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    Explore "bajaj" with insightful episodes like "Bajaj inaugura sua primeira loja em BH; ouça e descubra todos os detalhes", "The Porchlight: Episode Nine with Varsha Bajaj", "Field Guide episode 29: Karan Bajaj on Writer's Block and Travel" and "kush SESSIONS VOL.3 (Prawns & Bajaj's set)" from podcasts like ""Autotempo", "Courage to Create", "Beginnings" and "Kush Sessions' Podcast"" and more!

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    The Porchlight: Episode Nine with Varsha Bajaj

    The Porchlight: Episode Nine with Varsha Bajaj

    Episode 9 features Varsha Bajaj, author of the lyrical picture books How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? (illustrated by Ivan Bates), T is for Taj Mahal (illustrated by Robert Crawford), This is Our Baby, Born Today(illustrated by Eliza Wheeler), and the forthcoming Our Earth, Our Home(illustrated by Simona Mulazzani).

     

    Our Porchlight conversation with Varsha explores her path in the writing business, from feeling “invisible” to meeting mentor and friend Kathi Appelt, agent and poet Jill Corcoran, and her gentle and patient editor, Nancy Paulsen. We also discuss This is Our Baby, Born Today and its transformation from first to final draft, including the choice of a baby elephant as the main character and the ways that the matriarchal society of elephants has touched the diverse readership of the book. (We also discover Varsha’s celebratory rituals, which may or may not include a bag of Cape Cod Kettle Cooked 40% Reduced Fat Potato Chips!)

     

    Thank you for listening. Please share your comments and thoughts on the podcast with us. Rate us on iTunes, Google Play or Sticher—sharethe Porchlight with others. And remember to retreat, create and celebrate.

    Show Notes:

    Publishers Weekly Review of This is Our Baby, Born Today

    Illustrator Eliza Wheeler on the process of bringing This is Our Baby, Born Today to life

    Simona Mulazzani, illustrator of the forthcoming Our Earth, Our Home

    Field Guide episode 29: Karan Bajaj on Writer's Block and Travel

    Field Guide episode 29: Karan Bajaj on Writer's Block and Travel
    I used to do bonus episodes of the show somewhat regularly called "Field Guides" where I'd talk to people about the actual steps they took to create a project or about a specific topic around the theme of creating things for a living. Like, I talked to Abbi and Ilana about how they actually made the Broad City webseries (back before it was even a TV show!) - and the idea is to try and demystify making TV, videos and other creative things on a professional level. Today on the show I talk to Indian American author Karan Bajaj about how he overcomes writer's block through world travel. Karan is the author of three contemporary Indian novels, Keep Off the Grass (a semi-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award), Johnny Gone Down, and The Seeker, and a super-interesting guy. And we talk about everything from growing up in a small, remote village in India to what it was like to live on an ashram and meditate all day.


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