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Learn about a day in the life of a cowriting team with Resident Writing Coach Christina Delay and her writing partner, Julie Glover.
We’re often asked why and how we cowrite books.
For us, it began at Under the Volcano, a grill and bar across from the marvelous Murder by the Book bookstore in Houston, Texas. We sipped cocktails and sketched out the plan: We’d write nine novellas in one year, with the hope that publishing short and fast would yield some cash to fuel our author careers.
By the time we left, we were buzzing with excitement—ready to launch a supernatural suspense series that would leave readers with the same zeal we’d felt at the series’s conception.
Most of that didn’t happen. Rather, we ended up writing full-sized novels and launching our series over the course of several years (thank you, pandemic).
Plus, we had to figure out how to be coauthors.
Back to the original question… When people ask how cowriting works, they’re usually wondering:
- How do we blend our voices into one seamless story?
- And how on earth do we actually write it together?
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