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  • Books,  Guest posts,  The life of a writer,  True Crime

    Chatting with Retired Cop/Coroner Buddy, Garry Rodgers

    Sue Coletta

    While chatting with my good friend, Garry Rodgers, I invited him to the blog for a Q&A about life, writing, muscle cars, near-death of a popular singer, a venomous spider “incident,” a haunted…

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    Behind the Scenes of SILENT MAYHEM + Giveaway!

    Sue Coletta

    In case you haven’t heard, SILENT MAYHEM went up for pre-order on Friday. Yay!!! And like every one of my books, there’s more to the story than what’s on the page. If you…

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    WRECK — #TrueCrime by Harvey Stanbrough

    Sue Coletta

    I invited my buddy, Harvey Stanbrough — a prolific writer whose penned over 45 novels, novellas, craft books, and 200 short stories — to share an experience from his cop days. Boy, did he deliver!…

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  • Life in general,  Mayhem Series,  Musings about life

    One Writer’s Personal Struggle with Pain

    Sue Coletta

    This isn’t an easy post to write, because it’s so personal. I’ve received emails from many of you, asking if Murder Blog is gone. It isn’t. I love this blog and have worked…

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    Serial Killers,  True Crime

    Jack Unterweger: Crime Writer Turned Serial Killer

    Sue Coletta

    Jack Unterweger, born Johan Unterweger in 1950 to Theresia Unterweger, a Viennese barmaid, waitress, and prostitute, had a brutal childhood. He never knew his birth father, only that he was an American GI…

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  • Muse: How Creativity Effects the Brain
    CLEAVED,  Research,  The life of a writer

    Muse: How Creativity Effects the Brain

    Sue Coletta

    I think I might have killed my muse. At the very least, she’s severely wounded. Marred, even. *grin* With all the writing I’ve done in 2016 I’ve pushed her to the max. She’s…

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Sue Coletta

Sue Coletta is an award-winning crime writer and member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. In addition to her award-winning Murder Blog, she also blogs on the Kill Zone (Writer's Digest "101 Best Websites for Writers"), Writers Helping Writers, and Story Empire (Positive Writer's "Top 50 Writing Blogs"). Sue's backlist includes psychological thrillers and true crime/narrative nonfiction. Now, she exclusively writes eco-thrillers (The Mayhem Series, books 5-9 & continuing). She's appeared on the Emmy award-winning true crime series, Storm of Suspicion, and three episodes of A Time to Kill on Investigation Discovery. Links to her newsletter and books can be found here: https://linktr.ee/suecoletta Email: sue(at)suecoletta(dot)com

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