Bookcast 110: We STILL in the [EXPLETIVE] house!

 Hello, everybody. I’m so glad you’re here—welcome to Episode 110 of the Bookcast.

Happy Black History Month! Whether or not this admin want to "celebrate" it (side-eye at the powers that be), we’re still here. We still uplift our ancestors, we still celebrate ourselves, and we always will. Welcome to episode 110 of the Bookcast. Let’s talk about what we’re reading, writing and watching to avoid doom-scrolling. 

Find full show notes for this episode on my website: Booksbydlwhite.com/bookcast/110.

Transcript

DL White [00:00:14]:
Happy Sunday, everybody. I am so happy that you are here. You being my boos and bros, my bookish pals, my fellow fans of the written word, welcome to episode 110 of the book cast. This is my platform for sharing short fiction and updates on life as a self published author of romantic fiction that centers black love. I am your host, DL White. I am an Atlanta based author of novels, short stories, fan fiction, but I'm a reader first. So we always begin with the book report and then we talk about writing and topics of the day. And speaking of topics of the day, happy black history month to all my fellow blacks, my fellow persons of the darker hue.

DL White [00:01:00]:
I'd named this episode something kind of funny. I hope people get it, and if they don't, that's okay. But recently, this new administration said they weren't going to be celebrating Black History Month, you know, as a government. Okay. So you're gonna stop pretending to celebrate. Anyway, in mass, as a people, here's what we had to say about that.

Speaker B [00:01:22]:
Don't give a I'm still in the house. I'm still in the house. I don't give a do I look like I give a because I don't.

DL White [00:01:32]:
There you have it. We are still here. We are still a people. We still love being our people. We still love our ancestors and the predecessors and the people that came before us and the people that lit the path and made a way for us to be here and have all the freedoms that we have. And so it really doesn't matter to me. I I like it matters, but it doesn't. But we all know they just, you know, they're giving it lip service and pretending that they really care about the advancement of us as a people.

DL White [00:02:05]:
It's fun for them to stop pretending. We never believed y'all was doing it anyway. So, hi. Welcome to Black History Month. I hope you are all having a blessed and very, very black day, week, month, year, quite frankly, because I'm I'm I'm just not gonna let them take my the enjoyment that I have in my life. So, welcome to the book cast. I am so happy you are here. I wanna remind you that if you would like to show your support to this podcast, you can do so in several ways.

DL White [00:02:39]:
You can follow me anywhere and everywhere I am. I'm author d l White in most spots. You can join the newsletter at booksbydlwhite.com/newsletter. You can throw some folding into the offering plate at I'm sorry. Bookcast.buzzsprout.comorbuymeacoffee.com/booksbyd l white or or people I've been working on a new thing because I love a new project. You can rep your set. I don't even know what that means because I'm not hip. It just sounds good.

DL White [00:03:09]:
It feels good coming out of my mouth. I am relaunching my merch site with a new to me site called 4th wall, and mostly because they integrate with book funnel, which is where I, where I distribute my ebooks and my audiobooks. So I'm a try and, do a little something over on 4th wall mostly so I can be able to sell books on Instagram, Facebook, and whatnot. I can't do that with Payhip for some reason because I don't quote own the site. So I'm a see what I can do, but I like the merch mostly because I can do, like, notebooks and stemless wine glasses, things like that. So I'm trying it out. Like I said, I love a new project. So, anyway, booksbydlwhite.com/shop is where you will come upon a road that diverges.

DL White [00:04:05]:
You can go to shop ebooks or you can go to shop merch. Last weekend, I tried to set myself up with a little subdomain, and I totally messed up my website and had to call sub Squarespace and be like, hey. I've messed this up. How do I fix it? So I'm not gonna be doing the thing where I it has its own, URL. I can't. I can't. I I can't. So that's how that's gonna go.

DL White [00:04:34]:
And so I'm gonna start building up my merch there. I'm currently on Spreadshop. It's okay. It's not like I sell a whole lot of merch, but, I, you know, I love a new project. I'm a try something new. So books by dlwhite.com/shop. I'm kinda having fun reproducing all of my merch there. I currently have a featured product, which is a stemless wine glass goblet container tumbler thing.

DL White [00:05:03]:
It's pretty cute. I think I'm gonna get one just so I can, you know, I don't even really drink, but I'm going to enjoy a fizzy beverage in my books by d o white wine tumbler. And I encourage you to go get one. I priced them pretty neat, like, the base price, is mine, and then I think I make, like, 2 or $3 on them. So I'm really trying not to gouge people. I just wanna have fun things with my website name on them. Can you blame me? So that's what's going on in housekeeping and such. Let's let's hop on the train and get this podcast episode going.

DL White [00:05:42]:
Today is Sunday, February 2nd. It's smack in the middle of the afternoon, 3:24 PM. It is sunny in the ATL. I have a mic and I am ready to dig in, but first, I need you to join me for a short beverage break. Okay. Alright. Alright. Alright.

DL White [00:06:35]:
Welcome back. Hope you enjoyed that short break. We begin as always with the book report. I am I always forget to check this. Like every week, I forget to check this. I am quite a bit ahead on my Goodreads challenge. I am at 29 books of my challenge to read 100 books in 2025. I'm 21 books ahead of schedule.

DL White [00:07:00]:
You would think I could slow down, but I cannot because there are too many books that I want to read, and I have so much available time to read them. Eventually, I am gonna bump up my challenge just so it's a little bit normal, and then, like, I'll I'll back it up. I'll I'll put it up to something ridiculous like 200 so I'm not behind or I'm not so far ahead. And then I'll back it down to something, like, a little bit normal that matches my speed of reading, but I got into some really good books this week. I got into looks like 4 books. Black and Blues, How A Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry that came out on Tuesday. I got an audio arc of it, and it was beautiful. Really beautifully done.

DL White [00:07:45]:
I have to really be in the mood for a nonfiction book, so I I skipped around a little bit in this one. But, Imani reads this book, and her voice is really just so beautiful and poetic. It's really more, you have to be kinda be in the mood for something academic and educational, but it's also kind of, entertaining. Like, the the chapter on indigo, I think I said this last week, the chapter on indigo makes me wanna go back and read Beverly Jenkins indigo because she talks about how the the, the actual, indigo plant stains the hands red and, not red, but blue, and the mark of that blue is just like the mark of someone who was enslaved, and they were picking the plant that stained the hands. It just it made me wanna go back and read indigo by Beverly Jenkins because that was the mark of indigo. Her hands were blue, and that was a mark that she was previously enslaved. Both great. Really, really well done.

DL White [00:08:48]:
And then Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson that also came out on Tuesday. I did not get an arc of that, so I waited until release day to grab the audio of that, and I was right to wait for audio. This was a 3 star read until, like, the next of the last chapter. Like, they really she really dragged it out. I needed all of this book to really get it. I did read a review by literary Marie that says you can't read this in one sitting. There's a lot of layers to this story. There's a lot to it, and, like, you you really, like, need to take it all in in order to get it and she was right.

DL White [00:09:29]:
She was right. It's it's a good story. I gave this 4 stars. Eventually, it was a 3 star read up until almost the end. And then I was like, oh, I get it. Okay. Okay. I enjoyed this much more than black cake.

DL White [00:09:43]:
I'll tell you I don't even remember black cake, but this story, is memorable. It was very well done. Henry is worthless. Just remember these words. Henry is worthless. I also got into Audra, the prequel. It's just the prequel to the Family Ties series by Delaney Diamond. Delaney is one of my good good girlfriends, one of my writing ass writer friends, and she put this up as a serial on her website, but I just couldn't stand it.

DL White [00:10:15]:
I needed the whole story at once, and so I decided to wait until the prequel was released. It's currently 99¢ on all ebook platforms. Go on over and snatch it up. Put it into your face. Read it to get it all in. I super, super enjoyed this. I forgot I forgot how much I enjoyed Damon and his self confidence. Just he makes me laugh.

DL White [00:10:41]:
I had to text her about it because I just it is a very romantic, steamy novel. It's very well written, but Damon just makes me laugh. And then I read I'll be yours by Nina High. She is a new to me author. I really enjoyed, I'm not gonna look it up, but she's got a series set. It's like I think it's a 3 book series about teachers. I read those in December. Just ate them, gobbled them up whole.

DL White [00:11:14]:
Really great. Nina is a great author. If you are looking for a self published romance that is a little a little fluffy, like, very, like, low angst, but not no angst, a little bit of drama, nice steam. Head on over to Nina High. Follow her. Grab her books up. You won't regret it. I feel like you won't regret it.

DL White [00:11:38]:
I currently have entirely too many books on my am reading list, and, I do this because I have a number of books like, advanced reader copies that I have agreed to read for, review, and I will forget if they're not on my reading shelf. And so at the beginning of the month, I've been just adding them. And then, when I start them, I just change the start date, so it's accurate, and then I can read or listen to it. So I have a bunch of things coming up to read in February. Some of these are advanced reader copies. Some of these are things I that I saw were good, and now I have to read it. And some of these are, like, random things I started throughout January, and I forgot about them and I didn't finish them. And and so now it's on my to read list and when I go to look at my list and I what what do I have to get read? Here's what's happening.

DL White [00:12:36]:
So this week, I have to get 2 books read, ideally, by Tuesday, and I am a fast reader or fast listener, but I don't know if this is gonna happen. Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall. I have an audio arc of that, and that comes out on Tuesday, February 4th, as well as bonded in death by JD Robb. I also have an audio advanced copy of that, and that's also out on Tuesday. I don't think I'm going to get them both listened to by Tuesday, but perhaps by the end of the week or next week, I'm not in a huge hurry on those, but those are both come out on Tuesday. And then, the following week, I believe, a book called Cold as Hell, I think. No. Not our daughter.

DL White [00:13:28]:
Another audio arc that I have. I just go through NetGalley and I just be picking up books that look good, and, I might get to them. I might not. I'm trying not to worry about them. Leave me alone, Raymond. I'm trying not to worry about them, but also the books look good. And I want to read them. I want to listen to them.

DL White [00:13:45]:
I want to review them. And so I I stress out about it because I want to get to them and sometimes I just don't. So I also have, the man that burned may the man burned by winter by Pete Zacharias. This was a series, referred to me by, one of my friends on Instagram. She's like, hey. Have you ever heard of this guy? And I was like, nope. Never heard of him. She's like, you should get into it.

DL White [00:14:09]:
He's a PI, and so I'm gonna consider this to be research for the PI novel that I'm gonna be, editing for my summer release, missing persons. So I'm just gobbling up everything that is PI related just to make sure that I've got, like, like, you know, like, the voice and the mood and the spirit of a private investigator, how other people are writing them, probably things I am not thinking about. And so I can go back when I go to rewrite and edit that that I I'm being a little bit more, realistic in my portrayal of a private investigator. And then I have, Cold as Hell by Kelly Armstrong. I believe that's another audio arc that's coming probably later in the month. The Quiet Wife by Diane Saxon, another audio arc. You could do damage by Casey Mills is an ebook arc. Savings and Trust, the rise and fall I'm sorry.

DL White [00:15:14]:
The rise and betrayal of the Freedman's Bank by Justine Hill Edwards. I don't have to have this read until March 1st, but, of course, I'm going to listen to it in February because March 1st is the, resist book sellers event with the author on this book. I'm really looking forward to that. Kill Her by Chris Patchell, you remember in January or was it December? I don't know. The months are now all running together. I ran through the series by Chris Patchell. Really enjoyed it. The next book in the series is out.

DL White [00:15:48]:
I wish I could wait for audio, but I cannot I cannot because I need to inhale this book. And then, We Are the Brennan we are the Brennan's by Tracy Lang. For some reason, I was looking at book 3 by Tracy Lang. This is not a series, but for some reason, I wanted to go back and read we are the Brennan's before I read the next book in the series. I can't even remember what it's called, but I'm gonna finish we are the Brennans, and I'm gonna read the next book that she has out. God. What is it called? I don't know. I can't remember, but the next Tracey Lang book, I'm gonna read it.

DL White [00:16:26]:
It's a brand new book, but I I I don't know. I don't know. I don't ask my brain questions. I just do what it tells me to do. I'm gonna finish where are the Brennans at some point in February. So that's what I've got going on on the reading and the read list. Recommended TV and movies, y'all know my whole goal for, like, the next however long these people are in power is I have got to stop scrolling, and, I I am gonna be I'm deep into every streaming channel I have access to and everything I have added as everything I have added as my stuff or wanna watch or, oh, that sounds good. I've I've I've got a list of things I need to check off.

DL White [00:17:17]:
I got my shows I'm watching. I've got, you know, I got I've got it all, like, mapped out. I'm either gonna be reading, writing, or watching something because I've got I've got to stop scrolling. So I am watching the corner on Hulu. I'm actually almost done with this. There's only 4, seasons of this show. It was originally on CBC, and I guess Hulu brought it. It's really good.

DL White [00:17:43]:
It's it's really good. Like, I've been kinda live, not live tweeting it, but live I don't know what we call it over on Blue Sky, but I'm I'm not calling it skeeting, but live posting it as I'm watching it. It's a really good show. I'm on season 4. I'm almost done, and so I'll probably finish that up this week. Papa's House, The Irrational, Will Trent, Elsbeth, Matlock, The Pit, all had new episodes last week. I gotta catch up on Papa's house, but everything else I am caught up. Some I watch live.

DL White [00:18:21]:
Some I watch the day after because I can't stand the commercials. And then, some I I catch up, like, I caught up on Elspeth and The Pit on Friday because I just could watch them back to back, in the afternoon after I logged off from work. I also watched, some of, and I'm gonna finish this week, American Manhunt, OJ Simpson on Netflix. One of my friend, on well, she's actually a a personal friend, but she was posting on Blue Sky about this. It's another OJ Simpson documentary, but there are so much in this documentary that I never heard because I was never paying attention. I don't know how the LAPD screwed I I do know how the LAPD screwed this up, but, oh my goodness, the LAPD, the prosecution, how did y'all there's so much blood evidence. Like, if you have any interest in documentaries, if you have any interest in the OJ Simpson trial, of the murders of of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, get into this documentary. It's it's good.

DL White [00:19:32]:
It's a little slow, like, they're dragging it out quite a bit, but I've gotta get that finished this week. And an update on our family on Max, this is they're just they're really pulling this out week by week. I believe there's a new episode. Episode 3 is up. And then I saw Goodrich by Michael Keaton is on Max, and I love me some Michael Keaton. And so I'm gonna watch that. I'm probably gonna watch that this afternoon. I'm gonna I'm gonna go off of here, and I'm gonna watch that while I edit this episode, and eat some, a late watch.

DL White [00:20:04]:
And I'm I'm very much looking forward to that. And then what I'm excited about, coming up, there's a movie coming up with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck called RIP. By the way, did anybody watch Air? I did not watch it. Like, I love everybody involved. I just I couldn't get to it, so I gotta get that on the list and get it watched because that's a thing that I'm doing. And then so I love love love Matt Damon. I love Matt Damon. I just if you ever heard Matt Damon give an interview, that man can tell a story.

DL White [00:20:38]:
He is a storyteller. I just adore him. I need him to never be like a douche because it's gonna hurt me to still be a fan of Matt Damon. But I love Matt Damon. I love Ben Affleck as an actor. I don't know if it's good or not to like Ben Affleck, but I do. I love a Ben Affleck movie. I heard The Accountant is coming.

DL White [00:21:01]:
The Accountant 2 is coming. If there is a movie that I save to watch whenever I feel like watching, it's The Accountant. Like, some days, I just some days, I just want to watch the accountant. And so I have it saved in my Hulu so I can watch it whatever I want. I'm excited if the accountant 2 is really coming. Give it to me. Put it into my face. And then 0 day with Robert De Niro, Connie Britton, and miss Angela Bassett is coming February 20th.

DL White [00:21:30]:
I am also very excited about that. Also, I heard that the diplomat season 3 is coming this fall, and it's like a little west wing reunion with Allison Janney and Michael something, not Michael, Bradley Whitford. I managed to remember that without looking it up. My brain is such Swiss cheese these days, but, I'm very I'm I'm almost vibrating off of this bed thinking about season 3 of the diplomat. If you have not watched it, I implore you to get into it. There are 2 seasons that you need to catch up on, like, every episode into the cliffhanger. The season 2 cliffhanger is incredible. Incredible.

DL White [00:22:25]:
So I want you to get into it, and then I want you to email me about it and follow me on blue sky so we can chat about it when it comes up. Do that for me. Do that. Okay. The writing slash publishing update. Let's talk about, like, publishing and books and stuff. 1st, January sales came in at around a $129, which is not bad for January. Not bad.

DL White [00:22:48]:
I moved 441 units. Most of those were copies of Leslie's curl and dye, which is free right now. Sitting very pretty on the free black romance charts over on, the big a. It's February. I'm hoping to have a slight spike due to Black History Month and people buying black books, reading black books. I am all about it. I know some authors are like, don't put me on any list. I don't want people to find me and read me.

DL White [00:23:14]:
Put me on lists. I wanna be bought. I wanna be read. I wanna be talked about. Put me on lists. I'm telling you. Put me on a list. I I'm not that kind of author.

DL White [00:23:27]:
I need new readers. I want new readers. Bring them to me. Put me on a list. I'm still pushing potter lake and black diamond series. I have ebook bundles that are on sale. Black diamond is 599. No.

DL White [00:23:43]:
Black diamond, I think, is 699, and Pottery Lake, I believe, is 599, something like that. I don't know. Payhip.com/booksbydlwhite, you'll see a link there that says bundles. You can pick up any of those bundles there. I think I have a ebook bundle, an audiobook bundle, potter lake, holiday romance. You can just, like, buy them in groups. Just put them into your face. You need to stop scrolling.

DL White [00:24:09]:
Let me help you buy books. And, and then I'm gonna focus on the Ruby's 10th anniversary, special edition. I do have a slight bit of movement on that project. I am in touch with an illustrator. I am looking at, being able to do a new cover for that. I just I need to get, images for them to, like, take a look at and get inspiration from. It's very important to me to not have an AI cover for this book, and so I'm I am in touch with an illustrator that does not use AI tools. He actually hand draws them.

DL White [00:24:45]:
So, looking forward to that. I've gotta get those images to him, like, today or tomorrow so he can kinda get started on that illustration, and then hopefully I'll have that. And then I I have to figure out how to do, a hardback edition with the, what you call the wrap thing, the paper wrap cover. I don't know what it's called. That I gotta figure that out. You know I love a project. A thing I'm telling myself is just to pace myself. Like, I was talking with my writing group last month, and I just gotta focus on q one, January through March.

DL White [00:25:23]:
I don't have to think about the whole year. I just gotta focus on q one. So January, February, March, what are we doing? Ruby's 10. Ruby's turns 10, March 24th. I wanna have the hardback edition of that book out, or, available for order. I'm gonna try to do a kick starter for it. We'll see how that goes. I'm a little nervous about it because I don't feel like black projects do well on Kickstarter, and I'm hoping just to prove myself wrong.

DL White [00:25:51]:
If I can make back what it cost me to produce, like, 50 copies of that book, I will be happy. Calculated risk edits are in. I have them in my email. I haven't even opened it, but I do have, I have that. I've gotta get edits done and returned to my editor. I'm aiming to get that done this week, so I'll have them back to her. I have to turn that in, edited copy and the cover by February 28th. So I have a lot of time, but I don't have a lot of time because we still have one more round we have to do, so I need to get that over to her this week.

DL White [00:26:33]:
Grumpy Valentine, I wrote a little bit on this yesterday. I was on the verge of dumping it because I just felt like it just wasn't working, through a little temper tantrum. And I was like, if this does not work, I am dumping the story because not every idea is a book. I do not wanna write a 40,000 word novel. I just want this to be like a cute little 8 to 10 chapter short. So I kinda sat down and, like, worked through what I've got. I wrote a chapter and sketching out the next chapter. I'm not dumping it quite yet.

DL White [00:27:07]:
We'll see how the next chapter goes, but kind of I'm now at a point where my hero and my heroine are a little bit more comfortable with each other, and I'm on the cusp of some steam, and I am always great after the steam. So, I also was I was at a point where I I think I was stuck because I was taking too long to get to, like, the climax of the story. And so, like, chapters 1 and 2, I had to, like, work on the timing. Like, this is just taking too long. It's moving too slow. Certain things I'm gonna have to skip, and so cut this, move that. Let's let's let's scrunch the timeline. And so I feel like it's working a little bit better for me.

DL White [00:27:51]:
I feel a little bit better about it, and so trying to work it out. I'm gonna probably take a break from it today and, like, maybe dig into it tomorrow night, Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Thursday. I have a 2 day meeting at work, and so that's gonna occupy a lot of my time. But I can, like, get in there and, like, edit, you know, while they're doing their hour long speeches or presentations or whatever. I don't know what they'd be talking about. And so I'm just, like, sitting there. I can be working on editing what I've got. So I'm just I just need to get it on paper.

DL White [00:28:24]:
I can edit it later. And then music of my heart is the fan fiction that I'm working on. I might might eke out a chapter of that tonight or tomorrow. I was gonna kinda take a break from it because I need to get grumpy Valentine kind of, like, off and running. But if I'm gonna take a break break from grumpy Valentine, maybe I can work on music of my heart. Like, this story is just, like, it's so fun and it's so easy and, like, I just kinda turn off my brain and type words and people I, you know, I post it and people like it. It doesn't have to go through 2 rounds of editing and it doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be, like, entertaining and hot, you know, and I wish the stuff that I wanted to sell could be like that.

DL White [00:29:15]:
And I think it starts out like that, but then I start worrying about, you know, being able to sell it and it being good enough to sell and it being, you know, on a shelf or a virtual shelf, you know, next to, you know, Tia Williams and Kennedy Ryan and Farah Rashawn and, and, what the heck is that woman's name? There's another person I'm trying to think of. It starts with an r, and it will not come out of my brain. I don't know. I'm tired. I only had I haven't even finished my coffee because it got it got cold before I could finish it. Reese Ryan. Good gracious. You know what I'm saying? So I just I worry too much about it being good before it's even done.

DL White [00:29:58]:
And then I stunt the growth of my writing and my story. And then once it's out, I just I worry that it's not, you know, it's not blah enough for the masses. I just gotta, like, stop worrying about things and just write, and that's just that is all I have for all of my regular segments. Of course, you have any questions, thoughts, feelings on things that I could talk about other podcasts, anything you wanna hear me rant about for 25 minutes, I'm wide open. Shoot me shout me out a holler. I'm on I'm on the platforms. I'm at blue sky, Instagram, trying out pixel fed, which is kind of neat. It's like what Instagram was before you got an ad every other, post.

DL White [00:30:46]:
I've got got a little bit of a feed there. You know, images and videos, they have stories there. So I'm hoping that takes off because it's actually, it's actually pretty neat. The thing that makes it difficult is that, it's it's it's hard to, like, automate things there. Everything has to be done by hand. Like, right now I use buffer and I can automatically upload to Instagram, blue sky, x if I was there, Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok if I was there. I've privated my account on TikTok. I'm not really posting over there anymore because I think there's some there's some shady things happening at that website, and I I'm probably gonna not do too much over there until, the site is sold.

DL White [00:31:41]:
We're right now on, like, a 90 day holding period until the site is sold to an American owner or something happens. There's talk that the government wants a 50% stake, and if that happens, I want nothing I don't wanna be on state run social media, so I'll probably get off of it. I don't understand how people are still on x, considering the owner now works for the government, and so, I would be getting my tail off of that website. I have also kinda privated and and shut down most of, my presence on x, but I'm leaving my username because I don't want somebody to steal it. I'm hearing a lot of that happening with people who have, authors who have given up their username and scammers are coming and snapping up the username and spamming people with that well known name. And I don't like, not nobody wants my name, but I don't want that to happen with any name that I own. I I still wanna own my name. So, I'm not deleting any accounts.

DL White [00:32:51]:
I'm just not posting there. So, I still wanna control my name. Anyhow, that's all the rambling I have for today. That brings us to the end of today's show. Thank you so much for joining me here. I welcome any questions, comments, or feedback you have at books by dlwhite.com/bookcast slash one ten, or you can find your way to the comments of this episode on my main subject of author dlwhite.substack.com. You'll find full show notes, links to all the things I talked about, if that's relevant, and a transcript for today's show on my website at books by dlwhite.com. Please share this podcast if you enjoyed it.

DL White [00:33:29]:
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DL White [00:34:54]:
Until we are together again, please have a superlative day and a perfect week. We will talk again soon.