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Nora Roberts is one of America's leading novelists, whose more than 150 books have been published around the world and excerpted in national magazines and translated in over twenty-five different languages. She writes as J. D. Robb for the "in Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.
Several of Roberts' books, have been adapted into made-for-TV movies and aired on Lifetime.
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Tell us about the blizzard of 1979 that jump-started your career…
The blizzard of ’79 hit in February, and I was stuck in the house with
two small children. Any mother out there knows what it is to weep bitter tears
when the radio announces that there will be no morning kindergarten. I live in
rural Maryland, and had no four-wheel drive transportation, two active sons, a
dwindling supply of chocolate and three feet of snow. I’d never thought about
writing as a career. I thought everyone made up stories in their heads. But
after days of being trapped by the blizzard, I was tired of playing Candy Land
and was desperate for some sort of release. I took one of those stories in my
head and wrote it down. The minute I started the process of writing, I fell in
love with it. I had, to this point, sought some avenue for creativity in every
craft known to man. Ceramics, embroidery, sewing (I even put little flies in the
overalls I made my sons) canning, macramé, needlepoint, baking. I had a
distressing craft addiction. Fortunately writing cured me of it, and I found the
right avenue.
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