Facing Violence
Preparing for the Unexpected

This is an EXCELLENT resource for writers who write about crime, violence, fighting, etc... The man knows his stuff and it's been eye-opening for me. The book is all about realism and realistic fights, etc... however, fiction is fiction for a reason - it's not as brutal as real life and I think a wr......more

Novelists need to be experts on storytelling. For everything else we need to fake it convincingly. If you want to become a real expert on violence, you can spend years in a dojo, and in a jail, and on the street, and in Iraq, and in conferences and libraries analyzing your real-world experiences. Or......more

For writers who use any sort of violence in their stories, this book is hands down an excellent resource. Regardless of what time period you write about, regardless of whether your character is on the receiving end of violence or whether s/he should know how to fight (in any way, shape or form), and......more

This writing reference book is painful, shocking and at times very, very dark. It is graphic and contains links to videos that are films of heinous crimes being or having been executed on real people. I believe that this book puts, the writer, inside the body when facing a physical assault or execut......more

Excellent resource for writers of all genres. Miller gives a no-nonsense breakdown of how fighting happens in the real world (along with some historical information geared toward speculative writers) as well as weapons and how they work. There's an extensive section on injury, as well as information......more