Thanks for the kind words. I’m too tall to be Napoleon, and so are you. 🙂

It really does work. It’s that rare collaboration, like Elton John and Bernie Taupin, as an example, where it just clicks. Let’s hope it stays that way. 🙂

I look forward to continuing to collaborate with you on stuff for years.

Eric

Been so busy (as you know) the past week or so, I just got a chance to read this blog and the others after it.

Just wanted the folks to know that I enjoy working with Eric a great deal. As he said, our writing styles are so similar – it’s almost scary 🙂 Not sure why that it, but once in a lifetime I guess you meet a person with whom you share a similar way of expressing yourself. Like the great marriage I have with my wife, Eric’s and my researching, interpretation, and writing styles meld wonderfully. We’re both tempermental, but our egos fall to the background so easily that it’s natural for us. We get excited over “discovering” the same sorts of things and we support each other like brothers.

That also makes it very easy for us to edit each other’s work. I’ve hardly written anything (including all my past magazine articles) that Eric hasn’t deftly edited. I’ve been reviewing and editing just about everything he’s written over the past few years, and it seems easy for me as well. I agree that on our collaborations, I seriously doubt that anyone would be able to discern two different writers in the same project. My wife once said that she could read two pieces – one written by me, one by Eric – and she literally wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.

So, I guess that either means we’re both pretty decent writers, or…

…we stink alike. 🙂

Either way it’s a great combination!

Maybe our talks in front of groups, on such things as battlefield tours, is the same – this past year, Eric gave a wonderful tour of East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg for our CWDG discussion group, and I piped in here and there with comments. One fellow walking with us commented that being with the two of us was like “walking Waterloo with Napolen and Wellington.”

I hope I get to be Wellington…

J.D.

My pleasure. JD and I have to make a trek out there and stop the ground before we’re in a position to think about putting pen to paper, and frankly, the others come first. Given that, Kyle’s book will definitely be out before ours.

As for the halvsies aspect, I would agree. However, JD’s writing style is so similar to mine that we think–and hope–that the transitions are seamless and that nobody will be able to tell where those switches took place.

Where there is a big difference in styles, I can see how it could/would be a major problem. Fortunately, we don’t face that problem.

Eric

Thanks again. And btw, of all your upcoming projects, I am most looking forward to the Price’s Raid volume. Can’t wait. Hopefully, yours and Sinisi’s efforts won’t come out at the same time.

Drew

Either that, or I need to get a life. 🙂

Eric

Your collaborative works with JD & Mike, Monroe’s Cross Roads, regimental on the Lancers, bio on Dahlgren, Morgan’s Raid. Man, I envy your discipline.

Mike