Writing the private eye novel : a handbook /
Writing the Private Eye Novel is a vaulable resource for anyone who wants to try to make a living writing detective fiction. Obviously, there is no formula that guarantees success, but in this collection of essays from working authors, you can get a very good idea of what you should be thinking abou...
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Writer's Digest Books,
c1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Robert J. Randisi
- Getting Started. Writing the Private Eye Novel / Parnell Hall. The Care and Feeding of a PI Series / Ed Gorman
- Plot and Structure. The Deadly Cruise / Lawrence Block. The Use of the Journal in Writing a Private Eye Novel / Sue Grofton. And the Murderer Is ... / Loren D. Estleman
- Creativity. Writers Write! / Robert J. Randisi. Putting Yourself on the Page / Les Roberts. Writing and Reading / Ed Gorman
- Character. Developing a Series Character / Jeremiah Healy. The PI's the Thing / Robert J. Randisi. The Private Eye: Doing It in Public / William L. DeAndrea. Senses and Sensibilities: Female PIs in the Nineties / Catherine Dain. The Trans-Gender Writer: Finding Your Voice / Wendi Lee
- Setting. A Trip Into the Hinterlands / Jan Grape. Private Eye Witness: Historical PI Fiction / Max Allan Collins. Write What You Know and Fake the Rest / Jerry Keneally
- Writing the PI Short Story. I Can Do That! / Christine Matthews.
- Short and Shamus / John Lutz
- Stretching the Boundaries. Crossing Over / Wendi Lee. The Visual Eyes: Writing Private Eye Comic Books / Max Allan Collins. Humor in the Private Eye Novel / Parnell Hall
- From the Editor's Desk. So You're Gonna Walk the Mean Streets / Michael Seidman. Printout to Published / Michael Seidman.