Comments on: Write More for Harlequin, Receive Less Money 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Passive Guy 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-5341 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:44:00 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-5341 Thanks for the benefit of your experience, Bob.

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By: Bob Mayer 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-5304 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:30:16 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-5304 Yes, Debbie Macomber moved on from HQ. As has every writer I know who has had some success. Certainly HQ is a great place to learn the business and get paid to write.
They run a business and they can do what they want. The thing writers have to decide is if they want to be part of that business. If you do, good for you.
But one has to wonder where their business model breaks down as authors who break out flee HQ as fast as they can.
I’m in PAN because of previously published books. But my current publishing situation would exclude me. Even though I sold more books last month than 99% of HQ’s authors in a year.
But it’s not a big deal.
I always say when I teach that RWA is the most professional writing organization around, after having been members of almost all of them.

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By: LP King 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-5043 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:31:38 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-5043 Yeah, for clarification, Mira is a single-title imprint within the Harlequin stable.

In the same way, Harlequin operates Carina Press, their e-only imprint. It’s sort of a challenger to the very successful e-only imprints like Samhain.

Harlequin has editorial offices in Toronto, London, and New York.

Harlequin is owned by Torstar, a Canadian public company with various publishing interests. (As such, info on Torstar is easy to come by.)

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By: Harlequin Horrors Wanted | The Passive Voice 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-5007 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:47:10 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-5007 [...] Guy has received a rapid-fire education on all things Harlequin since blogging about Harlequin royalties four days [...]

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By: Nadia Lee 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4955 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:30:57 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4955 I guess? Let’s just say that I never saw any benefit of being an RWA member unless you have a very supportive local chapter near you.

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By: Passive Guy 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4865 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:59:22 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4865 Elaine – The Harlequin post has been a real revelation. I didn’t realize how abused romance authors have been.

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By: elaine mueller 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4862 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:52:41 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4862 i was wondering when someone would address what stance RWA is taking on this whole thing.

iirc, RWA never batted much of an eyelash over the direct mail subscription royalty rates harlequin was paying 15 or so years ago. but then, RWA was always more supportive of the unpublished members #1 and the publishers #2 and then, finally, bringing up the tail end of the gravy train, the published authors #3. and because the publishers (legacy, paper, whateveryouwannacall’em) were ahead of the published authors on that train, there was damn little gravy for the authors.

elaine

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By: Passive Guy 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4831 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:23:30 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4831 Nadia – So a writers association wants to make sure some publisher is making money off of its members?

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By: Passive Guy 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4830 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:22:39 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4830 Bree – I’m not familiar with the RWA, other than what I read here, but my experience with other organizations is that sometimes the velvet rope is what the organization is all about.

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By: Bree 06/2011/write-more-for-harlequin-receive-less-money/#comment-4827 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:43:30 +0000 ?p=4912#comment-4827 The RWA lets you into the “real” author group if you can prove you made over $1,000 at an indie publisher or epublisher. As far as I know, though, self-publishers still don’t get past the velvet rope.

(It’s not all that sparkly though. I did all that paperwork and I didn’t even get a tiara. Or a pony. Total let down.)

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