| Facts About Nora Roberts
A publishing phenomenon!
- There are over 145 million copies of Nora Roberts books in print.
- Over the last 20 years, an average of 13 Nora Roberts books were sold every minute.
- In 2001, that average jumped to 34 books sold per minute.
- There are enough Nora Roberts books in print to fill the seats of Giants Stadium almost 2 thousand times.
- If you place all Nora's books top to bottom, they would stretch across the United States from Los Angeles to New York City five times.
- In the time you take to read this, another 8 Nora Roberts books were sold.
#1 New York Times bestselling sensation!
- Nora's books have spent a combined 34 weeks at the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list!
- 11 debuted at the number one spot.
- She's had 69 New York Times bestsellers including 5 writing as J.D. Robb.
- Since her first bestseller in 1991, her books have spent a total of 351 weeks on the New York Times list...that's equivalent to nearly 7 consecutive years of weekly bestsellers.
- Twice in her career she had four books on the New York Times list at the same time.
- Since 1999, every book published under the Nora Roberts name was a New York Times bestseller.
- In 2001, a Nora Roberts novel appeared on the New York Times bestseller list every week except for one!
Phenomenal sales!
- In 2001, Nora Roberts was the year's number two author based on USA Today's bestseller list, following only J.K. Rowling. She had six books in the top 100 list for the year, more than any other single author.
- In 2000, the top five bestselling romance titles of the year (based on actual sales figures) were penned by Nora Roberts: Tears of the Moon, Irish Hearts, River's End, Irish Rebels, and The Stanislaski Brothers. All but one were among the top 100 fiction/non-fiction titles of the year based on retail sales. She was among the top four bestselling authors for the year, according to sales figures compiled by USA Today.
- In 1999, Nora penned four out of the top five romance novels; two were among the top 100 bestsellers of all books for the year. Nora was among the top five bestselling authors of the year.
A first!
- The first Silhouette original title to hit # 1 on The New York Times bestseller list—The McGregor Grooms.
- The first category romance ever to hit The New York Times bestseller list—Perfect Neighbor.
- The first Silhouette single title to hit The New York Times bestseller list—The McGregor Brides.
On the web!
- Nora was one of the first authors to use the web to communicate with her fans when she launched her site in 1996.
- Her site receives over 60,000 visitors a month, with the average visitor looking at 11 pages on the site, spending up to 30 minutes at the site.
- Her online newsletter has over 31,000 subscribers, and it grows each week.
- Since 1996, visitors to her site have increased by 1500%.
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