Susan Gable
05-16-2005, 10:35 PM
Hey, everyone. Just thought I'd offer a heads' up. Information today came out that Harlequin is making more changes to its lines. As of Sept. 2006, the Harlequin Romance and Silhouette Romance lines will cease publication.
A new, 6-book-per-month line, based in the UK, will be started the same month to "replace" the two lines. Guidelines for the new, as-yet-unnamed line, will be available soon - keep checking on eHarlequin, where I imagine they will be available as soon as possible. For now I know they want something more romance (i.e. focused on the couple, not secondary characters), more emotional, more heroine-centered than hero-centered, no sexual explicitness, wordly (not just set in NA) and should not have a small-town mentality. Hero and heroine should be equals, and the heroine should not need rescuing.
Anyone who has a submission currently in at Sil Rom or H. Rom, now you know what will be happening there. If you recently received a rejection from one of these lines, well, the good news is it doesn't necessarily reflect at all on your writing. :)
Susan G.
A new, 6-book-per-month line, based in the UK, will be started the same month to "replace" the two lines. Guidelines for the new, as-yet-unnamed line, will be available soon - keep checking on eHarlequin, where I imagine they will be available as soon as possible. For now I know they want something more romance (i.e. focused on the couple, not secondary characters), more emotional, more heroine-centered than hero-centered, no sexual explicitness, wordly (not just set in NA) and should not have a small-town mentality. Hero and heroine should be equals, and the heroine should not need rescuing.
Anyone who has a submission currently in at Sil Rom or H. Rom, now you know what will be happening there. If you recently received a rejection from one of these lines, well, the good news is it doesn't necessarily reflect at all on your writing. :)
Susan G.