Charles Deemer


Biography

Teach screenwriting at Portland State University.

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http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/bio.htm

Where to find Charles Deemer online


Where to buy in print


Books

Collected Stories    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 73820 words. Published on January 3, 2011. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
22 short stories by Charles Deemer, most first published in Prism International, The Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, Northwest Review, Colorado Quarterly, or elsewhere, including 3 Roll of Honor selections from Best American Short Stories.
Writing the Spec Screenplay    by Charles Deemer
Price: $4.95 USD. 79300 words. Published on January 2, 2011. Nonfiction.

In 1997 Charles Deemer published the hypertext software "Screenwright: the craft of screenwriting" to rave reviews: "...the remarkable electronic book on Screenwriting" (London Screenwriters Workshop), "remarkable, ground-breaking screenwriting tutorial" (Screaming in the Celluloid Jungle), "the bible of screenwriting for the novice" (StoryCraft). This ebook presents Deemer's same methods.
Movies They Should Have Made    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 48580 words. Published on December 30, 2010. Screenplays.

Three screenplays by Charles Deemer. "The Brazen Wing"--An old man dying of cancer kidnaps his high school sweetheart from a rest home for one last fling. "Sad Laughter"--Moliere is haunted by the possibility that he married his own daughter. "In Somalia"--An ex-marine flying gun runners in Somalia must reconcile his past when the woman who broke his heart appears as a U. N. worker.
Love At Ground Zero    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 31550 words. Published on December 29, 2010. Fiction.

(4.00 from 1 review)
Wes, an American, and Hayaam, a Muslim from Indonesia, overcome the objections of parents and friends, as well as the post-9/11 climate of fear, prejudice and paranoia, to explore and nurture their growing love for one another. (Romeo & Juliet for the age of terror.)
Baumholder 1961    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 19910 words. Published on December 29, 2010. Fiction.

2 GIs in the Army Security Agency, stationed in the Sin City of Europe, face a personal crisis on the night the Berlin Wall goes up.
Seven Plays    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 107400 words. Published on December 29, 2010. Fiction.

Plays by award-winning playwright Charles Deemer, including "Christmas at the Juniper Tavern" (ACE award, public television) and "Famililly" (Winner, Crossing Borders International New Play Competition).
The Deadly Doowop    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 74500 words. Published on December 28, 2010. Fiction.

(3.00 from 1 review)
Los Angeles, 1954. Red Trevorak, a struggling playwright, works as a gofer in his father's detective agency. When a wealthy white woman hires him to do a racial heritage check on her husband, a DJ who may be black passing for white, Red encounters a business conspiracy in the record industry at the birth of rock-and-roll. And then people start dying...
Emmett's Gift    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 104910 words. Published on December 28, 2010. Fiction.

An old man helps an artistic, bohemian young woman escape the small Oregon town in which she feels trapped.
Kerouac's Scroll    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 58000 words. Published on December 28, 2010. Fiction.

Hooker and Bear, best friends for 60 years, take a road trip on which each reveals a secret that changes the last acts of their lives.
Dead Body In A Small Room    by Charles Deemer
You set the price! 76290 words. Published on December 28, 2010. Fiction.

When screenwriter Dallas Norgood investigates the death of a prostitute in a small Nevada town's legal brothel, he's taken on a ride as adventurous as one of his Hollywood movies.

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