The latest in an occasional series of posts on authors who praise each other’s books
Janet Evanovich on Nora Roberts’s new Tribute:
“Nora Roberts is amazing.”
Nora Roberts on Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money:
“Stephanie Plum is destined to join ranks with Kinsey Millhone and Carlotta Carlyle. Janet Evanovich has crafted a heroine for today, tough, vulnerable, resourceful, and impulsive.”
You’ll find other examples of logrolling in the Backscratching in Our Time category on this site.
The fascinating question here is: Why did Tribute need a blurb? Roberts was the first author inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and has more than 250 million copies of her books in print. Danielle Steel started publishing earlier and may have the edge in copies sold, but she isn’t a traditional romance novelist. If you take Steel out of the equation, Roberts may be the bestselling romance novelist in America. She is also one of the bestselling of all time. Is the blurb from Evanovich likely to make a difference when Roberts has spent hundreds of weeks on New York Times bestseller lists and her sales figures have been over the moon for years? Does somebody think that in the Great Recession, even Roberts needs all the help she can get?
You might enjoy the New Yorker’s recent profile of Nora Roberts:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/22/090622fa_fact_collins/
I found it highly entertaining. It’s insane how prolific she is.
Comment by sarahsk — August 4, 2009 @ 3:46 pm |
Thanks, Sarah. I enjoyed this one, too.
Comment by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — August 4, 2009 @ 9:36 pm |