Nora Roberts (post 2): In The New Yorker profile, was she joking when she said that J.D. Robb was “offended” by Nora’s popularity, and that J.D. is “a bitch”?

If it were a joke, it would have been a multiple personality joke, since its humor would have been based on talking about J.D. Robb as though she were a separate person, who could be envious of Nora and bitchy about it.

And if you think it was a joke, you would have to explain why Nora Roberts would be making jokes about J.D. Robb. Is Nora Roberts a humorist? And of all kinds of humor, why would she be making multiple personality jokes that disparage her very successful pseudonym?

Judge for yourself what type of person she is in interviews:

http://video.mpt.tv/video/2312264480/

What I see is neither Nora Roberts, the writer, nor J.D. Robb, the writer, nor a humorist, but a charming host personality (search “host personality” in this blog), whose job it is to socialize and do interviews.  At least, that is my initial impression. What’s yours?

However, the question arises as to why the host personality would have called J.D. a bitch (since it the host personality’s job to be nice). I would guess that it was not the host personality who called J.D. a bitch, but a rival of J.D., who took over temporarily to add her two cents.