Of Additional Interest
Barbara Kingsolver on the genesis of a novel:
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Author Heather Sellars on "face blindness":
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/12/131267727/living-with-face-blindness-who-are-you-again
Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award Winner, was truly a dark horse of the writing world:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/books/16jaimy.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Listen to David Levithan of Scholastic Books for info on young adult fiction, and an interesting structure for a novel:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jaimy-gordon-lord-of-misrule/id73330484?i=89799676
Brene Brown speaking at TEDx Houston on vulnerability:
http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
David Vann's Caribou Island:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/david-vann-caribou-island/id73330484?i=90407575
Salman Rusdhie's Young Adult Novel:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salman-rushdie-luka-fire-life/id73330484?i=90243973
Nicole Krauss (Great House) on the Writing Process:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nicole-krauss-great-house/id73330484?i=89627845
How Meditation May Change YOur Brain--NY Times:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/how-meditation-may-change-the-brain/
New York Times: The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/12/26/the-dark-side-of-young-adult-fiction?emc=eta1
Interesting perspectives on character development:
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/05/133464665/a-lost-girl-and-found-imaginations-in-the-fates
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133471041/the-people-behind-pixars-toy-story-3
Elisabeth Gilbert on the Creative Process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Author makes millions self-publishing on Kindle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestselling-ind_b_804685.html
Finding an agent:
http://www.agentquery.com/