IBooks Author Hangs on Startup

Yesterday, I started playing around with iBooks Author and didn't have any issues at all.
Today, when I start the app, I get a progress indicator window with scrolling blue & white stripes that never goes away. The window is untitled and the app is (mostly) hung. I can't even close the app unless I go to the Activity Monitor and force quit.
I have two untitled projects that display when the app starts and, although I can interact with them a bit, I can't toggle between them to bring the one in back to the foreground, I can't save them, I can't preview them. I can't create anything new
I've tried uninstalling the app and re-installing. I've rebooted. Nothing works.
I've looked for any temporary files that iBooks Author may have created to try and delete them, but I'm not having much luck finding anything.
Anyone have any ideas about what else to try?
Thanks a bunch,
Fred

Wow. I finally got the issue resolved.
I went to the Activity Monitor, selected the iBooks Author process and clicked "inspect". From the Open Files and Ports dialog, I was able to find the location of the two unsaved projects that were trying to open.
I deleted everything in my /Users/<me>/Library/Autosave Information/ directory.
I restarted iBooks Author and now everything is working normally again.
Pretty lousy that I had to do that, but I'm very glad the app is working again.

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right click on Camera and delete it
Save this file so you don't have to do this every time. I called mine empty_blender_file.blend
6) Either open empty_blender_file.blend or continue from #5 and read in the file from #3
File -> import->X3D Extensible 3D (.x3d/.wrl)
this reads in the file
7) Write out the file in collada .dae format
File->export->collada (.dae)
Done. This file will read into iBooks Author and have somewhat uniform lighting. By the way, .dae files can be opened an checked in Preview. Its easier than going back and forth into the iPad, since you can rotate the image in Preview.
Hope this helps, let me know if it works for you and if you have any suggestions.
Finally someone needs to write a one step VRML and X3D to collada converter that will work with PyMol and Chimera etc.
Have fun!

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