Ep 82: Amie Kaufman

Hear Amie Kaufman, New York Times best-selling co-author of the
STARBOUND trilogy and the ILLUMINAE series, talk shipwrecks and
her favorite sound, how science fiction is fantasy for the real
world, using "shenanigans ensue" as a plotting device, and my new
favorite thing: the “shut up and take my money” list.


 


Amie Kaufman show notes


THIS SHATTERED WORLD by Amie and Meagan Spooner (listen to her
First Draft interview here)


Enid Blyton


THE BOXCAR CHILDREN by Gertrude Chandler Warner


THE BABY SITTERS' ISLAND ADVENTURE The Baby Sitters' Club
Super Special #4 by Ann M. Martin


Gravity (film)


THE HORSE AND HIS BOY by C.S. Lewis


20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne


Anne McCaffrey, THE DRAGON RIDERS OF PERN, THE TOWER AND THE HIVE
series


Alan Lee, iliustrator of THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien


Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV series)


SKYLARK by Meagan Spooner


John Green's Vlogbrothers video, “What Makes Us Human”


Firefly (TV show)


#LoveOzYA


Stephenie Meyer


Marie Lu, THE YOUNG ELITES and LEGEND


UNEARTHED, Amie’s new book with Meagan Spooner


Indiana Jones (films)


Tomb Raider (video game)


Phillip Pullman, HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy


Quote from Pullman (in THE GOLDEN COMPASS) about ideas
having a “soap bubble” phase: “The idea hovered and
shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even
look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with
the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking
about something else.”


Victoria Schwab (listen to her First Draft interview here)


THE ANDROMEDA CYCLE, the new series coming from Amie and her
co-author Jay Kristoff


Stephanie Perkins’ blog post: Love Lists


Kelly Link


Sarah Rees Brennan