Nora Roberts

DID YOU KNOW?

Updated 01/15/2012

  • #1 New York Times Bestselling Sensation

  • Every Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb title released in 2011 hit the New York Times bestseller list.  That’s keeping up a streak started in 1999.

  • The Witness (Putnam, April 2012) will be Nora's 200th novel. 

  • Naked in Death was the first book Nora wrote under the pseudonym JD Robb for what was originally conceived to be a trilogy.  It was released in July 1995.  Celebrity in Death (Putnam, February 2012) will be the 34th book in the series.

  • Nora has written 175 New York Times bestsellers including 28 written as JD Robb and one written together with JD Robb

  • Since her first bestseller in 1991, Nora’s books have spent a total of 901 weeks on the New York Times list…that’s equivalent to more than 17 consecutive years of weekly bestsellers.

  • Nora’s books have spent a combined 181 weeks at the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list – that’s nearly 3.5 years.

  • 51 books by Nora Roberts or J.D. Robb have debuted in the #1 spot on a New York Times best seller list.

  • Treachery in Death was the first J.D. Robb book to debut at the #1 position on the New York Times Combined Print and E-Book Fiction list on March 13, 2011

  • Vision in White, the initial book in the Bride Quartet, was Nora’s first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Paperback Fiction Trade bestseller list on May 17, 2009.  It spent 11 weeks on the list!

  • Every book in the recent Bride Quartet debuted at #1 on the New York Times Trade Paperback Fiction Best Seller List.

  • Rising Tides, the second title in the popular Chesapeake Bay series, was Nora’s first ever immediate #1 bestseller, debuting on the New York Times Paperback Best Seller List on July 26, 1998.

  • Midnight Bayou was Nora’s first hardcover to debut at #1 on November 4, 2001.

  • Innocent in Death was the first book written as J.D. Robb to debut at #1 on March 11, 2007. 

A publishing phenomenon

  • There are more than 400 million* copies of books by Nora Roberts in print worldwide. *(as of 9/1/09)

  • Nora Roberts was the third author to sell more than 1 million Kindle books.

  • Over the last 30 years, an average of 27 Nora Roberts books were sold every minute.

  • Nora Roberts’ books are published in over 34 countries.

  • There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill the seats of Wrigley Field over 9,900 times (selling out Cubs’ home games for more than 124 seasons).

  • If you place all Nora’s books top to bottom, they would stretch across the United States from New York to Los Angeles 18 times

Nora Roberts on Lifetime

  • Carnal Innocence, the most recent movie based on one of Nora's novels, premiered on June 13, 2011 on Lifetime Television. The movie was produced by Mandalay Television and Stephanie Germain Productions and starred Gabrielle Anwar and Collin Egglesfield.

  • In 2007 and 2009, Lifetime Television teamed with Mandalay Television and Stephanie Germain Productions to present the tremendously successful Nora Roberts Collection.

  • February 2007 was named “Nora Roberts Month on Lifetime Television.”  To celebrate, four movies based on her books aired on consecutive Monday nights. Angels Fall, Montana Sky, Blue Smoke and Carolina Moon featured stellar casts, dramatic cinematography and a cameo by Nora in each movie.

  • The titles included in the second Nora Roberts Collection are Northern Lights, Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute.  The movies aired on consecutive Saturday nights in April 2009.  Again, the producers brought in actors of the highest caliber, including Cybill Shepherd and Faye Dunaway, to bring Nora’s books to life.

  • Carnal Innocence aired on Lifetime on June 13, 2011 starring Shirley Jones, Gabrielle Anwar and Colin Egglesfield

  • The first eight movies are available on Sony DVD at major retailers.

On the web

  • Nora was one of the first authors to use the web to communicate with her fans when she launched her site in 1996.

  • Noraroberts.com receives over 140,000 visitors a month, with over a half million page views.  Adding in the page views on jdrobb.com, yields almost 1 million hits per month.

  • Her official reader website, A Day Without French Fries (ADWOFF) has over 7,500 registered members.

  • Nora’s online newsletter has over 111,000 subscribers and it  grows each week.

  • Nora's Official Fan page on Facebook has over 393,000 fans. 

     

     

 

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