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I am lost here, Ben. What the hell is a BOOK TUBE Channel? And where are the two videos, one where... "I’m trying it out to see if I can make it work, and the other when I do my first “reading.” This piece is sounding like satire until I can find what you are referring to... Help me out, please.

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Hdre's the link. I hope it works. It should. https://youtu.be/MQC1_yvxJYg

BOOK TUBE is part of You Tube. I knew you could do readings and such, but this is more along the lines of people doing critiques of books and explaining how to write and "brand" yourself. I thought, maybe I should look into this?

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Okay! Found it. Cool! How will we know when a new one goes up? You announcing it here on substack?

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I will!

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It's a channel on YouTube that's about books. Either authors reading their works, like Ben, or people just talking about books. It's like BookTok on TikTok or Bookstagram on Instagram.

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Exactly! I want to figure how I can tie the one into the other. Should be fun. Another step up the ladder!

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Thanks, David

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I'm not a celebrity, Sam, but I'd love to read for you!

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I'm actually thinking I wouldn't mind a pair of eyes on my new story.

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You've got my email address But here's a better idea: Why don't you do this through a q. via this site https://marytabor.substack.com/p/write-it-and-this-writing-life where and you'll get a video and comments from two authors collaborating on my course.

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What I'd like to read for you is a short, short from my collection _The Woman Who Never Cooked_. Do I have to get famous? 💕

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Do you mean you'd read something of yours and we put it up on my Book Tube channel? Like a guest reader, for lack of a better word? That sounds amazing! But do you know how to do that? Because, I don't. I'm sure we'll figure it out though.

However, I still need to know if you will read the story first. I have to put it up in two months. Six more readings. Then I have to decide if I switch my readings over to the Book Tube, or stay reading on Substack, or do both. But between the one story and the other, is a gap of one weekend. I try to do these some time during the week. If we can work something out...? It's out of my comfort zone which is why I want to do something with it.

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I love out of "comfort zone". Where I like to be. Can you write me at via my email and I'll explain how I could do this for you: a different way--but super easy, Ben. I just subscribed-- so go to your subscribers and find my email address: probably at the top mltabor.xx.xx xo ~ Mary

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Or I could write you--just to connect. Look in your spam for me "Let's connect" email and I'll write you tomorrow.

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I'm writing you an email right now...

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I just wrote you!

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I see your link below....Going to check it out. Nice work!

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Copy and paste the link from YouTube. Substack should do the rest!

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I did. It brings you to a different page.

https://youtu.be/MQC1_yvxJYg?si=uGYlstJV_ERVu8qZ

It doesn't work...yet. I think I have to go through a waiting process.

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Okay, That worked! I couldn't get it to work on the page I put out tonight. And I did put it up on NOTEs.

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Ah I haven’t checked notes yet today!

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But that link I just gave you...works!

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Yep! Watching now!

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