This week, Alida, Kathryn, and Robert welcome Shari Medini and Karissa Tunis back to the Round Table to discuss co-authoring. They have a successful parenting blog and now a book for busy, work-from-home parents. Whether you’re thinking about teaming up to tackle a novel or a nonfiction treatise, you can learn a lot from this duo’s experience as co-authors.
Shari and Karissa are the parenting advice bloggers at Adore Them Parenting and have a new book out to help make sure you get your parenting, work, and YOU time into every week. As successful writers themselves, we wanted to get their pro tips for collaborating on creative projects.
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What we talked about:
How did Shari & Karissa meet? (1:18)
How did their partnership evolve? (1:53)
How do you pick a co-author? (3:15)
Did they always work remotely together? (4:12)
How do they work together? What is their work style? (4:51)
How long did it take them to first draft the book? (7:42)
Who came up with the outline? (10:55)
Does the content have one unified voice? (14:21)
How do their writing styles differ? How does that complement their partnership? (18:51)
Where do you pull your stories from? (20:05)
How do you help people turn your wisdom into practice? (22:56)
What sort of bumps in the road did you encounter when you started co-authoring? (24:16)
Did the publisher want changes made? (26:18)
Using the opportunity we are given! (28:00)
What advice do you have for someone interested in having a co-author? (30:12)
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About Your Hosts
Alida Winternheimer is an award-winning author with an MFA from Hamline University. She pursues her fervor for all things story as a writing coach, developmental editor, and teacher. Two of her short stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of The Story Works Guide to Writing Fiction Series. Alida lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her Golden Retriever, Seva the Wonder Dog. She camps, bikes, and kayaks in her free time. Unless it’s winter, in which case she drinks chai by the fire. You can find more at www.alidawinternheimer.com.
Kathryn Arnold writes fantasy and anything else that sparks her creativity from her home in Kingston, Washington. She currently earns her living as an insurance underwriting assistant, where she also creates marketing and web copy. When not writing, she plays (and teaches) piano and keyboard in a band (or two), and is working on starting a ministry team with her husband. You can find Kathryn at www.skyfirewords.com.
Robert Scanlon was born in Australia, but whisked off to England when only a baby. After many years complaining about the weather, he did the sensible thing and moved back to Australia. Despite a career in the music industry, followed by decades teaching public speaking, Robert is an introvert who adores reading. Robert grew up on a diet of sci-fi masters, eventually discovering he had read the library’s entire science fiction section. Now he has to write his own. Robert is the author of Constellation, book one of the Blood Empire space opera series. Find out more at www.RobertScanlon.com
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