Sue Russell is a Los Angeles-based, internationally syndicated journalist and author. She has written over 1,500 articles, is an ex-magazine editor, and longtime contributor to many top British and U.S. publications. Her work has been published in newspapers like The Washington Post, Daily Telegraph, Independent, San Diego Union-Times, Detroit News and in London's Evening Standard and Japan's Daily Yomiuri, plus magazines like the Sunday Express Review, S:2 magazine, Hello!, Night & Day, M Celebs, Irish Tatler, Success Magazine, Redbook and online at Court TV's Crime Library and BeautyWalk.com.

Since moving to the U.S. from her native U.K., Sue has been U.S. correspondent for Hello!, for the Sunday Express and for Australian Slimming. She has also been a contributing editor to Success and Working At Home among others. Her features also often appear in European countries including Holland, Spain, Germany, Finland and Italy, and in South Africa and Asia, and in Australia.

As a journalist and feature writer, Sue reports on a wide range of topics including crime, celebrities, lifestyles, social issues, and many health, beauty and fitness-related subjects. Her books are similarly diverse. She tackles subjects like prophylactic cancer surgery, global violence against women, girl gangs, alternative medicine, business success stories and personal profiles. In over two decades of interviewing celebrities she has profiled more stars than she can count but the list includes Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cybill Shepherd and Raquel Welch.

Her book, Lethal Intent, is the inside story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who shot seven men to death in Florida in 1989 and 1990 and who, after ten years on Death Row, was executed on October 9, 2002.

Sue spent two years investigating Aileen's life and was in court every day throughout her trial and penalty phase hearings. Lethal Intent is fully updated and also contains much exclusive material that sheds new and different light on this rare and perhaps unique serial killer. (Published by Kensington Books' Pinnacle True Crime imprint, November 2002.)

Sue's previous books include, Damsel of Death, also about Aileen Wuornos, which was published in the U.K. and Australia in 1992 and 1994 by Virgin U.K. (Virgin declared it one of their top-selling true crime titles ever.)

In complete contrast, Sue has written about the beauty industry for book packager Weldon Owen and The Body Shop, the natural beauty company founded by activist Anita Roddick. Sue was co-author of Star Mothers: The Moms Behind the Celebrities with Cher's mother and Phyllis Quinn. (Simon & Schuster, USA, and St. Martin's Press, USA; hardback and paperback). Click here to see a writing sample.

She was Britt Ekland's co-author on her health and beauty book, Sensual Beauty, a best-seller in the U.K. (Sidgwick & Jackson, U.K., hardback and paperback. Also published in the U.S. by Merrimack, USA.)

As an author, Sue has appeared on television and radio shows on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond. (The Biography program in the U.S., Granada TV's This Morning in Britain, and Good Morning Australia, among them.) She once had her own weekly segment on a phone-in radio show on LBC (London Broadcasting Company) focusing on health and beauty issues and triggered by her highly regarded investigative features.

A veteran researcher, Sue has joined forces with two fellow journalist/authors, Karen Dustman J.D. and Sophia Dembling, to form the research service, FactChasers (www.FactChasers.com) to aid screenwriters, authors, editors, individuals and corporate clients in finding intriguing statistics, sources and experts, hard-to-track info, great quotes and interviews.

Sue welcomes enquiries at sue@suerussellwrites.com.

Memberships:

• ASJA (the American Society of Journalists & Authors, www.asja.org)
• Authors Guild (www.authorsguild.org)
• Mystery Writers of America (http://mysterywriters.org)