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Hi, Errol. Hey, how
are you doing today, Karina? Good?

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Good, Thank you for having me. Oh, I want to thank

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you for this book. This right
here is probably one of the greatest best

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feeling on the inside books I have
read and held in my hands in a

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very long time. Thank you,
Thank you so much. It was so

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fun writing it. It had to
have been, because I mean the way

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that you talked about it. First
of all, slime zombies got my attention

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and I giggled like a little four
year old kid when you when you introduce

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the zombies. Yes, we had
to have the drama. And there they

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become zombies. Basically, one of
the slimes eats them and like it turns

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them into zombies, and there's this
whole thing of them trying to like save

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the day, and we had to
have drama in there. Well, and

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you know, part of that drama
is the fact that you put focus on

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on three different slime shops and they've
got to work together or they get they

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compete against each other. But then
the slime starts missing and then so now

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you've got my attention. It's a
crime novel too, Yeah, So basically

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it's these three kids that run a
slime shop, and when the kids,

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you know, they make the slime, and then when they leave, the

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slimes come to life. And there's
so many different personalities in the slimes.

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There's like the popular slime. There's
of course, the villain that's telling all

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those slimes like, hey, look
they make us and they might love you

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now, but they're gonna ship you
to who knows where, you know,

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And the sime's like, no,
you're crazy. What are you talking about.

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They're like, Boris, You're crazy
because that's his name, Boris,

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And he's like all right, So
he gets mad and he basically like starts

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eating them, like he absorbs them
and they spits them out and their zombies

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and they have to figure out how
to save the day. And it's just

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hoping. It's it's a it's really
funny to drama with everything you need in

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a book. It's I think the
kids are gonna love it. I know

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that you've got a very busy lifestyle, but you know, this book is

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screaming to have some attention on YouTube
or even Hulu or Netflix because it needs

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to come to life on the screen. Oh my gosh, I'll be amazing.

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That's that's the goal here because we
can all relate with slime. Why

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is that? Is it? Because
it's just gooey, gooey fun and it's

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just fun to watch other people get
slimed. But I'd be a nervous wreck

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if I was getting ready, you
know, to be slimed. I think

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it's really just one of those things
that it's like oddly satisfying, where you

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know it's this gool, but you
just want to get your hands in it.

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And I feel like sometimes when people
think of slime, they just think

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of like that, like really sticky
stuff, But slim was actually evolved a

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lot and it shouldn't be you know, sticky and runny. It's actually really

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fun to play with and stretch and
pop, and it's a really fun sensory

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toy. So I think even adults
could enjoy it one hundred percent. I

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mean, I think it's for everybody. Oh I've been with Jojo Siwa and

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I'll tell you when she said it's
the greatest feeling in the world to be

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slimed. Oh my gosh. Yes, I've been slimed ones and it was

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it was amazing. Now, when
you have a situation like this, because

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listeners need to understand this is a
collaboration in your life because you joined up

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with two other people. Did the
story come first or was it the illustration

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that came along? So it actually
started off with me pitching it to my

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publishers, which is HarperCollins. I
actually just wrote, you know, I

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opened up my phone and I literally
went into notes and just wrote what I

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wanted a story to be, what
I wanted the characters to be. But

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when it comes to the actual dialogue, because the book is you know,

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it's like a graphic novel with a
bunch of dialogue. Like, I didn't

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know how to do that. I
needed a team. So luckily, you

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know, I was able to partner
with Nicki Smith, which is an amazing

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illustrator, and writer Kevin Panetta to
put this book together. And truly,

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without them, I would have not
been able to. I mean, I

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knew exactly what I wanted, I
knew exactly what I wanted the story to

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be. But I'm so lucky to
have fout these partners because they made it

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come to life, you know,
beyond my expectations, Like I'm completely obsessed

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with the book. Are you going
to turn this into a series? Oh

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yeah, I would love that.
I mean, that's the goal here.

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I you know, it's funny because
when I actually first started thinking of this

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book, I wanted to to,
you know, pitch it as a movie.

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But of course, you know,
like cho's gotta pick it up.

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So I was like, you know, well, let's do a fun book.

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Let's do a book. Maybe it
becomes a series, and you know,

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hopefully the kids like it. That's
the goal here for sure, and

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hopefully it becomes a series. Well, I'm so glad that you gave yourself

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permission to do this. Please come
back to this show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be
open for you. Karina. Thank

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you so much. Thank you so
much for having me this. It was

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fun. You'd be brilliant today.
Okay YouTube, Thank you so much.