Writer's Guide to Places - Softcover

Prues, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582971692 ISBN 13: 9781582971698

Publisher: Writer's Digest Books, 2002

Synopsis

A Writer's Magic Carpet Ride - Carry Your Readers from Coast to Coast without Leaving Home

Fill your settings with the insider details readers love - without spending days in a library or weeks on the road. Writer's Guide to Places makes it easy! Featuring all fifty states, ten Canadian provinces, and fifty-one North American cities, this book provides a writer's eye view of hundreds of fascinating locales, from bustling cities and scenic landscapes to tourist traps and small town squares.

You'll find detailed information on each area, including the best locations to set a scene, regional foods and slang, the people and places your characters love, and much more.

Start saving valuable research time and create more realistic settings today. Writer's Guide to Places has all the information you need in a single volume.

About this title

About the Author

Don Prues is the co-author of Formatting and Submitting Your Manuscript and is the former editor of Guide to Literary Agents. His work has appeared in the New York Post, Merto-Augusta Parent Magazine, Sagetrieb and other publications. Jack Heffron is the former Editorial Director for Writer’s Digest Books and the author of The Writer’s Idea Book. Both authors live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

From Booklist

Writers looking for information on North American locales for their fiction will find Prues and Heffron's book a handy guide. With chapters on all 50 states and one or more cities from almost every state, as well as several Canadian provinces, the book is teeming with historical and cultural facts, some well known, others more obscure. Each chapter includes sections featuring significant events, facts and peculiarities, food popular in the area, myths and misperceptions, and interesting places to set a scene. The city chapters expand on the more general state ones, detailing neighborhoods and famous locales as well as renowned denizens and historical figures. Though it is very clearly an introduction to the locales and not a comprehensive guide, the writers have included a "For Further Research" section in each chapter that will lead the reader to fiction, nonfiction, movies, and Web sites that have more information about the state or city in question. An excellent jumping-off point for beginning location research for a novel or story. Kristine Huntley
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About this edition

• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1582971692
• ISBN 13: 9781582971698
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448