Writing Partnerships & Collaborations

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It was inspirational to discuss the ins and outs of how to create successful writing collaborations, with award winning authors Geneve Flynn, Jay Kristoff, and Mykaela Saunders at Genre Con 2023.

Most of the audience had little experience of this, and were curious to learn more, especially about the personal qualities to look for in potential collaborators and the mechanics of managing a writing partnership.

We examined this from the point of view of writing partners, collaborating editors and creating publishing opportunities to bring collectives together to have a voice.

Jay’s first meeting with his writing partner, Amie Kauffman, was over their difficulties in navigating overseas taxation for individual books they had coming out, and came about because of a suggestion from a third party who said they could help each other out. They then had a breakfast meeting which led to a cowriting friendship, now…

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