Nora Roberts Statistics

She earns an estimated $30+ million each year, as of 2022.
Since 2013’s earnings of $23 million, her income steadily decreased yearly until 2017.
The $12 million she earned during 2017 was also the lowest income recorded for the analyzed period.
Nora Roberts’ net worth was given as $420 million as of 2022.
It is believed that 500+ million copies of her books have been sold.
The best selling author has sold over 1 million Kindle editions of her books.
She also became just the third person to achieve this.
As of 2022, she had released a total of 341 publications.
Nora Roberts has released 4 publications annually since 2017.
12 of her publications have been adapted into movies.

Nora Roberts book sales

Nora Roberts recorded her lowest income during the given period in 2017 at $12 million.
For the timeframe, Nora Roberts recorded her highest incomes during the years 2011 – 2013.
Since 2013’s $23 million, her income steadily decreased yearly.
In total, her annual income dropped 47.83% during the period.
This was a total decline in income of $11 million.

A graph is given below to show Nora Roberts’ annual book sales income:

(Last 10 years only)

Year	Title	Page count
2013	Calculated In Death	386
2013	Whiskey Beach	484
2013	Thankless in Death	402
2013	Mirror, Mirror	410
2013	Dark Witch	342
2013	Irish Legacy Trilogy Collection	545
2014	Concealed in Death	416
2014	Shadow Spell	319
2014	The Collector	528
2014	Blood Magick	304
2014	Festive in Death	389
2015	Obsession in Death	404
2015	The Liar	501
2015	Devoted in Death	374
2015	Stars of Fortune	304
2016	Brotherhood in Death	388
2016	The Obsession	453
2016	Bay of Sighs	319
2016	Apprentice in Death	375
2016	Island of Glass	315
2017	Echoes in Death	371
2017	Come Sundown	466
2017	Secrets in Death	370
2017	Year One	419
2018	Dark in Death	372
2018	Shelter in Place	438
2018	Leverage in Death	385
2018	Of Blood & Bone	453
2019	Connections in Death	384
2019	Under Currents	436
2019	Vendetta in Death	356
2019	The Rise of Magicks	464
2020	Golden in Death	387
2020	Hideaway	454
2020	Shadows in Death	345
2020	The Awakening	435
2021	Faithless in Death	383
2021	Legacy	434
2021	Forgotten in Death	384
2021	The Becoming	448
2022	Abandoned in Death	356
2022	Nightwork	437
2022	Desperation in Death	368
2022	The Choice	438

For the given period, Nora Roberts averaged 8.12 publications per year.
As of 2022, she had released a total of 341 publications.
Her greatest output was during 2004, where she released 16 publications.
Her debut year, 1981, was also the year that she produced her lowest output with just 1 publication.
From 2017 – 2022, she consistently released 4 publications each year.

Year	Number of publications	Total number of publications
1981	1	1
1982	6	7
1983	8	15
1984	10	25
1985	10	35
1986	9	44
1987	7	51
1988	8	59
1989	8	67
1990	5	72
1991	8	80
1992	8	88
1993	3	91
1994	6	97
1995	6	103
1996	10	113
1997	10	123
1998	14	137
1999	12	149
2000	14	163
2001	13	176
2002	13	189
2003	14	203
2004	16	219
2005	13	232
2006	13	245
2007	8	253
2008	9	262
2009	9	271
2010	9	280
2011	12	292
2012	5	297
2013	6	303
2014	5	308
2015	4	312
2016	5	317
2017	4	321
2018	4	325
2019	4	329
2020	4	333
2021	4	337
2022	4	341

A graph is given below to show the total number of Nora Roberts publications during her career:

In total, 12 of Nora Roberts’ publications have been adapted into movies throughout her career.
The most recent adaptation, “Brazen” (2022), was released by Netflix.
In 2007, four adaptations were released by Lifetime Movie Channel.
In 2009, another four adaptations were released by the same channel.
All 8 of these adaptations were produced by Mandalay TV alongside Stephanie Germain Productions.

She was born on October 10th, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland in the United States.
Nora Roberts was the youngest of five children and her family were passionate about reading.
In 1979, she began writing during a blizzard and it became her new passion.
By 1980, the publisher Silhouette agreed to work alongside her.
It was through Silhouette that she was able to publish her first romance novel, “Irish Thoroughbred” in 1981.
She moved on to work with Bantam in 1987 and Putnam in 1992 to further success, alongside releasing suspense books under the pseudonym J. D. Robb.

In total, the author has written 222 bestsellers in the New York Times.
75 of these debuted in the #1 spot.
Her books have been published in more than 34 countries around the world.
In 2007, Nora Roberts was named one of most influential people during the year by TIME.
Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Romance Writers of America.
She is also a founding member of the association.

Nora Roberts’ full name is Eleanor Marie Robertson.
She uses the name “Nora Roberts” to write, as she assumed at the start of her career that authors within the romance genre used pen names.

According to Goodreads, “Vision in White” (2009) [Bride Quartet #1] is her most popular rated publication.