How Do You Come Up With the Next Great Book Idea?

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Andi sho: It can take me almost a year to settle on something. And there's a lot of anxiety that goes into that and dead ends. I wanted to say, you know, i was attacked by wolverines in new hampshire as a child,. But i end up like for packing for mars. My faucet, my coler faucet had two facets. The way i come up with book topics is i i have a couple of appealing chunks, and then i think, what book would you put around those chunks? So many things that astronauts know about are more interesting than bone lass. A video training toilet that they have at johnson's space

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."

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