Re: Robin Lee Hatcher article

Posted by Alexis Harrington on April 15, 2002 at 15:09:10:

In Reply to: Robin Lee Hatcher article posted by Posted for Nora Roberts by LLB on April 15, 2002 at 09:56:54:

Nora said:

<personal beliefs and creative needs. Period. Why smear the genre to make whatever point she sought to make?>>

Nora is precisely correct here. One of the things Robin's interview mentions is that she "has 5 million books in print and 40 titles to her name."

I'd make a large wager that most of those millions of copies and 40 titles are romance novels. Writing romance is how she achieved enough financial success and name recognition to make the switch to another genre. Kicking the romance industry in the face serves no purpose, and gee, look how many angry people we have here. She certainly didn't look unhappy (or ashamed) the night she won the Rita in Chicago--I was in the same elevator with her and she seemed proud enough of her accomplishments then.

I'm sorry that Robin couldn't move forward to a new phase of her career without burning the bridge to her old one.

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: Nora said: : <<It would have been smarter, and certainly more gracious, for Robin to have said she'd decided to persue another avenue of fiction because of her : personal beliefs and creative needs. Period. Why smear the genre to make whatever point she sought to make?>> : Nora is precisely correct here. One of the things Robin's interview mentions is that she "has 5 million books in print and 40 titles to her name." : I'd make a large wager that most of those millions of copies and 40 titles are romance novels. Writing romance is how she achieved enough financial success and name recognition to make the switch to another genre. Kicking the romance industry in the face serves no purpose, and gee, look how many angry people we have here. She certainly didn't look unhappy (or ashamed) the night she won the Rita in Chicago--I was in the same elevator with her and she seemed proud enough of her accomplishments then. : I'm sorry that Robin couldn't move forward to a new phase of her career without burning the bridge to her old one.