MTTA 189: Catherine Coulter
08.24.2022 - By Alan Petersen
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Catherine Coulter is the wildly popular author of 89 novels, almost all of them New York Times bestsellers. She began her incredible career writing historical romances before turning to suspense thrillers. The Cove, the first book in her bestselling “FBI Suspense Thriller Series” spent nine weeks on the New York Times list and has to date sold 4 million copies.
Her latest book, Reckoning, was published on August 2nd and it’s the 26th novel in that series.
It was such a thrill talking to a legend of the genre like Catherine Coulter.
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Transcript
Please note, I create this transcript using automated software, not a human, and it’s only lightly edited by a human… me!
[00:01:12.990] – Alan PetersenAll right, here is my interview with Catherine Coulter. Hey, everybody. This is Alan with meet the thriller author. And on the podcast today, I have Catherine Coulter who is a number one New York Times best selling author of 89 novels, including her FBI suspense thriller series. Her latest book, Recording, was published on August 2. It’s a 26 books in that series bringing back Savage and Sherlock who are enlisted to help women with traumatic past who are in mortal danger. We’ll get all to that in here in a moment, but first, welcome up to the podcast, Catherine.
[00:02:05.200] – Catherine CoulterWell, thank you, Alan. Great to be here.
[00:02:07.570] – Alan PetersenYeah, so excited to talk to you. 89 novels. That’s so amazing. So how did you get started in this business and writing that first novel?
[00:02:16.010] – Catherine CoulterI don’t like to think about 89 either. It just makes me start quaking. That’s a lot of words. That’s a whole oodle number of birds and I just don’t like to think about it. Well, you know, I’m an elder and I started my first book came out at the end of 1978. And this was when New York publishing was the center of the universe, literally in the world and nobody knew nothing. This was before the beginning of any of the writer organizations, so again, it was just a matter of ignorance. And what happened was I was a speechwriter on Wall Street, and my husband was in medical school, up at Presbyterian Medical School, and I’d seem like 30 minutes a night over spaghetti, which was what I really cooked well. And I was reading probably ten to 15 books a week. And I’ll never forget one night, and I don’t remember the book, but I threw the book across the room and said, I can do better, and went in and told my husband, and he said, well, yeah, let’s go for it.