1. Nora Roberts's parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through".
27 Facts About Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts's family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life.
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Nora Roberts' husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company.
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Nora Roberts gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason.
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Nora Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985.
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Nora Roberts's husband owns Turn the Page Books bookstore in Boonsboro and works as an adult content photographer and videographer.
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Nora Roberts is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times.
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Nora Roberts began to write during a blizzard in February 1979.
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Nora Roberts fell in love with the writing process, and quickly produced six manuscripts which she submitted to Harlequin, the leading publisher of romance novels, but was repeatedly rejected.
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Rather than begin with an outline, Nora Roberts instead envisions a key incident, character, or setting.
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Nora Roberts then writes a short first draft that has the basic elements of a story.
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Nora Roberts then goes back to the beginning of the novel.
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Nora Roberts often writes trilogies, finishing the three books in a row so that she can remain with the same characters.
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Roberts' first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981, using the pseudonym Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson because she assumed that all romance authors had pen names.
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Between 1982 and 1984, Nora Roberts wrote 23 novels for Silhouette, published under various Silhouette imprints: Silhouette Sensation, Silhouette Special Edition and Silhouette Desire, as well as Silhouette Intrigue, and MIRA's reissue program.
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Nora Roberts was featured in Pamela Regis's A Natural History of the Romance Novel.
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Nora Roberts had long wanted to write romantic suspense in the vein of Mary Stewart, but, at the urging of her agent, she concentrated on classic contemporary romance while she built a following of readers.
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Nora Roberts has been known as Sarah Hardesty in the UK.
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In 1996, Nora Roberts passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky and, in 2012, doubled that with The Witness.
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In 2001, Nora Roberts had 10 best-selling mass-market paperbacks, according to Publishers Weekly, not counting those books written under the JD Robb name.
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In September 2001, for the first time Nora Roberts took the numbers 1 and 2 spots on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, as her romance Time and Again was number one, and her JD Robb release Seduction in Death was number two.
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Since 1999, every one of Nora Roberts's novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and 124 of her novels have ranked on the Times bestseller list, including 29 that debuted in the number-one spot.
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Nora Roberts admitted that both Aspen Gold and Notorious lifted heavily from Roberts' work.
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Nora Roberts donated the settlement to various literary causes including the Literacy Volunteers of America.
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Nora Roberts joined the chorus strongly criticizing fellow romance writer Cassie Edwards, who had lifted many passages from much older sources without giving credit, forcing Edwards out of the business.
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In 2019, Nora Roberts, along with other authors, was a victim of plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya.
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Several of Nora Roberts' books have been adapted into made-for-TV movies and aired on Lifetime.