Carrie asked Nicole Galland:

What was your collaboration process like with Neal?

Nicole Galland Hi Carrie... our collaboration was a pretty organic and intuitive one. We didn't have any strict rules of how to go about things, but as a general rule, once we had an outline, I'd "break trail" on a segment and then pass it off to Neal to polish or tweak while I moved on to the next section. Sometimes we would reverse the order - he broke trail (especially if it involved hard science) and I'd follow along after. Ultimately we feel that both of our fingerprints are all over the whole thing.

On the book tour we used to joke that we'd need to make up anecdotes about how hard it was to work together, just to have something interesting to say. There really aren't a lot of anecdotes because - while the book itself was challenging to write - the collaborative process was not challenging. We both enjoyed it.

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