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It certainly doesn't get any more prolific. Since she launched her writing career in 1981, 134 novels have been published under her name and her pseudonym, J.D. Robb. Let's go over that again: 134 novels. Roughly 106 million copies of her books have been printed. Last year 14...
But they probably will, perhaps through the publicity campaign under way for Roberts' new hardback offering of this year, Carolina Moon (Putnam; 438 pages; $24.95). This novel is a romance tooled to attract readers of popular fiction who may not think, or know, that they like romances. It is longer...
Despite its preordained finale, Carolina Moon builds a commendably brisk narrative energy and pace. Roberts' prose does not invite lingering. In fact, reading fast is the best way to get past such locutions as "Her breath came in pants" or this anatomically puzzling account of Tory and Cade together in...
If such a transformation does not strike Roberts, 49, as preposterous, it may be because her life has followed, in broad outline, the plot of a romance novel. Back in 1979, she was a housewife with two small sons living in a small house in rural western Maryland, when a...
An eager reader since childhood and an energetic dreamer-up of stories, Roberts decided "to take one of those stories out of my head and write it down." A friend had recently introduced her to romance novels. "So I was gobbling those things up, and I thought, 'I'm going...