: Re: What's the best way to distinguish between co-authors? I know a couple of people who are co-authoring a book, and they have been debating how to go about distinguishing between the two of them

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John Cleese and Robyn Skynner actually used sectional speech headed:

John:

and

Robyn:

To make the distinction. But their book was dialectic with Cleese interviewing Skynner.

In general co-authored books are just presumed to be co-authored with no specific division made between who wrote what.

Some programming books I've read give bylines on chapters but this is usually in overview style books where many different and various topics are covered in one volume, anthology style.

If they are desperate to have their own voice then it might be suitable to identify "Common Content" which is the main body of the text. Then "A's Content" and "B's Content" which are put into separate box out sections where appropriate and relevant. The box outs could be individually formatted and a key given in a "How to use this book" section.

If the parts of each author are really completely distinct then maybe it would be better to either have bylines by the chapter or even for them to write two completely separate books!

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