Comments on: Write More for Harlequin, Receive Less Money

By: Passive Guy

Passive Guy — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:44:00 +0000

Thanks for the benefit of your experience, Bob.

By: Bob Mayer

Bob Mayer — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:30:16 +0000

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.

By: LP King

LP King — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:31:38 +0000

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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Harlequin Horrors Wanted | The Passive Voice — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:47:10 +0000

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By: Nadia Lee

Nadia Lee — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:30:57 +0000

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.

By: Passive Guy

Passive Guy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:59:22 +0000

Elaine – The Harlequin post has been a real revelation. I didn’t realize how abused romance authors have been.

By: elaine mueller

elaine mueller — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:52:41 +0000

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 but then, RWA was always more supportive of the unpublished members #1 and the publishers #2 and then, finally, bringing up the tail end of the gravy train, the published authors #3.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

By: Passive Guy

Passive Guy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:23:30 +0000

Nadia – So a writers association wants to make sure some publisher is making money off of its members?

By: Passive Guy

Passive Guy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:22:39 +0000

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.

By: Bree

Bree — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:43:30 +0000

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.)