Co-Writing A Book: Collaboration and Co-Creation for Authors Ebook

This book is well organized, and quickly became a valuable resource as I faced the prospects of a co-authorship opportunity. You simply need to add it to your library and put it to practical use before making any plans with someone else as a co-author.

For a short book, it is packed full of great information. I plan to co-author with other authors eventually and even with my husband and my dad. This is a great must have book.

I bought the kindle edition, which comes with 84 pages. Of those, you get about 76 pages of content. At least 10 pages covered the book's copyright and plugs for the authors' work. A further 14 pages (a full chapter) is dedicated to excerpts from their co-writing diary. Some may see that as padding, however it did act as an okay example of real communication between writers. I could have done without it, but I can see how some people might find it helpful or interesting. This is a short book, and a quick read. It talks about the benefits and drawbacks of co-writing a book with others and what to look for when deciding who to work with. On the more practical side, it suggests methods of working with others, particularly when there might be great distance and/or time zone differences between contributors. It skims over a lot of topics but touches none of them in any great depth. The most useful thing in there for me was the section about getting a written agreement and the sample provided. It gives you a few examples about different ways you might go about marketing and handling finances for a joint work etc, which was particularly helpful. I'd have liked to see a bit more detail in these areas as that was more a concern to me than being able to find and work with another author successfully, but it certainly helped. Before I read this book I felt more hesitant about the idea of co-writing a book with another author. In reading it, the insight I've gained has made me feel more confident about giving it a try, so from that point of view it was worth the read.

Lots of useful tips for starting a writing cooperation. This is something that has always piqued my interest and I've been wondering how it all works, so the book has come at the perfect timing. Some parts did get into detail about Joanna and J's project, and even though they were helpful in getting a better understanding of how the project came to life, I would have liked some more general information about how to make it work for everyone. But there's plenty of information if you already have an idea in your head and are wondering whether you should go ahead or give up. The book makes me want to start looking for some other authors to cooperate with - and to go on a writers' retreat too.

I liked that this book stayed focused on the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration and the challenges. As I go to start my own collaboration I'll bear these tips in mind. Especially helpful was the part about contracts and the importance of them given the length of copyright of the finished product.

The most interesting part of this book was the log of the two authors' feelings during the process of their writing. I thought there might be a bit more in here that I haven't encountered elsewhere, but it's all standard advice with personal examples, which can be helpful, but wasn't what i was hoping for.

Good tips, very easy to read and short enough to read in one sitting. I would have liked a longer book, but I appreciate that the authors didn't add filler to get the page count up. Worth the price and useful for people looking at collaborating with other creatives.

Provides clarity on both the steps to consider but also it sensitively covers the pro's and con's of joint authoring.

J. Thorn is a new author to me, but I’ve been following Joanna Penn’s work for a few years now so I was delighted to see a title from her about co-writing. I’ve been curious about the collaboration process for some time, but didn’t really know how to proceed in terms of division of duties, legalities etc. This book is a fairly quick read, but it covers the full spectrum of issues authors might expect to encounter – sort of a nuts-and-bolts of co-writing. I really appreciated this candid, behind-the-scenes look at their co-writing venture. For me, just the overview of the different approaches to co-writing (in the Practicalities and Process chapter) plus the example agreement (included as an appendix) are worth the price of the book. I wasn’t expecting to see information on creating box sets, but since this is also something I’m interested in, it felt like a bonus! ☺