How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers: A No BS Guide With 101 Killer Tips

by Garry Rodgers, Sue Coletta (Editor)

Are you self-editing your first of many crime thrillers? Are you a seasoned vet wanting to improve your overall self editing skills? Or are you just looking for useful and down-to-earth tips on how to generally edit yourself, no matter what you’re writing?Regardless of your stage in learning the craft of self editing for fiction writers, retired homicide detective and forensic coroner—now BestSelling crime writer, Garry Rodgers, tells you how How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers and gives you a No BS Guide with 101 Killer Tips.

This informative guide is one of the few books on self editing for indie authors that clearly tells you what it takes to polish your editing and proofreading skills and write a Bestselling Thriller that will climb to the top of the charts that’ll stay there.

How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers is laid out in eight, easy to understand sections covering the main points on the craft of editing for writers. They

SECTION ONE — THE EDITING PROCESS with tips like Viewing Your Revision Process As A Pyramid and Understanding Conventional Editing Stages.

SECTION TWO — NARRATION with tips like Understanding Your Voice and Getting The Right Point Of View.

SECTION THREE — CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT with tips like Character Method-Acting and Effective Character Naming.

SECTION FOUR — PLOT AND STORY STRUCTURE with tips like Plotting Your Points and Murdering Your Darlings.

SECTION FIVE — DESCRIPTION AND DIALOGUE with tips like Steal From The Movie Industry and Watch For Flying Body Parts.

SECTION SIX — COSMETICS OF GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, AND SPELLING with tips like Look Up Esoteric Words and The Little Red Writing Book.

SECTION SEVEN — PRACTICAL SELF-EDITING with tips like Tapping Into Technology and Your Editor-Ready Checklist.

SECTION EIGHT — SELF-EDITING RESOURCES with over sixty links to the best Books, Websites, and Contacts.

This guide to self editing for fiction writers is edited by Bestselling Crime Writer Sue Coletta and told in Garry Rodgers distinctive, no-BS voice that he used as a cop and coroner—now as an Amazon Top 10 Bestselling Crime Writer as well as a regular contributing blogger for the Huffington Post.

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Genres: Nonfiction

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2016

About the author

Garry Rodgers is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police serious crimes detective who went on to a second stint doing sudden and unexplained death investigations for the Province of British Columbia Coroners Service. In his younger years, Garry served as a marksman (sniper) on British Special Air Services (SAS) trained RCMP Emergency Response Teams. He's also a recognized expert witness in Canadian courts on the identification and operation of firearms.

In his third reincarnation, Garry Rodgers made #5 bragging rights on the Amazon Best Seller list, sandwiched between the names Stephen King and Dean Koontz with his debut crime thriller novel No Witnesses To Nothing. It’s based on a true story where many believe paranormal intervention occurred. At the moment, Garry is working on a series of books based on true crime cases he was involved in. These are In The Attic, Under The Ground, From The Shadows and Beside The Road. In the works are On The Floor, Between The Bikers, By The Throat, Below The Deck, At The Cabin and Off The Grid.

Garry hosts a popular blog at www.DyingWords.net. The tagline is provoking thoughts on life, death and writing. There are 300+ posts ranging from rants on bureaucratic stupidity to analyzing high-profile death cases. He also blogs at the HuffPost and does ghost-written op-eds. Recently, The Kill Zone gang invited Garry as a regular contributor.

A few non-fictional facts about Garry Rodgers…

~He grew up around the drag strip and was an NHRA ModProd racer.
~He also raced snowmobiles (sleds) for Mercury Marine on the SnoPro circuit.
~He won a mechanical bull riding competition — stayed on 8 seconds at level 8.
~He was struck by lightning and survived to talk about it (that really, really sucked).
~He was bitten by a venomous brown recluse spider while he was innocently writing a book.
~He was thoroughly humiliated by having to karaoke sing You Ain’t Nothing But A Hound Dog.
~He almost killed Neil Young, the rocker. Story goes that Neil was flying over a tree-lined hill crest on his bicycle and Garry nearly bug-squashed him with his Ford Explorer. According to Garry and Neil, it was a close call. Real close.

Outside of crime writing, Garry Rodgers is an old boat skipper. He went to school and took Transport Canada courses, exams and proved sea time to get his 60-Tonne Marine Captain ticket. Garry says, "I’m good-to-go (from a legal point) to run tugs, seiners, small ferries and luxury yachts. However, outside of operating a few touristy whale-watching boats, I don’t drive watercraft commercially. I just love spending time around the Pacific saltwater near my home in Nanaimo on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island at Canada’s beautiful west coast."

Reviews

[Bryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good tips throughout, but far too many chapters were basically links to other blog posts instead of concrete examples.

[S.A. Crow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource