So I've gone down the rabbit hole on a Friday night. The Nora Roberts Rabbit Hole!
For those of you who don't work in a book store, or read romance novels, and I'm not talking about your Water for Elephants, Notebook, Best Seller section of mush. I mean the down and gritty, Harlequin, Silhouette, etc published books.
The oceanic mass that makes the foundation of the romance industry. For moi, in the used store, we subcategory the romance novels into the following: Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Erotica, Christian/Amish Romance, British Historical Romance, and Historical Romance. On top of those, there are the Harlequin Novels.
The aquatic queen of this section is Nora Roberts.
My heavy research on Wikipedia tells me she's published something like 208 titles in total.* She dominates 5.5 shelves(dollar shelves), more than any other author in the store. When people tell me the bible is the most wild selling book, I want to take them to the basement...
Confession, I've read one portion of her books once, when I was hunting around for the dirt scenes. However I've never completed a full novel by her.
Anyway, I went to the Wiki, leaping down to the footnotes regarding her beef with Cassie Edwards and Janet Daily. Lo! Did I find this website. I know there something in the Romance genre that I've sampled into, but its like looking into the maw of some beast many others have mastered, while I can't even grab its horns.
Book stuff huh.
Oh yeah its my 1st anniversary. The Irony of this romantic rabbit hole does not elude me.
*Fun fact: Nora has a B&B and the rooms are themed off characters from her books. Intriguing. It would be Brilliant if Stephen King had the same...
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