remote
area with really bad weather, kind of like what I
experienced in South Dakota, because yeah, they want to keep
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others from coming over there too, you know, to steal
this stuff. But the spies, the thieves and the other
their evildoers are not deterred, and they try to creep
in there and steal that invention.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Wow, is the base? Is this a work of fiction?
As I was researching, I'm like, this is this a
work of fiction or non fiction? And this is very
different than your first book? What attracted you to this
particular story?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Well, I'm I'm a daughter of a research scientist. He
was not a military research scientist. But the idea of
creating some characters that are military research scientists and have
them make an invention. That sort of gave me the
opportunity to do tons of research on these inventions that
(25:51):
these guys were working to create and the research phase.
And I think we're both on the same page with
this because you had mentioned and how you research means
and things. Research is fun, really really fun. And then
creating your characters and making sure that they are factually accurate,
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like the bugman who is a military entomologist, which means
he is an expert on insects, and so they fight
with a much different arsenal. It isn't like your stereotypical
Hollywood thing, like let's pull out a gun and go
bang bang. As you can imagine an expert on insects
(26:35):
and bugs like he would have a whole different palette
of things that he could throw at you if you
were bad.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes, I vacuumed one of them up before I started
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh my god, is this a comedy.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
There's a lot of very very funny scenes in there.
I am very blessed that when we started to do
some of the filming, some of the actors, I mean,
they they caught onto that, they caught onto the fact
that their character isn't you know, you know, really stodgy,
(27:16):
like an old science teacher that's a little too monotonous
or boring. They they really had fun with it, and yeah,
it's a lot of fun. And the spies, the spies
love being spies. Especially. We have a female villain, the
young lady who portrayed Venus in this little clip of
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the trailer. I mean, she was just just so funny
and so good at being it rhymes with rich that,
you know. It was a very very enjoyable clip there.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
We got to talk about the film, but I want to.
I want to get a little bit more into Can
you tell us about the character Colleen, as any of
these based on a real person, Where did you come
up with the idea? What it's different characters? And can
you introduce us to Colleen?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Okay, let me see Cullen. Yes, he is also a
military research scientist. Now on the book covers you'll see
three military research scientists. However, there are you know, a
couple in the series, a few more because the military
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keeps transferring scientists to the base and giving them new assignments,
so they mix it up. So anyway, so Cullen, his
area of expertise is artificial cartilage and what and they
want to make artificial cartilage that can multiply on its own.
(28:51):
And it surprised me when I thought this thing up
and I started doing research on it. There is a
lot of research in that area.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, because if you think about it, and when if
you know people who are getting knee replacements and things
like that, and what wouldn't it be great if all
you had to do is just get an injection?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Have any of that, you know, after rehab, you know,
physical therapy all these other things that people go through
and then sometimes they need to go through second surgery.
And it also works for like spinal column and stuff
that people have degenerative discs. And so it was really
(29:37):
surprising to me when I was researching culin and I was,
you know, sort of giving him the uh specialized knowledge
and his little specialty that he contributes to the project.
It was very surprising to me to see how much
of these things.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Are actually happening. Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, Oh mister Clark.
What's he like and what does he do?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What mister Clark is and if you see him on
the book covers, he's the gentleman who wears the helmet.
Mister Clark's passion and his specialized area of knowledge is
he can animate anything. So, for instance, if you were
to make a robot, and let's say you were to
make that robot out of the cartilage, because there's a
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lot of advantages to that, and the books go into it,
what mister Clark could do is thread some Michael micro
filaments through that and then make that robot respond to
his commands, but also tell him if a spy or
some other outside source is trying to command it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Wow, oh my gosh, I listened to you. Oh my goodness.
The more. This is one thing I do love about
authorship is the authors talk about the book inspire them.
They go deeper into the inner workings. It's something you
can't do with a book description. It's uh uh. You
almost have to talk to the to the author long
(31:11):
enough to start digging into the real making this other story,
the idea for this, This is so unique to me
that I could see where if you, if you're like
your social media or whatever, if you got a strong
promo abilities you understand the algorithms, I can see where
this could take off. Now introduces please to the bug
(31:35):
Man and where and why did you get this the Bugman?
And how did you get this? Get this name?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, the thug Man is someone who grew up obsessed
with insects and he always wanted to study them and
he continues to study them passionately. Now it's not too
much of a stretch to think that you would have
someone who's an expert in insects in the military doing
(32:05):
design on some of their weaponry and stuff like that,
because if you look at a helicopter, it does have
similar properties to a dragonfly. And there are several pieces
of military equipment that you know, if you look at
them and and you look at how they use they
(32:27):
do their mobility or like some of the exoskeleton, if
you will, characteristics on these things, there are similarities to insects.
And so what he does is he combined, he combines
his brain power with Cullen and with Clark to make
(32:53):
this invention the first one, and then they they're they're
constant throughout the series. They are always fabricating these things.
The military gives them a wish list of attributes. They
call that a spec sheet. They want different characteristics to
be in these inventions. Like it has to be able
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to withstand a certain temperature range because those are the
temperatures it would be exposed to on the battlefield. It
has to be able to withstand, you know, getting wet,
and it has to be able to also recognize when
someone else is trying to jam at signals and you know,
(33:36):
operate it that shouldn't be doing that. And so you know,
every couple of weeks or months, the military gives them
a spec sheet and these the scientists, they have to
pool their talent expertise and energies into making this thing.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So Book one is they're getting sent to the base
and they are they have directions to create this like
a robot. Uh that's that? Is that accurate? And then
can you tell us, if so, what's going on in
book two? Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So Book one sort of does what we authors refer
to as world building. It defines their little world and
and then it defines, you know, the expectations that you have.
It starts with the newest scientist arriving. The other two
Cullen and mister Clark have worked together, and the bugman
(34:37):
moves in, so you know, so you start to learn.
And then of course the day after someone moves in,
the military gives you your top secret folder and here's
the wish list, here's what you guys need to do.
And so the Book one spends I would say a
good degree of time just uh, you know, getting you
(34:59):
into their world. A good book and I know you
write also, a good book should feel like a vacation.
When you open that thing up and you start reading,
or you can also listen to it on the audio book,
you should be completely sucked out of your world and
transported into their world. And so what book two and
(35:25):
book three, which is which will be happening soon. What
they do is they just now that you sort of
know the foundation and you know their world. What book
two does and what book three is doing is it's further,
you know, going on with that theme, and you get
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to meet some new villains, some new scientists, and there
are new top secret projects that the military wants them
to complete. And then there are more spies and more
thieves that are trying to steal it.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now, now, what's the title of book two? Book three?
You're still working on? What's the title of book two?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Book two? Is the base? Book two?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Okay, okay, okay? Are are as you were writing the base,
did you, in your mind see the story Unvoting as
a movie? So it's not coming to you and more
maybe just words, but you're literally getting a visual image
of the story of the story as it's coming to you.
(36:35):
Is that how you did you see it Umvoting as
a movie while you were actually writing it?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well, when when I write, I try to immerse myself
in the surroundings the same way I would expect a
reader to. I would expect that reader to feel like
they're there because when I read other people's books, that
is how I experience them. I feel like I am there,
and and so you know, I knew what the bug
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man would have in his house. I knew what, you know,
the base, the employee cafeteria. I knew what that would
look like and what would have in it. I have
a little bit of an advantage there because I have
visited military bases. I have had some friends in there
and stuff. But you know, so that is the mindset
(37:28):
that I went into that I have to immerse myself
the same way I expect the readers to and if
my picture isn't clear enough, I have to make it clear.
And the science has to be accurate. I was really
afraid of my father reading the book because he's a
real scientist. Ah okay, and I thought he was going
(37:50):
to be like, oh, this is not accurate or whatever.
But I passed the dad test.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm very ex Okay, what have rated been saying about
books one and book two of the Base, Well.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
People encouraged me to try to film it. They just
they said that they they thought it would really really
be cool if this could be a three dimensional thing
that people could look at and you know, see the bugman,
and then see some of the villains like Venus, especially
(38:27):
Venus has so many love haters, you know. And Venus
is the lady like she's one of the chief spies.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Is she the only woman in the story?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Okay, now, okay No.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
In book two we are introduced to Morgan, who is
a scientist also and has a very advanced expertise in
her field of study.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
And then there are the wives who are the mothers
of the children of the two scientists, Cullen and mister Clark,
who are featured in and out of the script at
different parts. And so there it's a diverse cast, and
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it is proudly diverse because the military is diverse.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Now are you actively involved? You said, Now you're filming
and you're loving it, and the actors and actresses and
the who are doing the trailer are really enjoying it.
Are you actually on set? Are you actively involved in
the makings of the trailer? And then if it does
(39:42):
take off, you're doing the streaming. Will you be actively
involved in on set?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I really want to be. I will I will be
off screen, but I really I love the process of
you know, interacting with the actor and bringing it to life.
I love I love shopping, so of course we have
to go shopping and get props and get some of
the clothes and things like that, you know. And the
(40:12):
cool thing is that the book series is based on
an earlier time. It is based on late seventies, and
so the technology and the spy capabilities and stuff like
that are much different then. And so it really posed
(40:32):
a lot of dilemmas for me when I was going
to bars to look for a bar to do a
bar scene where Venus, the villain is trying to pick
up a stolen device from a bed another villain. I
had to find a bar that didn't have a flat
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screen TV.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Wow, Oh my god, Oh my god. Yeah, And so
how hard was that.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
We were very very fortunate that a restaurant in the area,
really really big restaurant had a counter in it that
looked similar enough to a bar that we could also
remove the tech identifiers there as I call them, like
(41:24):
an actor wearing an eyewatch or Apple Watch or whatever.
And everyone has to hide their cell phones and silence them,
and so it has you know, it's it's been very
funny for us who who are working on the other
side of the camera, you know, to get creative. The
funniest thing and the hardest thing for me. We are
(41:49):
shooting a gym scene at the end of this month.
We have two scenes left, and so I had to
find a gym without mirrors, because if you're filling people
in a gym, you're going to get the camera crew.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
In all oh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah. So finding finding sets is it is very challenging.
It can you can rip your hair out and stuff,
but when you finally find it, it's like hitting the lottery.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
You're like, yay, oh, my goods. When when if if
if let's say you finished the trailer and everything's a success,
if you do start to stream it and people can
watch every every week, the next the next installment, when
would you think that the streaming of the story would begin.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Well, the last shoot date is an outdoor scene. It's
the only outdoor scene. We decided to film the indoor
scenes through the winter, which and then save the outdoor
scene for last and that will be filmed on April thirteenth,
weather permitting. Pray for good weather please we need it
(43:05):
because you know, getting twenty five people together is not easy,
especially when there are two holidays in the month of April,
and what we are really really hoping for is that
after April thirteenth, we can go straight to editing. Tomorrow
we're finishing the backup music recording, which will you know,
(43:32):
if everything goes well and there's no tech gremlins, that
will be the foundation to layer the video clips on
and you know, so I'm hoping that after April thirteenth,
we will you know, be able to go and do
the editing process, and then the trailer will be on
(43:53):
my website and we will have it there for everyone
to see, and then we will also use that as
a marketing tool to get it into a streaming series.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh my gosh, I got to put that on my calendar.
I want to. I got to check out that you
know a lot about film. Did you ever study film
or how did you get your knowledge? This isn't a
question I was going to ask you, but just listening
to you, how did you get the knowledge you have
(44:28):
about film?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I was fortunate that when I've always been in some
facet of the arts, I spent a lot of years
as a baker and pastry chef and working for a
catering house so some of the food that we shipped
out in different catering houses I have worked in did
go to film sets and so I got to see
some of that. And I also studied music and made
(44:55):
some music before, so I got to have some knowledge
in that area. Yeah, there are pictures on the website. Also,
I should mention if you go in under the blog section,
that are from the shoots that we have done already.
But you know, so you can see there's a city
(45:16):
hall scene and yeah, a press conference scene and stuff.
So we have just little photos from that, but not
the actual video clips up. Okay, But you know, I
was fortunate that I was able to experience a lot
of things, and then I did a lot of self education.
But most importantly I got qualified people. Yeah, because I mean,
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you can only wear so many hats, and you are
so much better if you admit what you don't know.
Then if you presume that you are just someone who
could wear fifty hats.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, No, that's good. That's a good tip. Now, in
addition to writing, as we come to the end of
the day show, in addition of writing, I mean, I
just love your website. In addition of writing, you also
loved gardening and baking. What you mentioned the caterine that
you did. When did you start baking? And do you
still like bake for weddings, birthdays, etc. Today.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Okay, I've taken a bit of a leave of absence
from the baking to focus everything full time on the writing.
My last baking thing was I was working as a
cake decorater and that is just that's really really something
(46:41):
experiencing that. But the cool thing about it is it
gives you experience in making things because cakes today are
not the cakes that I grew up with. I mean,
people have they want a battlefield on their cake. And
I got to learn air brushing and all of these
other things you know to make mountains and things like that,
(47:04):
and then you put soldiers on the cake or else
spider Man cake where you're air brushing and you have
to mask different things off and stuff. All of that
knowledge comes in really handy later when you're doing lighting
in film.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Mmmm.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And all the everything you learn in your life, you'll
find another place to put it.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
So wow, interesting. Interesting. You do a lot of other
banking for those who visit your website, and I'll give
your website you r l out again to our listeners.
It's uh d A N T E T E R
E s C. You do other bank I mean your pictures.
I was like, oh, my gosh, religion. You do other
(47:50):
things uh at your website as well, all the types
of Uh. What was your favorite thing you baked that
really stands out? You talk about these cakes and these
sam cakes like your favorite that you either enjoy creating
or you enjoy just eating yourself.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Well, I think the breads, yeast leaven breads like the
traditional Italian or French or sour doughs and other things
like that shibata those have those are actually a lot
more risky. And the reason I say that is because
when you do cookies or cakes or something, you are
(48:30):
using what we call chemical leaveners, which are very reliable.
You're using your baking soda and you're using your baking powder,
and you know you can't really screw that up. But
when you're and then if you do, I mean, it's
an easy remedy. Like if you see your cookies have
not spread or something in the oven, you can just
(48:50):
work a little more of the leavening into the dough
and the work for the rest of your batches. But
if when you have bread dough, you can't taste it
to see if something's wrong, because it tastes nasty and
it is very susceptible to any sort of environmental changes,
(49:11):
especially temperature. And so every time you every time you
do a bread and you know, especially ones that utilize
preferments like sourdough and stuff, you know, it's it's risky.
I mean it's like throwing dice. And if you can
pull it off, you really feel like, wow, I did it.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Okay. Now you also garden. You are so creative and
I love the outdoors. So I again visiting your website,
do you still do gardening? Your gardening work was really
and I find gardening very relaxing. Yes, do you still
Is that something that you still love? And do?
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I love it? And the pictures that you see on
there are all volunteer gardens that I've made.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
And so.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Fall fall is when you plant things like daffodils and iris,
and so this fall I was very honored the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial. You know, I approached them and they said, yeah,
go for it. And so they gave me a little
spot where I could plant daffodils and some other things,
and so I am looking forward to continuing putting those
(50:25):
on places where, you know, where people need a spirit lift.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Wow, what amazing thing. Oh my goodness, thank you for
doing it. It's just such a beautiful work to do.
Now we just have a few more minutes. Laugh. What
for our listeners who are listening to you and they're like, maybe, like, wow,
you do so many different things when it comes to
actually writing a book. Can you tell us the writing
(50:51):
process you follow? Do you work with outlines, characters, schedules?
How do you get started?
Speaker 3 (50:58):
You know, I wish I were more organized and more
and better at taming my brain. Anyone who has an
artistic brain can sort of tell you that it bounces
off the walls and that thoughts happen anytime of day
or night, and so you just have to find a
(51:18):
way to catch those ideas and then later at a
later time, not lose them and develop them. And so
sometimes I'll wake up and I'll text myself an idea
because I'm like, oh wow, I just had this in
a dream and I can't lose that idea. And other times,
you know, I'll be in the supermarket and stuff like that,
(51:41):
so I'm cheating. Now I'm texting myself. Before the advent
of me getting a cell phone, you know, I carried
a little notepad and a pen in my purse and
did it that way.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Okay, now can you share three to four three let's say,
three steps that you found to be effective at getting
the word out about your stories and now coming up
your film?
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Okay, I would say things that are effective is you
just constantly have to think of expanding your circle. And
so for me expanding my circle, I mean, when you're
a writer, you're just cooped up alone on your laptop
or something like that, you need to, you know, get
(52:29):
get people involved. And so one of the things, and
I very much thank you, is you know, reach out
to podcasts. Once you have your works published and copyrighted,
ready to roll in all of that, then reach out
to podcasts and ask very humbly if they would let
(52:50):
you be a guest, because then you're reaching outside your circle.
Another thing is most local library have a space for
local authors. So that's another way that you can expand
your circle. And I have done book signings at arts
(53:13):
and crafts fares. They are they're considering us writers crafters.
In some cases and so you can get a little
table and you know, autograph your book, sign and sell,
and if you're like me, you'll have a strategically placed
bowl with candy. That's that always helps.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Oh my goodness, you are just a wonderful, wonderful guest
lower Spirit. Where can off the shelf listeners get a
copy of your books?
Speaker 3 (53:45):
The links are on my website, but my books are
sold on Amazon. And if you are not a person
who likes the the written books and turning the pages
and all of that, I found a phenomenal, phenomenal narrator
and I have book one and book two available. His
(54:06):
name is Stephen Gannett. And it's amazing to me that
this guy can do so many different voices, like when
he's voicing the mother, or when he's voicing the young
daughter of a character, or mister Clark or the bugman.
He has his whole library of voices, and it is
it's amazing, you know, and so and it's very well acted.
(54:31):
I think he's an actor too. I mean you can
tell when they're suspense or things like that. So all
of those are on my website and also on Amazon.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Okay, we have had the absolute pleasure of having on
off the shelf this morning. Dante Teresa and her website
again is d A n T E p E R
E s E. She's the author of the book Sex
and Diane, and she's written the first two books, The
Base and The Base Book two, and she's working on
(55:03):
book three. Also working on a trailer where she's hoping
to finish in mid April and then when the edits
are done, So if you bookmark her website, you can
go back, hopefully late April early May, and watch the
trailer and then her goal is to get it to
where it's like a streaming series. And I'm praying for
(55:25):
that that that it lands, that that actually happened. Is
this story if you if you came in mid streams
no worries. Once the show finished the streaming, you can
go back and listen to it in it's entirety and
as many times as you like, and you can hear
her talk about the Base. And I say that because
as you listen to her talk about it, it does
sound like a very it would be a very interesting
(55:49):
a series. So she could stream with each different episode
or installment each week. Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
Don K. We really appreciate you being here with us.
She's amazing baker and she does gardening and volunteer work
with her gardening. Just wonderful. And I thank all of
(56:09):
you are listeners. As I tell you, you are awesome.
You are amazing. Go out and create a fabulous day
for yourself. See you back here next Saturday. On off
the show tell book lovers everywhere and people who love
all things story to catch off the show, Diane, I
(56:30):
will send you a link to the show once it
finishes streaming. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate what you're doing.
I think it's great that you are promoting authors and
literacy and positivity. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Thank you so much. Have a blessed ay. By for now.
Speaker 3 (56:51):
Okay,
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