Since 2004, the cover of each Roberts release has featured a monogram in the upper-right corner-“the official Nora Roberts seal guarantees that this is a new work by Nora Roberts.” Her books outnumber her intimates.

There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill Giants Stadium four thousand times. Twenty-seven Nora Roberts books are sold every minute. To keep track of Roberts’s output, Amy Berkower, her agent, maintains a dry-erase board in her office, along with a running catalogue of factoids. Robb books and, each summer, what her editor, Leslie Gelbman, refers to as the “big Nora”-a hardcover stand-alone romance novel. In a typical year, she publishes five “new Noras”: two installments of a paperback original trilogy two J. Robb, also writes futuristic police procedurals, has written a hundred and eighty-two novels, in addition to short stories and novellas. One reader, a court reporter, confessed that she planned to “feign sickness for the next three to six days so I can lay in bed and reread all my NR yet again.”Īs a Quinn brother might say, it had better be one hell of a cold. The first time she read it, Wendell wrote, she laughed so hard that she fell out of her beach chair.

Sometimes he’s going to be Pierre and live in a garret in Paris, but it’s the same thing. agent about the murder of an ex-lover who turns up dead in a local pond:Ĭ AM: Yeah, mostly. One reader nominated “Carnal Innocence,” in which the plantation heir Tucker Longstreet is questioned by an F.B.I. The runaway winner was Nora Roberts-La Nora, the Queen, or, simply, NR. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining”). There were nods to Georgette Heyer (“I remember every word you have spoken to me”) and Connie Brockway (“You are my country, Desdemona. Last summer, Sarah Wendell, an editor of the Web site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, posed a question to her readers: “So what line of dialogue from a romance has rocked your socks to the point that, long after those socks were lost in the dryer, you still remember it?” Jane Austen got a few votes (“You pierce my soul. “I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it’s good for me,” Roberts says.

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