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#1 New York Times bestselling sensation
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Every Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb title released in 2008 hit the New York Timesbestseller list. That’s keeping up a streak started in 1999.
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With Fantasy in Death (February 2010) Nora will have published 190 full-length novels.
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Nora has written 164 New York Times bestsellers including 23 written as J.D. Robb and one written together with J.D. Robb
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Since her first bestseller in 1991, Nora’s books have spent a total of 806 weeks on the New York Times list…that’s equivalent to more than 15 consecutive years of weekly bestsellers.
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Nora’s books have spent a combined 171 weeks at the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list – that’s more than 3 years.
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42 books by Nora Roberts have debuted in the number one spot.
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Rising Tides, the second title in the popular Chesapeake Bay series, was Nora’s first ever immediate #1 bestseller, debuting on the New York Times Paperback Best Seller List on July 26, 1998.
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Midnight Bayou was Nora’s first hardcover to debut at #1 on November 4, 2001.
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Innocent in Death was the first book written as J.D. Robb to debut at #1 on March 11, 2007.
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Vision in White, the initial book in the Bride Quartet, was Nora’s first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Paperback Fiction Trade bestseller list on May 17, 2009. It spent 11 weeks on the list!
A publishing phenomenon
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There are more than 400 million* copies of books by Nora Roberts in print worldwide. *(as of 9/1/09)
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Over the last 28 years, an average of 27 Nora Roberts books were sold every minute.
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Nora Roberts’ books are published in over 34 countries.
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There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill the seats of Wrigley Field over 9,900 times (selling out Cubs’ home games for more than 124 seasons).
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If you place all Nora’s books top to bottom, they would stretch across the United States from New York to Los Angeles 18 times.
Nora Roberts on Lifetime
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In 2007 and 2009, Lifetime Television teamed with Mandalay Television and Stephanie Germain Productions to present the tremendously successful Nora Roberts Collection.
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February 2007 was named “Nora Roberts Month on Lifetime Television.” To celebrate, four movies based on her books aired on consecutive Monday nights. Angels Fall, Montana Sky, Blue Smoke and Carolina Moon featured stellar casts, dramatic cinematography and a cameo by Nora in each movie.
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The titles included in the second Nora Roberts Collection are Northern Lights, Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute. The movies aired on consecutive Saturday nights in April 2009. Again, the producers brought in actors of the highest caliber, including Cybill Shepherd and Faye Dunaway, to bring Nora’s books to life.
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All eight movies are available on Sony DVD at major retailers.
On the web
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Nora was one of the first authors to use the web to communicate with her fans when she launched her site in 1996.
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Her site receives over 80,000 visitors a month, with the average visitor looking at 11 pages on the site, spending up to 30 minutes at the site…that’s nearly 1 million hits a month.
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Her official reader website, A Day Without French Fries (ADWOFF) has over 7,500 registered members. KELSEY, CAN WE INCLUDE A HYPERLINK TO ADWOFF HERE??
- Nora’s online newsletter has over 95,000 subscribers and it grows each week.
