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A very good description of where the shorter pieces fit into the overall universe.
As someone who co-wrote with my spouse for many, many years, it can be an interesting process. When we first started out, we used to read/edit each others chapters. But we quickly found we didn't have time for that with some of the huge books we did later. (Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Companion was >1700 pages. And all the Admin Companions were about that same length. ) But having started that way, we both knew the other's voice and could write without any real concern about it being disjointed. When we started, Sharon was the far better writer, and I was the techie. Over time that blended. And, of course, it helped that we had superb editors. In all our joint projects, I can only remember one really, really bad editor. And she never worked for MS Press again, so far as I'm aware.
Back to Liad, however. Sharon Lee has said that for any given project one or the other of them is "lead", and that's how we worked as well. Someone has to have a vision of the book as a whole and what's still missing and take responsibility.
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