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What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Chocolate chip. Graeters, from my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, makes theirs with impractically large chunks of chocolate—more like bricks than chips. Who needs the ice cream?
Which mythological creature are you most like?
Genie, because I make other people’s wishes come true, or try.
First book you remember making an indelible impression on you.
Illustrated dinosaur books when I was three or four. First novel: The Hobbit in sixth grade.
How do you develop your plot and characters?
Most of my books start with themes I want to explore. I often have the beginning and end before I write, and I outline vaguely as I go along. I usually create a character to go along with the theme and try to inhabit them so that they lead me where they want to go, rather than the other way around. For Amanda911, my niece’s accident and personality sparked the kind of influencer whose journey I wanted to follow—an ordinary girl with only three PingPong followers, who doesn’t want to be an influencer!
Describe your writing space.
Wherever I am. I believe writing, or original writing, as opposed to formula writing is, like influencing, a 24/7 profession.
“Sixteen-year-old Iowa schoolgirl Amanda Dizon may be the nation’s most unremarkable teenager, until she falls down a well and finds herself instantaneously transformed from irrelevant to influencer. Mark Schreiber’s sly, rollicking masterpiece, Amanda911, follows Amanda’s escapades and sends up the craven, fame-obsessed virtual culture of today’s adolescents. As insightful as Dickens and as innovative as Heller, Schreiber is the definitive satirist of the social media generation.”—Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein’s Beach House
The Influencer Festival was the brainchild of Emerson Frost, a Silicon Valley billionaire who thought Burning Man contained the wrong-colored sand and not nearly enough water. The 150 influencers and their guests were comped their trip, and the models, celebrity chefs and musicians were paid. He sold sponsorships and documentary rights, but the festival wasn’t meant to make a profit. Rather he used it as a tax-deductible party and a way to promote his cloud data company.
He had built thatched-roof huts; communal showers and toilets; an amphitheater; a windowless e-sports auditorium equipped with rows of consoles and big screens; an indoor disco with a bar; three restaurants in white tents, with bars of their own; a swimming pool with bar service; and a dedicated cell tower. All behind a secluded white sand beach. And there was a dock long enough to moor his yacht, and other pleasure boats. And a helipad.
Wow! said Amanda as we were driven through the gate. This is like a camp for rich people.
About the Author:
Website: http://www.Amanda911.com
TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/Amanda911
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Amanda911
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Markschreiber07
Wikepedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Schreiber
Buy links:
https://www.amazon.com/Amanda911-Mark-Schreiber/dp/1737052016
https://pleasureboatstudio.com/product/amanda911/
https://books.google.com/books/about/Amanda911.html?id=Lzx3zgEACAAJ
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Sounds like a good read! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading this one. Sounds good.
ReplyDeleteBeing a genie would be fun.
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