title: The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing
author: Mike Resnick
description: &#34;A valuable and entertaining read.&#34; --SFRA Review<br /><br />&#34;Very good...readers will thoroughly enjoy this journey.&#34; --Science Fiction Studies.
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  [About the Author](contents.xhtml#c_ata)
  
  
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  [RENEE
  PATRICK](http://us.macmillan.com/author/reneepatrick?utm_source=ebook&utm_medium=adcard&utm_term=ebookreaders&utm_content=reneepatrick_authorpage_macdotcom&utm_campaign=9781466884588)
  is the pseudonym of married authors Rosemarie and Vince Kennan. Rosemarie is a
  research administrator and a poet. Vince is a screenwriter and a journalist.
  Both native New Yorkers, they currently live in Seattle, Washington. You can
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  [Acknowledgments](contents.xhtml#ack)
  
  
  The movies are widely known as a collaborative art while writing a novel tends
  to be viewed as a solitary pursuit. The tw