Writer's Guide to Places
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 HuntleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved