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“Hi! I hope you guys will read my latest book, DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case, and ask me some questions here. ” Caitlin Rother

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Hi Caitlin, I am the mother of one of the victims (Bryan Sorendino) children. She was turning 5 when this happened and she's now 13 ;-) and doing very well. May I ask how you research for your book?
Caitlin Rother I'm sorry for your loss. I used court documents in my research and also interviewed key players in the case. But I didn't write an entire book on the case. It's featured in a collection of 10 magazine-length true crime stories and this was one of them, in LOVE GONE WRONG.
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What ideally made you decide to make a transition from journalist to book writer?
Caitlin Rother I was covering the Kristin Rossum case for my newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, when I was so intrigued, I decided I wanted to write a book about it. After the trial was over, I wrote a book proposal and took a six-month leave to write it. It was so satisfying to be able to dig deep into a case (versus being so limited with short stories in the newspaper) that I quit the paper to pursue being an author full-time. My seventh book hit the NYT bestseller list, and I'm now about to release my 14th book. I love the freedom of picking the stories I want to investigate in depth.
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