Sentences with phrase «harlequin did»

What Harlequin didn't mention in their press release is that as a Publisher, they are currently not on the agency model with their digital distributors — Apple iBookstore being the one exception.

In the case of Ms. Peterson, she has established a name and a readership so she should be okay, but lets not forget the wonderful «service» harlequin did by helping her establish those sales in the first place...

Harlequin didn't require gatekeepers to the same extent as the NY royals.

The lawsuit alleges that Harlequin did not pay the authors the full amount of the agreed upon royalty for digital titles, although Harlequin's practice may actually leave that up to interpretation.

While I think the idea of vanity press is just wrong on so many levels, if Harlequin didn't use Harlequin resources or name, I could live with them having a financial interest in a joint - venture / partnership that was legally separate from the main company.

Harlequin did not confer with RWA, MWA, SFWA, etc. prior to either a. signing the final negotiated contract with Author Solutions b. publicly announcing Harlequin Horizons

I understand that there are plenty of agents who NEVER SELL ANYTHING but churn writers for editing fees, but Harlequin DOES publish authors.

What Harlequin does or doesn't do is of no concern to me because there will always be that next great thing or experiment.

If Harlequin does all of this, I will shout in all caps that Harlequin has done the right thing.

Take courses to make your writing better until Harlequin doesn't turn your manuscript down.

If Harlequin does all of that, and if Harlequin stops dangling the carrot that they will be monitoring Horizons for «fresh voices» as if they were going to scour Horizons for new talent, that would be enough for me.

I'm not an author, but part of my job at Harlequin does involve writing copy — back cover copy, that is!

Harlequin doesn't revert rights back to the author, but I learned that it's something I should look into for the books that I have published that were not through Harlequin,» says York of some of the digital publishing news she picked up at ThrillerFest.

And I'm delighted that the writers» organizations are taking a stand for their members instead of just rolling over and letting Harlequin do whatever they want.

I truly hope Harlequin doesn't lose the respect of their already established authors and audience as a result of this.

Just like Harlequin does.

Not exact matches

Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin romances are the equal of Faulkner's fiction as expressions of American culture.

Of course prayer changes things, this is why all the precious children born with Harlequin ichthyosis have vile horrible parents, because obviously they didn't pray hard enough.

Those three little words that do more for a parent's heart and soul than any «I love you» from sweet - tongued children or bare - chested Harlequin cover models could: «Back to school,» how we love thee.

Work has also been done to identify potential natural enemies that might regulate populations of harlequin ladybirds, such as the wasp parasite Dinocampus coccinellae which occurs worldwide and uses most types of ladybirds as a host.

The Harlequin is one of my favorite patterns and I am doing a grey and white harlequin pattern on a bench rHarlequin is one of my favorite patterns and I am doing a grey and white harlequin pattern on a bench rharlequin pattern on a bench right now.

That's a good mama you have Christy@Confessions of a Serial Do - it - Yourselfer recently posted... Harlequin Bench with Chalk Paint ® Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan

It caught my eye as I recently did a harlequin pattern on a round table (talk about hard to map out the pattern nicely).

She did my favorite harlequin pattern and I love the way she decorated the top.

Good performances (and great cinematography, costuming, and set design) nearly disguise the romantized telling of her finding her way, aid in the feeling of sympathy for her in what is essentially a Harlequin romance / Hallmark postcard, however well done.

Calling them «training bras for Harlequins» — the popular adult romance novels — Ms. Mertz said she is concerned that the formula - written novels set readers up for a big disappointment when they discover «that being pretty by itself doesn't necessarily bring them romance.»

By referring people whose submissions are rejected to a vanity - publishing enterprise with vague encouragements that maybe they'll be picked up by Harlequin's trade lines if they do really well, they're already taking part in unfair business practices.

And hey, to make it easy, you can do this through Harlequin's website.

That's because I've given Harlequin the exclusive right to distribute my works, and I suspect that I lack the authority to tell people what they can and can't do.

Since when do I need Harlequin's permission to publish anything.

The reason for this is that if Harlequin actually pulls off doing this imprint of theirs, it's highly likely that other big NY - based publishers will follow suit.

When I spoke to an editorial director from Harlequin last week, the editor mentioned that «several other publishers were doing it.»

I am really struggling to understand the in loco parentis attitude of RWA and MWA, who will ban Harlequin from their list of accepted publishers if H. doens» t do just as MWA demands (no co-advertising, warning labels, etc).

You'd think if Harlequin was going to go into that line of business that they would do something to set themselves above the rest.

Having carefully checked my contract with Harlequin, nowhere in it do I grant them exclusive rights — or any rights at all — with respect to authorization of anticircumvention.

What is the difference between what Harlequin is doing here and what scammer agents do when they reject an author but then steer them to Papa Jack's Editorial to pay a lot of money to «clean up» their submissions... and Papa Jack is another business owned by that agent?

I could rant, but author Jackie Kessler does it so well I'll just link to her, and then follows up with Harlequin's response after the Romance Writers of America said, -LSB-...]

I haven't done much research into this, but I'm going to declare that this is a first: Harlequin, the book publishing house known for its romance novels, is launching a line of wines called Vintages by Harlequin today.

In 2012 over 1,000 authors filed a class action lawsuit against Harlequin, alleging that they did not pay the authors the full amount of the agreed upon royalty for digital titles.

Silhouette still has independent name recognition (as does Mills & Boon), but most of the other imprints are branded as Harlequins.

Magdalen, I have the e-mail Harlequin sent out to its authors answering various concerns, which unfortunately I don't think they made free to make publicly available.

Harlequin used to offer a pay - for critique service that did utilize Harlequin editors, but my understanding of the DellArte deal is that all the services are provided by Author Solutions staff, NOT Harlequin's.

(Some people will point out that the DellArte folks aren't really our «competitors» — but they do produce substitute goods, however imperfect that substitute might be — and they do it at substantially lower cost to Harlequin).

Third, while it doesn't provide RWA with a tool to collectively pressure Harlequin into changing its business practices, it does provide Harlequin authors with a very specific request to bring to editors, thus making individual pressure more effective.

Until Harlequin makes Dellarte a separate division, with its own staff of editors, and severs the connection with the Harlequin editors, I don't see how RWA can carve out exceptions for specific Harlequin imprints when those editors are serving two masters, and one's a fee - based publisher.

The Westbow Press announcement did happen two weeks before the Harlequin announcement but the creation of this publishing venture took much longer than that.

«Harlequin Enterprises» applied as a whole; «Harlequin Presents» did not.

If RWA does breakdown for Harlequin, every publisher that they «approve» would need to «approved» under the same criteria unless Harlequin is granted «special» status.

Nor does it have a legitimate interest in pressuring Harlequin to divest itself of the business.

Harlequin should be excluded if Carina does not meet the criteria for the publisher eligibility list.