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Cops and Writers: From The Academy To The Street
| Title | Cops and Writers: From The Academy To The Street |
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| Date | 2024-10-07 01:15:46 |
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Desciption
Looking to add an authentic edge to your crime fiction? Ride along with a real-life sergeant to give your story the accuracy your readers crave. Are you a civilian crime writer who wants to use picture perfect law enforcement details? Do you worry that your mystery novel or screenplay lacks credibility? Fiction and nonfiction author Sergeant Patrick O’Donnell has seen it all in his 24 years working for one of the largest police departments in the country. Now he’s here to help your writing honor the men and women who risk their lives in the line of duty. Cops and Writers: From the Academy to the Street is your in-depth field guide for navigating the path from new recruit to seasoned patrol officer. Through O’Donnell’s accounts, you’ll get up close and personal with day-to-day challenges and out-of-the-ordinary emergencies including homicides, hostage situations, and bomb threats. Armed with this invaluable resource for decoding police jargon, tactics, and standard-issue gear, you’ll be well equipped to breathe new life into your stories. In Cops and Writers, you’ll discover: Stories from O’Donnell’s years on the force to help give your book credibility How the academy and field training shapes rookies so you can mold convincing charactersPatrol officers' daily routines and working conditions to infuse your fiction with added depthDifferent techniques for arresting and defending against criminal threats to bring readers even closer to the actionDifferent patrol units such as SWAT, K-9, Air Support, and Bomb Squad to add another layer of realism, and much, much more! Cops and Writers is your all-in-one reference guide for giving your novel or screenplay much-needed street cred. If you like candid stories told with cop humor, technical details, and peering into the minds of those who serve and protect, then you’ll love Sergeant Patrick O’Donnell’s must-have handbook for crime fiction writers. Buy Cops and Writers to make your storytelling more authentic today! Read more
Review
Patrick O'Donnell has taken his many years of experience in one of our nation's largest police departments and turned it into a superb resource for authors writing crime fiction.O'Donnell does a great job of explaining the route most police officers take through initial training to working on the street. He basically begins the journey of the young police officer at the decision-making level in an early chapter that explores why people become police officers. He gives great examples that support in-depth insight into an officer's early career.A lot of what O'Donnell writes about is personal experience, and it should be noted that in other departments and other states some of the processes and laws he describes are slightly different. But most of the information in the book is universal and can be a great benefit to any author who is writing crime fiction with police characters.Another truly valuable insight within this book is simply the language O'Donnell employs in the writing of it. When you read O'Donnell "Cops and Writers" book, you're reading the words of a cop written in the language he uses. Every career field has its own jargon, and while "Cops and Writers" is easily accessible even to people who aren't familiar with "cop jargon," O'Donnell peppers this book with the jargon you would hear if you could be a fly-on-the-wall in a police station.I thoroughly enjoyed the first-hand accounts and found the information in this book useful.I especially appreciate that this book provides the perspective of the uniformed patrol officer. All the movies and TV shows and crime dramas seem to focus on the glamour of detectives, but the vast majority of police work is done by the "boys and girls in blue" and it's interesting and useful to have that perspective.I'm looking forward to more of O'Donnell's writing aids books.
