Catherine Coulter


Jean Catherine Coulter is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances who currently resides in northern California.

Biography

Early years

Coulter grew up on a horse ranch in Cameron County, Texas. Her grandmother, who died at the young age of 37, was also a writer. Her father was a painter and singer, and her mother is a retired concert pianist. Coulter wrote her first two novels, fifteen pages each, when she was fourteen. While a freshman at the University of Texas, Coulter wrote poetry. After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Coulter attended Boston College and earned a master's degree in early 19th-century European history.
She took a job as a speechwriter for a Wall Street executive. As her own husband was then a medical student, she spent many of her evenings alone, reading romance novels. One night when they were home together, she found herself in the middle of a particularly bad book and threw it across room, asserting that even she could do better. Her husband challenged her to prove herself, and the two spent the weekend plotting out a storyline for a gothic romance. She wrote the novel in the evenings.

Writing career

When Coulter finished writing her novel she sent it to an editor at Signet. Three days later Signet offered her a three-book contract. That first novel, The Autumn Countess, was published by Penguin Books in 1978. By 1982, she was earning enough to quit her job and become a full-time writer. Since then she has written over fifty books and has had forty-two consecutive New York Times Bestsellers since 1988. Her thriller The Maze was her first book to place on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list, while The Cove spent nine weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list and sold over one million copies. Coulter generally publishes one historical romance and one suspense novel each year, and has been busily rewriting many of her earlier Regency romances to turn them into longer historical romances.

Personal life

Coulter sits down at her computer every morning at 6:30 a.m. to review her email before beginning writing at 7:30 a.m. She normally finishes writing by 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California with her husband.

Regency

Baron series

  1. The Wild Baron
  2. The Offer
  3. The Deception

    The Sherbrooke series

  4. The Sherbrooke Bride
  5. The Hellion Bride
  6. The Heiress Bride
  7. Mad Jack
  8. The Courtship
  9. The Scottish Bride
  10. Pendragon
  11. The Sherbrooke Twins
  12. Lyon's Gate
  13. Wizards Daughter
  14. The Prince of Ravenscar
    Grayson Sherbrooke's Otherworldly Adventures e-novellas
  15. The Strange Visitation at Wolffe Hall
  16. The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor
  17. The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House

    Night Trilogy

  18. Night Fire
  19. Night Shadow
  20. Night Storm

    Legacy series

  21. The Wyndham Legacy
  22. The Nightingale Legacy
  23. The Valentine Legacy

    The Magic Trilogy

  24. Midsummer Magic
  25. Calypso Magic
  26. Moonspun Magic

    Single novels

  27. The Countess
  28. The Rebel Bride
  29. The Heir
  30. The Duke
  31. Lord Harry

    Georgian

  32. Devil's Embrace Penguin/Signet
  33. Devil's Daughter Penguin/Signet

    Victorian/Early San Francisco

  34. Evening Star Penguin/Topaz
  35. Midnight Star Penguin/Topaz,
  36. Wild Star Penguin/Topaz
  37. Jade Star Penguin/Topaz

    Medieval

  38. Warrior's Song Penguin/Signet
  39. Fire Song Penguin/Signet
  40. Earth Song Penguin/Signet
  41. Secret Song Penguin/Signet
  42. Rosehaven Berkley/Jove
  43. The Penwyth Curse Berkley/Jove
  44. The Valcourt Heiress Putnam Adult

    Viking Era

  45. Season of the Sun Penguin/NAL/Onyx
  46. Lord of Hawkfell Island Berkley/Jove
  47. Lord of Raven's Peak Berkley/Jove
  48. Lord of Falcon Ridge Berkley/Jove

    Contemporary romance

  1. False Pretenses
  2. Impulse
  3. Beyond Eden
  4. Born to Be Wild

    FBI Thrillers

;Omnibus editions

  4. A Brit in the FBI

  5. written with J.T. Ellison
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