![]() ![]() “We think we can, but the style or our writing is so similar that it just works.”Ĭarter and Woods said they decided to team write after growing weary of receiving rejection letters for their individual efforts. “Our publisher has said they can hardly tell the difference from her book to mine,” Woods said. They’ve learned to cater their writing to give the books a singular voice regardless of who is doing the actual typing. “While there’s a lot of collaboration, the writing is done separately,” Carter said, “but we’ll read each other’s work to make sure the voice is correct or that I’m getting the right tone for a character in Mary Lee’s book.” ![]() The duo alternates the writing duties from book to book, while maintaining the same settings and characters. Their books with catchy titles - “Desperate Housedogs” and “Kitty Kitty Bang Bang” - follow pet therapist Caro Lamont and pet boutique owner Melinda Langston, as they team up to solve mysteries among the wealthy pet owners of Laguna Beach. ![]() Two Des Moines authors who met through a local writers group found success when they teamed up as a writing team.Īnita Carter and Mary Lee Woods, known collectively and Sparkle Abbey, published the seventh book in their Pampered Pets mystery series, “Downton Tabby,” this month. ![]()
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