I do a lot of novels and stories in collaboration. I enjoy the brainstorming, interaction, and learning. Stories written in collaboration turn out different from anything either writer would write solo.
Since I have been married to Rebecca for more than 26 years, as of this writing, our careers have been a collaboration, too. We’ve written dozens of novels together, and we often brainstorm even our own projects. So it seemed natural to do a collaborative story about collaborators in a high-tech future. We wrote this after we’d been married several years and the rough edges and loose ends of our pre-“Kevin and Rebecca” lives had pretty much faded away, and we started to notice how the individual parts had melded inextricably together.
Of course, in a short story that isn’t always a good thing.