BBC Radio played a good piece on the Harlequin Mills & Boon Centenary. This is the BBC Radio blurb about the program: A Hundred Years of Mills and Boon: Comedian Lucy Porter celebrates the centenary of the romantic publishing house and explores the reasons for its enduring success.
Take a listen and tell us what you [...]

by Suzy Clarke and Sally Williamson, Harlequin Presents team
A red carpet welcome in London!
The stars came out on Friday 21st September as Harlequin Mills & Boon welcomed a host of authors to a party at the exclusive Oriental Club in the heart of glittering London. This annual event gives Harlequin M&B the opportunity to thank [...]

Book trailer videos are becoming more and more popular, and this one struck my fancy in particular. It features a debut novel from Rudolph Delson called Maynard and Jennica and is a parody of the old Taster’s Choice commercials. Watch it here.
I love the humor and the message.
Do any of you watch book trailers and [...]

Macleans Magazine profiles Harlequin Presents in its current issue with an article titled Harlequin Thinks Unsexy Thoughts. I know — Harlequin romance novels may include sex! For some reason, mainstream media is always so surprised to learn that romance novels deal with love and sex in a realistic manner. 
While this is overall a positive article it [...]

by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor Harlequin Presents
Every month in Presents guarantees a delicious new crop of heroes who hail from the Mediterranean.  And whether they’re Greek, Spanish, Italian, French, or from a fictitious island, these Mediterranean men never fail to wow readers. 
Mediterranean men in Harlequin Presents are a particular bunch; always passionate and proud, they ooze [...]

Congratulations to Debbie Macomber who will debut at postion #1 in the fiction paperback list on the New York Times this Sunday for 74 Seaside Avenue.

She’s also #1 on the USA Today bestseller list.
Debbie is a warm and wonderful person and a gifted writer — she’s written over 100 novels. Everyone at Harlequin couldn’t be [...]

                                    
A great big happy first birthday to the Pink Heart Society blog — a blogazine for lovers of category romance novels! Lots of Harlequin authors contribute to the Pink Heart Society and The I ♥ Presents blog is delighted to gift the little dancing man with a — wait for it — pink poodle!

Collect [...]

by Jayne, eHarlequin.com Community Manager
Read blog posts from thirty authors as they answer the question “What Keeps You Writing?”
Throughout the month of September, you’ll find their fascinating, revealing responses at the blogging event of the year at the eHarlequin.com community.
So far there are blog posts from Susan Wiggs, author of Dockside
“When I started writing [...]

Author Jennifer Crusie’s after dinner speech

Authors Trish Morey and Natalie Anderson

Joanne Graves, Natalie Anderson, Jackie Johnson

Trish Morey

The Mills & Boon UK Authors Event is happening later this month. Will anyone be attending that?

by Sheila Hodgson, Mills and Boon editor
After my visit to Sydney I had the pleasure of attending “Romance in the City,” the New Zealand Romance conference in Auckland the following weekend which was a very sophisticated affair.
Harlequin Mills& Boon Australia kicked things off for us with another gorgeous dinner for over 20 attending Harlequin authors.  [...]