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As her fans well know, in 1979 a blizzard trapped Roberts at home for a week with two bored little kids and a dwindling supply of chocolate. To maintain her sanity, Roberts started scribbling a story -- a romance novel like the Harlequin paperbacks she'd recently begun reading. The resulting manuscript was rejected by Harlequin, but that didn't matter to Roberts. She was hooked on writing. Several rejected manuscripts later, her first book was accepted for publication by Silhouette.
For several years, Roberts wrote category romances for Silhouette -- short books written to the publisher's specifications for length, subject matter and style, and marketed as part of a series of similar books. Roberts has said she never found the form restrictive. "If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations," she explained. "If this doesn't suit you, you shouldn't write it. I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
Roberts never violated the reader's expectations, but she did show a gift for bringing something fresh to the romance formula. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred (1981), had as its heroine a strong-willed horse groom, in contrast to the fluttering young nurses and secretaries who populated most romances at the time. But Roberts's books didn't make significant waves until 1985, when she published Playing the Odds, which introduced the MacGregor clan. It was the first bestseller of many.
Roberts soon made a name for herself as a writer of spellbinding multigenerational sagas, creating families like the Scottish MacGregors, the Irish Donovans and the Ukrainian Stanislaskis. She also began working on romantic suspense novels, in which the love story unfolds beneath a looming threat of violence or disaster. She grew so prolific that she outstripped her publishers' ability to print and market Nora Roberts books, so she created an alter ego, J.D. Robb. Under the pseudonym, she began writing romantic detective novels set in the future. By then, millions of readers had discovered what Publishers Weekly called her "immeasurable diversity and talent."
Although the style and substance of her books has grown, Roberts remains loyal to the genre that launched her career. As she says, "The romance novel at its core celebrates that rush of emotions you have when you are falling in love, and it's a lovely thing to relive those feelings through a book."
Roberts sued fellow writer Janet Dailey in 1997, accusing her of plagiarizing numerous passages of her work over a period of years. Dailey paid a settlement and publicly apologized, blaming stress and a psychological disorder for her misconduct.
Anonymous
Posted July 26, 2012
I might be more willing to consider buying it if the sample actually included part of the book and not everything just up to the title page
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Posted July 19, 2012
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I loved this book. very well written. Finished it very quickly
9 out of 12 people found this review helpful.
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Posted August 15, 2012
This was a good book. The ebook says it's 188 pages, but it starts on
page 10 and ends on page 168. There are 20 pages of a preview for
another book. In the B&N publication date it says 7/20/2012. But
that is through Intermix ebooks. It was really published in 1985
through Harlequin. I was disappointed to pay this much for an ebook and
find I had already read it. VERY FRUSTRATING! it's hard to trust her
books anymore.
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Posted July 29, 2012
I've noticed a lot of the samples are mostly author info and very little book information, but this is abdolutely incredible. No actual sample at all!
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Posted November 2, 2012
A girl in a dirty hoodie and long tatered cape stumbles out and waves at eveyone " Hey im back!!"
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 23, 2012
Pretty good book. Some things seem kinda rushed, but other than that cute story!
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Posted September 6, 2012
Was delighted to see that Nora Roberts took on the challenges facing all of us as neighbors and how you can really achieve peace and happiness in spite of bad history among neighbors. It is definetly a "must read"!
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Posted September 5, 2012
I love Nora Roberts. She seems to take you away from everyday life and personally connect with the characters. :)
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Posted September 4, 2012
This was a great book about two neighboring ranches and their struggles with each other and an unknown cow thief. It was a great story of unity and love, but the end of the book was cut way too short. In lest then 1 chapter every issue of the last 200 pages is resolve in only a sentence or two. I would have love 2 or 3 more chapters to tie up the loose ends and complete the story. That would have made this book a 5 star book.
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Posted August 21, 2012
Not bad
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Posted August 19, 2012
Really enjoyed this book. Have read it a couple of times.
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Posted November 5, 2012
Practices her flamethrower
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Posted November 5, 2012
Takes out her bow and arrows and shoots at targets always hitting the bullseye.
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Posted November 5, 2012
-.-
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Posted November 4, 2012
Who the heck is swag
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Posted November 5, 2012
I gtg bbl * waves to you
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Posted November 4, 2012
Why did you do that
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Posted November 21, 2012
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Posted November 3, 2012
Oh, no, don't listen to your heart. That's not what I'm saying at all. You're heart's usually wrong. You have to listen to the facts, and find answers physically. Ask people, see what you can find out.
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When Jillian Baron inherits her grandfather’s Montana ranch, she inherits a long-standing family feud as well. Living side by side with the Murdocks had bred contempt over the years. But now a common enemy has Jillian ...