What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

Information is power. --Humfrey

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.