Co-Writing A Book: Collaboration And Co-Creation For Writers (Creative Business Books for Writers and Authors)

Co-writing can be an amazing experience when two minds come together to create something new in the world.

Or it can be a painful process that ends in disaster!

In this short book, bestselling authors J. Thorn and Joanna Penn share tips on how to successfully co-write a book and avoid the pitfalls along the way. It includes excerpts from their private co-writing diary, honest notes written every day on a fiction project that will help you on your own journey.

Updated 2017 with a new chapter based on a four-author collaborative novel.

˃˃˃ In this book, you will discover:

What is co-writing?

Benefits of co-writing

* The difficulties of co-writing

* Finding the right person to co-write with

* Before you start: written legal agreement

* Practicalities and process of co-writing and co-creation

* Excerpts from Risen Gods co-writing diary

* What happens if it goes wrong?

* Other types of collaboration and co-creation

* Tips for multi-author boxsets

* Tips for managing a multi-author collaboration

* Appendix 1: Example agreement

If you want to improve your writing skills and your productivity, co-writing might be the right thing for you. Download a sample and try the book.

Joanna Penn is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn and also writes non-fiction for authors. She's also a podcaster and an award-winning creative entrepreneur. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com has been voted in the Top 100 sites for writers by Writer's Digest.

J. Thorn is a bestselling horror, dark fantasy and post-apocalyptic thriller author as well as a writing coach, podcaster, editor and author of non-fiction including Planning your Collaborative Novel. He has co-written a lot of books with a lot of authors. Find him at TheCareerAuthor.com