by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor, Harlequin Presents
Harlequin Presents is looking for new writers!
It’s an exciting time for Harlequin Presents: from January 2008, there will be 12 of our intensely passionate romances available every month.  And with this increase of titles comes a great opportunity for aspiring authors – we will be looking to buy more [...]

These are all the legal rules for the Instant Seduction Harlequin Presents Writing Competition. Naturally, the names of the winners will also be posted on the blog!
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER
1. To enter, submit by e-mail a Microsoft Word file of a typed, double spaced, first chapter (no greater than 5,000 words) of a story you [...]

by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor, Harlequin Presents
THE INSTANT SEDUCTION FIRST CHAPTER AND SYNOPSIS WRITING COMPETITION:
How to Enter
About the Competition:
This is an opportunity for unpublished writers to taste the dream of writing for Harlequin Presents (Mills & Boon Modern Romance and Mills & Boon Modern Heat in the UK).
Our editors are looking for the best first [...]

by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor, Harlequin Presents
Tips on Writing for the International Market
Getting published in Harlequin Presents means not only transporting readers to fabulous international locations, but also opening yourself up to the potential of being translated into up to twenty-six languages.  Writers in Presents need to have a writing voice that is globally appealing.
So, [...]

Blogger and reviewer Dionne Galare went to her keeper shelf to review Obsession by Charlotte Lamb and she does a great job at explaining the appeal and the anachronisms. Here is part of her post: “In 1980, when Obsession was first published, I was seven. My mum was a big Mills & Boon fan and [...]

by Malle
We in the publishing industry have been waiting for quite some time for Amazon to launch their eBook device and store and today they they did just that with the launch of the Kindle. You can read all about it on the homepage of Amazon. There is also a ton of press and blog attention about it, [...]

by Malle
Bestselling Medical author Caroline Anderson was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour as part of a feature on romance, medical drama and fiction. 

You can listen to the BBC Radio 4 feature anytime at this link in the next 7 days.

by Bryony Green, Editor
Modern Extra (or Modern Heat as it will be known in the UK from Jan 2008) is a new stream of editorial that will be coming soon to Harlequin Presents in North America.
Modern Extra: 2 books per month, 50-55000 words, 192 pages
These books bring an exciting new edge to Harlequin Presents! Whilst [...]

by Malle

Susan Wiggs and Linda Lael Miller Chosen by Amazon Among Top Ten for 2007
The awards continue to come for our books in 2007.  Amazon’s editors have made their picks for the best romances of the year, and Susan Wiggs and Linda Lael Miller have both been chosen within the top 10! 
 
THE WINTER LODGE was [...]

What would we Harlequin Presents readers do without our Alpha heroes? We all have our personal all-time favourites, the memorable men who’ve made us go weak at the knees from the moment we’ve met them.
But how, as a writer, do you create a successful Alpha hero? We editors read many manuscripts in our search for [...]