deborahb » publishing http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog Author, writer, malcontent. Reader, procrastinator, humourist, employee, raconteur, cynic, commentator, introvert, daydreamer, sceptic, idealist, loner, philosopher, sharp shooter. ... Ok, not sharp shooter. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:02:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Harlequin: We help (ourselves to) the helpless http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/2009/11/harlequin-we-help-ourselves-to-the-helpless/ http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/2009/11/harlequin-we-help-ourselves-to-the-helpless/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:31:34 +0000 deborahb http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/?p=455 This is basically a skeezy, cynical and horribly demeaning thing Harlequin is doing, padding its bottom line by suckering a bunch of folks who don’t know better into thinking that paying for publication is a legitimate path into the publishing world. In a stroke, they’ve become the sort of scumbag publisher that writer’s organizations warn their members (and their aspiring members) about.

Dudes. Not cool.

And yes, makes our cousin-genre Romance look cheap & nasty.

Which I believe was the goal of the Harlequin Temptation books, ironically.

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