[bksvol-discuss] Re: J.D. Robb books
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:38:40 -0700
Yes, authors use different names for different genres sometimes. A prominent
example is one that only came to mind because her name has appeared on this
list: Robin Hobb also goes by Megan Lindholm, who I think is more known for
Science Fiction than fantasy. I don't know if either one is her given name or
not. I also don't know how many novels she has written under the Lindholm
name, but I have seen her shorter work in Asimov's Science Fiction, although
not recently.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: J.D. Robb books
From what I've seen in the U.S. Copyright office's database, Nora Roberts
either has another pseudonym named Eleanor Wilder, or both the Robb and Roberts
names are pseudonyms for Wilder. I think it's the former.
In any case, prolific authors often use pseudonyms to boost book sales
because publishers have said they find that some people won't buy all the books
by the same author if the author writes several books a year. Also, the Robb
books are a bit different in that they are a little more SciFi and
Mystery/Suspense than romance, so they could get overlooked in the bookstore by
people who aren't into romance if she puts Nora Roberts on the cover.
If you haven't tried the series yet, then you might want to wait until I can
get the first book in the series rescanned in the next couple of weeks since it
turns out it's missing some words.
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:33 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: J.D. Robb books
Yes, they are written by Nora Roberts. She uses the pseudonym of J. D. Robb,
instead of her real name, for them. Who knows why...
Carrie
Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are these books actually written by Nora Roberts? I see she is the
copyright
holder.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Hovas"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:52 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: J.D. Robb books
> Cindy,
>
> Yes, the Robb books are almost caught up. I've discovered that Naked in
> Death needs a rescan due to missing words, but my library has it, so i'll
> handle it sometime in the next couple of weeks. Other than that, all of
> the books in the series are in the collection or the admin queue and in
> Excellent shape, so don't worry about them any more. Thanks for helping
> us
> look for the missing books.
>
> I'll let the list know when the series is completely caught up. BTW,
> since
> these books are showing up at/near the top of the Hardcover Fiction NYT
> Bestseller list now, the series should remain caught up as long as
> Bookshare
> continues the NYT Bestseller project.
>
> BTW, I think I've mentioned that NLS began trying to catch this series up
> back in 2004 by adding all of the Robb novels they were missing to their
> list of Books For Consideration. NLS still didn't have two of the older
> books out of processing when I looked in the last couple of weeks, plus
> will
> probably never record all of the anthologies, and of course still doesn't
> have Memory in Death, the most recent book in the series, recorded yet.
>
> This was a real team project. Thanks to Grace for scanning the last two
> books in the series which were missing: Ceremony and Witness. Thanks
> should
> also go to Tom who scanned Judgement and Carrie who scanned the other last
> books which were missing from the collection, including a couple of the
> anthologies which I thought would have to be purchased new in order to get
> them into the collection. As you know, the hardest part about catching
> this
> NYT Bestselling series up was locating the books which have yet to be
> published in hardback since they aren't easily found in libraries.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:19 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] J.D. Robb books
>
> Gerald,
>
> I see you uploaded a replacement copy of Witness in
> Death, and I checked and an excellent (supposedly)
> copy of Ceremony in Death is inthe collection, so
> that's it, right? I'll discard my look-for notes.
>
> Cindy
>
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