American - Author | October 10, 1950 -
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Nora Roberts
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
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I loved the process of writing.
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
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For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
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