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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S04.29: Nora Roberts: Trailblazer

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The Trailblazer episodes continue this week with the Queen herself! Nora Roberts joins us today to talk about her longstanding career in romance—from her extremely relatable roots as a mom going mad in a snowstorm, to her deep rooted work ethic, to the plagiarism that rocked the publishing world. We talk about her place in the romance pantheon, about the reasons she thinks her books are so beloved, and about that one time her publisher called to tell her she was writing too much. It was an absolute pleasure to have Nora Roberts personally explain things to us; we’re beyond grateful to her for making time for Fated Mates.

Transcript

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I got my first royalty check for Irish thoroughbred, which I first published silhouette,

0:05.3

and I didn't understand. And I called her and I said, I got this check and it was, I never had this much money.

0:12.2

I said they already paid me because they've given me, you know,

0:15.4

$3,000. That was my advance for my first book. And she said, Nora, they keep paying you.

0:23.8

Maybe that was, that was the moment, oh,

0:27.2

I'm Nora Roberts and they keep paying me.

0:30.6

That was the voice of Nora Roberts.

0:34.0

Whoo! It's happening.

0:37.0

Yes, it is happening.

0:39.0

And you know what, I'm going to say, we have been like blessed to have amazing people

0:44.4

amazing people on, but I think you and I were both

0:47.6

when we sent the email, when you sent the email

0:50.4

to Nora Roberts, we're like, what's going to happen?

0:56.0

My favorite is that I texted you and I was like, hey Jen, do you have time to interview

1:02.1

Nora Roberts.

1:04.4

Here's the other thing that happened last night.

1:07.2

So Mr Reed's romance said, what are you doing tomorrow?

1:10.0

And I was like, well, we're going to be recording an interview with this author and you know he has no idea who anyone is bless you all and I said yeah with Nora Roberts and he was like oh I know that name I was like okay now I'm nervous everyone knows her

1:26.3

name yeah my in-laws are here this this week because you know we're still

1:31.1

renovating this house or you know putting up bookshelves and I literally

1:36.2

this morning was like you all need to leave this house. Like I can't have you in here.

1:39.7

Goodbye.

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