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Biography - About Aricia Lee
Aricia Lee has been a Writer and Publisher
since she was 8 years old when she
self-published the handwritten, hand-stapled
and illustrated 1st rare edition of How
to be a Good Housewife, (in the
pure-fiction-posing-as-non genre). Since
making the bold, misspelled claim in first
grade, “I will be a writter when I
grow up,” she has been writting
everything from magazine articles to TV
commercials to films.
To support her writing habit after college,
Aricia embarked on a series of (very) odd
jobs...cab driver, house painter, artist
model...that would last a good decade. But
it was as an Egyptologist’s assistant
co-leading tours to Cairo that Aricia got
her first big break (of all places. Go
figure.) when she wrote an original
treatment with archaeologist Fadel Gad that
would soon be produced as Fox TV’s series
Live from Egypt Opening the Tombs with Dr.
Zahi Hawass, broadcast live
worldwide—one of the first in the innovative
(and often annoying) reality-TV genre.
Soon after graduating from the Masters in
Professional Writing program at University
of Southern California (USC), Aricia had the
great honor of personally working and
traveling with Dr. Hawass in 1999 on his
most recent discovery in Bahariya Oasis—an
ancient cemetery containing thousands of
gilded Greco-Roman mummies stumbled upon
quite literally by one ornery and tired
mule. The result of her 3 months living in
Cairo was the non-fiction book Valley of
the Golden Mummies published by Abrams
Publishing in New York City, in which Aricia
also had three photos printed.
While in New York City, Aricia then worked
on a number of exciting projects that went
nowhere. With a Sony producer she developed
a series of documentaries on Egyptian
archaeology, promptly shelved around Y2K.
She was then hired to research, develop and
write programming for HGTV on the history of
homebuilding only to discover that the
Discovery channel was producing the same
subject.
It was during her stint as a limo driver
while seriously contemplating a one-way
flight back to L.A. that Aricia had a chance
meeting with a film producer in the very
town she was born in her native New Jersey,
who commissioned her to write a film script,
proving that...I don’t know what that
proves. That’s just weird. I go all over the
world looking for success then get to make
my first film in my own back yard. Maybe it
just disproves the myth that “You can never
go home again.” (This right after reading
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, a
lovely story I recommend about what happens
when you follow your dreams long and far
enough.) In any case, the two teamed up with
cast and crew from New York to make the film
and documentary Rush Junkies,
inspired by Aricia’s own high-school days
but with much cooler cars on an even wilder
ride.
Living in Los Angeles now, Aricia Lee writes
full-time as a ghostwriter with The
AuthorShip, a perfectly odd job she
enjoys, steering other new writers on the
path to publishing success. Her particular
fondness is for non-fiction and film. |
