Note: All articles are copyrighted. For permission to use, contact Colleen at cocowrites2@gmail.com

"Getting Down and Dirty: Conducting Trash Hits" in the March/April issue of PI Magazine, whose theme is "Profile of the American Woman PI".

How to Conduct Multiple Social Media Searches with One Lookup

Social Media: A Multi-Purpose Investigation and Profit-Making Tool (It's an article geared to private investigators, originally published on PINow, but I'm providing its posting on PI-and-author Skipp Porteous's blog because you should check out the awesome book he co-authored on the real identity of D.B. Cooper -- the guy who stole several hundred thousand dollars by dropping out of a plane in the seventies)

How to Become a Legal Investigator (Thinking about becoming a private investigator? Legal investigations is one of the many fields a PI might specialize in)

Writing the PI Genre: Exaggerating the Possible
(see link for Article: Writing the PI Genre)

Your Cheatin’ Heart: Infidelity Investigations

Dead Bodies, Dead Ends: Power Plays in Murder (check the Archived Articles)

Writing Plausible PIs: Deal or No Deal

Dennis Palumbo from the Inside Out, An Interview with Dennis Palumbo by Colleen Collins.

Is Your Character Lying by Colleen Collins.