This might seem a little controversial. I don’t mean it to be. The thing is, I’m wondering if there is a point at which you all think author self-promotion crosses the line from jokingly “shameless” to actually shameful and annoying.
Let me start with this premise: I love hearing about news […]

Time magazine just named its list of the 100 most influential people. To be specific, these folks are, in Time’s view, the “100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.” Guess who is on the list? Yeah, Nora Roberts. As if I even need to […]

My dog ate the May edition of my Romantic Times magazine.
Really.
That’s not a high school excuse. She really ate it. The only reason this matters is that I tend to look through RT to see what’s coming out soon and what books I want to keep in mind to […]

Last week the ARCs for my upcoming release Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy arrived on my doorstep. To be technically correct, the fedex guy put a box of uncorrected proofs on my front porch. For me this is as exciting as Christmas. It gives me a little thrill to hold the […]

This week’s edition of Entertainment Weekly has a short blurb on the books people read as teens that were considered “forbidden” reads. In other words, those books you borrowed from the library or friends…and then hid from your parents. The ones you talked about with your friends and felt sooo mature giggling over […]

By now you know the Lifetime Network has turned four Nora Roberts’ books into original movies. They are: Angels Fall; Blue Smoke; Montana Sky; and Carolina Moon. To promote the movies (and seel more books), Nora’s publisher (Berkley) has printed additional copies of the books and sent out special floor displays. […]

Last year a few authors asked readers of their blogs what they looked for on a website. You know, what information kept them happy and buying an author’s books. The responses were pretty enlightening. In particular, one response kept showing up: book excerpts. Frankly, I was surprised. Not sure […]