Sex & the City meets DARE: Carrie Bradshaw Interviews Abiola for Bonfire Mag

Carrie Bradshaw interviews Abiola Abrams about her debut novel DARE (Simon & Schuster).

Recently, the fabu CARRIE BRADSHAW sat down with Abiola Abrams at celeb hotspot Bungalow 8 to talk about DARE for Bonfire Magazine. What follows is a leaked transcript of their exclusive chat!

Abiola, author of Dare

Carrie Bradshaw

CARRIE is sporting a sweetheart neckline Luella dress in black and adorable chocolate Manolos, open toe. Carrie’s pink non-blood diamond rock, square cut, is blinding.

ABIOLA is kicking it in a tank style Chloe mini mini dress in turquoise with a platinum DARE nameplate and funks it up with non-matching haute Artice Candra Palmer fur boots, and bracelet from Harriet’s Alter Ego.

Abiola: (to the scantily clad waitress) A magnum of your best champagne please! (to Carrie) Um, C, your magazine is covering this, right? Because my show is slamming, but it’s on basic cable…

Carrie: Absolutely darling! But seriously, congrats on the book, baby girl. So do tell. What’s the plot?

Abiola: OMG. Dare was so much fun to write, Carrie. So, the plot… Dare is the story of Maya Gayle Hope, a boring sociologist who becomes Jezebel, a sexy rapper. At the beginning of the book, her life completely sucks, and she doesn’t even know what she wants.

Carrie: How many of us have been there?

Abiola: Exactly. But this book is all about temptation. We also see Maya trying to find love and herself.

Carrie: Aren’t we all?

Abiola: Well, sometimes a good girl has to go bad just to get on the right track.

The waiter returns, pops the bottle, and the ladies indulge.

Carrie: Cheers, Abiola. Spoken like a woman with experience. So, why did you want to tell this story?

Abiola: (clinking crystal glasses with Carrie) Cheers! I had written plays, shorts stories and screenplays, but I was waiting for the right opportunity to write a novel. The premise had been with me for years- a female rapper trying to find herself in a crazy industry that so many people consider lost.

Carrie: Really? Girlfriend, you do not strike me as hip-hop.

Abiola: The funny thing is, Carrie, Dare was a natural fit because the first way that I found my voice was as a teen rapper in a group called Females Beyond Control-this was while attending Brearley.

Carrie: The Brearley School for girls? Shut up!

Abiola: Yes. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As you can imagine, hilarity ensues!

Carrie: Absolutely.

Abiola: I looove hip hop, Carrie. It’s the music I grew up on but my frustration is that hip hop doesn’t love me back.

Carrie: Sounds like a bad lover.

Abiola: Exactly. So Dare first took root as a script.

Carrie: Did you have a lot of support?

Abiola: For the most part, I have the best friends and fam on the planet, but let me tell you, chica, I was aghast when a ‘friend” suggested to my team that since I had only written for performance that a ghostwriter should be hired to write my novel.

Carrie: Ghostwriter?

Abiola: Crazy. G-A-S-P, right? My parents are the greatest undiscovered writers on in the universe. I grew up in with my mom quoting Shakespeare and my dad quoting Caribbean fables. Half of my undergrad concentration at Sarah Lawrence was writing and I’ve always been a writer, but the suggestion that I couldn’t do it… from a friend…

Carrie: Crippled your confidence?

Abiola: For a hot minute.

Carrie scribbles something in her notebook.

Abiola: Luckily, my agent believed in me and I never lost belief in myself. Like Maya, my main character, I had to dare myself to dream bigger and believe in me.

Carrie: I love it.

Abiola: Me too, Miss C. Now I am ghostwriting for other people. Here’s to dareitude and the darelicious life!

Carrie: I think that I’ve been dareified. Now I can’t officially endorse your book as this is a parody and all, but I can’t wait to read it.

Abiola: You’ll love it!

Carrie: Ooh cute guy, three o’clock…

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