Dani Kollin

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 airwaves (on e-readers). It went on to win the 2010 Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction novel of the year and it's also found a warm welcome here at goodreads.com. I'm happy to report that our publisher, Tor, has also bought three more books from us.Re: me. My hobbies include roadbike riding, surfing and reading.