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  • The Art of Character

    Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

    by David Corbett ...
    Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization-from initial inspiration to realization-with special insights into the power of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • San Francisco Noir

    by Domenic Stansberry, David Corbett, Sin Soracco ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    This anthology of " genuinely haunting noir fiction " set in the Golden City features new stories by Jim Nisbet, Alejandro Murguía, Michelle Tea and others ( Publishers Weekly).Oscar Wilde once quipped that anyone who disappears is said to be seen in in San Francisco. With its famous fog, winding streets, and hazardously steep hills, it is certainly an ideal place for getting lost. It's also an ... Read more

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  • The Compass of Character

    Creating Complex Motivation for Compelling Characters in Fiction, Film, and TV

    by David Corbett ...
    Just as a compass provides direction for an explorer, so does motivation provide direction for characters in fiction. The "compass" of character motivation is composed of four points: Lack, Yearning, Resistance, and Desire. In The Compass of Character you'll learn to deeply consider the key question "What does my character want?" and learn techniques to answer that question by writing realistic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Truth Against the World

    by David Corbett ...
    A country descending into civil war...A young artist forced to cross a nation in chaosto retrieve her stolen masterpiece...Her guide and guardian-whose past remains strangely obscure...Georgie O'Halloran created an artistic and literary wonder-only to have it stolen from her and published under the thief's name. Worse, it's the inspiration for a wildly pop... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday

    by David Corbett ...
    The most notorious love letters in American history-supposedly destroyed a century ago-mysteriously reappear, and become the coveted prize in a fierce battle for possession that brings back to life the lawless world evoked in the letters themselves.Lisa Balamaro is an ambitious arts lawyer with a secret crush on her most intriguing client: former rodeo rider and reformed art forger, Tuck Mercer. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Killing Yourself to Survive

    Stories

    by David Corbett ...
    Seven stories of desperation and death from a master of crime fictionSterling Associates recruited Satcher in the killing fields of Iraq. A marine who learned the brutalities and frustrations of war in Fallujah, Satcher was ideal for Sterling, a shadowy corporation whose business is to kill for America when the CIA can't. He comes to Guatemala, the deadliest nation in the Americas, to kidnap a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Devil's Redhead

    A Novel

    by David Corbett ...
    An ex-con risks his freedom and his life to rekindle an old love affairThey call him Bad Dan, the Man Who Can. A talented photographer who makes his living smuggling premium Thai marijuana into the States, he meets Shel at a Las Vegas blackjack table, and falls instantly in love. After two years of whirlwind passion, they are living in California and plotting a final score. But in his haste to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

    by Jeffrey Raven, Mattia Federico Leone, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, David Corbett, David Driskell, Ursula Eicker, John E. Fernandez, Jing Gan, Anna Hürlimann, Ilana Judah, Michael Neuman, Barbara Norman, Dennis Pamlin, Chao Ren, Rob Roggema, Pourya Salehi, Anne Shellum, Andréa Souza Santos, Joel Towers, Cristina Visconti, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Blood of Paradise

    A Novel

    by David Corbett ...
    Edgar Award Finalist: In El Salvador, a young American faces his troubled past—and a dangerous present.Jude McManus has landed on his feet. Following time in the army, he scored work as an "executive protection specialist" in El Salvador, where he safeguards a hydrologist for good money and gets to surf during his downtime. But this slice of paradise comes with post-civil-war dangers, and distance ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Thirteen Confessions

    Stories

    by David Corbett ...
    Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disasterMarybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won her heart with bad jokes and cynical Irish charm. Two years later, she loves him more than ever, but she can see that he's bracing for a fall. When everything ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Do They Know I'm Running?

    A Novel

    by David Corbett ...
    Caught up in a scheme to smuggle his deported uncle back across the border, a young American must fight to save his family, himself, and the woman he lovesAt eighteen, Roque Montalvo is a gifted guitarist and a hit with women, but the rest of his life is a struggle. Orphaned at birth and scraping by in a rough Northern California town, he helps support his hardworking aunt and tends to his ex ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dunmore's New World

    The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings

    by James Corbett David ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore’s ... Read more

    $27.99 USD