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True Romance: Guest Columnist Nora Roberts Loves Her Movies | Today's News: Our Take | 1/26/2007
As a writer, I work alone. And I like it. When creating my books, I'm not only the writer, I'm the director, the costume and set designer, I'm hair and makeup. And I'm the entire cast. The wrap parties are pretty quiet, but I get all the champagne and pizza. It's a great job, and not nearly as schizophrenic as it sounds. Really. When a book's being adapted into a movie, the writer turns all those other fun jobs over to the movie experts. If the writer's lucky, those experts may want her input. I'm really lucky. My first stroke of luck was in having producers like Mandalay and Stephanie Germain Productions interested in adapting four of my romantic-suspense novels for TV [airing Mondays beginning Jan. 29; see complete schedule below]. The second, having Lifetime showcase those films, slammed it out of the park. It was fascinating for me to read each draft of the scripts. The translations keyed into the heart of the stories. As casting progressed, my del read more

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Title	Year	Type
Come Early Morning (Actor - Nana)	2006	Movie
Inland Empire (Actor - Marilyn Levens)	2006	Movie
The World's Fastest Indian (Actor - Ada)	2005	Movie
Gracie's Choice (Actor - Louella Lawson)	2004	Movie
Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' (Actor - Sally Druse)	2004	TV Show Series