Careers for Your Characters: A Writers Guide to 101 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper

Neumann, Franz,Obstfeld, Raymond

ISBN 10: 1582970831 / ISBN 13: 9781582970837

Published by Writers Digest Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Careers for Your Characters: A Writers Guide to 101 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582970831
• ISBN 13: 9781582970837
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Provides over one hundred descriptions of occupations that can be used for writing fiction, detailing the daily life, jargon, and salaries of such fields as dentistry, entertainment, law, and arechitecture.

About the Author

Raymond Obstfeld is the author of twenty-seven books including The Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes. He heads the writing program at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, and has taught at Cambridge University and the University of California at Irvine. He has written mysteries, suspense thrillers and mainstream novels that have been published in eleven different languages. Four of his novels have been optioned for movies. Raymond lives in Tustin, California. Franz Neumann has written two novels, numerous short stories and has published nonfiction in Salon.com. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and resides in Long Beach, California.