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More changes in the air at Harlequin. Yes, I know, you’re stunned to hear that. I know, it wasn’t very long ago that Booksquare posted about the demise of the Signature series, but the latest news is that many of the longer lines (referred to in the romance community as the Long Contemporaries – lines […]

Word on the street is that Harlequin is discontinuing its Signature line. This is probably only important to you if you have a clue what the imprint was all about. The rest of us will likely not notice the demise. In unrelated news, a grand total of ten fewer books will be published in 2006, […]

You know us — we get excited way too easily, and today we’re excited about innovations in publishing. Hmm, that doesn’t sound right. How about this: today, we’re excited about the fact that a major publisher is using technology for good not evil. Or just that a major publisher is using technology. We shouldn’t ascribe […]

Lewis Lapham is retiring from Harper’s Magazine. Or rather he is becoming an editor emeritus. Which we think means working just hard enough to cover health insurance premiums. Or to justify keeping the corner office despite the fact that it only gets used once a month. Probably we should look this up in the dictionary. […]

The Rumor Mill tells us that Tor is not looking for NC-17 books — they are seeking straight erotica. While you will find many useful explanations of this distinction, in situation like this, we always turn to the Supreme Court: you’ll know it when you see it. For those keeping score at home, there are […]

While Michael Korda’s imminent retirement from Simon & Schuster is news in and of itself, we find we’re more fascinated by the way the man redefines “retirement”. Our understanding has always been that a retired person gets up at ungodly hours (eventually leading to driving one of the airport vans because today’s youth simply can’t […]

Hard as it is to imagine, we are finding it difficult to get behind this Fall’s time change. Normally, we embrace gaining an hour, but the whole thing started off bad and seems to be getting worse. Hopefully, caffeine will change our luck. In the meantime, we give you activities designed to pull you away […]

Warren Buffet is, apparently, the world’s richest person. Richer than the Queen of England. His personal story is one of triumph and heartbreak*. Buffett devotees sit at his feet and absorb wisdom the way most of us down French fries**. The world is salivating for a chance to read the Buffett story — just let […]

Rumors have been swirling for some time that Harlequin Enterprises was planning to move into the African American market. In-house development was reportedly proceeding and helpful observers sat on the sidelines, wondering if this was yet another boondoggle. Then the publishing giant (they are more than romance, you know) turned around and did something practical […]

While we have made a solemn vow to avoid the podcast train (our voice is not ready for prime time), it seems the rest of the world can’t avoid the next big thing. While publishers were slow to embrace decent websites (slow meaning we are still waiting) and blogs, they have jumped on the podcast […]