April 2012
My husband-PI-partner and I will be faculty members at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. We're teaching two workshops geared to writers: Surveillance 101 and Finding Missing Persons 101. Hope to see some of you there!
December 2011
The Zen Man, a medium-boiled murder mystery featuring PI couple Rick and Laura ("the 21st-century Nick and Nora") is released as an eBook. To read a book excerpt and catch up on Colleen's book blog tour and contests, go to http://www.thezenman.com
"I loved every word of The Zen Man!" - Delores Fossen, USA Today Bestselling Author
October 2011
We're teaching a month-long class to the Romance Writers of America's Kiss of Death chapter titled "From Chasing Skips to Solving White Collar Crimes: The 21st Century Private Eye":
We're teaching a one-week class at Savvy Authors titled "Surveillance 101":
September 2011
Article about our investigations business in Denver's Westword newspaper: "The Plot Thickens, For these married Denver detectives, truth is more fun than fiction"
July 2011
Book launch for How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths.
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June 2011
Colleen and Shaun will be teaching a workshop to the North East Ohio Romance Writers Association: "White Collar Crime"
March 2011
Article "Getting Down and Dirty: Conducting Trash Hits" in the March/April issue of PI Magazine, whose theme is "Profile of the American Woman PI".
Colleen is part of writers panel "It's Not Just Fiction to Me" at Left Coast Crime conference
February 2011
Article "Social Media: A Multi-Purpose Investigation and Profit-Making Tool" in PINow.com Investigation News
January 2011
Article "Turbo-Market Your Private Investigator Business in 2011" in PINow.com Investigation News
December 2010
Article "When Does Legitimate Investigative Activity Become Intimidation?" in PINow.com Investigation News
September 2010
Date: September 13 - 19 2010
Class Title: Surveillance 101
For more information, go here
Colleen's article "10 Tips for Testifying in Court" published in September-October issue of PI Magazine.
August 2010
Colleen's article "While Surfing the Net, Don't Toss Your Data Out to Sea" published in Romance Writer's Report (RWR).
July 2010
Date: July 28 - August 1
Class Title: What Kind of Private Eye Are You Writing?
For More Information, click here
Date: July 17 - 31
Class Title: Teaching Surveillance 101 & Finding People, for Sisters in Crime, Guppies
You must be a member of Sisters in Crime, Guppies, to take this course. For more information, go here
April 2010
Date: April 5 - 30 2010
Class Title: Skips, Lies & Videotapes (How PIs Find the Missing, Nail the Fraudulent, and Obtain the Proof)
For more information, go here
October 2009
Colleen and her business partner will be speaking at Authors Fest, Manitou Springs, Colorado (October 2-3).
Bobby Brown (the bail bondsman from Dog the Bounty Hunter) is the guest speaker at Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America October meeting (http://www.rmmwa.org/Calendar.html).
September 2009
Quick Studies on the Shady Side: Tips for Developing Sleuths: September 21-28, 2009: Your Cheatin' Heart: Infidelity Investigations (to register, go to www.writingprivateinvestigators.com)
September 22: Colleen and Shaun (the "Private Eye Duo") will be sleuthing in Seekerville http://seekerville.blogspot.com/. Drop by the blog, post a comment, be eligible to win prizes!
July 2009
June 2009
Colleen and her business partner were the after-dinner speakers at the Colorado Coroners Association annual conference, June 12, Colorado Springs
June kicks off "Quick Studies on the Shady Side: Tips and Techniques for Writers Developing Sleuths and Villains," a series of quick-study online courses for writers that focus on specialized areas of investigations. For class schedule and registration info, go to http://www.writingprivateinvestigators.com.
Colleen is interviewed in NovelIdeas, newsletter for the Virginia Romance Writers, this month.
May 2009
"Skips, Lies, and Videotape: The Missing, the Fraudulent, and the Proof": Online class by Colleen Collins and Shaun Kaufman for RWA chapter The Heart of Dixie. Class syllabus and registration information will be posted soon at: http://www.heartofdixie.org/onlineworkshops.html
April 2009
Colleen's article "Trials 101: A Brief Introduction to the Courtroom and its Gladiators" is in the Virginia Romance Writers' April newsletter, NovelIdeas.
February 2009
Colleen's article, Your Cheatin' Heart: Infidelity Investigations, is on the Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America's website blog: http://mysterymuse.wordpress.com/
December 2008
The Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America had their annual holiday party, a fun-for-all sleuth-fest at the Adams Mystery Playhouse. Below is a photo of the mystery writers who attended, including yours truly.
October 2008
Bouchercon, October 9-12, 2008 in Baltimore, MD: http://www.charmedtodeath.com/
September 2008
Writing PIs in Novels online class, September 8-October 2, 2008. To register, go to http://www.writingprivateinvestigators.com
June 2008
June 13-15: Colleen will be attending the Colorado Coroners Conference (no DeadHead jokes, please) where her investigative business partner is presenting the "Successfully Testifying in Court" workshop.
May 2008
May 31 - June 1: Colleen will be presenting "Missing Persons 101" on Poe's Deadly Daughters.
April 2008
Denver's most storied lawyer, Walter Gerash, who has taken the cause of the downtrodden and different and made a career representing the notorious, is on the cover of this month's Super Lawyers magazine. The cover, and the article The Supreme Warrior, are below:
Article Page 1
Article Page 2
This month, Walter will also be speaking on "How the Trial Lawyer Solves Mysteries in High-Profile Cases" to the Rocky Mountain chapter Mystery Writers of American on April 10. For more info, go here.
March 2008
Left Coast Crime
Writers conference: http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2008/
March 6-9, 2008 in Denver, Colorado.
March 6: Colleen presented on the "PIs in the 21st Century" panel.
January 2008
This new website, designed by the talented Rae Monet, Inc., launches!
Colleen’s article Writing the PI Genre: Exaggerating the Possible published in Novelists Inc. January 2008 NINK newsletter.
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