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I'm an accidental science fiction author.
A few years back, broke, desperate and living with my wife and three kids at my in-laws, I decided to get together with my brother, Eytan and write a book. Mind you I had no idea how to go about this but I did know that Eytan had some great ideas and little tenacity and I had a lot of tenacity and a gift for knowing how to turn great ideas into a marketable ones. I applied my advertising copywriter skill set (word craftsmanship and reader empathy) to the one idea of Eytan's I felt was strongest and then together we created an outline, basic plot points and an extrapolated world built on that initial concept. 8 years later our first book, The Unincorporated Man, hit the shelves, the net, and the airw...more


Opened my email this morning to the following very exciting news (paraphrased):

Two sf novels published this year by TOR Books have been nominated for next year's Prometheus Award for Best Novel. Please pass on our congratulations to the authors: Vernor Vinge, forThe Children of the Sky; and Dani and Eytan Kollin, forThe Unincorporated Woman. The judges are especially intrigued by these new 2011... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.78 · 2,033 ratings · 347 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
The Unincorporated Man
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,316 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
The Unincorporated War
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
The Unincorporated Woman
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
The Unincorporated Future
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009
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message 2: by Dani

Dani Kollin LOL. Well, speaking of that ephemeral quarter and in the immortal words of our new leader, change is good.

Couldn't resist.

Dani


Ceridwen Hi Dani! I'm jazzed to see you have a shiny new author page. And I think the "accidental author" thing is to your credit and speaks to your merit. If I had a nickel for every person I knew with an unpublished book, I'd have, like, a quarter. Hey, it's a quarter! Every two bits count in a time of recession.

Ceridwen


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