S.J. Parris
S.J. Parris writes about her inspiration for Heresy, which masterfully blends true events with fiction into a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
Adam Haslett
A conversation with Adam Haslett, author of Union Atlantic, a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Catherine Coulter's first novel came out at the
end of 1978 when she had just reached puberty. It was a Regency romance because,
as any published author will tell you, it's best to limit the number of unknowns
in a first book, and not only had she grown up reading Georgette Heyer, but she
earned her M.A. degree in early 19th century European history.
Following The Autumn Countess (a Gothic masquerading as a Regency, she
says), she wrote six more Regency romances. Her first long historical appeared
in 1982, her "baby", Devil's Embrace. She has continued to
write long historicals, interspersing them with contemporary novels, beginning
with False Pretenses in 1988. These days she writes one contemporary
suspense novel a year and one historical romance a year.
She pioneered the trilogy in historical romance, each of them very popular. They
include: Song, Star, Magic, Night, Bride, Viking, and Legacy trilogies. She
enjoys trilogies because she doesn't have to say good-bye to the characters and
neither do the readers.
In 1988, she first appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List with Moonspun
Magic, the third novel in the Magic trilogy. She has continued to hit the New
York Times Bestseller List thirty-six times now, as well as USA Today,
Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, LA Times, etc. She has well over 35
million copies in print worldwide.
Catherine's latest contemporary suspense, The Edge, came out in hardcover
in August 1999. In July 2000 her newest book, Riptide, fifth in her
popular FBI suspense series, will be released in hardcover, and the paperback
release of The Edge will follow in August. Catherine's newest historical
romance, The Courtship, sequel to Mad Jack, came out in January
2000. The updated and newly packaged contemporary romantic suspense, False
Pretenses, is out in bookstores now.
She lives in Northern California with her physician husband. She loves to
travel, sacrifices her body on the ski slopes and reads voraciously while
recuperating. Because she's over forty, she's at the gym three times a week.
Catherine loves to hear from readers. You can write to her at P.O. Box 17, Mill
Valley, California 94942, or e-mail her at ReadMoi@aol.com.
This biography was last updated on 07/01/2003.
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