How did the collaboration of C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp come about?
Wow, that’s actually a bigger question that you realize. Long story short, we didn’t start out being collaborators. We actually met in the law office where I (Cathy) worked. Cie was doing a temp gig for a paralegal on maternity leave and we got to know each other over lunches. We started out as critique partners and plotting partners. I was writing my books and she was writing hers. But then my historical novel got accepted and I started to panic. She’d nearly single-handedly created a major subplot in the book, which I’d happily used. But then–what was I supposed to do? Thank her nicely for (quite possibly) making the book good enough to get accepted? Buy her lunch? Cut her in on the royalties? You see where it gets tricky? Then I started thinking about the book she was working on. Again, I’d created a major character and given him a subplot. After some soul-searching talks, we decided that if we simply went in as co-authors, with a 50/50 split, we wouldn’t have to worry about who di
