I’d been wanting to do some collaborative writing for a while. After reading interviews with people like Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and Richard Curtis and Ben Elton it sounded like so much fun. Then in early 2011 I came across Draculas, a novel written collaboratively by four authors. The e-book included the emails that they’d sent to each other during the process and I was more convinced than ever that it would be a really interesting thing to do.
When we had the workshop at Birmingham Writers Group, there were not too many people who practically bounced in their seats saying, “I want to do some collaborative writing!”. In fact there were two of us; Iain and me.
This was great. I’ve always admired Iain’s writing, and I thought I might learn a lot. I suggested that we should do some writing together and he liked the idea. All that remained was to decide what to do and how to do it…
