"Write
what you like to read. If you are not captured by the story, who will be? Write
every day—a habit that you need to build. And remember to have fun with
it."
Nora Roberts
real name Eleanor Marie Robertson
(1950)
Curious facts about
She didn't
start writing until she was 29 years old. It all began with a #2 pencil and a
spiral notebook. Snowed in with her two young boys during a 1979 storm, Nora
Roberts, AKA, J.D. Robb, Jill March, and Sarah Hardesty (U.K. pseudonym), got
in touch with her creative side and began writing.
She once
said, "I've never taken a course on writing. I've never read a book on
writing. This isn't something that would work for me. Every writer has to
figure out what works best -- and often has to select and discard different
tools before they find the one that fits..."
She also
writes a futuristic crime/romance series under the name J.D. Robb.
She first
tried submitting her works to Harlequin, but was rejected. Her first publisher
was Silhouette.