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How did you become a writing partnership for Vengeance and the Star Trek book you worked on - and how do you divide up the work?

Dan Jolley: Scott and I met a couple of years ago at the WizardWorld Convention in Chicago, and quickly became friends.

Scott found out that I was interested in getting some prose work published, and soon took on a sort of half-partner, half-mentor role; he's been writing novels for twelve or thirteen years now, so he started showing me the ropes.

Scott Ciencin: Dan’s a terrific visual storyteller with a great ear for dialogue, and I had read and been impressed by his comic book work, so it was a real pleasure to work with him. On Vengeance, my wife Denise (who gets her first by-line in an upcoming Angel short story) and I came up with the idea and Dan added some cool touches and terrific concepts.

I assumed the responsibility for completing and getting approvals on the very detailed chapter-by-chapter we turned in, then we divided up the chapter work and went over each other’s stuff as it came in. As the primary, I had "final cut" on what went to the publisher. When we do a project with Dan’s name first, it’ll be the other way around.