Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 139 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is rock star Amanda Palmer,

who ran a record-breaking $1.2 million

Kickstarter campaign to fund her 2012 album, Theater is Evil.

She was later embroiled in several high-profile internet controversies, which she recounts in

her new memoir The Art of Asking, which also describes how she met and married best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman.

And now here's our interview with Amanda Palmer.

All right, so we're here with Amanda Palmer. Welcome to the show.

Hello.

Okay, and so your new book is called The Art of Asking.

So what's that about?

It's about everything from crowd funding and how to use the internet to how to deal with an abortion and a husband while you're going through your abortion.

So it's like about everything.

And so yeah, so this is really a lot of big topics for your first book, right?

What was it like writing an actual book? It was really intense. It wasn't, you know, the funny thing about writing it is it wasn't creatively as hard as I thought

But it was like physically arduous to sit

You know to actually like sit at a desk for that many hours, that many weeks, that many months, and not really do anything else.

I'm so used to touring and performing and moving around. And so it was sort of like labor, you know, like that's sort of the feeling I got writing the book is all the ideas were there in my head and pretty baked but I had to actually sit down to get

them out on the page and work with my editors and it was unlike any art project I've ever done

before. It's really different.

Well, yeah, you mentioned in the book that you were writing 10 hours a day.

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