5/26/2023 0 Comments Nora roberts fireBut then Roberts is not one to mince her words. Quite a while would seem to be the short answer. "I mean, how long are you going to fight that battle?" "A woman writes it and it's just one of those," she says. One Day was a breakthrough romantic novel, taken seriously by publishers, given a non-chick-lit cover, and treated as a worthy subject for reviews in broadsheet newspapers. She doesn't actually say the words "David Nicholls" or " One Day", but they hover in the air. And it gets reviewed and made into a movie," says Roberts. Unless "a guy writes one and they call it something else. But then, it's a genre written by women for women. In lit-land, it's lower than crime, lower than horror, lower, even, than sci-fi. All genres are scorned by literary types, but none more so than romance. The reason you probably haven't heard of her is that Roberts writes what she refers to cryptically as "the big R".
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