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y author-friend Lisa Amowitz and I are co-writing a YA historical/magical realism book, set during the American War for Independence, featuring Nathan Hale (America’s first spy) as one of the characters. She and I have decided to blog about the experience of writing a story together. Here is our first article, primarily told by Lisa.]

 Lisa: There’s a lot of background to my collaboration with fellow Spencer Hill Press author,  Elizabeth Langston. We’d first bonded when I worked as the cover designer for three of her books. I enjoyed working with Elizabeth and appreciated her ability to “get” my ideas and communicate her own quite coherently. When it came to visualizing, Elizabeth was a natural. And not to diss others I’ve worked with in publishing, but that’s not as common a trait as you might think.

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*This post was first published during the month of Aug. 2014