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Interesting Facts About Nora
When she goes near water, she hears the theme from Jaws.
She can't write outlines. When Sillhouette started accepting stories based on outlines rather than full manuscripts, Nora said that her agent was so excited that she couldn't bear to tell her that she couldn't write outlines, and wrote the whole manuscript and then wrote an outline. She says that the outline was still about a C-.
She has a room size closet for her hundreds of pairs of shoes.
A Favorite Holiday Memory: (from the Walden Book Report)
When my sons were little, they'd sit on stools at he kitchen counter and take turns picking the cookie cutter shape for our holiday sugar cookies. This, of course, resulted in a lot of debate and confusion. Not being satisfied with that, I added yet one more layer by mixing up various colors of cookie paint. That makes a wonderful mess and results in some very odd looking cookies. Nothing, absolutely, tastes better than a blue Santa or a green reindeer painted by a child's hand.
The initials JD from JD Robb denote her 2 sons - Jason and Daniel. (Publishers Weekly Online)
Nora calls the short format of category romances "charcoal sketches." (Publishers Weekly Online)
Playing the Odds (the first of the ongoing MacGregor saga) was planned as a single book. (All About Romance)
Nora is Irish and Scot on both sides; she feels a strong kinship with the Celts, which she has identified as one reason why so many of her characters are of Celtic descent. (All About Romance)
Nora's Definition of the "MacGregor Magic" (the personality of the modern day clan) - strong family ties, the fact that though each of the characters has a life of his or her own, the roots are dug deep. These people care about what happens to each other. (All About Romance)
Do you have a cool story that Nora shared with you at a book signing?
E-mail me and I'll add it here.
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