It is unusual for authors to co-write a work of fiction. But David Paul Kirkpatrick and Steven James Taylor have been friends for a long time. They both grew up with dogs and live in New England. David is a filmmaker and writer. Steve is a storyteller and an artist. They have been daring each other to work on a creative project for years. They were inspired by the many dogs in their lives and the dog is the answer to those dares.
To write the dog, they rented a house at Crane’s Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts. They worked in the “Mighty Room” at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. They also relied heavily on Apple, Microsoft, Box, and Dropbox.
Steven James Taylor has trained in martial arts his whole life and most recently at the Shaolin Temple in China. In 2001, he was one of the first to publish serial comic books on the Internet. A painter and sculptor, Steven has a constant love affair with new technology, and the storytelling it enables. Currently he is working on a startup in augmented reality.
