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Who Needs a Muse?

While we’re in the month of cranking out the words, here’s an inspirational tale for NaNoWriMo writers everywhere: Who Needs a Muse?

Nora Roberts won’t win the Nobel Prize in Literature—not unless they invent a new category for gross revenue. But for sheer output, few people can touch this 54-year-old novelist. In just over two decades she has written 157 books (7.9 million words added to the store of romance fiction), and 116 of them were bestsellers.