As a writing team, we like to argue plots, characters and motivations, and sometimes comma placement.
As individuals, we bring both different and similar sets of interests and expertise to life and fiction.
Both of us are avid Science Fiction and Fantasy readers.
Clif's "magic year" was when he was ten. That's the year when he graduated from "Space Cat" and "The Lost Race of Mars" to Madeline L'Engles' Wrinkle In Time, A. E. Van Vogt's Destination Universe and Conan Doyle's Hound of Baskervilles
The Hound of Baskervilles made him want to write detective