RWA 2011–Welcome to NYC!

Romance Writers of America are in New York this week for their 31st Annual Conference, and I’d like to take a moment to welcome all the visitors to my home turf! Hopefully you’re taking time to sight-see between workshops, networking events and meetings. If you’re looking for something to do, there are always plenty of [...]

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It’s Welcome Harlequin Week at NetGalley!

We interrupt this public service blog to bring you an update about its sponsor: NetGalley. As you may have heard through twitter or my e-newsletter (not signed up?), we’re in the middle of a special theme week at NetGalley! Welcome Harlequin Week! We’re so excited to announce that Harlequin Books has joined the list of [...]

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Publishers: As Harlequin is Finding Out – Sometimes You Can’t Win For Losing

Given that even the casual reader/author/consumer can’t throw a rock without running into a headline declaring the death of the traditional publishing model, I’m really perplexed at the smackdown (largely from agents, authors and aspiring authors) that Harlequin got after announcing it was going to try something different with the addition of a selfpublishing (aka: subsidy publishing) offering: Harlequin Horizons.

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This Friday’s #FollowReader with Angela James: Dragging the world to the digital dark side, one reader at a time

This Friday on #FollowReader, we’ll be Twit-chatting with the fabulous Ms. Angela James (@AngelaJames), the newly appointed Executive Editor for Harlequin’s soon-to-be on-the-e-reading-scene Carina Press (@CarinaPress). Launching the summer of 2010, Carina will be a digital-only publishing house, operating independently of Harlequin’s traditional publishing businesses.

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