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Join Amie McNee from @inspiredtowrite and her writer husband James Winestock for a podcast about building a sustainable creative life. A place to take your art seriously where you can go to reflect on your journey and build a thriving creative practice.

Latest Episodes:

Become Confident or Die Feb 11, 2026

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We're back!

Topics:

Creating while travelling/busy

The importance of confidence in your own work

Whether James' justice streak makes his life harder (feat. sauan etiquette)

And lessons from the biggest year of our life

I Don't Want a Job, the book, is available for the next two weeks only! Also available, cool t-shirts, a masterclass with Amie, and signed copies!

Read the original essay here

What We've Learned from Ten Years of Writing Oct 17, 2025

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We take you on a journey from Amie's first painful attempt to write a book to now, Amie's settled routine as a professional author, with all the steps along the way.

Pre-order To Kill a Queen now

Join Amie in Barcelona for a book event on Friday November 7th!

You Have to Believe You're Exceptional Oct 08, 2025

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Join us for a rambling discussion that starts with us assessing how successful we feel, goes on to a long digression about preserving energy for hard times, talks about honesty in the publishing industry, and finished with Amie's message to artists just starting out.

Pre-order To Kill a Queen, Amie's book about a non-binary detective in Elizabethan London who has the hots for their bartender. If you're outside the US, your only choice is to get it shipped to you from Amazon :( But we are so grateful if you do!

If you're in the US, it would be a huge help to us if you pre-saved the audiobook on Spotify (even if you don't plan on listening to it there!).

How Much Work Do We Do in a Day (plus all your writing questions answered)? Aug 13, 2025

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Q+A ep! It just so happened to be that most of your questions were about our work and writing routines. There are also a few other Q's answered including: how exactly is making art generous, big breaks we've almost had (and why they may not have mattered anyway). Sonja, I'm so sorry, I forgot to answer your question about bilingual artists... please email us with your question again and we'll answer you.

Amie's WNYA events in England:

Oxford Blackwells Saturday 16th of August 3-4PM (tickets essential)

Waterstones Canterbury 18th of August 6:30PM (tickets essential)

Pre-Order To Kill A Queen

Read James' Substack about the guy who steals his friend's crypto

Did you know you can buy PRINTS and ORIGINALS of Amie's love notes? Available on our website now. Stock limited to ten for each large note and fifty of each small.

How Do We Deal with the Enshittification of the Internet? Jul 04, 2025

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We're talking:

When the internet gives you the ick

The flattening of culture by algorithms

How social media sows the seeds of its own destruction when it prioritises attention over quality

And more!

Pre-order To Kill a Queen, Amie's queer detective novel set in Elizabethan London. Remember, this is literally the most important thing you can do for an author!

Order We Need Your Art or get a SIGNED copy here

Enshittification was coined by our mate Cory Doctorow which we should have known!

Are More People Making a Living with Art Now than Ever? Jun 26, 2025

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Hello friends! Today we're talking about the rise of the middle class artist. Based on Amie's substack post.

Buy Amie's book for F***'s sake!

ALSO you can pre-order Amie's queer Elizabethan detective novel, To Kill a Queen!

References:

Hollywood is Broken. Can YouTubers Fix it? Colin and Samir interview Max Reisinger.

Brandon Sanderson podcast about AI

Building Utopias: Why Artists Must Envision a Better Future May 22, 2025

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I'm so sorry everyone but it's another AI episode :(Listen to us, two people who aren't experts on anything really, talk about AI, climate change, utopias, the housing crisis, Australian politics and what's wrong with the left these days.⁠

Would love it if you bought We Need Your Art!⁠

Things mentioned:⁠

Review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson⁠

⁠Basic Income: And How We Can Make it Happen, by Guy Standing⁠⁠

TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds⁠⁠

Hank's video about the state of renewable energy⁠

Anthony Albanese buys a $4.3 million home

Australian Housing Crisis compared to other countries

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan: How Creativity Trumps Anxiety Mar 26, 2025

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We had so much fun recording a very fancy in person episode with THE Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan!

How 'bout those production values?

Don't forget Amie's new book, We Need Your Art is out now in Hardcover, Audio, and E-book

In today's episode we discuss:

The amazing power of creativity to banish anxiety

How art and community building creates ripples that extend far beyond our personal practice and help the whole world

Why society is so afraid of art and artists

And so much more!

If you want more chats from Rowan and Martha, you can listen to them on the hilarious and wise Bewildered podcast. You can also follow Bewildered on Instagram.

We will be dropping by Bewildered soon so make sure you're following them to get the Amie and James episode!

Martha is on Instagram @themarthabeck

And Rowan at @rowanmangan

If you want to dive deeper into all things Martha Beck, you can check out her linktree, but you should really read her new book, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose! We absolutely loved it.

You Should Celebrate Your Own Art Mar 18, 2025

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Join us as we remind you how important it is to celebrate your own art (coz no one's gonna do it for you!).

Fully raw ep today. No music (sorry to our composer/intro creator Matilda Eyre) I ran out of time.

The Collective is open for 5 days only!

WNYA is our now everywhere

00:00 Introduction and First Impressions of New York City01:20 The Inspired Collective Membership03:57 Challenges with Book Launch Planning05:32 Grassroots Book Events and Community Support06:17 Reflections on the Publishing Industry (oh-oh!)13:23 Celebrating the Book's Success19:30 We love our agents!20:51 Iconic New York Moments24:19 The Importance of Celebration29:36 (More) Publishing Industry Frustrations36:51 Gratitude and Farewell

WE NEED YOUR ART, STOP F***ING AROUND AND MAKE SOMETHING Mar 06, 2025

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BOOK OUT THIS WEEK

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00:00 Introduction and Holiday Hat00:30 Book Tour and Podcast Plans03:05 The Importance of Art04:05 Creative Blocks and Overcoming Them12:00 Role of Patience in Creativity25:31 Art reset challenge26:10 Rice Cakes26:44 Book Promotion and Blurbs33:18 Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing36:24 Expectations for the Book43:15 Podcast Reflections and Upcoming Events

BOOK TOUR INFO

USA EAST COAST

The BookMark Shoppe Brooklyn 11th March 2025 7pm - BUY TICKETS HERE

Head House Books, Philly, 13th March 2025 6:30pm - BUY TICKETS HERE

Taylor Co Books, Brooklyn, 14th March 2025 7:30pm - BUY TICKETS HERE (just scroll down the home page!)

Morocco Bound Bookshop", 25th March - BUY TICKETS HERE

Scheltema, 5th April, 2pm - BUY TICKETS HERE!

I am going to be all up and about your business. Please stay tuned.

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