How to celebrate the Presents spotlight this time?
With Margaret Mayo’s first sale story in rhyme!
And if you like what you read, why not take a look
at Bought for Marriage, Margaret’s July book!
~Amy
by Margaret Mayo
It began with one word that soon turned to two
And many more came as my thoughts followed through
The short story I’d planned [...]

July is series spotlight month on Harlequin Presents, part of Harlequin’s 60th Anniversary celebrations. Among other special events coming up next month, soem of your favorite Presents authors will be writing a series of posts on their own history with this fabulous romance series. First up is Sandra Marton, who launches the new Royal House [...]

by Harlequin Mills & Boon editor Jenny Hutton
Harlequin Presents® is delighted, and excited, to bring you a brand new continuity! The Royal House of Karedes features an eminent royal family, torn apart by pride and a lust for power, reunited by purity and passion… We see Greek princes and brooding sheikhs vying for absolute power [...]

Be sure to read the bottom of the blog post – Trish has a signed copy of One Night with the Rebel Billionaire for someone who comments! ~Amy
by Trish Wylie, author of One Night With The Rebel Billionaire (Harlequin Presents, June 2009)

Every story has a beginning that starts before the first page. It’s that [...]

The Presents authors were saddened to learn of the death last month of prolific and popular  writer Diana Hamilton and we would like to express our condolences to her family.
She will be missed by her fellow authors and her many readers.
Signed,

Jacqueline Baird
Michelle Reid
Kate Walker
Sandra Marton
Lynn Raye Harris
Sabrina Philips
Kate Hewitt
Robyn Donald
Jennie Lucas
Penny Jordan
Anne McAllister
Helen Bianchin
Trish Morey
Jane [...]

Can’t wait to get started on your Harlequin Writing Competition 2009 entry? Here’s a post by editor Jenny Hutton about what makes a great hero for all the Mills & Boon romance imprint to get your creativity flowing! More tips about writing for Modern Romance can be found here in the Mills & Boon Community [...]

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by editor Joanne Grant
As Harlequin Presents approaches its spotlight month in July, we have a lot to look forward to! In honor of Harlequin’s 60th anniversary, we are launching the start of a dramatic eight-book continuity, The Royal House of Karedes, we have [...]

by Jennie Lucas, author of Virgin Mistress, Scandalous Love-Child (Harlequin Presents, June 2009)
In my new book Virgin Mistress, Scandalous Love-Child , Ellie Jensen discovers she’s pregnant by her Brazilian billionaire boss-just hours before she’s supposed to marry another man!
What’s a girl to do? Pregnancy cravings can already be so intense, even before you add that [...]

by Abby Green, author of The Spaniard’s Marriage Bargain (Harlequin Presents Extra, June 2009)
I’m very excited to have The Spaniard’s Marriage Bargain out on the shelves in the US this month. I can’t remember exactly where the idea sprang from originally, but I know that I was thinking something along the lines of: what would [...]

by Annie West, author of The Greek’s Convenient Mistress (Harlequin Presents, June 2009)

I just finished writing a love scene. It’s near the end of the story and I aimed for a scene that was tender, loving, the embodiment of feelings long suppressed, of passion and caring as well as excitement and delight.
Easy, right?
It will be [...]