Sentences with phrase «about harlequin»

A lot of members immediately started making a lot of noise about Harlequin Horizons.

How important is it for an author to know the subtleties before signing with a publishing company (i.e. like Magdalena said above about Harlequin not focusing on author recognition so much as Harlequin recognition).

Jane Friedman writes a long and informative post about Harlequin Horizons.

On Thursday evening, Loving Husband and I talked about the Harlequin Horizons situation.

This isn't about the Harlequin editors, authors, marketers, copyeditors, designers, proofreaders, or anyone else whose job is to help produce Harlequin - branded novels or novellas.

What's the big deal about Harlequin having a self - publishing option for authors?

-LSB-...] more detail of why Harlequin Horizons is perhaps not the best choice for aspiring authors. And Answering Your Questions for still more answers to questions about Harlequin -LSB-...]

So you're probably already aware of the huge debacle that's exploded across the publishing blogs the last couple of days about Harlequin opening up a shiny new vanity publishing imprint.

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Not exact matches

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's blogged about her dating experiences for Honeymag.com and been a book editor for Harlequin and BET Books, where she edited national bestselling and award - winning romance authors.

The project's overall haplessness is given away early with the tiresome, over-the-top performance of Ignazio Oliva as a buffoonish manservant Harlequin, who represents everything that one dreads about «classical» theatre.

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It's tempting to attribute the leaden weight of cliché in Possession to some kind of wicked LaBute barb about the zombie - march of most modern romances, but I fear that the film is deadly serious in its Harlequin intentions.

About this time last year Harper Collins established a new imprint called Harper Impulse under the direction of Kimberly Young (formerly of Harlequin).

Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance) author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).

I'm curious about the stats for Harlequin Mills and Boon where Medical is included — that category would include Presents, wouldn't it?

If you wrote some trashy harlequin romance novel, you've lost all rights to preach about this.

A note about the often - overlooked and misunderstood subgenre of category romances: These quick reads are most closely associated with pioneering romance publisher Harlequin, and come in dozens of subgenres from historical to inspirational.

At the point when RWA's behavior crosses over from the mere setting of standards for individual authors» benefit, into trying to force Harlequin to adopt a business model that pays all its authors a minimum advance of $ 1000, you cross from rule - of - reason antitrust territory (translation: plaintiff loses) into per - se illegality (translation: plaintiff wins), at which point all questions about market effect go out the window.

All the current Harlequin authors found out about this at this same time as everyone else, and we're being perfunctorily kicked to the curb.

(In fact, Harlequin stressed that its authors needn't worry about Horizons books appearing on the shelf next to Harlequin - published books.)

So much better said than my attempt to explain it to my husband, which turned into a heated argument about the lack of integrity of Harlequin is exhibiting by participating in vanity publishing and the way they're marketing it.

This is about the Powers That Be at Harlequin Enterprises, who decided to partner with Author Solutions to launch Harlequin Horizons.

When he was about three years old I finally sold to Harlequin and instead of just writing and seeing if it sold through my first publisher, I had to learn to write to deadlines.

After the two - plus weeks it takes to get that editorial review, we'll tell you all about the oodles of editing services you can pay for through Harlequin Horizons!

As a publisher, and one early to capitalize on the eBook market, Harlequin has always known this about covers and matching customer expectations with a consistent look and feel — they package their books and different series of books with a consistent and predicable look and feel.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

I like the image the word ASP conjures up, but after thinking about it a bit, I think it lets Harlequin, AuthorSource, etc, off the hook because it lets them get away with redefining the terms.

The MWA just delisted Harlequin for many of the reasons you are concerned about...

Harlequin used to be about career focused writers, for good stories to present to their readers.

And recently we've heard about Sylvia Day with her 7 - figure deal with Harlequin, and million - seller indie romance author Theresa Ragan...

While it might put existing Harlequin authors at ease about their effort being watered down, I still see no evidence they cut mention of it from their rejection letters and they're still working with AuthorHouse «Solutions».

Porter — First, thanks to you and Jan for adding in the note about my October print - only deal with Harlequin MIRA for my Sullivan series.

I know Harlequin is about the bottom line but this is ridiculous.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Bella Andre spoke to GoodeReader about her recent seven - figure advance book deal with contemporary romance publisher Harlequin MIRA, who will handle the print editions of the eight books in Andre's award - winning Sullivans series.

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is deeply concerned about the troubling conflict - of - interest issues created by these ventures, particularly the potentially misleading way they are marketed to aspiring writers on the Harlequin website.

On November 9, Mystery Writers of America sent a letter to Harlequin about the «eHarlequin Manuscript Critique Service,» notifying Harlequin that it is in violation of our rules and suggesting steps that Harlequin could take to remain on our Approved Publishers list.

This article, Publishers to Use Digital Works as «Literary Appetizers» for Novels — WSJ.com, talks about Ballantine Books and Harlequin selling «bridges» (excerpts) of authors» works and says about author Steve Berry's snippet:

[pullquote cite =» Malle Vallik, Harlequin» type =» right»] On romance and self - publishing: «Mass market paperback sales are down, and that's no surprise when you think about the indie world.»

Baen, and probably Harlequin (I don't do romance so have no idea, but I seem to remember the girls in school fawning over Harlequin when they grew out of the Sweet Valley High stuff), are probably about the only Publishers that have an actual fan base.

Harlequin's Vallik, noting that the romance market has been «in change for some time,» told the conference, «Mass market paperback sales are down, and that's no surprise when you think about the indie world,» which has gained what McLean conservatively estimates may be 25 percent of the romance market and is focused in ebooks, of course.

We heard elements of this from Poetica's Blaine Cook; from Harlequin's Donna Condon; from Rosie Goldsmith; and from Nash (he's everywhere, yes), in this instance, in a comment about how fashion designers must be quick to market with new work because they have no copyright protection to scare those horses in the street.

You wrote, «Harlequin can take a very long time to decide about manuscripts.

Thinking about the diffrent business models between Amazon and Harlequin, or even between different publishing companies, there will be differences in each.

I promised myself I wouldn't sit here and stew over the comment about the lower quality books at Harlequin (and hence, a lower quality writer), but how can I not?

And now she is being gracious and clear - eyed about what NOT writing for Harlequin can mean: more financial gain.

And from what I'm hearing via chat in the blogosphere, the other Harlequin royalty rate of 15 % of net to series authors (which was also announced in a separate press release) is going over about as well as a lead balloon.

I was wondering the same thing, and it hadn't even occurred to me that people were upset about this diluting the Harlequin name... that's actually pretty neat.

I heard about that before Harlequin because they're a pub I like.