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Cracking Romantic Suspense according to Patience Bloom

Today we’re thankful for Senior Editor Patience Bloom, a favorite blogger here! So when she volunteered to tell us exactly what […]

Posted on: December 5, 2013
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Meet some Harlequin Editors at Next Week’s Open House!

Just wanted to remind–or inform if you didn’t know–that the fantastic Harlequin Community is hosting an Open House Extravaganza next […]

Posted on: December 4, 2013
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Harlequin Editors Say Avoid Plotting Pitfalls!

Here’s another great insight from the UK’s “New Voices” competition a few years ago.  Characters Behaving Badly… Acting out of […]

Posted on: December 3, 2013
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October Acquisition Roundup for Harlequin Series!

After a few (relatively) slow months, the Harlequin series editors were contracting many books in October! 181 individual titles were […]

Posted on: November 29, 2013
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Harlequin Author Milestones

The Harlequin Blog ran this a few weeks ago, but we thought it worth repeating! Here are the milestones for […]

Posted on: November 27, 2013
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Lara Lacombe’s publishing debut with Harlequin Romantic Suspense

Thanks to the feedback from a few weeks ago, we heard that you were interested in the call/the first year […]

Posted on: November 22, 2013
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Harlequin Editor Patience Bloom on Revisions

Once more Senior Editor Patience Bloom graciously let us borrow from her own website, Romance Is My Day Job. This post […]

Posted on: November 19, 2013
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So how’s SOLD! doing? Harlequin Minds Want to Know!

We started the SOLD! blog about two months ago in the hopes of giving some pertinent, useful information to would-be […]

Posted on: November 14, 2013
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Recommended Reads–for writers! Harlequin Editors on Writing Romance for Dummies…

We do believe we have the best editors anywhere–and looking around we’ve certainly had a lot of top editors in […]

Posted on: November 13, 2013
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Cracking the Romantic Suspense Novel–Harlequin’s Allison Carroll Tells You What to Avoid!

  In the past year, Allison Carroll (Editorial Assistant for Harlequin Romantic Suspense and Harlequin Desire) has read a lot of suspense […]

Posted on: November 12, 2013