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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, bringing a world together
Speaker 2: with books, culture and community. HOI my name is Malik,
Speaker 2: your host of Malik's Bookshelf. Well, hey, I got a
Speaker 2: line up during this episode.
Speaker 3: I got a couple of authors that I was blessed
Speaker 3: to interview.
Speaker 2: You know how I do it.
Speaker 3: If they walk into Malik Books, I get excellent content
Speaker 3: all the time. So I got a couple of self
Speaker 3: published authors. They came to Malik one dead book signing.
Speaker 3: One was just visiting and dropping off a book. Because
Speaker 3: we're getting ready for the big event this Saturday, August
Speaker 3: fifth at Quenshaw High School between eleven and six pm
Speaker 3: where we give it away two thousand free books to
Speaker 3: the community. We're doing a gang of book signings. We
Speaker 3: got about ten authors. They're gonna be there and were
Speaker 3: given away their books. That's right, So you gotta come
Speaker 3: on our community listen. Also want to mention that this
Speaker 3: event is given away five thousand backpacks. These ain't just
Speaker 3: no winkiding backpacks. These backpacks, I know last year came
Speaker 3: from Adidas. So we're giving away five thousand backpacks at
Speaker 3: this event. This event is organized by It's Bigger than Us.
Speaker 3: This is a prolific foundation that has made a great
Speaker 3: impact in our community. Now, this is the fourth annual
Speaker 3: back to School festival put on by It's Bigger than Us.
Speaker 3: But hey, I'm hosting. Elite Books is hosting the book
Speaker 3: fair at this year's event. So that's why we're given
Speaker 3: out two thousand books to the community. And so hey,
Speaker 3: these are culturally relative and curated selection. Buy Maleague books
Speaker 3: and so you don't want to miss this. You go
Speaker 3: to Milage books dot com. You can register for this
Speaker 3: event because it's only five thousand backpacks, so it's limited
Speaker 3: and we want to definitely know who's showing up. So
Speaker 3: you got a RSVP for the event, the Lincols on
Speaker 3: my website League Books dot com. But community, you gotta
Speaker 3: come on out, you gotta come support, you got to
Speaker 3: give us, you know, the love. Hey, I'm just now
Speaker 3: coming from an event called.
Speaker 1: Rock the Block.
Speaker 3: That's right. We hosted the book mobile at this event,
Speaker 3: Rock the Block. It was a wonderful community event. It
Speaker 3: was a street festival, La Street Festival and it was
Speaker 3: put on by this organization on fifty fourth Street and
Speaker 3: it was a wonderful, wonderful event. I believe organization called
Speaker 3: Whitehall Arts Academy, Whitehall Arts Academy, it's a great organization.
Speaker 3: They it's all ab about making sure they continue to
Speaker 3: keep music alive, because hey, music does transform and change
Speaker 3: lives and a lot of the schools have taken out music.
Speaker 3: So this organization, Whitehall Arts Studio, continues to make sure
Speaker 3: our youth, our children, our community are served with resources
Speaker 3: that continue to help them who blessed to have that
Speaker 3: kind of gift that they can have people, teachers, instructions
Speaker 3: and guidance in order to be as successful in the
Speaker 3: arts of music and talent and dancing and singing and
Speaker 3: all that you know that comes with that. So the
Speaker 3: free festival was on fifty fourth between fourth and seventh Apps,
Speaker 3: and the community came out. We had the bookmobile, they
Speaker 3: had the politicians, they had the Health pavilion, the Metro pavilion,
Speaker 3: they had Kjlah, they had.
Speaker 1: Food trucks, they had the game.
Speaker 3: Bus, they had the Diva spot bus out there.
Speaker 1: They had a trailer that had teach you how to DJ.
Speaker 1: They had a.
Speaker 3: Children's pavilion, children's zone, and then of course the main
Speaker 3: stage with music entertainment and so for mini panels out
Speaker 3: there many a lot of discussions, but a Mali's Bookmobile
Speaker 3: was in the house doing what we do, which is
Speaker 3: what served our communities with culturally relevant African MRIA and
Speaker 3: diverse books.
Speaker 1: That's right read to achieve. You see what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, read to you because achievers are readers now. So hey,
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed the interviews that I was able
Speaker 3: to put together. Lewanda Stanton who wrote a book called
Speaker 3: Shaking the Bush, So I'm gonna feature that in the
Speaker 3: young lady who.
Speaker 1: Wrote a book, a children's book.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna try the title would lose me, but
Speaker 3: stay tuned for that interview.
Speaker 1: He because I'm basically it's this.
Speaker 3: Is not scripted. I go from the heart, I go
Speaker 3: from the soul. So I'm just going to bring you
Speaker 3: the episode so you can just here for yourself.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I love my audience on Malik's bookshelf. Bringing a world
Speaker 3: together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 4: We had a whole world because we got a little
Speaker 4: wander Stanton at Malik Books at Melis Book.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, And I just had to record you
Speaker 5: for my podcast, Malise Book Bringing the World Together.
Speaker 1: With Books, Culture and Community.
Speaker 4: So you have a new one out the Wanda Standing
Speaker 4: new books, Shaking good Bush.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get right into that. But she also had
Speaker 1: authored a book years and years ago.
Speaker 6: Called how to Kill Your Will, Racism and our own race.
Speaker 7: Good hair, bad hair, light skin, dark skin.
Speaker 8: Now we we deal with more economics and keeping us
Speaker 8: separating now and then with the hair and the power.
Speaker 4: Out absolutely and you know it's don bolical, it's systemic,
Speaker 4: and we have a major issue with a division because
Speaker 4: of our differences, something that we have to overcome.
Speaker 1: That's why your book is called Overcome your Willing how
Speaker 1: to kill your willingness.
Speaker 7: It gives you an antidote on how to kill your will.
Speaker 8: WI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to come together.
Speaker 4: And then my podcast is called Malice's Bookshelf bring the
Speaker 4: world Together with Books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: So books I believe can bring the world together.
Speaker 7: Yes, one book at a time, one book at a time.
Speaker 4: And so the one that this is your new book,
Speaker 4: this is my new book, Shaking the Bush, Shaking the Bush.
Speaker 1: Tell my audience all this. No one's more passionate.
Speaker 4: About books than the UT and no one is more
Speaker 4: passionate about selling books.
Speaker 1: Book yes, tell us.
Speaker 7: So the book Malik is about.
Speaker 8: It takes place in nineteen thirty and it's about this
Speaker 8: black woman named Willie who goes and work for the
Speaker 8: leader of the KKK. She doesn't know he's the leader
Speaker 8: of the KKK. They ended up calling in love. But
Speaker 8: the love had of course back in nineteen thirty with
Speaker 8: Jim Crow and Off and him being the leader of
Speaker 8: the KKK, they had the Really it was unforbidden love,
Speaker 8: but it was.
Speaker 7: It was not LUs, it was love.
Speaker 8: They when they saw each other, they were so drowned
Speaker 8: to each other. You know how every once in a
Speaker 8: while you can meet that one person and you're just
Speaker 8: like whoa.
Speaker 6: And that's how they both were cheap somates.
Speaker 8: They were so mads. But it's more than soul mates.
Speaker 8: And the reason the book is called Shaking the Bush.
Speaker 8: There's so many twisted turns in it that I can't
Speaker 8: tell because they're just like one of the guys who
Speaker 8: just purchased the book, he said, I know what Shaking
Speaker 8: the Bush means, and I.
Speaker 7: Said, well, tell me, not one person has been.
Speaker 1: Able to get Let me try to get shake in
Speaker 1: the bush.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me sad, but I am not ready.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see what it sounds very you know.
Speaker 7: But we're not going to tell. We don't want to
Speaker 7: give it away.
Speaker 1: No shaking the bush shaking. What I think.
Speaker 4: What I think shaking the bush mean is that that
Speaker 4: you are shaking up norms and issues in the society
Speaker 4: with this uh tapoo love between the k.
Speaker 7: Nobody has gotten me yet. You know what I will
Speaker 7: give somebody.
Speaker 8: Now, one person has, I said here and listen to
Speaker 8: him say, oh, this is what it means. No, I
Speaker 8: got it wrong until you read. Some people get it
Speaker 8: in the middle of the book. Other people get it.
Speaker 4: At the end of the what it means by shaking
Speaker 4: the bush, by shaking in the book.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's the thing.
Speaker 7: That's that's a teaser. That's what keeps it going.
Speaker 8: Everyone who reads this book right now, they said they
Speaker 8: cannot put it down. They end up my pastor's wife, older.
Speaker 1: Lady, Well, we just read a customer by your book.
Speaker 1: Go outside and read chapter three. He can't put it down.
Speaker 7: Yes, he said, you.
Speaker 8: Cannot, And all my male friends say, don't read it
Speaker 8: by yourself, and it is steal.
Speaker 1: Too, oh a lot of.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, lady, lady.
Speaker 7: I was talking to one guy and he said, is
Speaker 7: that vicariously through you? That book? And I said, you know,
Speaker 7: I said, I pleaded the fifth you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, well you know all books are close near
Speaker 4: and did to people's soul as they write, so people
Speaker 4: reveal a little bit about it.
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe maybe I did it to throw off too.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, hey that's possible too, because now I will
Speaker 4: fiction is fiction, yes, yeah, but typically the best fictionalized
Speaker 4: books are mixed.
Speaker 1: With a little truth. Yeah, the truth. Yeah, but we're.
Speaker 4: Going back the yeah, yeah, we're going back to nineteen thirty.
Speaker 4: You got a leader of the KKK and a fred
Speaker 4: fresh black woman.
Speaker 1: Falling in love with each other. And so now there's
Speaker 1: some twisting turns. It's a sec going on.
Speaker 7: If you see what each chapter has something read read
Speaker 7: all those.
Speaker 9: Okay, so that's what these little things okay, yes, okay, superiority, secrets, secrets, entitlement, entitlement, passion,
Speaker 9: pass deception, LUs.
Speaker 1: Lie, it lies, whole lot of.
Speaker 3: Line a whole lot of life, whole lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of whole lot of period.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's still going on.
Speaker 4: It is still going So basically, this book could also
Speaker 4: be actually present today. Yes, you know it might. This
Speaker 4: book might be about the nineteen nine, but really in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, the same thing is going on.
Speaker 7: Exactly.
Speaker 8: One of my girlfriends who read the book, she's from
Speaker 8: New Orleans. She said it brought her back to her
Speaker 8: roots growing up in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: Read it sound like a book that need to be
Speaker 4: made into a movie.
Speaker 7: I've been getting so many calls lately.
Speaker 8: This week, I got so many calls from different agents
Speaker 8: who want to be my agent. They because they they yeah,
Speaker 8: just how well they said. They went on Amazon and
Speaker 8: saw that I'm in the top twelve.
Speaker 6: So I didn't you know before the category for fiction.
Speaker 6: Yes twelve, yes, kudos, Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: And it's only been out a month.
Speaker 1: And a half and you get to the top. Now
Speaker 1: you got because.
Speaker 8: What's the movie come out? You know, the price is
Speaker 8: going to go sky high and I and I am gonna.
Speaker 3: Go to.
Speaker 1: Rebranded and cover all of that.
Speaker 7: You know, how to worry out how the game works?
Speaker 1: That's a good thing.
Speaker 8: Yes, but I kept believe, and it's a blessing from God.
Speaker 8: I'm telling you now, I cannot believe because I just
Speaker 8: lost my husband. I started writing this book during COVID,
Speaker 8: and when when my husband got sick and cast away
Speaker 8: listen two years ago. He kept saying, you need to
Speaker 8: finish that book.
Speaker 7: I told him what I was writing about it. He said,
Speaker 7: oh my goodness, he said, this is going to be
Speaker 7: a movie.
Speaker 1: Wow. And everyone who.
Speaker 7: Knew about the book before I put it out, they
Speaker 7: said that idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes.
Speaker 7: And then the first thing he said, babe, that's going
Speaker 7: to be a movie.
Speaker 1: He said, you watch.
Speaker 7: And I've been getting people now calling me and you said,
Speaker 7: we can't.
Speaker 8: Believe your book is all even out a month and
Speaker 8: a half and you're number twelve on amazad wonderful number twelve.
Speaker 8: And then I got a call the other day said
Speaker 8: I'm in the top thirty three percent of sale with Amazon,
Speaker 8: with Amazon, with Amazon, Okay, yeah, this all the.
Speaker 1: Praise, okay, all praises being.
Speaker 7: So it must be something that people really want and everybody.
Speaker 1: Who everybody good reading? Everybody, Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 7: Like a.
Speaker 1: God. This God's shaking the what do you mean she
Speaker 1: ain't willing to tell me.
Speaker 4: I tried to guess because usually the title tell y'all,
Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't hit.
Speaker 1: The guard into the bullseye. But that's okay. I think
Speaker 1: I might have to put it on my list. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to put on but hey, why you.
Speaker 7: Figure it out. You're gonna say, wow, I.
Speaker 1: Got it shaking the Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, all I can say is we're gonna be carrying
Speaker 4: the book he had Malig Books. Obviously she didn't told you.
Speaker 4: On Amazon, it's whold wherever books are sold.
Speaker 7: Books are sold.
Speaker 8: But we want, we want to represent, we want to
Speaker 8: keep it in the neighborhood you are and see you guys,
Speaker 8: please put us wrong.
Speaker 7: You know what my boys say, and these are young boys.
Speaker 8: They say, if you want to want to make sure
Speaker 8: that a black dother know about something, put it in.
Speaker 7: The But you know, hey, let's let's let's let's get
Speaker 7: rid of that myth.
Speaker 6: That's a Willie Lynch also, that's right.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, I appreciate the interview.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure my.
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Speaker 1: Adrian Lombard at Monique.
Speaker 5: Books, Well you know how to do it. They come
Speaker 5: to Elite Books. I interviewed them on the spot organic
Speaker 5: Why because no one is more passionate about that book
Speaker 5: than the art, and no one is more passionate about
Speaker 5: selling books than Elite himself.
Speaker 1: So this is her book, Chelsea Chip for President.
Speaker 10: Yeah, tell us a little bit about your book.
Speaker 11: So she is a fourth grader running for a fifth
Speaker 11: grade class president with the help of her two best friends.
Speaker 10: Her name is Chelsea Chip, a play on chocolate Chip.
Speaker 11: In the back of the book, there are recipes on
Speaker 11: how to make each main character that are all named
Speaker 11: after cookies. But to get to the exact measurements, you
Speaker 11: have to answer the math problem. So there's math, vocabulary
Speaker 11: reading all in one. It's really a let's make learning
Speaker 11: fun no matter what the classroom looks like kind of
Speaker 11: concept behind it.
Speaker 1: Listen, that was an excellent elevator, great on the spot.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Well, I love you hitting all these different angles to
Speaker 3: make reading fun and enjoyable and learning all at the
Speaker 3: same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a sweet treat and a sweet treat.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I guess you get more than a book. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get some information. She gets some knowledge, you get
Speaker 5: some education and a sweet treat right.
Speaker 4: After a Then what inspired you want to write this wonderful,
Speaker 4: beautiful book?
Speaker 11: Okay, so first I have a back from the education
Speaker 11: My grandfather's sister taught me how to read. My grandfather
Speaker 11: was very heavy, heavy into education because he wasn't able
Speaker 11: to go past high school, so he encouraged all his grandkids.
Speaker 11: He's from the louisianas himself, and he encouraged all his
Speaker 11: grandkids to strive for college and having a degree.
Speaker 10: So that was already instilled in me.
Speaker 11: Even in twenty twenty when I saw a generation of
Speaker 11: kids like hating school or not really into it, I
Speaker 11: was like, you can't have a generation.
Speaker 10: Of people who don't like school or who don't like
Speaker 10: learning and education. So I was like, how do I
Speaker 10: make it fun?
Speaker 11: How do I incorporate the things that I liked about
Speaker 11: school as a kid into a book, So that way,
Speaker 11: whether they were able to go back.
Speaker 10: To the classroom or became homeschool, they still had fun.
Speaker 1: And so Chelsea Chip was moor Chelsea Chip. This sounded
Speaker 1: like an amazing book.
Speaker 5: And what does the overall takeaway from you want kids
Speaker 5: to get from reading this?
Speaker 10: Wonderful book.
Speaker 5: I'm sure that most of the children you talk to, Yeah,
Speaker 5: some of them can read, some of them can't, but
Speaker 5: just hear you read it to them.
Speaker 7: And also the ones they can.
Speaker 1: What's the takeaway? What do you want them to walk away?
Speaker 10: When one still experience this.
Speaker 11: Money, teamwork, leadership, the power of friendship, working together to
Speaker 11: achieve a goal. And if someone tells you know, making
Speaker 11: that just the starting point at the end, like Okay,
Speaker 11: he doesn't know how to help me, I can go
Speaker 11: ask someone else.
Speaker 10: Just making sure that your dreams are worth fulfilling and
Speaker 10: singing through.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, because with our dreams.
Speaker 8: That's the fact.
Speaker 1: But we got to imagine that thing. We got to
Speaker 1: have creativity today. Absolutely, and so dreaming is part of
Speaker 1: our imagination. Dream big to be big. Hello, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Now we got the book at
Speaker 1: Beleague Books now, so hey, come on through Mileague books
Speaker 1: dot com. We're gonna put it on the website. Also
Speaker 1: all right, so it's a wonderful book. Thank you for
Speaker 1: writing such a wonderful book.
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