Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Writing

"A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT IS USEFUL TO ANY ASPIRING WRITER, A SORT OF QUIZ OF REQUIRED TALENTS AND A REALISTIC, HARD LOOK AT THE DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED IN GETTING PUBLISHED AND ACHIEVING SUCCESS."
 
Part how-to book, part relationship book, Marriage of Minds offers strategies and techniques for creating successful collaborations and successful fiction. Drawing on their own personal and professional relationship, and on the relationships of other well-known collaborative teams, the McGoldricks walk you through the essentials of successful collaboration:
 
– finding the "write" partner
– developing skills in communication and the art of compromise
– establishing guidelines
– providing constructive feedback
– working through "for better or worse"
 
ALL YOU AND YOUR PARTNER NEED ARE THE IDEAS AND THE TALENT. MARRIAGE OF MINDS WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH THE REST.

May McGoldrick, Nik James,and Jan Coffey are pen names for USA Today bestselling authors Nikoo Kafi and Jim McGoldrick. Together, they have crafted over fifty fast-paced, conflict-filled historical, contemporary, and Western novels, and two works of nonfiction.
Nikoo's education and training was in engineering. She worked in robotics and submarine shipbuilding. Before earning a PhD in sixteenth-century Scottish and English literature, Jim pursued a hundred and one jobs, including a decade in submarine construction.
Storytellers at heart, Nikoo and Jim were always searching for careers that gave them time for both family and writing. Then, after thirteen years of marriage, they recognized each other's creative strengths. Nikoo is all about characters and feeling. Jim is about action and sense of place. Their first attempt in writing fiction together produced their award-winning novel, The Thistle and the Rose. Since then, their stories have touched the hearts and minds of millions of readers all over the world. Their work has been translated into over a dozen languages and counting.
Nikoo and Jim are four-time Rita Finalists and the winners of numerous awards for their writing, including a Will Rogers Medallion Award for Traditional Western Novels, the Daphne DuMaurier Award for Excellence, the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award, three NJRW Golden Leaf Awards, two Holt Medallions, and the Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Fiction.
The authors make their home in California.