J.A. Jance By J.A. Jance on April 30, 2021 at 6:00 AM Actually that’s not true. We didn’t walk into a bar at all, but last week Catherine Coulter and I sat down together in the privacy of our own homes to do a Zoom event for this summer’s upcoming ThrillerFest sponsored by International Thriller Writers. Our task assignment was to discuss creating characters. I’m not entirely sure we followed through on that, but we had a lot of fun. On the improbable chance that you’re not familiar with Catherine’s work, she started out writing romances, the her first one of which was published in 1979, six years before my first Beau book came out in 1985. According to her that made both of us a pair of dinosaurs who started out using computers with floppy discs. Anybody remember those?