Hi, Errol. Hey, how are you doing today, Karina? Good?
Good, Thank you for having me. Oh, I want to thank
you for this book. This right here is probably one of the greatest best
feeling on the inside books I have read and held in my hands in a
very long time. Thank you, Thank you so much. It was so
fun writing it. It had to have been, because I mean the way
that you talked about it. First of all, slime zombies got my attention
and I giggled like a little four year old kid when you when you introduce
the zombies. Yes, we had to have the drama. And there they
become zombies. Basically, one of the slimes eats them and like it turns
them into zombies, and there's this whole thing of them trying to like save
the day, and we had to have drama in there. Well, and
you know, part of that drama is the fact that you put focus on
on three different slime shops and they've got to work together or they get they
compete against each other. But then the slime starts missing and then so now
you've got my attention. It's a crime novel too, Yeah, So basically
it's these three kids that run a slime shop, and when the kids,
you know, they make the slime, and then when they leave, the
slimes come to life. And there's so many different personalities in the slimes.
There's like the popular slime. There's of course, the villain that's telling all
those slimes like, hey, look they make us and they might love you
now, but they're gonna ship you to who knows where, you know,
And the sime's like, no, you're crazy. What are you talking about.
They're like, Boris, You're crazy because that's his name, Boris,
And he's like all right, So he gets mad and he basically like starts
eating them, like he absorbs them and they spits them out and their zombies
and they have to figure out how to save the day. And it's just
hoping. It's it's a it's really funny to drama with everything you need in
a book. It's I think the kids are gonna love it. I know
that you've got a very busy lifestyle, but you know, this book is
screaming to have some attention on YouTube or even Hulu or Netflix because it needs
to come to life on the screen. Oh my gosh, I'll be amazing.
That's that's the goal here because we can all relate with slime. Why
is that? Is it? Because it's just gooey, gooey fun and it's
just fun to watch other people get slimed. But I'd be a nervous wreck
if I was getting ready, you know, to be slimed. I think
it's really just one of those things that it's like oddly satisfying, where you
know it's this gool, but you just want to get your hands in it.
And I feel like sometimes when people think of slime, they just think
of like that, like really sticky stuff, But slim was actually evolved a
lot and it shouldn't be you know, sticky and runny. It's actually really
fun to play with and stretch and pop, and it's a really fun sensory
toy. So I think even adults could enjoy it one hundred percent. I
mean, I think it's for everybody. Oh I've been with Jojo Siwa and
I'll tell you when she said it's the greatest feeling in the world to be
slimed. Oh my gosh. Yes, I've been slimed ones and it was
it was amazing. Now, when you have a situation like this, because
listeners need to understand this is a collaboration in your life because you joined up
with two other people. Did the story come first or was it the illustration
that came along? So it actually started off with me pitching it to my
publishers, which is HarperCollins. I actually just wrote, you know, I
opened up my phone and I literally went into notes and just wrote what I
wanted a story to be, what I wanted the characters to be. But
when it comes to the actual dialogue, because the book is you know,
it's like a graphic novel with a bunch of dialogue. Like, I didn't
know how to do that. I needed a team. So luckily, you
know, I was able to partner with Nicki Smith, which is an amazing
illustrator, and writer Kevin Panetta to put this book together. And truly,
without them, I would have not been able to. I mean, I
knew exactly what I wanted, I knew exactly what I wanted the story to
be. But I'm so lucky to have fout these partners because they made it
come to life, you know, beyond my expectations, Like I'm completely obsessed
with the book. Are you going to turn this into a series? Oh
yeah, I would love that. I mean, that's the goal here.
I you know, it's funny because when I actually first started thinking of this
book, I wanted to to, you know, pitch it as a movie.
But of course, you know, like cho's gotta pick it up.
So I was like, you know, well, let's do a fun book.
Let's do a book. Maybe it becomes a series, and you know,
hopefully the kids like it. That's the goal here for sure, and
hopefully it becomes a series. Well, I'm so glad that you gave yourself
permission to do this. Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
The door is always going to be open for you. Karina. Thank
you so much. Thank you so much for having me this. It was
fun. You'd be brilliant today. Okay YouTube, Thank you so much.