Nora Roberts's Blog, page 59

After nearly a week dealing with vertigo, which meant dealing with pretty much nothing else, a visit to the ENT, and a lot of frustration, I traveled with BW, Jason and Kat.

We decided to do something completely different this year, and chose to vacate in Montana. I’ve only been here once, on booktour, and that was to visit a Cosco in Billings. Not my vision of Montana!

But boy, this is.

Right now, the sky and scenery are hazed with smoke from wildfires about 100 miles away. The air smells li...

As Nora’s deep into packing for vacation, I offered to write this Sunday’s blog. Sowhile you don’t have her weekend recap, we’re looking at two solid weeks of armchair travel (am I dating myself with that reference?) up ahead. I won’t share where she’s going — I think we’ll let the first report do that. But I will say that she’ll be in a time zone behind the East Coast.

That last made me stop and think. In the the timewe’ve worked together, Nora’s never been in a time zone west of me. Ialways...

It’s good to be home, back to routine, back to work. In my book world it’s frigid, bitter-wind January. I realized I’d dived deep into book world when I set a scene at the ice rink in Central Park, started to research for some details and the web site said: Closed For The Season. Well, I thought, baffled and annoyed, why in the hell would they close the ice rink in January? It’s a freaking ICE rink! Then I glanced out my office window, had a moment of disorientation before I remembered. Oh y...

Today’s my last day of a veryhappy summerweek, with friends and family, at the spa. BW and I calculated and realized we’ve been coming here for 14 years now. Obviously, we enjoy it here. This week’s been highlighted by simply wonderful weather–we can make our own fun in less than wonderful, but it sure adds a glow to all. I did bring work, but I like work, and I’m not doing all the other things that need doing when I’m home, PLUS massages are a nearly daily treat. No complaints. And when y...

That’s what I thought this morning when I woke up and remembered it wasSaturday. Where did my week go? It’s easy enough to figure out. I traveled home from NY on Monday, unpacked a week’s worth of RWA clothes, shoes, bags and so on. Then collapsed in an exhausted heap. Tuesday was catch up after RWA day while the brain slowly began to fire up again. Wednesday, big catch up with the book, figuring out what the hell I was doing when I left off, continuing that, all while dealing with several...

My brain’s still a little blurred from a busy and fun week, and I know Laura posted some of the early highlights and pictures. So from my POV. I love when RWA’s in NYC or DC–that means no flying! It’s already started off well for me. Even counting a pit stop, it’s under five hours from portal to portal. While I have to admit I normally avoid Times Square–CROWDED–the hotel worked really well for a conference of this size. As we have for too many years to count, Ruth Langan (a/k/a R.C. Ryan)...

Wednesday is the start of the work week at RWA. Because I’m a slave driver, I set up interviews on Wednesday and Thursday with French and German media outlets in advance of the release of The Collector in Germany and the next In Death in France. Nora sat with an interviewer from ARD and Focus as well as writers from Le Parisien and Maxi. As soon as I know when the stories will be available, I’ll let everyone know.

Media day shoes Media outfit

The Literacy signing was a huge success — so busy,...

We drove up to New York on Monday in style and comfort. Then Tuesday was all about girls and shopping.

The car. Comfy shoes. Walk around/shopping day. Nora/JD in Times Square. Flags up Fifth Avenue. Times Square at night.

Laura

The TTP 20th Anniversary signing was tremendous fun. Long, lines of patient readers, happy smiles as they met favorite authors, tired wrists and hands for all the authors. My brain is still tired so I thought I’d just share some fun photos from the weekend. ~Laura

Noras shoes matched her sweater. And they were comfortable — I swear! Nalini Singh and Nora hard at work. Jason’s waiting for the next load of books to disperse. Nora’s wore wrist wrap for extra support. Piles of books — everywhere!...

The Devoted in Death excerpt is now on the JD Robb website: Chapter One.

Have fun!

Laura