Nora Roberts is truly a publishing phenomenon.
With over 127 million copies of her books in print in the U.S.
alone, she has come a long way since she wrote her first novel in a
spiral notebook using a No. 2 pencil. Now she has published over
140 novels and her work has been optioned and made into films,
excerpted in national magazines and translated in over twenty-five
different countries. "I always have stories running around in my
head," she explains. "Once I start putting them down on paper, I
just keep going; I just keep writing."
And write she does. In 2000, Nora Roberts reached new heights, both
on bestseller lists and in her incomparable talent for creating
compelling, passionate page-turners. According to
Publishers Weekly, in 2000 she had an amazing 13
bestsellers (12 paperback and 1 hardcover), and of those thirteen
several were #1 bestsellers. In addition to her amazing success in
mainstream fiction, Nora Roberts remains committed to writing for
her category romance audience that took her to into their heart in
1981 with her very first book, a Silhouette romance.
Nora Roberts continues to write futuristic romantic suspense as
J.D. Robb, and her characters Eve Dallas and
Roarke have become two of her most popular creations ever. Her J.D.
Robb titles are hailed as "a perfect balance of suspense,
futuristic police procedure and steamy romance...truly fine
entertainment" by Publishers Weekly.
Reviewers agree that Nora Roberts deserves praise. The Los
Angeles Daily News describes her as "a word artist,
painting her story and her characters with vitality and verve."
Kirkus Reviews comments on True
Betrayals saying "Roberts' style has a fresh, contemporary
snap." Roberts is said to be "reminiscent of Jacqueline
Briskin and Sidney Sheldon" by
Booklist, and Rex Reed lauds her
saying, "Move over Sidney Sheldon: the world has a new master of
romantic suspense, and her name is Nora Roberts."
Publishers Weekly claims "Roberts keeps getting
better...[her] prolificness shows no sign of abating." They add,
"When Roberts puts her expert finger on the pulse of romance,
legions of fans feel the heartbeat." USA Today
calls Nora "a consistently entertaining writer."
The remarkable Ms. Roberts did not become a success overnight. By
the time her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was
published in 1981, she already had three years of hard work behind
her and several rejected manuscripts languishing in drawers. Today,
according to Entertainment Weekly, "her stories
have fueled the dreams of twenty-five million readers." One of
America's leading novelists, her books are published around the
world. She is frequently invited to promote her novels in other
countries. Her recent travels took her to England, Italy, Australia
and Japan to meet fans, fellow authors and aspiring writers.
CBS has made Sanctuary into a television movie
airing on February 28th, 2001 on CBS as "Nora Roberts' Sanctuary."
The cast includes Melissa Gilbert, Emmy-winner Kathy Baker and
Costas Mandylor. CBS has also optioned The Reef
for another television movie. Montana Sky has been
optioned by TriStar Television for a two-hour television movie. Her
book This Magic Moment became the television film
"Magic Moments" starring Emmy-winner John Shea and
Jenny Seagrove. Sacred Sins has
been optioned for film by Kaleidoscope, and Private
Scandals has been optioned by Burt
Reynolds Productions. Reflections and
The Law is a Lady were selected by Good
Housekeeping magazine for presentation as condensed
novels. Honest Illusions and Private
Scandals were featured as Readers Digest's Condensed
Books.
The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, Cosmopolitan, People Magazine and
Entertainment Weekly have all featured or
mentioned Nora Roberts in articles about writing and the romance
genre. She has appeared on ABC-TV's Good Morning
America and Cable News Network, and has been featured on
the television programs To Tell the Truth, Entertainment
Tonight, and Lifestyles of the Rich and
Famous. She has been interviewed by local television and
radio programs across the country, and she has been featured in
dozens of newspapers, including the Washington Post,
Baltimore Sun, Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, Washington Times,
Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, and Atlanta
Constitution.
Her extraordinary accomplishments have also received recognition
from her peers. The first author ever to be inducted into the
Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame, and the first author to
receive their Centennial Award when she published her 100th novel
Montana Sky, she is the recipient of almost every
award given in recognition of excellence in romance writing. In
1997, she was honored at the Romance Writers of America National
Conference when she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement
Award. In addition to her awards from the Romance Writers of
America, she has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from
Waldenbooks, and she has been honored by B. Dalton Booksellers, the
New Jersey Chapter of Romance Writers of America, and BookRak
Distributors.
Nora Roberts is a charter member of the Romance Writers of
America, and a member of their Washington, D.C. chapter. She was
the keynote speaker at their 1994 national conference in New York.
She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime, The Crime Writers League of America, and Novelists
Inc.
The youngest of five children, she was born in Silver Spring,
Maryland. She now lives in Keedysville, Maryland.