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Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. with Heather Christie
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From Actress to Realtor to Author, Heather Christie takes us on her transformative journey from commuting to New York City in high school to embracing her passion for writing. Discover how her diverse experiences shaped her storytelling, leading to the creation of her debut novel, "What the Valley Knows." Heather’s story is a beautiful testament to following one's true calling, revealing how her roots in Berks County became a wellspring of inspiration. Join us as she shares the pivotal moments that influenced her decision to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and ultimately publish her first book.
As we venture into the enchanting world of "LoveNotes," Heather introduces us to this captivating project centered around stories and love. Picture an annual off-Broadway event where America’s best love stories come to life through memoirs and music, now expanding to cities like Chicago and Indianapolis. With an anthology releasing on November 11th, filled with enchanting tales and engaging activities, it promises to be the perfect holiday gift. Dive into the strategic integration of storytelling across mediums, and learn how crafting a cohesive brand can be the key to a sustainable artistic livelihood, culminating in a special "LoveNotes" reading event in Berks County.
"Heather Christie's energy and passion for her craft of writing and producing is so evident when you watch this episode. We were fortunate to have her in the studio to go over all that she's doing with her 2nd upcoming production of LoveNotes as an Off-Broadway show, a brand new book, and in 2025, a weekly LoveNote podcast. Check out this episode to hear where, when and how she's doing it all!" - Brad Weisman
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show (formerly known as Real Estate and YOU), where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife #realestateandyou
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from real estate to real life and everything in between, the brad weisman show and now your host, brad weisman. All right, we are back back in the studio. Seems like we're here more often than I think. What do you think, hugo I?
Brad Weisman:don't know, that's right it seems like I'm here a lot, but I love it. This is my favorite place to be. We have a guest here today that I'm very excited about, because we have been trying for a long time to get her on the show, and it's interesting is that she started out as a realtor. That's how I know this person. She was a realtor for many, many years. She used to sell at Berkshire Hathaway and now she is a New York based writer producer educator. She's doing so much stuff, is a New York-based writer producer educator. She's doing so much stuff, and one of the biggest things she's doing is writing a lot of love notes or reading a lot of love notes, right? So, heather Christie, how are you doing?
Heather Christie:Hi, I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me here today.
Brad Weisman:I'm glad we finally pulled this off. Holy mackerel, it seemed like it wasn't going to happen.
Heather Christie:Yeah, it's great to be home, berks County's home.
Brad Weisman:That's right. It is home for you. So you're born and raised in Oli I am yeah. And you have children.
Heather Christie:I do, yeah. So I have a son who's still here in Berks County. He's a second year English teacher in the Reading School District oh awesome. And I have a daughter. She's a senior at Baruch College in New York City.
Brad Weisman:Wow, so you have one that's up there with you in New York City.
Heather Christie:Well, we're not with each other, right.
Brad Weisman:But you're in the same area.
Heather Christie:She lives in what she calls deep deep.
Brad Weisman:Brooklyn, oh deep Brooklyn so deep that it's Queens.
Heather Christie:Oh, wow, oh, so it's actually Queens, but it's cooler to say you live in deep Brooklyn.
Brad Weisman:That's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.
Heather Christie:Yeah, and I live in the city.
Brad Weisman:I live in Manhattan, in Manhattan, which is just an amazing place, but for what you're doing, obviously you had to go there.
Heather Christie:Yeah, that's where I need to be.
Brad Weisman:Oh, absolutely, I agree, 100%, yeah, so you started off. What was funny, the first time I heard about you doing anything besides real estate was probably on social media, when you released your first book and I said we weren't going to bring this up right away, but we're going to. This is the first book I believe that you wrote right.
Heather Christie:What the Valley Knows book.
Brad Weisman:I believe that you wrote right, what the Valley Knows, what the Valley Knows and um, but what's funny I'll never forget. I was sitting here on social media or something, and all of a sudden or might've been the ready Eagle, actually something and I'm like, wait, she writes books and like I thought she was a realtor. You know, like what happened here? But is that something that you always wanted to do? Is this something that you? You were thinking you?
Heather Christie:know, at some point in my life I want to do this. Not exactly, but as a young person I was an actress.
Brad Weisman:Okay.
Heather Christie:And so I was on a work study like before it was, homeschooling was.
Brad Weisman:Oh, wow.
Heather Christie:And I went to only in the morning, and then I would get on a bus and take a bus to New York city every day never knew this for go sees, auditions, jobs, if I jobs, if I booked a job and I did that through my high school and I actually graduated early and moved to New York City when I was 17. Oh my gosh, To be in show business. So I was a really creative person and I thought that that was going to be the trajectory of my life.
Brad Weisman:That was it.
Heather Christie:You're going to be a big actress, yeah, and then, as things go, I met someone and ended up leaving New York City.
Brad Weisman:And coming to Reading and getting married.
Heather Christie:Well, we kind of were all around the country Okay. And then ended up back here in Beres County. So I had kind of put my creative side on hold for many, many years. And then, like 15 years ago, I had a friend who had written a book and one day we were brainstorming because she was going to be doing a speaking event.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, and I went home and I'm like wow, like it really just like something bubbled up in me like why can't I do this?
Heather Christie:yeah, and I've always been. My undergrad was in literary studies, and so I ended up, I started writing and, like I had the scene that is the prologue and what the valley knows, that scene was in my head yes and I wrote that, and then I'm like, well, well, what do I do with this? You know, and so the long and short of it is.
Heather Christie:I ended up going back to school and got a master's of fine arts and creative writing, and then my, my master's thesis was like the first draft of that book, but then that took many, many many drafts, so it was ready for publication.
Brad Weisman:And there's a lot that has to do with reading though in here like in and out, like it's kind of it's woven inside the story yeah, so the town and what the valley knows.
Heather Christie:It's called millington valley, which is a composite of, like the only valley where I grew up, fleetwood, even this area sinking spring, where I ended up raising my family. So for burke's countyans, yes, they yeah, it's a tough word.
Brad Weisman:yeah, it's familiar to them. Yeah, it feels familiar, I get it. That's a tough word to say so it's familiar to them. Yeah, it feels familiar, I get it, that's a tough word to say so.
Heather Christie:so local readers really enjoy that. They like that part of it.
Brad Weisman:I love it. I love it and I actually I read a little bit of what it's about on Amazon and it is cool. It's a cool story. It's an intertwined story. It's it's and this is the reason that we kind of hooked up here was this love notes thing Right? This is like and you explain it like a triangle. There's like all these points of this whole love notes thing. Where did this come from?
Heather Christie:Well, that's a good question. Yeah, where did it come from? So, if I'm really honest, this came out of like the loneliest, darkest period of my life. Okay, um, I had, you know, gone through a divorce, moved to New York city and had been dating and I met someone that I thought was like the one.
Brad Weisman:Yeah.
Heather Christie:And, um, turned out wasn't the one, wasn't the one, but nevertheless it left me kind of like looking around saying like, like what is love?
Brad Weisman:Like, what does it look like?
Heather Christie:How's it? Walk around in the world and like to look for proof of love, like evidence of it, and then hold it up for other people to see. So I had produced another storytelling show, because at the top of that pyramid you were talking about is this storytelling show which we can explain to people in a second, but I had produced another one called Listen to your Mother.
Heather Christie:It was somebody else's Anne Emig's production, and I loved doing it, though, because it kind of married, like my show business and my writing all together, and I was like I want my own thing and so Love Notes just kind of came out.
Brad Weisman:It just kind of came out of this dark place, but isn't it funny how, sometimes in those dark places is where creativeness comes and where ideas come and where you know if you believe in a higher being or you don't.
Heather Christie:It's something comes through you and you don't even know where it comes from, like you have to turn inward and that's and sometimes it's hard to do and people aren't always willing to do that and let it happen. Yeah, just let it happen. To let it to feel.
Brad Weisman:I mean, that's how this whole thing was created. You know, it's just an idea during, uh, covet in some very not so fun moments, yeah, but this is what happened with this. But so, going on, so you create this idea of love notes, talk about the three different points and, yeah, the three different parts of what you're doing with it, and then we'll dig into what's in it.
Heather Christie:Okay, Cause people do get confused.
Brad Weisman:They're like no, I just came so clear about it when we just talked a couple minutes before we went live.
Heather Christie:Yeah.
Brad Weisman:I got very, very cleared. I was not clear on it and now I am.
Heather Christie:Okay, so love notes, um like, if you look at my home, my computer, my big bulletin board, I have a big triangle there above it, and so at the top of the triangle, of the love notes triangle, is the storytelling show. Okay, Right. So and that's the all-star off Broadway once a year show. So, anybody can audition for that.
Brad Weisman:And it's different stories.
Heather Christie:Yeah, it's people. Anybody it can be. I do have a lot of professional actors, storytellers, people like that, writers, but also regular people like the tagline um which we're it's being trademarked right now is real stories, real people, real love. Yeah right right, so anybody.
Brad Weisman:We have auditions going on now, so anybody like locally hugo, you're gonna put your hat, you're gonna, you're gonna, audition for the show. That's right, yeah, I thought you might.
Heather Christie:I thought you might I mean, I did have a berks county in it last year.
Brad Weisman:I think I remember that yeah.
Heather Christie:Anybody can audition and we have live auditions in New York on November 16th. But if that's not accessible, they can audition by self tape.
Brad Weisman:So, like all the instructions on how to do that are on my website.
Heather Christie:But yeah, so they're the best. I'm calling them America's best love stories. 12 best ones end up in New York City.
Brad Weisman:Wow.
Heather Christie:So it's an evening of music and memoir. So these really mini memoirs that people tell of, you know, 750 words, a true love story. It could be happy, sad, you know anything.
Brad Weisman:Right.
Heather Christie:And then I have a musician usually that plays too. Last year I had Sam Baker, who yeah, I remember that and then I have a musician usually that plays too.
Brad Weisman:Last year I had Sam Baker, who yeah.
Heather Christie:I remember that was, that was a really powerful synergy of the stories and his storytelling Um. So that'll happen again this year, so at the top of the triangle is love notes, the New York city show, and then I've started um like licensing it. So I have Chicago coming on board and Indianapolis.
Brad Weisman:And they're going to do something similar it. So I have Chicago coming on board and Indianapolis and they're going to do something similar.
Heather Christie:It's almost like a franchise. Yeah, they're kind of franchising it out. Yeah, little love notes.
Brad Weisman:Little love notes. I like that.
Heather Christie:I'm looking for a Berks County producer.
Brad Weisman:Oh boy, oh, oh. That's when you look in the camera. That's the time to look at it.
Heather Christie:And she's looking at me too, and then we have like a whole mastermind group and it's um yeah it's a really cool thing. Okay, so we've got the store, the storytelling show, but that only happens once a year in February, around Valentine's day. And then, and because my my In my core, I'm a writer, and this first you guys are seeing it.
Brad Weisman:Show the bigger one there. Yeah, show that.
Heather Christie:This is Love Notes, the anthology. And it's more than an anthology, though, because it's these great little love stories, true love stories, okay, and they're all a thousand words or fewer, so it's easy to read.
Brad Weisman:Are any of those in your show, then?
Heather Christie:Yes, there is a little flip flop.
Brad Weisman:I was going to say cause if you get a really good story that's in writing, I mean, why not share that with the audience?
Heather Christie:So we do have some that are in the book that were in the show last year. I have two that are in the book now that will be in this coming year show Awesome. So we have um stories, but then we also have journal prompts, we have quotes, and then we have like little, like love puzzles too, love puzzles.
Brad Weisman:Is that what goes on in a love puzzle? That says a little.
Heather Christie:You have to read the book to find out, but like when you're looking for love like those are the qualities you look for.
Brad Weisman:I love it.
Heather Christie:And there's like a little word search. But the stories, the quality of writing is really excellent too.
Brad Weisman:Like.
Heather Christie:I have some New York times writers in here, editors of magazines that have written stuff, and I wrote the beginning and I wrote the end, but yeah, so I'm super proud.
Brad Weisman:And that's actually a copy.
Heather Christie:That's the this is what's called um. What's it called the reader's proof?
Brad Weisman:The reader's proof, but that's your. That's your final proof, or no? Final proof, right, okay, wow, that's neat the book goes on sale november 11th oh wow, you better read that and get that done. Well, it's done, it's done. I just brought it to show you, yeah it's so it's approved, approved, okay, so we can. We can buy. When's it going to be on amazon?
Heather Christie:november 11th.
Brad Weisman:Wow, yeah, it's a good uh holiday gift. You know it'll be great yeah.
Heather Christie:And I always say like it could be good to like when you go to a friend's house for dinner instead of taking wine, or take wine and give them a little love.
Brad Weisman:What about an audio book? Do you guys do that?
Heather Christie:Um, that's on my list, yeah.
Brad Weisman:You should do that. You should read it yourself. Yeah, I think that's all you need is something like this, and you could do it yourself. Yeah absolutely Cause I'm one that doesn't read books. I listened to books. I listened to all books. Yeah, I just not a great reader, so the amount of time it takes for me to read a book is very long time, so I ended up listening to him as the way I listened to books. That's how I read books actually.
Heather Christie:Yeah, I do. I actually have the cover.
Brad Weisman:They did design the audio like what the auto cover would look like.
Heather Christie:So, yeah, it's just a matter of that's very cool of doing it.
Brad Weisman:So what's the third? The third point is what you're working on the podcast yes, yes. That to me, I think, will be off the charts. I hope so I really do. I think you know when you especially like that, right there could be the cover of the podcast. Right, the white, the white one, the white board there I mean that's, that's awesome.
Brad Weisman:I mean, I think it's great. And real stories, real people, real love. I mean that that right there is the pocket. So what, where are you at with that? And what, when do you think that'll launch?
Heather Christie:Well, Brad, that's why I'm talking to you.
Brad Weisman:Oh well, yeah, no. So we're going to try and help you with that. We're going to try and help you with that. I'm going to rely on some hometown expertise. We're going to help.
Heather Christie:We're definitely going to help you, yeah, so my goal, like when I look at my triangle with all the little dates going out, is Q2. Okay, 25.
Brad Weisman:I was going to say January 1st, but okay, I'm being aggressive, yeah.
Heather Christie:I would do it because we've got the show coming up in February. We have the two little of light shows happening in january and february and, uh, then the book launching because I think that is also going to be your marketing piece for the shows and for the book.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, they all like it. All works together, yes, and then when you're at the show, you can say talk about the podcast, right, you know, I mean, and that's how you sell the books at the show. You know there's so many, the way it all ties together and the way and like we were talking before we went on air and I started getting all excited.
Heather Christie:It's like I see the book as an annual thing yeah, that like these different entities yeah, yeah all feed each other um and that the best stories, like the best spoken word stories, end up on the new york city stage gotcha you know, the best written stories end up in the book in the book and then the podcast is maybe a little more accessible because of thinking like you know, if you did one a week, you know there'd be 52 stories there or something.
Brad Weisman:Yeah.
Heather Christie:But I do see the book happening every year and like different incarnations.
Brad Weisman:I think it's great Cause you had talked about love notes, for you know 20 somethings or whatever. I mean you could do it for any, any type of group, or or for divorcees for the brokenhearted, brokenhearted survival guide or something like that.
Heather Christie:Love it.
Brad Weisman:So out of this darkness comes this, this whole love notes, which is really kind of funny because if you think about it you know you're in this dark place because of love.
Heather Christie:Right.
Brad Weisman:And you start doing this, which is actually, I think, is very positive. It's a very positive thing in that you're trying to help other people understand love through people's love stories.
Heather Christie:Right.
Brad Weisman:Right, is that correct? So it's interesting that you came up with that through the darkness.
Heather Christie:Yeah, and I do feel kind of, you know, kind of like as we hit midlife you sort of start to reassess like what do I really want to be doing, like what is going to? You know, it's great, I was a real estate agent and you know you can make a lot of money doing this or doing that.
Heather Christie:But like what's really going to move the needle in people's lives. And I have this. I also teach, I teach in Harlem GED and like the things I found that move the needle the most for me as I head into this phase of life is like how are we, how am I impacting? How, how can I help? And I think one of the things I'm good at is helping people tell their stories, like as an editor and as sort of the spoken word coach. When we put the show together and the people who've been in the shows have been really moved by the experience that, like I always tell my storytellers, something beautiful is going to happen to you when you tell your story right. It's really cathartic, but there's someone in the audience that needs to hear this story even more than you're telling it.
Brad Weisman:So true.
Heather Christie:And that's really what happens. Then, Like after the show, people are just sort of like what would the word be? Rushing the?
Brad Weisman:storytellers to say like oh my gosh like. I've been through this. I know where you are.
Heather Christie:Thank you, and yeah, so that's like it really feels more like a purpose.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, and.
Heather Christie:I'm hoping like eventually it all kind of germinates and can be a living too, yeah.
Brad Weisman:Sure.
Heather Christie:Cause I also um in New York, I teach and then I help my brother. He runs a soccer company in New York. Okay, so I'm the CEO. Oh, that's cool and you know. But and he's also a creative and an actor and things like that, but you know, we really would like to be able to sustain ourselves through art, which is hard and it's very hard, very hard.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, see, there's a guy over there on the wall that knew he couldn't make it. If you turn around the other way, there's a guy there that thought he was going to be a rock star and he's not.
Heather Christie:He's in a podcast post well, next, and a realtor, yeah but no, it is.
Brad Weisman:it's part of the entertainment in you and you want, if you can survive and prosper in something you love to do, that is just the ultimate, the absolute ultimate. So that's cool and I see that's what you're doing. And love notes movie too. Like seriously, there could be a love notes movie. There's so many things you can do with this, but tell me more about the dates coming up. You have some, you have some of the love notes stuff here.
Heather Christie:These are little love notes themselves, I think so we have some fun stuff happening here at home. Well, first of all, on Thanksgiving weekend, which is going to be that Saturday, small Business, saturday Five and Divine, do you know?
Brad Weisman:that shop. It's out in Warner'sville. Chris Moore yes, I know I graduated. Well, they used to be Chris Moore moore, her maiden name's more. I still think of her as that, but uh, yeah, I know them very well she has the most stunning little shop I've never been in there oh my gosh, is that crazy.
Heather Christie:You have to.
Brad Weisman:I know I want to go so she's going to.
Heather Christie:Oh, the shop closes at four o'clock that day but then she's going to open it for the love notes, berks county cool. So it'll be open from 4.30 to 6.30 for special. There's going to be wine I forget the name of the winery that's coming but they'll have wine and snacks and things like that Special shopping for Christmas and then we're going to do a reading Cool, so there'll be just Amy Impalazari, who is also another local author.
Brad Weisman:She has a story. We'll have to connect you with her. Yeah, um, and my mother wrote a story.
Heather Christie:Okay, and I see your mother on facebook and all the social media. Yeah, and, and then my, my, I'll read um the love note from the editor, and then we'll have sort of a q a, so we're going to do like, and there'll be books for sale so you can get it for christmas presents, hanukkah presents, um that's awesome so that's november 30th okay here at um and we'll get this all on our all of our socials too. That'll be great yeah.
Brad Weisman:So Saturday November 30th, 430, 630. And that's at five. And divine, that's up in Wernersville. Yeah, really cute little shop. I've heard about it. I think my wife's been there, no-transcript and especially other artists as Chris is. Yep.
Heather Christie:And then the other thing that's going on. If you see, like on the back there's like a little bus and we have a Love Notes bus that's going up for the show on February 15th.
Brad Weisman:Awesome.
Heather Christie:And it'll leave from Joanne's Fabrics parking lot. You can park there.
Brad Weisman:Good.
Heather Christie:It's only $40.
Brad Weisman:For the bus trip. For the bus only, oh, for the bus only Right. And then you got to pay for your ticket. And then you pay for your ticket, okay.
Heather Christie:But it'll leave at 10 o'clock. It'll get you to the city $40 is cheap, oh. And then it'll get you there for the. We're having a matinee, so it'll be the 3 pm show, but you're certainly have time to like, shop, go to dinner and then the bus will leave at eight.
Brad Weisman:Okay.
Heather Christie:And take you, bring you home to.
Brad Weisman:Do you know what the ticket prices are for the show yet.
Heather Christie:So the ticket prices range from $49 to. I think the highest is $75.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, it's very reasonable.
Heather Christie:It's a really great. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, anything under 100 in new york city is very reasonable. Yeah, um, and there's so many. It's on the upper west side, so it's not like right there in midtown where everybody it's so crazy yeah and the bus will take you right to the theater and then it's a really nice neighborhood, like it's kind of the area I live is it the same theater you were in before? Uh, yeah, for last year.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, that's what I thought, okay, yeah I saw some of the pictures and stuff from there. That's great.
Heather Christie:Yeah, and it's near central park and it's near the history museum, so there's lots you can do.
Brad Weisman:How many people can? Can we get in there?
Heather Christie:Well, this bus will hold 54.
Brad Weisman:Okay, sounds good. We'll get all this stuff on the socials. We went into the books, but there was something else I think we wanted to talk about, and let me just see if I can. Oh, you said about the franchise thing or taking it to other places. What does that entail? How do we do that? Or what are you looking for in Berks County to get this to be open here?
Heather Christie:Okay, so what I need in each city is I need a point person a producer. So, essentially what happens is you end up buying the license for love notes and it has a small annual fee. It's 250.
Heather Christie:And then there's the producer pays a two dollar charge for every ticket back to the main love notes so it's very inexpensive to take it on as a production, um, but then you become like me in your city, so you're curating the stories, um, and putting it together and it's I'm telling you, it is the most fun and I actually think you would be really great at it, brad in fact, and and you know what? Berks county is hungry for this kind of stuff because I produced listen to your mother here in 2000. And what year is that? I think it was like seven, I don't know.
Brad Weisman:It was a while ago, yeah.
Heather Christie:But we had 500 people show up.
Brad Weisman:Wow, yeah, that's where. Where was that at?
Heather Christie:It was at Wilson high school. Okay, I rented the high school, and then I was going to do it the following year, and so it was 2019, and then COVID shut us down. And even the second year we still weren't allowed to congregate, and by then I'd moved to New York City.
Brad Weisman:Where you can never congregate. No, I'm just kidding.
Heather Christie:But yeah, so if anybody's interested.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, that sounds good so where would they get a hold of you for that? Just everywhere else, because you have a bunch of places. That's what I want to get into now.
Heather Christie:So the easiest place to get a hold of me for that kind of thing is just through through my website, which is www.
Brad Weisman:Heather Christie books, b O O K, scom, and yeah then it will give you like a contact form and um and you have all kinds of socials too, and your socials are really good, like the. The Instagram page is Instagram backslash. Heather Christie books, same as everything else, so you're you're pretty much labeled the same. If you look up Heather Christie books you're going to find everywhere yeah.
Heather Christie:Yeah, so that would be great if people want to follow along the love notes story there. Yeah, love notes has its own little Instagram too, which is a love notes underscore world worldwide, and then on Facebook it's just love notes worldwide. But yeah, I would love just one more point on the satellite cities. We have then like a mastermind group that meets once a quarter to like sort of exchange. So it's a lot of gotcha what I call creative entrepreneurs that then can share ideas.
Brad Weisman:Sure, it sort of support each other and all these different creative things that we're doing yeah, because you're going to need that, because this is this is definitely something that if you, if you decide to take this on, you're're going to need some help.
Heather Christie:Yeah, and as part of the agreement is you? Get all the templates on how to do it, the timelines, the graphics, everything from how to set up your auditions.
Brad Weisman:Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, Amazing, there's a lot of hand-holding. Yeah, well, that's cool. That's very cool. Is there anything else you want to share with everybody?
Heather Christie:Oh, I don't know, I just I would love if people come to the event on the 30th at five and divine. And I'd love if we can fill that bus up to head up on the 15th and really I want people to submit their stories. If anybody wants to audition, like really like, like and you said there's something with 750 words.
Brad Weisman:Is that what they submit first?
Heather Christie:Yeah, so what happens if you want to audition and you're not?
Brad Weisman:going to come to.
Heather Christie:If you want to audition um and you're not going to come to. If you want to audition in the city, you have to. There's a sign up, genie, on my website okay, and you, you reserve your spot okay but if you're not able to get to the city, you can just um submit it and the instructions are on my website, but you write a 500, 750 word piece right, and then you record yourself okay and what, saying it, or just like, just say yeah, okay, read it okay and like, and when oftentimes what happens is we.
Heather Christie:I get the story and then I work with the writers okay and we edit it yeah yeah, until we have our first rehearsal, and then and you don't need to be in new york we do rehearsal by zoom because, like my cast last year, I'd say 50 we're from new york and 50 we're right, so it's hard to do the travel country yeah but then you do need to be in New York for the dress rehearsal, which is the night before, and this year it will be Valentine's.
Brad Weisman:Oh my gosh, so you do Zoom up until then.
Heather Christie:Yeah.
Brad Weisman:That's a little.
Heather Christie:And so it's a whirlwind when you come in, we usually do like a little thing at my apartment to kick it off, and then the next day we do rehearsal and then this have. This year we'll have the two shows on Saturday. Yeah, wow, wow.
Brad Weisman:So it's a bucket list for anyone. It's definitely a lot, it's crazy, but yeah. So thank you so much for coming in.
Heather Christie:I appreciate it.
Brad Weisman:And we will definitely be pushing all this stuff on the on our social medias. I'm just amazed at what you're doing. I think it's awesome. Please, please, both of those things, just so we can see them at the end here, because I think they're really cool. I love the cover. There's the actual book. That's the one that she stamped approval on. All right, there you have it. Heather Christie you guys got to look her up Seriously. You got to look up for the February 15th bus trip at 3 pm show, but you're going to go in the morning at 10 am from Joanne Fabrics and why I'm Missing $40 round trip for that. You got the Saturday, november 30th, 4.30 to 6.30, up at 5 at Divine, and that's a cool spot too. So, yeah, check her out. Heather Christie Books Everywhere online. You will find her. All right. That's about.
