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Coauthors take
a multiplatform
approach to
novel writing
BY MATIA BURNETT
Mark Desvaux and Mark Stay—the coauthors of the comical sci-fi novel Back to Reality, about a mother who gets a life reboot by time-traveling to the 1990s—have done their homework so aspiring authors don’t have to. They have known one another
since they were teenagers growing up in Surrey, England, and are
both men of many hats. Stay works with Orion Publishing Group in
the U.K. and is also a screenwriter. He cowrote the 2015 film Robot
Overlords, which stars Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley. Desvaux
MARK STAY (l.) AND MARK DESVAUX