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How to Hit #1 On Amazon’s Bestseller List—Repeatedly

Today’s post is written by author Garry Rodgers:

Every writer dreams of hitting #1 on the big dog’s bestseller list. Amazon is the world’s largest bookseller and has the largest search-engine capacity—second only to Google.

Amazon offers over four million books in their online store and grows by 4,200 per day. That’s a lot of competition. But in the last five weeks, four of my Amazon Kindle ebooks nailed the #1 free spot and the fifth went to #2 in their categories.

How’d I pull this off? And how can you do the same?

Well, the bestselling secret is not in organic sales. It’s in manipulating SEO. Search Engine Optimization. It’s worked for me, and here’s how working Amazon’s system will work for you. Continue Reading…

10 Tips on How to Write Believable Crime and Murder Scenes

We’re starting a fun series covering a number of weeks featuring guest posts from professionals who work in medical, police investigation, and legal arenas in order to help writers get “real” in their fiction. Take a peek inside their worlds and ask questions!

Today’s guest post is from Garry Rodgers, who spent years working as a homicide investigator and fornesics coroner and has a lot of great advice for writers who plan to write about crime scenes.

I’ve been around the criminal investigation world for three decades—first as a homicide detective, then as a forensic coroner. I was also the trigger-man on Emergency Response or SWAT Teams and now, in “retirement,” I’m reinventing myself as a crime fiction writer. So I’ve got hands-on experience in life, death, and writing.

I’m also a voracious reader. Not just technical, forensic, and legal stuff but lots of crime fiction. I’m fortunate for on-the-street and in-the-morgue background to draw from, though it’s a curse when I read stuff that I know is improbable or just plain baloney. Continue Reading…