http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T10:10:38Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Nora%20Roberts http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/13/141636/425 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/innboonsboro.jpg" class="top"> <p>Yay! It looks like it may be a happy ending for author <b>Nora Roberts' hotel</b> (yes, that would be the same Nora Roberts whose books you spent all summer reading on the beach). <p>Last year, the author had planned to open up an inn out in her hometown Boonsboro, Maryland, converting a 200-year-old building into a cool literary-themed hotel. Sadly, during the renovations &#151; almost a year ago this week, actually &#151; the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/22/155539/171/hotels/Nora_Roberts_Planned_Literary_Hotel_Destroyed_By_Fire">hotel caught fire</a>, and the blaze spread to the buildings next to it causing an estimated $1.5 million in damages. <p>We weren't sure whether or not she and her husband were going to move forward with the opening, but it seems she pushed Jenna 2009-02-13T14:45:47-05:00 39.5064613 -77.652313 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/22/155539/171 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hagerstownfire.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We might have some weird type of ESP. In our story the other day about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/20/144819/240/hotels/Starwood_Devalues_Their_SPG_Points_Yet_Again">Starwood devaluing their points system</a>, we mentioned the Sheraton Four Points in <b>Hagerstown, Maryland</b> which we picked to demonstrate how many SPG points you will need in a random city in a random state like Maryland.<p>Then a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/20/144819/240/hotels/Starwood_Devalues_Their_SPG_Points_Yet_Again#1">Hotel Maven</a> mentioned Hagerstown was his hometown. Interesting.<p>And now, Hagerstown is in the news because novelist Nora Roberts (women's fiction best for airplane reading) was planning on turning an old hotel into a literary-themed, except the place caught fire!<blockquote><p>[A fire marshal] said the fire started around 7:30 a.m. in the <b>Boone Hotel</b>, owned by Roberts and her husband, Bruce Wilder. It spread to the juliana 2008-02-22T16:03:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/