Re: Robin Lee Hatcher article

Posted by Pam on April 19, 2002 at 08:28:19:

In Reply to: Re: Robin Lee Hatcher article posted by Rosalyn Alsobrook on April 18, 2002 at 17:48:09:

: IF IT IS TRULY HER LETTER, it just proves she's moved herself to a different plane than the rest of us (romance writers) and no longer "knows" who her fellow writers are inside.

Rosalyn,

If you really cared whether Nora Roberts had written this letter you would have checked with her. She's easy to find and most people who write to her at her website say that she writes back quickly. Nora Roberts has posted at this site many times and would have come out and said so if someone were posting in her name. Why on earth would LLB have taken such a stupid chance knowing that she was going to be exposed by NR? Why would she risk her reputation on such a stupid trick?

Obviously, Nora Roberts did write her letter--but it is so easy to ask the question that implies she didn't. Isn't it?

No one has done more than Nora Roberts to put romance literature into the best light possible and that is a great boon to romance authors. With her popularity it would have been very easy for her to do interviews where she said she regretted her romance past. In fact there is quite an incentive. Nora Roberts books are almost always on the best seller list but she is seldom interviewed by the mainstream press. Don't you think the folks on shows like Good Morning America would just love to hear Nora Roberts say that she regrets writing her earlier books? Nora Roberts does support real romance authors as anyone who attends RWA conventions can attest. In fact, what she has said here is in defense of the real romance authors who are constantly being belittled by the press.

But there is a heck of a lot of jealousy about Nora Roberts and her huge success. Its the great UNSAID at RWA. "Oh if NR wasn't taking up all that space on the bookshelves and best seller lists I WOULD BE A SUCCESS." Oh yes, just like mediocre authors would be a success if the ubs's and libraries went out of business. I have never heard as much jealousy and backbiting as I did at the RWA convention I attended. Any author who was moving up the best seller charts inevitably was open to the "She's not really so good..." comments made by much lesser authors.

Nora Roberts does great things for romance. Mostly she gets readers walking over to the romance section where they end up buying all kinds of books. She doesn't have to, but she does and as a reader I appreciate that.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Robin Lee Hatcher article Rosalyn Alsobrook 18:12:10 04/19/02 (2)
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  • Re: Robin Lee Hatcher article Suse 18:57:21 04/19/02 (0)

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: : : IF IT IS TRULY HER LETTER, it just proves she's moved herself to a different plane than the rest of us (romance writers) and no longer "knows" who her fellow writers are inside. : Rosalyn, : If you really cared whether Nora Roberts had written this letter you would have checked with her. She's easy to find and most people who write to her at her website say that she writes back quickly. Nora Roberts has posted at this site many times and would have come out and said so if someone were posting in her name. Why on earth would LLB have taken such a stupid chance knowing that she was going to be exposed by NR? Why would she risk her reputation on such a stupid trick? : Obviously, Nora Roberts did write her letter--but it is so easy to ask the question that implies she didn't. Isn't it? : No one has done more than Nora Roberts to put romance literature into the best light possible and that is a great boon to romance authors. With her popularity it would have been very easy for her to do interviews where she said she regretted her romance past. In fact there is quite an incentive. Nora Roberts books are almost always on the best seller list but she is seldom interviewed by the mainstream press. Don't you think the folks on shows like Good Morning America would just love to hear Nora Roberts say that she regrets writing her earlier books? Nora Roberts does support real romance authors as anyone who attends RWA conventions can attest. In fact, what she has said here is in defense of the real romance authors who are constantly being belittled by the press. : But there is a heck of a lot of jealousy about Nora Roberts and her huge success. Its the great UNSAID at RWA. "Oh if NR wasn't taking up all that space on the bookshelves and best seller lists I WOULD BE A SUCCESS." Oh yes, just like mediocre authors would be a success if the ubs's and libraries went out of business. I have never heard as much jealousy and backbiting as I did at the RWA convention I attended. Any author who was moving up the best seller charts inevitably was open to the "She's not really so good..." comments made by much lesser authors. : Nora Roberts does great things for romance. Mostly she gets readers walking over to the romance section where they end up buying all kinds of books. She doesn't have to, but she does and as a reader I appreciate that.