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That was a really interesting interview. 
I want to read the book! Not only because of the authors but also the story sounds great, too. I don't know if I could co-write with a partner, but it would be fun to try! I've recently joined an aspiring indie games studio as the co-writer and that has been a fantastic experience so far. I guess it really depends on the people and the genres they like. I wonder what the result would be if a crime writer and YA fantasy writer teamed up... Actually, that could be a fun forum challenge one day! Uh, or one that ended up as a disaster!
I want to read the book! Not only because of the authors but also the story sounds great, too. I don't know if I could co-write with a partner, but it would be fun to try! I've recently joined an aspiring indie games studio as the co-writer and that has been a fantastic experience so far. I guess it really depends on the people and the genres they like. I wonder what the result would be if a crime writer and YA fantasy writer teamed up... Actually, that could be a fun forum challenge one day! Uh, or one that ended up as a disaster! 
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I've read one co-written novel: Nicci French, What To Do When Someone Dies.
It began well, it is well done, by the end I was utterly disappointed. Tidy job, no heart, no soul. Interesting premise made into something borin'.
Was this the consequence of it have being written in partnership?
Dunno.
It LOOKED seamless but felt flat.
It began well, it is well done, by the end I was utterly disappointed. Tidy job, no heart, no soul. Interesting premise made into something borin'.
Was this the consequence of it have being written in partnership?
Dunno.
It LOOKED seamless but felt flat.
We used to have a member (s) here in the old days that were a husband and wife team who wrote thriller/erotica. Must have been a wild time!
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Karen Gray
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I bounce Ideas off hubby all the time and take his suggestion, but that's about it. I'd have no problem working on a project as a joint venture if he was well enough at the time and wiling
I miss them.
Collaboration is something i am seriously thinking of with my new series. But interesting point that it could remove the emotional aspect of the story.
Didn't David and Leigh Eddings work together it came out after the books had been published for many years. Interesting that the male name was chosen.
Didn't David and Leigh Eddings work together it came out after the books had been published for many years. Interesting that the male name was chosen.
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Alistair Roberts
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Em, I can't comment on your comment on my status lol, so short answer is my accent (which I don't have) is probably a mix of Kiwi and Aussie lol
Em, I can't comment on your comment on my status lol, so short answer is my accent (which I don't have) is probably a mix of Kiwi and Aussie lol
I imagine Alf from Home and Away at this point "G'day Celia".
That was a really interesting interview.
wow an indie studio..how did it go?
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Alistair Roberts
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Good ol' Alf! I used to watch that show years ago
I think that a collaboration would work best if, in a crime novel, one author wrote the baddies and the other the goodies. The danger with trying to write together is that the style and message becomes homogenised and bland.
I wonder how the publishing executive and editor in charge of a novel written by 26 authors managed to keep their sanity. No Rest For The Dead was published in 2011 with contributions from such luminaries as Jeffrey Deaver, Kathy Reichs, Faye Kellerman and Tess Gerritsen.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/05/crime-novel-co-written-26-authors
I wonder how the publishing executive and editor in charge of a novel written by 26 authors managed to keep their sanity. No Rest For The Dead was published in 2011 with contributions from such luminaries as Jeffrey Deaver, Kathy Reichs, Faye Kellerman and Tess Gerritsen.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/05/crime-novel-co-written-26-authors
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child co-write the Pendergast series (one of my favorite thrillers), and the way they do it is they write alternating chapters and then edit through the other person's. In their 10ish books, I've never been able to tell where one author stops and the other starts. James Rollins also did a collaboration with Rebecca Cantrell for the Blood Gospel series. I only read half of the first book, but the writing was also excellently merged.
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