Archive for October, 2008

by Linda Fildew, editor
The attraction of the Alpha Male is timeless. What women find irresistible in the Presents hero can also be found in roguish Regency Rakes, commanding Scottish Highlanders and tough, rugged Ranchers.
The Harlequin Historical team has snuck onto the I Heart Presents site to announce the launch, on 1st November, of short, [...]

by Amy Wilkins, Harlequin Digital & Internet
On Sunday, November 2nd, BBC Four will feature a whole evening of Mills & Boon programmes!
From 8.00 – 9.00pm, there is Time Shift: How to Write a Mills & Boon Novel. Writer Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing a M&B novel, and talks to editors, readers and [...]

by Natalie Anderson, author of His Mistress by Arrangement and Bought: One Night, One Marriage (in stores December, and on eHarlequin in November)
November is coming and that means it’s that time of year — NaNoWriMo — or National Novel Writing Month. So are you signed up already or have you never heard of it?
For those [...]

Have You Told Harlequin Yet?

Posted by Amy

by Amy Wilkins, Digital Production Coordinator
Hi everybody! Since I know all our great blog readers are passionate about their romance, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about two new things Harlequin is doing online that we’re eager to get some feedback about…

Do you have any ideas or comments that you’d like to [...]

by Malle
Found over at the We Write Romance Blog Lynn Raye Harris on the appeal of Beauty and the Beast to Harlequin Presents.

by Jackie Coates
I’ve been a fan of romance ever since my best friend (after loads of nagging) finally let me read the romantic story she had been writing – we were fourteen at the time. Absolutely thrilled by it, I immediately stopped writing bad Lord of the Rings fantasies and began [...]

By Lynn Raye Harris
When I last wrote a post, I’d just turned in my second round of revisions and I was waiting for my editor, Sally Williamson, to let me know how I did. Naturally, I was apprehensive! I was hopeful this time, but nowhere near certain I’d gotten it right enough for [...]

by Jane Porter, author of King of the Desert, Captive Bride and The Sheikh’s Chosen Queen
I got my first sale in January 2000 to Harlequin Presents after writing for nearly fifteen years and completing over thirteen rejected books. Since making that first sale in 2000, I’ve written twenty-four books for Harlequin Presents as well [...]

by Rachael Blair
I’m a full time mum, domestic goddess (yeah right) and a wannabe published author. In a past life I was also an English teacher.
Unlike most romance writers, I’d never read a Harlequin Mills & Boon novel until early 2006 when I had a bet with a writing friend of mine. Disillusioned that neither [...]

By Sabrina Philips
Selling her first manuscript — Valenti’s One-Month Mistress (out in the UK Feb 09) to Harlequin Presents this March — Sabrina Philips is the line’s newest author.  Having just turned twenty-four she’s also the youngest.  Here, Sabrina talks about why she’s so passionate about Presents…
I first discovered Presents (or Modern as it is [...]