Harlequin announces shortlist for First Nations Fellowship
Harlequin has announced the shortlist for the 2019 First Nations Fellowship for commercial fiction. The shortlisted writers and titles are: Julie Janson for ‘Desert Lands’ Melanie Saward for ‘Barks and the City’...
Harlequin announces commercial fiction fellowship for First Nations writers
Harlequin Australia has partnered with Flinders University and Writers SA to launch a new commercial fiction fellowship for First Nations writers. The fellowship is open to one First Nations writer...
Harlequin launches website to promote romance titles
Harlequin has launched the website romance.com.au to promote romance titles to readers. The website features 23,000 titles from Harlequin imprints including Avon, Escape, Mira, and Mills & Boon, across a range of...
Laforest steps down from Harlequin
Harlequin Asia Pacific regional vice-president Michelle Laforest will step down from the position, effective from 17 June, after 15 years with the publisher. Laforest has decided to leave Harlequin to...
Harlequin signs exclusive subscription deal with Scribd
Harlequin has signed a one-year agreement to make Scribd the ‘exclusive subscription partner’ for 15,000 of its backlist titles, reports Digital Book World. The publisher’s full catalogue will also be available for...
HarperCollins completes acquisition of Harlequin
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has completed its acquisition of Harlequin from Torstar Corporation for C$455 million (A$447 million), reports Publishers Weekly. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the acquisition was...
Harlequin launches Mills & Boon ‘online story world’
Harlequin has launched an ‘online story world’ based on the ‘Chatsfield’ series of Mills & Boon titles, reports the Guardian. The online story world centres on a fictional hotel called...
HarperCollins to acquire Harlequin
HarperCollins has agreed to acquire Harlequin for C$455 million (A$446 million), reports Publishers Weekly.The purchase still requires the approval of the US and Canadian governments. In Australia, the Australian Competition...
Escape launches competition to name romance sub-genre
Harlequin Australia’s digital-first imprint Escape Publishing has launched a competition to name one of its romance sub-genres. ‘In the next few months, the Escape Publishing website is being updated, and...
Ebooks account for 25% of sales at Harlequin Asia Pacific in 2013
Digital sales grew by more than 50% at Harlequin Asia Pacific in 2013 and now account for 25% of the publisher’s total sales, reports regional vice president Michelle Laforest. Commenting...
Seven authors offered book deals in Harlequin writing competitions
In the US, Harlequin has offered seven authors book deals as a result of its two ‘So You Think You Can Write’ competitions, reports Publishers Weekly. Tanya Wright won the...
Harlequin announces ebook partnership with ‘Cosmo’
Harlequin Australia has announced a partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine that will involve the publisher launching a digital romance fiction program called ‘Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin’. The partnership will...
Brockhoff joins Harlequin
Harlequin Australia has announced that Sue Brockhoff has joined the publisher in the role of publishing and communications manager. Brockhoff, who was previously head of fiction at HarperCollins, started in...
Haylee Nash joins Booktopia
Haylee Nash has joined Booktopia to manage the online bookseller’s romance sales. Nash, who started in the role on 15 April, was previously publishing manager for Harlequin Australia, where she...
MUP, Harlequin Escape join NetGalley
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) and Harlequin Escape are the latest local publishers to make electronic advance reading copies of their books available through NetGalley. The US-based NetGalley allows registered readers,...
Harlequin expands Carina Press imprint to UK
Romance publisher Harlequin is launching its Carina Press digital-only imprint in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The imprint is looking to sign authors from the UK and Ireland, as well...
Random House Australia to launch digital romance imprint
Random House Australia has announced that it will launch a digital-first imprint for Australian romance titles called Random Romance. The publisher said in a statement that the imprint will launch...
Bookouture: new digital imprint
Bookouture is a new digital publishing imprint being launched by Oliver Rhodes, who was previously based at Harlequin UK working on marketing, design and imprint strategy. Specialising in ‘entertaining women’s...
Harlequin to launch new contemporary romance imprint
Harlequin will launch a new contemporary romance imprint in the US next year called Kiss, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint, which Harlequin describes as ‘fun, flirty and sensual romances’, will...
The new romantics
Three Australian publishers have announced new digital ventures in the past week that are aimed at one of the most popular ebook genres right now: romance. They’re also on the...