Author of The Dog Stars and The Painter

Interview starts at 13:42

Nobody, not even artists, understood art. What speed has to do with it. How much work it takes, year after year, building the skills, the trust in the process, more work probably than any Olympic athlete ever puts in because it is twenty-four hours a day, even in dreams, and then when the skills and the trust are in place, the best work usually takes the least effort. Usually. It comes fast, it comes without thought, it comes like a horse running over you at night.  (From The Painter)

News

Kindle Scout submission page

Kindle Press Submission & Publishing Agreement

New York Times Public Editor’s rebuke of David Streitfeld – October 4, 2014

“Amazon and its missing booksâ€Â by David Streitfeld at the New York Times Bits blog – October 12, 2014

“Big Media in Support of Amazonâ€Â by Hugh Howey – October 16, 2014

“Don’t Worry. I’m Just Writingâ€Â by Hugh Howey – October 16, 2014

“Practically nobody’s buying Amazon’s Fire Phone (including Prime members?â€Â by Lewis Wallace at the Cult of Android – October 15, 2014

Tech Tips

Whispersync for Voice

Interview with Peter Heller

Books on the Nightstand podcast

Peter Heller’s author page on Amazon.com

Hell or High Water 

The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet’s Largest Mammals

Sea Shepherd web site

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

The Dog Stars

The Painter

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Peter Heller’s articles published by Outside Magazine

Jim Wagner, the Taos expressionist painter

Poetry by Peter Heller

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Novels by Cesar Aira: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, Ghosts, How I Became a Nun, The Seamstress and the Wind, The Hare

Paolo Bacigalupi’s author page at Amazon.com

Content

Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America by Donald Katz

The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears by Donald Katz

Mindjet for Android free mind-mapping app for Fire

Next Week’s Guest

Denver Donald Katz, founder and CEO of Audible, Inc.

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

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