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Have any of my esteemed colleagues considered or produced a corroborative book with another author?
I’ve been toying with the idea for a while and can’t decide if it’s wise.
On one hand, a cocktail of styles and background expertise might produce a quality product. Let’s say a romance writer combined her skills with my survival chops, together producing a love story set in a life-threatening scenario. From a creative perspective, the combinations are practically endless.
From a marketing perspective, the project could be interesting. While a mere pittance compared too many on this board, I can virtually guarantee a novel with my name on it will generate 20,000 or so sales the first year. Combined with said romance author (or sci-fi or whatever), who contributed a similar reach, the result may end up with the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
For those into music, joint projects are common. Famous artist regularly get together and “trade 4’s.” I think it would be interesting to “trade chapters.” A coin flip determines who writes the first chapter. That chapter is emailed to co-author, who adds chapter two. Back and forth it goes until the book is finished.
On the negative, I’ve read a lot of the posts here (and other places). We all can be hardheaded and disagreeable. I worry that such a project may end up like a bad marriage – quibbling, fighting and eventual divorce with an ongoing custody battle over the rights to the “child.”
Still…it might be fun and produce one heck of a book…
I’ve been toying with the idea for a while and can’t decide if it’s wise.
On one hand, a cocktail of styles and background expertise might produce a quality product. Let’s say a romance writer combined her skills with my survival chops, together producing a love story set in a life-threatening scenario. From a creative perspective, the combinations are practically endless.
From a marketing perspective, the project could be interesting. While a mere pittance compared too many on this board, I can virtually guarantee a novel with my name on it will generate 20,000 or so sales the first year. Combined with said romance author (or sci-fi or whatever), who contributed a similar reach, the result may end up with the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
For those into music, joint projects are common. Famous artist regularly get together and “trade 4’s.” I think it would be interesting to “trade chapters.” A coin flip determines who writes the first chapter. That chapter is emailed to co-author, who adds chapter two. Back and forth it goes until the book is finished.
On the negative, I’ve read a lot of the posts here (and other places). We all can be hardheaded and disagreeable. I worry that such a project may end up like a bad marriage – quibbling, fighting and eventual divorce with an ongoing custody battle over the rights to the “child.”
Still…it might be fun and produce one heck of a book…