Ten Author Collaborations We'd Like to See
Bill Clinton & Dr. Phil: Not on a revised edition of Family First, obviously, but I bet they could write up a slamming self-help for men with toxic narcissism.
Janet Evanovich & Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Stephanie Plum needs to make up her damn mind and pick either Morelli or Ranger. Meanwhile, Lulu runs off with Mr. Wickham.
Sue Grafton & Dean Koontz: Kinsey discovers she has an evil twin who works at a carnival filled with monsters no one but she can see, but at least she finally gets a dog.
John Grisham & Rev. Rick Warren: What if The Firm had been Purpose Driven instead? Even creepier, am I right?
Stephen King & Danielle Steel: The body count wouldn't decrease much, but a collab rewrite of Lisey's Story would result in it actually becoming a romance (at least until the red shirt hero gets bumped off during a tragic car accident or being eaten by his car, whichever comes first.)
Suzanne Somers & Stephenie Meyer: There are all kinds of mutual benefits in this one: Sexy Forever wouldn't need a title change, Bella could stop being such a klutz, and no character would ever age again . . .
China Miéville & Lemony Snicket: Imagine the novels we'd get out of these two! A Series of Unfortunate Events in New Crobuzon. The unKind Kraken. Un Lun Dunce. Okay, this one might be suitable for my personal amusement only.
James Patterson & Joel Osteen: Alex Cross can be saved before he must die. Unless you buy the next book. (There's the script for your next commercial, James. You don't have to thank me.)
Anne Rice & Judy Blume: The first book has to be titled Are You There, God? It's me, Lestat. Has to be.
J.K. Rowling & Harper Lee: Three words: Scout at Hogwarts.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Friday, June 15, 2012
Network Your Notebook
I'm off again taking care of some work stuff. In the meantime, while hunting around for any online alternatives for the novel notebook, I found this freeware:
Piggydb is "a Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. With Piggydb, you can create highly structural knowledge by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified with hierarchical tags. Piggydb does not aim to be an input-and-search database application. It aims to be a platform that encourages you to organize your knowledge continuously to discover new ideas or concepts, and moreover enrich your creativity" (OS: Multi-platform, requires Java Runtime Environment.)
I'm going to test drive it when I have a chance and I'll report back on how it works for me. If you collaborate online with a writing or creative partner, and need to build a novel notebook or series bible, this freeware might be particularly useful.
Piggydb is "a Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. With Piggydb, you can create highly structural knowledge by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified with hierarchical tags. Piggydb does not aim to be an input-and-search database application. It aims to be a platform that encourages you to organize your knowledge continuously to discover new ideas or concepts, and moreover enrich your creativity" (OS: Multi-platform, requires Java Runtime Environment.)
I'm going to test drive it when I have a chance and I'll report back on how it works for me. If you collaborate online with a writing or creative partner, and need to build a novel notebook or series bible, this freeware might be particularly useful.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
eCollaborator.com
Welcome to eCollaborator.com!
#1 Trusted Co-Writers Site -- Move Beyond "Traditional" Forms of Authorial Collaboration and Into the Beautiful World of Writing Partnerships!
-- FREE! Get your $50 writing profile analysis today
We both know you can't make it on your own, or you wouldn't be here, now, would you? No. You would have married that nice doctor from Rockaway. But would you listen when you were young and your can wasn't the size of Texas? No. So here we are.
-- FREE! See your writing matches and find out who else is a sucker for this kind of thing!
What, you thought you were the only unemployed meshuganah in Publishing? Darling, look around. The whole place is lousy with writers like you.
-- FREE!
Nothing else is. But we gave you the first two, didn't we? And it's not even a holy day. Where's the gratitude?
Why eCollaborator is Different from Those Other Useless Writer Matchmaking Sites
At eCollaborator our patented Writing Compatibility and Personal Tolerance System (TM) narrows the field from millions of aspiring wannabees to a highly select group of writers with whom you share deep levels of insecurity. Where other sites match on a proposal and three chapters, eCollaborator matches you based on compatibility in the most important areas of your writing: like who writes the sex scenes, whose characters don't stink to high heaven, what intellect you have left after all these years surfing the web, any shred of sense of humor that has survived the submission process, absence of any conflicting political views that no one cares about anyway, passion for the work (excuse me, that was a cough, not a laugh), and up to 2,994 other writerly dimensions (give us a couple of days, we'll think them up.)
Testimony from writer-collaborators Stephen and Dean:
Stephen: "I feel so much love for Dean. When I want to watch the ball-game, he never gets upset. He just goes back to work and puts another dog in the story. By the time I find out about it, I've had so many beers I could care less."
Dean: "Stephen has flowered so beautifully since we began to work together. Not one dog has died in his fiction since we met through eCollaborator. I thank God every day for you wonderful people."
990 eCollaborator members get published every single day*
Founded by renowned author and lousy relationship expert Paperback Writer, eCollaborator is responsible for thousands of successful joint publishing endeavors. That's because we have nothing better to do than focus on making matches that have the foundation of compatibility necessary for a lifetime of writing joy, and endless potential for becoming great jokes that we tell at parties.
Testimony from Sherrilyn and Kinsey:
Sherrilyn: "I love my writing partner! She writes books exactly the way I do! It's just so fabulous to be with her!"
Kinsey: "Oh, stop, Sherrilyn sweetie! Tee-hee. You're so much better than I am. Tee-hee. Not that I'm terrible, naturally, but you know what I mean. Tee-hee."
Scientifically Proven Writing Compatibility and Personal Tolerance System
During our months of semi-exhaustive research, daydreaming, and thousands of games of Mah-Jongg, we at eCollaborator found that there are 49 Vital Aspects of Compatibility necessary for success in a long term collaboration. eCollaborator is the only writer-matching site that uses a scientifically proven method (which we're not going to describe because we don't want to type out all that; just take our word for it) to match writers based on these 49 essential aspects.
Testimony from Jessica and Gena:
Gena: "I was languishing in nowhere land until I met Jessica through eCollaborator. Now with her special motivation, I have real hope I'll be able to reclaim my former glory as a romance writer!"
Jessica: "Shut up and bring me another slice of that Sara Lee pound cake, you twit."
"No Writer Matchmaking Service Screens Its Applicants More Rigorously"
-Publishers Monthly**
At eCollaborator our comprehensive, 99,634 question Writer Questionnaire is just one of the many, many ways we screen new members for deep compatibility with you on as many as 49 aspects. Okay, if you pay the $999.99 annual fee immediately instead of making installments, we'll consider all our questions answered. You couldn't have all that money to spend unless you had a decent day job, right? And hang on to that, Darling. You know what they say, when the looks go . . .
Take the first step.
Well, no, coming here was actually the first step -- and aren't you smart for making it this far!
Take the second step.
FREE! Get your $50 writing profile analysis.
FREE! View Your Highly Compatible Matches. You can't talk to them, or contact them, of course, and we'll sue you if you try, but you can look. Look, that's all.
Isn't it time you experienced the joy of collaborating with a writer who gets you, loves your work, and accepts you for the professional waffler you are? This is the kind of joy that comes from authentic collaboration -- and authentic collaboration is what forms the basis for every relationship at eCollaborator. Otherwise, we'd call it Hot Guys in Little Black Speedos like our cousin Marla's web site. She went into soft porn and makes a nice living at it, may God give her bunions bunions.
Why Not Give Our Service a Try Right Now?
God knows, we're not getting any younger.
You get those two free things for nothing. How many more times are you going to write Chapter One, huh?
Like you have anything to lose.
Go ahead.
Click on the free trial, cheapskate.
You know you'll never get published until you do.
Come on.
Quit being such a baby about it.
*Published here defined as self-published; see our companion web site eVanityPublishing.com
**Advertisement paid for by eCollaborator.com
#1 Trusted Co-Writers Site -- Move Beyond "Traditional" Forms of Authorial Collaboration and Into the Beautiful World of Writing Partnerships!
-- FREE! Get your $50 writing profile analysis today
We both know you can't make it on your own, or you wouldn't be here, now, would you? No. You would have married that nice doctor from Rockaway. But would you listen when you were young and your can wasn't the size of Texas? No. So here we are.
-- FREE! See your writing matches and find out who else is a sucker for this kind of thing!
What, you thought you were the only unemployed meshuganah in Publishing? Darling, look around. The whole place is lousy with writers like you.
-- FREE!
Nothing else is. But we gave you the first two, didn't we? And it's not even a holy day. Where's the gratitude?
Why eCollaborator is Different from Those Other Useless Writer Matchmaking Sites
At eCollaborator our patented Writing Compatibility and Personal Tolerance System (TM) narrows the field from millions of aspiring wannabees to a highly select group of writers with whom you share deep levels of insecurity. Where other sites match on a proposal and three chapters, eCollaborator matches you based on compatibility in the most important areas of your writing: like who writes the sex scenes, whose characters don't stink to high heaven, what intellect you have left after all these years surfing the web, any shred of sense of humor that has survived the submission process, absence of any conflicting political views that no one cares about anyway, passion for the work (excuse me, that was a cough, not a laugh), and up to 2,994 other writerly dimensions (give us a couple of days, we'll think them up.)
Testimony from writer-collaborators Stephen and Dean:
Stephen: "I feel so much love for Dean. When I want to watch the ball-game, he never gets upset. He just goes back to work and puts another dog in the story. By the time I find out about it, I've had so many beers I could care less."
Dean: "Stephen has flowered so beautifully since we began to work together. Not one dog has died in his fiction since we met through eCollaborator. I thank God every day for you wonderful people."
990 eCollaborator members get published every single day*
Founded by renowned author and lousy relationship expert Paperback Writer, eCollaborator is responsible for thousands of successful joint publishing endeavors. That's because we have nothing better to do than focus on making matches that have the foundation of compatibility necessary for a lifetime of writing joy, and endless potential for becoming great jokes that we tell at parties.
Testimony from Sherrilyn and Kinsey:
Sherrilyn: "I love my writing partner! She writes books exactly the way I do! It's just so fabulous to be with her!"
Kinsey: "Oh, stop, Sherrilyn sweetie! Tee-hee. You're so much better than I am. Tee-hee. Not that I'm terrible, naturally, but you know what I mean. Tee-hee."
Scientifically Proven Writing Compatibility and Personal Tolerance System
During our months of semi-exhaustive research, daydreaming, and thousands of games of Mah-Jongg, we at eCollaborator found that there are 49 Vital Aspects of Compatibility necessary for success in a long term collaboration. eCollaborator is the only writer-matching site that uses a scientifically proven method (which we're not going to describe because we don't want to type out all that; just take our word for it) to match writers based on these 49 essential aspects.
Testimony from Jessica and Gena:
Gena: "I was languishing in nowhere land until I met Jessica through eCollaborator. Now with her special motivation, I have real hope I'll be able to reclaim my former glory as a romance writer!"
Jessica: "Shut up and bring me another slice of that Sara Lee pound cake, you twit."
"No Writer Matchmaking Service Screens Its Applicants More Rigorously"
-Publishers Monthly**
At eCollaborator our comprehensive, 99,634 question Writer Questionnaire is just one of the many, many ways we screen new members for deep compatibility with you on as many as 49 aspects. Okay, if you pay the $999.99 annual fee immediately instead of making installments, we'll consider all our questions answered. You couldn't have all that money to spend unless you had a decent day job, right? And hang on to that, Darling. You know what they say, when the looks go . . .
Take the first step.
Well, no, coming here was actually the first step -- and aren't you smart for making it this far!
Take the second step.
FREE! Get your $50 writing profile analysis.
FREE! View Your Highly Compatible Matches. You can't talk to them, or contact them, of course, and we'll sue you if you try, but you can look. Look, that's all.
Isn't it time you experienced the joy of collaborating with a writer who gets you, loves your work, and accepts you for the professional waffler you are? This is the kind of joy that comes from authentic collaboration -- and authentic collaboration is what forms the basis for every relationship at eCollaborator. Otherwise, we'd call it Hot Guys in Little Black Speedos like our cousin Marla's web site. She went into soft porn and makes a nice living at it, may God give her bunions bunions.
Why Not Give Our Service a Try Right Now?
God knows, we're not getting any younger.
You get those two free things for nothing. How many more times are you going to write Chapter One, huh?
Like you have anything to lose.
Go ahead.
Click on the free trial, cheapskate.
You know you'll never get published until you do.
Come on.
Quit being such a baby about it.
*Published here defined as self-published; see our companion web site eVanityPublishing.com
**Advertisement paid for by eCollaborator.com
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