Penguin Group USA includes Roberts among authors responsible for its successful publishing year

Penguin Group USA includes Nora Roberts among four authors who helped the publisher achieve its "extraordinary 2009 successes" according to its December 21, 2009 blog post. The company highlights the achievements of Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Kathryn Stockett and Greg Mortenson.

In the text below Penguin USA emphasizes Roberts' success in reaching the number one position on the New York Times bestseller list in the hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback categories in 2009:

Nora Roberts achieved ten New York Times bestsellers in 2009 – five of the titles reaching #1. Vision in White, book one in the Bride Quartet, Roberts’ first trade paperback original series, made Penguin Group (USA) history as its first trade paperback original with an initial printing of 1 million copies. This number was matched by the first printing for Bed of Roses, book two in the Bride Quartet. When Black Hills hit #1 on the hardcover fiction list, Nora achieved #1 New York Times bestsellers across all formats—hardcover, trade paperback and mass market—in 2009.

Penguin USA also praises the success of Charlaine Harris's Dead and Gone and the other titles in her Sookie Stackhouse mystery series, pointing out that "Harris made publishing history in 2009 when all nine of the books in the series were on the New York Times bestseller lists simultaneously in the same week twice in August." The publisher adds that Kathryn Stockett's The Help became "the surprise bestseller hit of the year"  and that Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea "broke new publishing ground" when three different editions of the work made the number one position of the New York Times bestsellers in the same week.