Talk:Nora Roberts

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[edit] Change Proposed to Book Listing

Unless anyone objects in this space in the next day or so, I'd like to re-arrange this listing of books to alphabetical rather than chronological. I think that anyone looking for a particular novel would do so by the title, particularly since NR is so amazingly prolific. Estreya 19:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

For Nora Roberts books, the die hard fans seem to know the chronological order more so than the alphabetical order, but eh. As for the list, given the fact that she has in fact published over a hundred novels I think it's a bit ridiculous to have every novel she's written on here anyway, but that's just me. --ImmortalGoddezz 21:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
True, it is quite a long list of books, but the precedence is there to keep them in the bio: see Stephen_king or James_Michener. Of course both of those entries use a different method for listing books -- one chronological and one alphabetical! The book I'm taking info from in my research lists them alphabetical. Maybe I'll take a look around and see if I can find a consensus on Wikipedia. Estreya 00:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I ended up combining the two approaches and put the list alphabetical within chronological year--newest at the top for easier editing in the future.Estreya 19:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Book sales

Does anyone have any reliable figure on how many books she has sold? Entheta 19:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

According to her website: "There are more than 280 million copies of Nora Roberts books in print (as of 12/31/04). Over the last 23 years, an average of 23 Nora Roberts books were sold every minute. There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill the seats of Giants Stadium nearly 4 thousand times. If you place all Nora’s books top to bottom, they would stretch across the United States from Los Angeles to New York City nearly 11 times. In the time you take to read this section, another 23 Nora Roberts books were sold." Estreya 17:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Romance Scholars"

Who are these "scholars of romance fiction" and what are their studies? Could we have some footnotes? I would otherwise suggest deleting this part of the sentence for lack of support.

--KCargill 01:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree, it is a weak sentence. She has long blended her "romance fiction" with murder, mystery, magic or fantasy. That should be expanded upon. I'd also like to see something added about her successful 1997 plagiarism suit against Janet Dailey. I'll try to get around to it soon! Estreya 19:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
That whole sentence needs to be deleted. Without references it's POV. Additionally something needs to be added about Lifetime collaborating with NR on 4 book to television movies, not to mention the fact that Sanctuary is already a movie imbd (which Lifetime has aquired). --ImmortalGoddezz 15:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)