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Red Room - Where the Writers Are: Harlequin loses its RWA rating
Whatever: Writers’ Organizations to Harlequin: If You’re Not Going to Act Like a Real Publisher, We’re Not Going to Treat You Like One
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RT @inaneenglish: Oh snap! RT: @Sargent Holy cats RWA slapped down Harlequin for moving to a vanity publishing approach: http://is.gd/4YsY2 11/19/2009 |
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RT @scrabblewench:RT @Sargent Holy cats RWA slapped down Harlequin for moving to vanity publishing approach: http://is.gd/4YsY2 11/19/2009 |
Harlequin loses its RWA rating
Red Room - Where the Writers Are —
... publishing is not the same as publishing which charges money to the author. Often arrangements are reached between publishers and writers (even some Big Names writers) to publish a book without an advance, in exchange for a high (usually fifty per cent) royalty rate. But paying to have your book published is not being published; it's being printed. Harsh, but true. It bears repeating: Money goes to the writer, not from the writer. You can read the whole letter here: http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011896.html
Writers’ Organizations to Harlequin: If You’re Not Going to Act Like a Real Publisher, We’re Not Going to Treat You Like One
Whatever —
Someone at Harlequin, the big publisher of romance novels, figured out there was money to be made from all the people who so desperately want to say that they’re being published by Harlequin that they’d be willing to pay for it. Thus has the company started its own vanity publishing arm: It’s called Harlequin ...
Canadian Madames
Scrivener's Error —
14:00 [GMT-6] Canadian Madames Apparently, the world's largest romance publisher already notorious for short shelf-lives, miserly author compensation, and improper treatment of copyright thinks that aspiring romance authors could learn from Velvet Jones. At least 'hos get paid, though. Harlequin has announced that it is establishing a vanity press arm to go along with its commercial publishing business where, for approximately the same as it would advance to a previously unpublished first-time author, authors can pay for seeing their names in print. But wait there's more! Harlequin isn't even doing the work itself. It is, instead, ...
Harlequin Dips Toe in Self-Publishing Waters (or Shoots Itself in the Foot)
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
Last week, Harlequin announced the launch of Harlequin Horizons, a new division billed as "[an] opportunity for women's fiction writers and romance authors to publish their books and achieve their dreams," provided they've got at least $599 to subsidize that publication. The partnership with self-publishing specialists AuthorSolutions drew instant opposition from several authors guilds, which quickly branded Horizons as a vanity press operation: The Romance Writers of America announced Harlequin wouldn't be eligible for favored-publisher privileges at next year's national convention, the ...
Putting a Face on Harlequin
Lesa's Book Critiques —
Harlequin recently announced they were going into the vanity publishing business, with the formation of a new venture between Harlequin Enterprises and ASI Solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity/subsidy press. The discussion of this, and how it will affect the ability of authors to be members of professional organizations, and eligible for awards, is all over the web. Responses are summarized very well here. Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have all issued statements, as has Sisters ...
When Self-Publishing Becomes Cash Grab...
leftwriter —
I don't often rant about the publishing biz here on leftwriter, but something has recently attracted a bit of public notice, and as it has touched a nerve for me, I'd like to take a closer look. Today's subject is the traditional vs self-publishing model. My books are published by traditional publishers. I have to admit to starting in this business with a snobby, anti-self-publishing view. I believed people who published their own books didn't go through an adequate editorial process, they were not patient enough to go through the traditional route and they were prepared to put sub-par work out into the public, just for the sake of ...
