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hello everyone and welcome to this

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google play hangouts we with the author

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EL James to discuss her hugely

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successful novels the trilogy 50 shades

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of grey in a moment we'll be speaking

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with Al but first let's welcome the

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other people who are joining us on this

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hangout the fans and followers of EL

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James will come to you shortly to get

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your questions but now let's turn to el

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james first al are you surprised by how

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successful and how popularly novels have

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been i think surprise really summing it

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up I think gobsmacked shocked terrified

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all those kind of words into mind it's

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been them it's happened very very very

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quickly so I haven't really had a chance

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to get used to it yet imma keep pinching

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myself thinking this is actually

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happening to somebody else and actually

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that's probably I can deal with it

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really it's all happening to somebody

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else but is yes then it's been an

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extraordinary extraordinary couple of

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months well yeah so far so yeah it's

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some i'm amazed completely amazed and

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you didn't intend to write a noble

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understand as well you basically took it

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up as a bit of a hobby is that right

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that's right yes yes also i just used to

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post it on the incidence of chapter at a

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time it's great fun really really good

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club and and yeah just gonna be here

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basically a man or even in my world

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history okay well as you can see people

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are joining us to ask you questions on

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this hangout let's go to our first

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question that's from brittany in

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Scotland Brittany take it away and I

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know this is a bit jumping the gun but I

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was just wondering about and I know

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you're working on more books and I was

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wondering if you would go about it the

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same way as it write it on San fiction

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and

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kind of edit to their already just

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finished with that process and now doing

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something different huh I think I've

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actually got to I went to novels before

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for every starting packages on I'd like

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to revisit them and I'm actually in the

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process of rewriting one of those I also

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start rewriting the other one and I have

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three other ideas as well so I'm I don't

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know I actually don't know what I'm

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going to do next and this is a

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conversation I need to have with with a

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few people but I I'm quite passionate

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about all of them what I will miss is

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writing a chapter at a time and posting

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it up that is such a good it's such good

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fun it really is good fun and I really

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really enjoyed that process but it's

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also i mean i have two completed novels

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i just got to rewrite them so that's

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that's also gonna be fun as well and i

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agreed in forward to some peace and

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quiet so I can get on and do that

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because all of this stuff for doing this

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is crazy so so I'm looking forward to

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that great thank you and actually owe

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you when you wrote these books you were

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typing on your phone on the train and

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things like that weren't you so this

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whole process has been kind of shock to

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you yes yeah i was typing it whatever

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whatever and wherever i got inspiration

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to write so I'm not just typing out

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it'll do you know got scrap of paper

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back of an envelope whatever I was just

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doing that or we're not late but which

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she carried your writing you should

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carry all the time so yes it's um yeah

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it's yeah that's what I was doing but

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I'm very large and I max probably right

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sit on that and stay very safety of my

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home so let's turn to the actual

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characters and Anastasia and Christian

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tell us a bit more about them well there

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what can I tell you about them anastasis

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sort of young

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two shelves averted kind of setup head

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books most of her my cell life she's so

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bright she's spunky she's um she doesn't

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quite know what hit so when she goes

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into he's Christian Grey who is super

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very wealthy successful entrepreneur who

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has certainly existing tastes she was

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safe okay let's go to our second

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questions we have Geeta still here with

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us no I think she might dropped out for

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a moment Sophie an Oxford let's take

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your question next oh I just want to say

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how much i absolutely love the novels

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like it has an exam last week and I

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couldn't study for it because oh I'm

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sorry that's okay I really didn't know

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how good it was gonna be and I was like

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but anyway and I know at first it was

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published this were Australian publish

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what was it like to transition to a

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larger partnership well it was not of

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hectic really only we are these I only

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signed the deal with random house in 7th

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March and then we had to turn the

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novel's around very quickly they did oh

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they did a fantastic a very quick copy

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edit on 50 shades brands i did a bigger

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edit all the shades of grey and i turned

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it around to be something like two days

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i believe it came back to them so

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quickly and then they then they then and

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put it out I can't even remember which

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data I just lost some sense of time this

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process so we did that and then and then

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I went to Hollywood to meet lots of

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people i was actually editing the other

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two books while i was in Holly do it so

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it was just absolutely crazy crazy crazy

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morning so so yeah it's been it's been

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been really hard work and the guys at

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random house

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in the USA and UK have done an amazing

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job in getting these books out there and

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just it's been astonishing how they've

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been coming how hard they've worked and

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you know it's some it's are just so you

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know taste it just blows me away all of

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that just blows me away well it's am

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riding high in the top seller lists and

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countries all over the world isn't it

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and it's available future purchase and

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read on google play we're in the google

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play hang out with a TL James let's take

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our next question now from Lindsay who

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is in Southampton Lindsay take it away

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first of all I just had to apologize for

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my parents I didn't know I was gonna be

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on camera you look great what I'd like

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to know is obviously recently we came to

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the information about fifty shades it's

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going to be made into a film fingers

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crossed Sam who do you envision in the

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role I understand the ian somerhalder is

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quite keen on this and I'm all for that

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but later and I'm actually very cool out

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I'm pleading the fifth on any costume

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issue anything I just then it's very

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very quiet and it's very very early

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stages we need to find a producer we

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need to find a script on the script so I

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am going to say nothing about the car

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sitting if there nobody that you sort of

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picture in the roles of arms I don't

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think we can convince their can we I

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don't think that's going to change it's

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gonna be so excited in a Bolton in this

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processes

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wow you know who'd of thought and so

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then yeah I'm just gonna keep my mouth

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shut for change okay for those of you

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have just joined us on the hangouts

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welcome this is the google play hang out

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with the author EL James will come to as

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many of you as we can to get your

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question let's now go to kc with your

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question Casey hi I was just what you

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consider to be about Christian I get

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asked that a lot and you know given

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Walker's all I'm not sure that I feel

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comfortable writing something like that

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so you know I'd without going into too

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much detail I just think that's it I

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mean first let me say never say never

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because that's just you know what my

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folks just sorry I saw what I switched

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up oh yeah i just i die i don't plan to

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I mean whether I continue the series

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will write it from criticism questions

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that place there's a couple of cities

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but I would also like to write something

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out as well but is okay for those of you

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have just joined the hangouts if you

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have your microphone on then we can hear

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you so then the screen we're showing you

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do we have Geeta Geeta you back there I

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am I'm so sorry no are a scooter quite

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dark now let's take your question for el

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james Geeta okay well i'm not sure if

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anyone's probably ask yeah but I'm basic

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dear one we wanted to ask and whether

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you have where to use the Christian and

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a nine ten years now and would you think

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about writing about them and their

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lately is I I would tell you that but I

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don't want to spoil it for people who

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haven't read the second book the second

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so I if you if you want to ask me that

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in six months time i will tell you but

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it's it's kind of difficult because I

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cook yeah I know I know where they're

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going to be and together then I today

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and also as i'm not sure if anyone's

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asked this already but i use thinking of

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writing and the three against on Kristin

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Christians pointed unit I'd say I can't

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tell you how I just put those things the

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better yeah hi I'm real think about it

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I'll think you know it definitely that

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last they just made me cry and we all

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loved it so much yes I'd like to you

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please very very interesting at spaced

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view yeah it's it's it's fun it's fun

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writing especially someone as mental

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mixed-up kid like him so so we all want

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to fix it don't wait and the rest of my

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question is were and about the movies

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but I'm guessing that's a no go area

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yeah costing of you weren't online now

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so do you get to do you have the same

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though it's going to be a collaborative

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process that's a bad thing that some of

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my question okay thank you to stay with

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us thank you let's go back then to

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Britney do you have a second question at

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all or just Sophie raise your hand if

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you do we'll come to you to get another

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question in Lindsay let's go to you

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Lindsay and Southampton what's your

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second question for Yale James I just

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wondered what Al stands for and if

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you're ever going to tell us and I'm

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just wondering why you chose to put that

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on the book hookers oppose your full

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name um like

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I spent about three minutes siding I

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needed to see him I thought I didn't

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know I had no idea these books of your

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successful material I thought I would

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continue writing and I've continued were

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killing us to keep them separate so the

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EDA she stands for Erica which is my

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name the oh I'm not really what that

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stands for and yeah interserve is its

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kind of sort of family name way back

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when so that's what that that's what

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that sounds like the thing is I thought

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I was into a place to work in up until

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january i was working in television and

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tell me owning a time and you know

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making TV programs and i kind of miss my

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mates from from from pet where I used to

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work but some it's it's I just decided

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that I do I wanted to keep them separate

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you know writing sort of romantic erotic

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novels and it's working in TV like best

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to have two different personas okay

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that's okay you know you wrote the you

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say you're from London there but the

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book is actually based in Seattle isn't

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it why did you choose to base it there

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well because of its origins really the

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Twilight novels take place on in

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Washington State and I chose the apples

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another reason is that my favorite also

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assess her one of my favorites or assess

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her normals there was set alot renault

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um one of my favorite north I wouldn't

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call now she wrote a novel called love

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song for Raven which is another romantic

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picture and I got some second a rat in

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and around but actually the islands

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obviously act and sound so yes that's

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what is it so we've got a time for two

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more questions perhaps anyone else have

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a question for Yale James Brittany do

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you have our second one yes Brittany go

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ahead I just wanted to tell her

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congratulations on your success

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is it and you've really helped a lot of

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people and a lot of marriages so

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congratulations okay i think it was

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Sophie wasn't in oxford who had a second

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question there Sophie I just wanted to

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the cutters the novel's stand out

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compared to others of its tagline erotic

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novels because I don't read a lot of

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erotica they're just wondering is there

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other any sort of similarities or

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differences to survive I've written all

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to other erotic novels is that an to

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other items I don't know it so that's

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our own some really interesting question

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it's item find it very difficult to

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touch judge who I bring analyzable over

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it I like a good love story with you

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know well rounded characters and so what

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I think I've ever read I've not read I

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think there could be kink is my name it

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will learn to forward to that server

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there we go that I think oh yeah I don't

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know I don't know that's a tough

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question to us without I haven't

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relevant actually been able to meet for

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a long time I've been so busy writing

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missed reading a fat joke I better have

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only met a few Ticknor was the last

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couple of years and i missed it really

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missed it and now yes there are none

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plans I'm afraid it's not something that

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does so i don't i don't think so but if

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we do we did change your minds of you

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know get it out on Twitter room and up

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or I'll get it off on my website and

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stuff and of course on Google+ as well

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and that's

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there you go well that's all we've got

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time for now I'm afraid you can of

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course find al on google plus all of our

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