Closest to the Fire: A Writer's Guide to Law and Lawyers

by Karen A. Wyle, Elizabeth DiPalma Design+ (Illustrator)

Overview

Write about the law -- and get it right!

The world of law and lawyers, with its suspense, its moral quandaries, and its ripped-from-the-headlines subject matter, provides wonderful material for fiction. This guide will help writers explore these many story possibilities -- while avoiding the also-numerous pitfalls awaiting the unwary author.

Included throughout the book are ideas for stories or story elements based on the content and available for the readers' use.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151162401
Publisher:	Karen A. Wyle
Publication date:	10/22/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	656
File size:	812 KB

About the Author

Karen A. Wyle is an award-winning appellate attorney with more than thirty years' experience. A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, she worked for law firms and the California Court of Appeal before establishing her solo practice in Bloomington, Indiana. Wyle has filed amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and seven state supreme courts. She has also written and published five novels. One-quarter of her novel Division is set in a near-future courtroom.