Book a literary-lovers room at Nora Roberts' romantic inn
Nora Roberts, queen of the romance novel, is now ensconced in the hotel business. Roberts bought the Inn BoonsBoro in Maryland two years ago, and its labor-of-love renovation was inspired by seven lovestruck literary couples.
Book a literary-lovers room at Nora Roberts' romantic inn
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
BOONSBORO, Md. - Best-selling romance novelist Nora Roberts knows how to get her readers in the mood, and now she's bringing her flair for the amorous to the newly renovated Inn BoonsBoro.
Roberts, who owns the hotel and has been intimately involved in its design, is giving a tour of the Nick and Nora room, named after Dashiell Hammett's married detectives from The Thin Man.
"It's a comfortable room that blends sleek art deco and fussy Hollywood glamour," she says, "which strikes me as very Nick and Nora Charles." The room's smoky walls, chocolate ceiling, crystal light fixtures and mirrored night stands, she says, would ensure "they'd be very comfortable and happy here."
( Now she's hoping paying guests will feel just as cozy when the inn opens Tuesday... )
A copy of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man rests on the bedside table in the Inn BoonsBoro's Nick and Nora room, decorated in a style that would make those characters "very comfortable."
