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Nora Roberts – A Prolific Profile

I’ve been reading Nora Roberts for years. I remember the very first book of hers that I read when I was 10 or 12 years old. It was a Silhouette romance that my grandmother purchased. At the time, I had no idea what a powerful and powerhouse of a writer this woman would become in the course of my lifetime.

Nora Roberts and in her guise as J.D. Robb is a publishing phenomenon. In 2003, she had 6 books on the New York Best Seller List. There are 75 million copies of her books in print and she’s authored over 140 novels.

Her work has been optioned as movies and translated into over 25 different languages. Roberts has been honored with numerous awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writer’s of America National Conference. Between her new novels and republished older novels, fans of Nora Roberts can find new books by her just about every month.

Her work, while still committed to the romance genre, raises mainstream interest. Her reader loyalty is so strong that her Silhouette title The MacGregor Brides went to number 3 on the New York Times bestseller list – the first Silhouette to ever achieve such prestige.

Under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, Roberts writes an on-going passionate romance in a hard-core police procedural setting. With a cast of characters that grows stronger in every subsequent novel, Roberts’ lead Eve Dallas is a complicated woman with a delicious husband and a penchant for solving really tough cases. Roberts proves time and again that the romance story isn’t over when the couple is together as she treats readers to the life and times of the enigmatic Roarke and his police lieutenant wife Eve.

A leading novelist in America, Roberts continues to entice new readers with books filled with romance and punctuated by snappy dialogue. A true profile on the prolific author would not be complete without a listing of her titles – but with so many under her belt – it may be best to visit a local bookstore and see how many shelves they have dedicated to her. At my local Barnes and Noble – there are 13 shelves stocked full of Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb.

Discover for yourself the wonderful worlds created by Nora Roberts — she’s ideal to read in the summer sun and curled up by a winter fire. What is your favorite Nora Roberts or J.D. Robb?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.