Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Explicit sex is hard to write well and even if you do write it well, it means you are just packaging up pornography for women. Also, bla bla bla, romance books are killing romance bla bla bla. All according to this  article by Alan Elsner.  I don’t plan to comment over there because Alan [...]

The much maligned Harlequin Horizons (which authors and readers had begun to refer to as HarHo after what I presume to mean that some one is engaging in prostituting herself) has transformed into DellArte Press. It has essentially the same look and feel but there is no mention of Harlequin anywhere. Even the contact person [...]

Q: I’m a reader and I’ve heard about Harlequin Horizons but I don’t know what it is or what it means for me.
Harlequin Horizons is a vanity press where aspiring authors pay to have their books published and put into stores, whether it is a physical retail location like your local Borders or it [...]

I emailed Malle Vallik to ask her three questions which pertained the biggest question I had about brand dilution:

Will the books be sold through the eharlequin store?
Will there be any HH branding on the book, either on the cover or in the copyright page?
Are you (Harlequin) concerned about brand dilution?

This is Ms. Vallik’s response. She [...]