Her approach seems to work; Roberts had eleven books on the
New York Times bestseller lists in 1998, and another fourteen topping the charts in 1999. "I am a popular writer and proud of it," she told Judy Quinn in a 1998
Publishers Weekly interview. The fact that this self-admitted one-time "romance novel junkie," has found such a wide readership is a real-life success story that is almost too fanciful even for one of Roberts's own plot inventions. But success has not gone to her head: Roberts still lives in the same rural Maryland home she moved into as a young bride at age seventeen; she still writes the paperback romances which launched her career; and, she still keeps in touch via e-mail with her millions of fans. As Roberts so told Kristin McMurran in
People magazine in a 1996 interview, "I'm so lucky to find a job I love that can be lucrative."
Maryland Roots
Like so many other baby boomers, Roberts's fascination with good stories has its roots in watching movies. Her father, who ran a lighting company, was at one time also the projectionist at the local movie theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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