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!
Saw the notice on Twitter. Great blog! Love the design and content so far. Looking forward to adding it to my favorites.
My favorite Harlequin book lately was Dreaming of Home by debut author Glynna Kaye-Steeple Hill Love Inspired. Fabulous book.
Cheryl
I’ve been reading Harlequin books for about 30 years now and I read just about any line although some more than others. At the moment I am reading through my TBR pile of Love Inspired books and Intrigues.
I’ll be particularly interested in seeing where this blog goes.
EllenToo (This is my community name to keep my comments separate from an excellent writer who has the same name.)
Just saw the notice via Twitter. I’ve been reading Harlequins since high school. I like the blog header, and look forward to reading here!
Hi, Donna! Lots of exciting things happening at Harlequin! I read about your blog on Twitter, retweeted it, and then posted it on my Facebook page. It’s a whole new world!
Glad to see you here.
Susan
Congratulations on the new blog which I learned of thanks to @SmartBitches on Twitter.
I’ve rediscovered Harlequin recently after years away. Categories where my first intro to romance and I’ve come full circle (just read ebook “Tall, Dark & Filthy Rich” which sent me on the hunt for the others in the series…thank you Harlequin ebooks for having the older titles available!)
Also been enjoying HQN titles by Nicola Cornick…
Forgot to say that I look forward to checking out the teen books — something to pass along to my daughter when she grows up a bit (she’s only 8 now!)
Wheeee, we’ve launched! Happy dance at Harlequin Digital HQ!
@Kimber Chin — we actually wrote down in the planning stages “NO REGISTRATION TO COMMENT”, it was one of our musts this time and definitely a lesson from our other blogs! We’ve also managed to take away registration on I Heart Presents and the Paranormal Romance blog permanently as well.
So glad to hear we managed to tell people about new Harlequin stuff you hadn’t heard about before in our very first post! We have lots of cool news we don’t always have a place to announce…until now. Keep those comments coming!
~Amy, Harlequin Digital
I’ve been a fan of Harlequin for many, many years. Great new blog site!
Saw your tweet on Twitter and had to enter your terrific contest!
I’m currently reading: ‘Kept For Her Baby’ by Kate Walker and next will be ‘Christmas Angel for the Billionaire’ by Liz Fielding.
As a big fan of Harlequin books/authors, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to interviewing both Kate and Liz on my blog (and will be posting my reviews of their books very soon!)
Hello Donna and Happy 60th Anniversary Year!
Love the Harlequin Blog, yet another fabulous innovation from the publisher who is deservedly known as the Voice of Romance. Most of us grew up with moms and grandmoms reading Harlequins. A Harlequin (pilfered from my aunt’s shelf, of course) was my first romance read. What a thrill and an an honor to be part of the Harlequin family as an author.
Some of my recent favorites are:
The Baby Bond by Linda Goodnight
The Hero Next Door by Irene Hannon
Crescent City Courtship by Elizabeth White
Steeple Hill books always provide an uplifting, sweet story.
Thanks,
Carrie