Double Your Pleasure

Timed to the publication of their first collaborative novel, the historical thriller One Too Many Blows to the Head, authors J.B. (Jennifer) Kohl and Eric Beetner submit to an interview with blogger Cullen Gallagher of Pulp Serenade. In my opinion, one of the most interesting aspects of their exchange is Beetner’s answer to a question about what it’s like to write with a partner:

My favorite part of One Too Many Blows to the Head was getting to write a novel and at the same time read one. With each new chapter that came in I got to get pulled deeper into the story and have it stay fresh for the entire writing process. Sometimes it is easy to get too inside a book when you’re working on it all alone. This allowed us (well, me anyway) to keep a critical eye and respond to the new chapters as a reader first and a writer second. I felt good about sending chapters to Jennifer and having her react the same way. We had a broad outline but things would change and the specifics were all new to each of us every time we would
open an e-mail.

Now I understand why Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, and Jason Starr have been writing fiction together in recent years.

You can read all of Pulp Serenade’s interview with Kohl and Beetner here. And the same blog has posted the excellent video trailer for One Too Many Blows to the Head.