How I Chose My Collaborators - Part 1
After my first book "The Bridge" came out and the 4 and 5 star reviews started coming in, I got a lot of congratulations and support. I also started seeing something else coming in... requests to work on collaborations. This was both flattering and disconcerting to me. I was still very new at this whole publishing business and wasn't all that confident in my skills at that point. I knew I needed more experience and didn't want to wind up dragging someone else's work down if I'd simply gotten lucky my first time out. Especially since I was hearing some concerns about the editing in the first version and wound up redoing the book with extra help getting it in better shape. Still the requests for collaborating kept appearing every so often. When "The Ship" (my 2nd novel) came out the requests started in again. By this time I was more confident in my skills, I'd learned a lot after "The Bridge" and had gone out of my wa...