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Sunday Morning News

Novelist Nora Roberts Talks About Latest Book

Aired April 9, 2000 - 8:38 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In our book segment today, our guest is the popular novelist Nora Roberts. Her latest is the romantic thriller "Carolina Moon," which is currently number three on the "New York Times" best-seller list for fiction. It's packed with killers, heroes and heroines. And Nora Roberts joins us from New York this morning. Good morning.

NORA ROBERTS, AUTHOR, "CAROLINA MOON": Good morning.

PHILLIPS: So set the scene for us. It obviously takes place in a very beautiful area.

ROBERTS: Well, I wanted a Southern canvas and specifically a small town Southern canvas. I wanted that dynamics and those connections within connections.

So the book takes -- it centers around Tori Bodine (ph), who grew up in this area of South Carolina and had a very dark and abusive childhood, and the only bright light in that childhood was her best friend Hope, and the summer they were eight, that light was extinguished in a cruel and brutal way, and I wanted to speak to how those childhood friendships and a tragedy like that in childhood would form this woman, how -- what those childhood friendships -- how they form us into adults.

PHILLIPS: There is definitely a theme about a healing power. Describe that for us. And what's your definition?

ROBERTS: Well, I think for Tori having grown up with abuse, finding the courage to escape it and then finding the courage to go back and face her ghosts, go back to the place where she grew up and lived the hardest part of life. That kind of strength and courage in facing that, that's what helped heal her, and the love she had for her childhood friend, and then the relationship and the love that she found with the man in her life.

PHILLIPS: Who's going to identify with your book, do you think, the best?

ROBERTS: Well, I think anyone who loves a good story, I hope. I really hope it's a good story. So I don't think there is any one type of person.

PHILLIPS: Mystery and love, you've combined them both. ROBERTS: Right, right.

PHILLIPS: What do you think is so unique about that, or special about that?

ROBERTS: Well, I think it's a lot of fun. I think it's entertaining on a couple of levels when you add elements together and blend them together, like romance and relationships and mystery and intrigue. It just makes a fun story.

PHILLIPS: Now, you say romance novels saved your sanity. Do you mean reading them or writing them?

ROBERTS: Both, certainly. Absolutely both.

PHILLIPS: OK, describe that.

ROBERTS: I grew up in a family of readers. Books were always a part of my life. But in the winter of '79, I had a two and a 5-year- old in three feet of snow and no four-wheel drive transportation, and so reading is one of the things that kept me going. But that was the point in my life where I decided to take one of the stories out of my head and write it down on paper, so writing romance at that point saved my sanity.

PHILLIPS: Yes, and I like how you say you have the best job in the world because you don't have to wear pantyhose.

ROBERTS: I do. Yes, no pantyhose, no makeup, no commuting. Come on, it doesn't get any better than that.

PHILLIPS: I envy you. All right, the book is "Carolina Moon." Nora Roberts, thank you so much for being with us this morning. There is a look at the book.

ROBERTS: Thank you.

PHILLIPS: Yes, it's been a pleasure, thank you.

ROBERTS: Bye.

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