by Melanie Milburne
Hi everyone!
Five years ago I was an unpublished writer with several rejections under my belt and let me tell you it was starting to annoy me! I felt so very frustrated as I wanted to write great stories but I just wasn’t getting it right. It seemed as if each of my manuscripts [...]

by Sarah Murray, Harlequin Intern
I say this in a nice way, but in recent years I’ve become a bit of a literary snob. Not that I am the best read person out there, or that I could name off the top 15 books on the New York Times best seller list without a blink of [...]

by Chantelle Shaw
I am just starting my eighth book and as usual the film I see in my head is proving stubbornly resistant to converting to words on the computer. I see and hear my characters as if they are real people, which is great when the writing is going well but frustrating when they [...]

by Malle, Presents fan and Digital Team member
I’m going to the RT Booklovers Convention in Houston, Texas. It runs April 25 – 29.
Are any of you going to be there?
On Thursday, April 26 Harlequin and Sony are cohosting the lunch, along with Brenda Joyce. (She’s got a great new book available in May called Dark [...]

by Susan Stephens, Harlequin Presents author
In the Venetian’s Bed
One of the most exciting things for me about writing is the discoveries I make as characters come alive on the page. The only downside to that is the amount of rewriting involved as backstory, or a sudden unexpected turn of events feeds into the future thinking [...]

by Jayne Hoogenberk, eHarlequin.com Community Manager
I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend (in Canada, Good Friday is a statutory holiday)! The Harlequin Presents blog gang asked me to talk about the 10,000 Book Challenge happening over the in the eHarlequin.com Community blogs. We have over 225 teams striving to read 100 books each to reach [...]

by Malle, Presents fan and Digital Team member
With Easter and Passover celebrations happening, we are taking a small break over the weekend.
A new Harlequin Presents online read has started over at eHarlequin.com. Enjoy The Venetian’s Defiant Woman by Susan Stephens.

by Malle, Presents fan and Digital Team member
We segued away from our Sheikh hero discussion to include a post from the Guardian about romance novels and Stephen Colbert challenging Harlequin to put him on a romance cover.  What do we think — would Stephen make a good Sheikh?
I wanted to capture some of the great points some [...]

by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor
Revenge: verb, intransitive or transitive; Satisfy oneself with retaliation; exact retribution on or upon; take vengeance. The Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t mince its words – and neither does a Presents hero!
In the lexicon of emotion to be found in a Presents, revenge sits comfortably, surrounded by intense feelings, sexual passion [...]