“I want the work to speak for itself.”-Ameriie (Click to tweet)
We have Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, and fiction writer Ameriie in this week’s brand new episode proudly brought to you by Gotham Writers! DRIVE, Ameriie’s newest EP, is named one of the best R&B albums of 2016 by Rolling Stone. She also has a highly anticipated villain-themed anthology featuring stories and essays from some of today’s most popular Young Adult authors and influential Booktubers set to publish in July 2017, a brilliant concept might I add.
In today’s episode, we dive into the fast-growing world of booktubers and its influence on young readers worldwide, why it’s crucial to push past our limits to grow as writers, we demystify morally gray areas, how she’s evolved as a singer-songwriter, and the tremendous amount of discipline she applies to her writing process and habits.
XO,
Yin
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You need people around you to help you grow and to become better. Then hopefully you can be that way for someone else too.” -Ameriie (Click to tweet)
“If you’re a writer, you’re a writer because there is something inside of you that demands to be released.” -Ameriie (Click to tweet)
“Each of us have our own stories and our own perspectives, and we all fit to make a whole.” -Ameriie (Click to tweet)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Ameriie walks us through the creative process of her anthology featuring some of today’s hottest YA authors and booktubers. Here’s a peek at some of the authors and booktubers: Renée Ahdieh, Soman Chainani, Susan Dennard, Sarah Enni, Marissa Meyer, Benjamin Alderson (Benjaminoftomes), Sasha Alsberg (abookutopia), Whitney Atkinson (WhittyNovels), Tina Burke (ChristinaReadsYA blog and TheLushables), Catriona Feeney (LittleBookOwl), and Christine Riccio (polandbananasBOOKS)
- Why Ameriie chose the theme of ‘villains’ for her anthology
- Why it’s important to surround yourself with people who will help you grow
- Raising the bar for yourself and creating space for your writing to grow and improve
- How Ameriie discovered the book-loving community on Youtube (Booktubers)
- Ameriie’s querying process
- A behind-the-scenes look at creating Ameriie’s newest E.P. “Drive”
Learn More About Ameriie
Ameriie is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, and writer of fiction. The daughter of a Korean artist and an American military officer, she was born in Massachusetts, raised all over the world, and graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s in English. She began writing at the age of seven, stories of fairies and pirates and witches and phantoms. She lives mostly in her imagination, but also on Earth with her husband, her parents and sister, and about seven billion other people. She talks books and beauty on her YouTube channel
Books Beauty Ameriie. And she is writing; always writing.
Ameriie’s Recommended Books & Resources:
Literary Rambles
Aeon Timeline
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
The Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
On Writing by Stephen King
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Books of Blood by Clive Barker