No sooner had I written 'The difference in tome-zones can be made to work to your advantage... This constitutes a sort of double-shift system' than I read the following in a book I was editing:
>Sometimes the coauthoring is face to face, at other times via e-mail. For >example, the bulk of the ...[books]... have been written by authors living in >separate countries and on different continents. Often these author teams >leverage the differences in time zones to conduct 'round the clock' writing >sessions! Think how practical this would have been before the Internet. -- Steve Rickaby WordMongers Ltd http://www.wordmongers.com