Archive for August, 2009

A quick post on some interesting things on the web this week…
1) For those of you interested in more writing tips to gear up for the Harlequin Presents Writing Competition 2009, check out these blog posts by Presents author and past contest winner Lynn Raye Harris: So You Want to Write for Harlequin Presents and [...]

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Author Carole Mortimer is one busy writer! Not only has she published her 150th book, but she has started writing Harlequin Historicals as well as Harlequin Presents! Read Carole’s blog below to learn more ~Amy
by Carole Mortimer, author of The Virgin Secretary’s Impossible Boss (Harlequin Presents, Sept. 2009), At the Duke’s Service (Harlequin [...]

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Afraid your Harlequin Presents Writing Competition 2009 entry is clichéd? Then check out this post with some tips from the Harlequin Presents editorial team! Great tips for all kinds of romance writing… ~Amy

by Harlequin Presents/Mills & Boon editor Joanne Grant
Hello, how are you all?
I wanted to share with you some tips from the [...]

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By Jennie Lucas, author of The Innocent’s Dark Seduction (Harlequin Presents, Sept. 2009)
Last month was the annual RWA conference, and I’m already looking back with a glow of nostalgia! So I thought I’d share a mini photo album of some of the week’s best moments with Presents authors and editors…

Welcome to Washington DC!

At the start [...]

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by Sabrina Philips, author of The Desert King’s Bejewelled Bride (Harlequin Presents Extra, August 2009)
For every published writer there comes a moment after the elation of getting ‘the call‘, after the champagne and celebrations, when it hits home that it’s time to do it all again: write book number two.
I personally found that moment a [...]

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Here’s Harlequin Presents editor Joanne Grant with some tips for all those aspiring writers getting their Harlequin Presents Writing Competition 2009 entries ready! This one is all about writing strong opening scenes. More posts coming soon! ~Amy

Starting something is sometimes half the battle — wouldn’t you agree? I don’t mean the battle to stop procrastinating [...]

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by Kate Hardy, author of Playboy Boss, Pregnancy of Passion (Harlequin Presents, August 2009)
When people find out what I do for a living, one of the first questions they ask me is where I get my ideas.
The answer is: all over the place. It might be a snippet of overheard conversation, or seeing a model [...]

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by Amy
Huge congratulations to Trish Morey for taking home the Romance Writers of Australia’s Romantic Book of the Year Award (or R*BY award) in the Short Sexy category for The Italian Boss’s Mistress of Revenge this past weekend!
Author Marion Lennox (who writes for Harlequin Presents, Harlequin Romance, Medical Romance, and more, busy lady!) also won [...]

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by Trish Morey, author of The Ruthless Greek’s Virgin Princess (Harlequin Presents, August 2009)
August is always a big month Downunder. Where those in the northern hemisphere are all recovering from the excitement  of RWA National, down this way conference season is just cranking up, with back to back conferences, this year in Brisbane and Auckland.
I’m presenting workshops at both [...]

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by Amy Wilkins, Harlequin Digital
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