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On this week's "Not My Job" segment of Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, host Peter Sagal's guest contestant is romance novelist Nora Roberts, who writes thrillers, as well, under the pseudonym JD Robb -- who has 198 novels on the New York Times best-seller list. How is that even possible, to even write that many books?? If you start writing when you're 20, and keep writing until you're 66, as she is, that means you'd have to write four books every year -- and all of them on the best-seller list. Bizarre. And this doesn't count the books she's written that didn't make the best-seller list. (I think that may be why she's a bit uncommunicative at the beginning of the interview when host Sagal asks her a few times about how long it takes her to write a book. She probably doesn't want to say, "Seven weeks.") She opens up later, though, and it's an enjoyable interview..
I mean, just simply reading 198 novels in 40 years would be a lot. That's five a year, every year, for almost half a century.
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