Hello Readers!
I’m Donna Hayes, Publisher and CEO of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, and I want to welcome you to our new blog. The launch of the Harlequin Blog means we have another way to talk with our readers and we do hope you will share your thoughts and opinions with us! Come back to the blog a few times a week to learn about new releases, special events (like the recent Cedar Cove days that Don Lucey from our public relations department will be blogging about), posts from authors and editors, and much more, including secret publishing-house insider information (you’ll be the first to know!).
2009 is our sixtieth anniversary and we’ve been celebrating in style with a fantastic art exhibit in New York featuring the evolution of the Harlequin romance cover and a simply amazing author party in Washington. For sixty years we have provided women with the best fiction and romance in the world. And we have no plans to stop anytime soon.
Lovely authors at the Washington, DC party!
From L-R: Sharon Sala, Linda Turner, Maggie Shayne, Tara Taylor Quinn, Brenda Jackson
While we have been celebrating all of our established romance series all year long, we’ve also been busy launching brand-new imprints that cater to what women want today, tomorrow and always.
With Harlequin Nonfiction, we’ve provided phenomenal authors new opportunities to reach their readers, to build relationships that transcend the pages of their stories. For example, readers of Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove series love creating delicious recipes from the Cedar Cove Cookbook (much to the delight of their families, I’m sure!)
Harlequin Teen is a new line of books for young women. Our goal is to publish fantastic stories young women can share with their mothers, much like their mothers shared their first Harlequin romances with them. I invite you to try some of the Harlequin Teen books, like Rachel Vincent’s My Soul to Take or Gena Showalter’s Intertwined. I know that you’ll be passing them along to everyone you know. They’re just that good.
HQN and MIRA are also buzzing with exciting new releases in the next few months. We’re gearing up for A Creed Country Christmas, a brand new addition in Linda Lael Miller’s Montana Creeds series. Speaking of Linda, you’ll want to catch the trailer for her new McKettricks of Texas trilogy debuting right here. And if you’re more into mystery, Jason Pinter’s upcoming The Darkness will satisfy that whodunit craving. These are just some of the books we want to talk about!
As a special thank-you to readers who find us on our inaugural post, we have a contest! Please comment about any Harlequin book you have read and enjoyed and we will enter you into a draw for a copy of New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs’s Lakeshore Christmas. We’ll be giving away five copies of Susan’s heartwarming holiday tale. Comment with your name and the Harlequin book you read and enjoyed by October 23 and we’ll randomly select five winners to receive this wonderful hardcover book. Open to residents of the United States and Canada only. One entry per person. For full contest details, click here.
Thank you for joining us at the Harlequin Blog. Don’t forget to sign up for our RSS feed—it’s the quickest way to get our posts. We’re very excited to start the conversation!
Hi, Donna!
So looking forward to being a regular visitor here!
Holly
Sounds like another cool place to come and talk to everyone.
Thanks,
Jessiecue
Hi Donna,
Glad to see you blogging! The Harlequin Teen books have gone over big with my YA readers.
Barbara
Thanks sooo much, Donna and Harlequin too, for another fabulous way for writers and readers to “get to know you”!
I’m a huge fan of Tawny Weber and am now reading her Blaze COMING ON STRONG. I already read GOING DOWN HARD so had to back-up and catch Belle and Mitch’s story too!
Sexy Sassy Smart Harlequin 60th Bday Wishes — D. D. Scott
P.S. My local library hosted a birthday party for you, and I was lucky enough to be asked to have a booth geared to my writing-for-publication journey and my Muse Therapy Online Classes and non-fiction projects! We had a ton of fabulous fun celebrating your success!
Hi Donna!
For my birthday on Saturday, my husband gave me a Kindle 2. The first thing I downloaded was all of the Harlequin 60th Anniversary books! I couldn’t wait to dive in, and the first one I read was Rachel Vincent’s My Soul to Lose. Maybe I shouldn’t say read…it was more like devoured. Wow. It’s an intense read, and at the end, I was ripping through the pages. And then, I immediately downloaded My Soul to Take. Can’t wait to try it out! If anyone here hasn’t tried Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Lose is such a page-turner. Wow.
-Michelle Willingham
Please exclude me from the contest.
I just wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you for having a blog you don’t have to register first to comment on. The rebel blogger in me refuses to register so I often lurk and don’t comment on Harlequin blogs. This is a real treat.
Love the look, the classic books at the top. Very nice!
Great blog! Looking forward to more.
Donna,
Thanks for giving me wonderful reading over the years.. I have been a reader for over 40yrs.. and enjoy many moments with these books.. Now days I look forward to the Holiday books.. I read them all year long.. Takes me out of a mood .. or brings me into one.. I have cut my teeth so to speak on many new authors to me from reading there books here.. Thanks again..
Dona
for contest: Expecting Miracle Twins by Barbara Hannay? sp
I didn’t even know you had a teens line. What a cool idea. I would love some to review on my blog. http:/www.thriftymommastips.blogspot.com/
This is a cute new blog. I love the pix of old covers.
Ohh looks great. A cool new way to stay in touch. I have subscribed so I should be able to stay up to date.
humm I’ve read so many Harlequin books. The most recent was Deb Marlowe’s HER CINDERELLA SEASON, which was just wonderful! I should have a review up soon at http://www.mybookaddictionandmore.wordpress.com.
I love the Harlequin lines and how the change and grow.
thanks for doing this blog.
hugs,
WendyK