My writing partner and I have been working on this project for three years and we're finally getting serious interest from publishers, but the feedback keeps being about how one voice needs to be more prominent. We've always written as true equals but the industry wants a clear lead author, and we haven't figured out how to navigate that without fundamentally changing our partnership.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people have built an egalitarian collaboration, but external systems require hierarchy that threatens their core dynamic.
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