Amy Schneider‘s profession as an creator is simply starting. After releasing her memoir, Within the Type of a Query: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life, in 2023, the Jeopardy! champ printed a “younger readers” version of the e-book known as Who Is Amy Schneider?: Questions on Rising Up, Being Curious, and Successful It Huge on Jeopardy! on March 4.
Nonetheless, she already has plans to place pen to paper as soon as once more, and this time she’s able to faucet into the sport present that made her a family title.
“What I need to do is write one thing that’s much more Jeopardy!–centered, I suppose,” Schneider tells TV Insider. “Actually, to be trustworthy, it’s form of what my publishers would’ve favored me to do initially.”
The explanation she didn’t take that route immediately, although, is as a result of she was “feeling type of a bit bit misplaced” after discovering Jeopardy! fame. “Like, the massive elements of me that aren’t Jeopardy!, I felt the necessity to discuss them,” she continued. “However now that I’ve had a while and distance from that, I really feel like, OK, now I can discuss Jeopardy! simply as one thing that is a crucial a part of my life and one thing that I do assume is fascinating.”
So, what does she envision the e-book entailing? “Why is it such an establishment?” Schneider teases. “And why is it that, in the middle of changing into such part of the Jeopardy! world, why is everybody in it so nice, principally? That’s what I actually need to discover.”
In her debut e-book, Schneider mirrored on the journey that led her to “changing into an unlikely icon and hero to hundreds of thousands” after “blazing a path for brazenly queer and transgender folks around the globe.” Schneider is a transgender lady who transitioned in 2017.
By adapting her novel for younger readers, Schneider says she hopes to offer studying materials that she didn’t have accessible to her when she was youthful. “That was the primary motivation,” she confirms.
“There’s just a few issues that I hope to be getting throughout,” the sport present champion provides. “One among them is that trans rights are underneath assault proper now, however that’s as a result of we have now rights to assault, which we didn’t at all times. I used to be raised in a time the place trans folks didn’t exist so far as principally anyone in my life knew. It wasn’t one of the best factor on the earth, however I received via it and right here I’m having an amazing and blissful life. In order that’s a part of it. I believe it’s additionally simply saying, ‘Hey, we’re on the market, you’re not alone.’ It may be a really lonely expertise being trans as a result of there actually aren’t that many people, so it may be exhausting to [find] examples or folks to look to to consider your life.”