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A Message from the Historical Team
A Message from the Historical Team
Linda Fildew, Senior Editor
Joanne Carr, Editor
Mimi Berchie, Editorial Assistant
The Historical team are passionate about historical romances and want to see the same passion and excitement from historical submissions!
We publish a variety of periods each month, with Westerns and Regencies still the most popular with our readers. Other periods can be a harder sell and we currently have a strong author base fulfilling this slot each month. If you are writing a different period, it has to be exceptional, so do your research and let your unique voice shine!
We are looking for new writers who can give a fresh spin on popular historical themes, such as governesses, Cinderella/poor relations and debutantes in Regencies and outlaw heroes and drifter heroes in Westerns.
Four forthcoming books that showcase the variety of tone, storylines and new voices available in Harlequin Historical are:
Deb Marlowe, Scandalous Lord, Rebellious Miss, is a Regency debut from this new author and it is hot and scandalous! (February 2008)
Bronwyn Scott's, Pickpocket Countess, is Bronwyn's first novel for Harlequin Historical and is fast-paced, witty, sexy and captivating! (March 2008)
Amanda McCabe, A Sinful Alliance, is Amanda's second book for Harlequin and this sumptuous romance set during the reign of Henry VIII, will seduce your senses! (April 08)
Western Weddings is our annual Western Spring anthology featuring three short stories from Jillian Hart, Kate Bridges and Charlene Sands and has heart-warming romance and spring brides! (May 08)
Dee Tenorio
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
A Message from the Harlequin Romance Team
A Message from the Harlequin Romance Team
Kimberley Young, Senior Editor
Meg Sleightholme, Assistant Editor
If you are submitting to Harlequin Romance, we are looking for new authors whose stories are fresh, innovative and contemporary - you always need to deliver a feel-good read, packed full of romance and emotion. In regards to setting, we are actively encouraging urban settings.
Themes that continue to be HOT!:
What's not so hot:
Always dare to be different.... Be unique, do it your own way,- and remember romance rules!
Three forthcoming books that showcase the variety of tone and storyline available within Harlequin Romance are:
Liz Fielding, The Bride's Baby - this is Liz Fielding's 50th book (April 08)
Fiona Harper, English lord, Ordinary Lady - Fiona Harper is a RNA award winner author (February 08)
Pat Thayer, Wedding Bells at Wandering Creek - classic feel-good Romance from Pat Thayer (April 08)
Dee Tenorio
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Fiona's book
Dee, the title for Fiona's book is English Lord, Ordinary Lady.
I really like this feature, by the way! Notes from the teams is FABulous. :-)
Donna
THE SOLDIER'S HOMECOMING, Romance, March 08, Aus/NZ April 08
FALLING FOR MR DARK AND DANGEROUS, Romance, August 08
THE RANCHER'S RUNAWAY PRINCESS, Romance, January 09
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A Message from the Harlequin Presents Team
A Message from the Harlequin Presents Team
Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor
Suzanne Clarke, Editor
Sally Williamson, Assistant Editor
It's an incredibly exciting time here at Harlequin Presents, as from January 2008 twelve Presents titles will be available every month for your reading pleasure!
This increase in titles means we're on the lookout for new authors, so if you've got a burning desire to write for Presents but never quite got round to putting pen to paper, now's the time to do it! You could enter our fabulous Instant Seduction competition which we are running on www.iheartpresents.com, or you can submit to our Richmond office with your first thee chapters. Either way, we are often asked what the most common mistakes made by unpublished writers are. So here goes with our Top Five!
1. Using too much narrative and not enough dialogue. Category romance - and Presents - is essentially a short, sharp emotional fix, so our audience want to get to know the characters as fast and experience their unfolding emotions as immediately as possible; use of dialogue is the best way to achieve this.
2. Too many minor characters. The hero and heroine's relationship is paramount to every Presents novel, so it must remain the primary focus all of the time. Limit your use of secondary characters to as few as you can and make sure that if and when they appear, they do nothing more than providing a step forward in the development of the romance
3. Too much background detail. This is one mistake frequently made by new writers who have lots of research they're dying to include - memories of a fabulous trip to Venice, or all the information they've gleaned from an excellent website about Greece. We just need a little flavor and color to bring it all back and make the romance sparkle!`
4. Lack of emotional depth. The most satisfying romances are the ones where the level of conflict is high, passions run deep and the sensuality is at boiling point! In other words, place your hero and heroine's emotions at the forefront of your story. All relationships have emotional highs and lows and, as this is romantic fantasy, the reading experience needs to be heightened and feelings intense.
5. Overuse of cliché. It's very tempting as a new writer to reach for the familiar, but don't lose sight of your own voice - your own particular use of vocabulary and those quirky little observations and phrases that make you unique and entertaining as a writer.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
Dee Tenorio
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
More On Modern
MILLS & BOON® MODERN ROMANCE™
(HARLEQUIN PRESENTS™)
LENGTH: 50,000 – 55,000 WORDS
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: TESSA SHAPCOTT
OFFICE: LONDON
No of books per month: 8
Length: 192 pages
Launch Date: N/A
Modern Romance is the home of intense emotion, international settings and a range of sensuality and moods. Climb on to a roller-coaster ride of fast-paced plots, sophisticated relationship drama and sizzling attraction. Travel to the world’s most glamorous locations, where you’ll meet unforgettable strong men who make love in a variety of languages. Seduction and passion are guaranteed!
Passionate, dramatic and compelling!
Novels in this series include stories that are intense, with international settings, and are driven by alpha male heroes. The relationships portrayed are provocatively passionate, highly-charged conflicts and the plots are dramatic and compelling, and able to deliver on favourite core themes such as marriages of convenience, mistresses and revenge.
International glitz and glamour
This series has a consistently international focus. Readers particularly love settings such as the Mediterranean, Australia, the Caribbean, and South America. Backgrounds must be chic, glamorous, cosmopolitan – the habitat of the international jet-set. Life-styles of the rich and famous are what it’s all about.
The Hero
Readers love Men-of-the-World heroes in Modern. Our audience seeks out the alpha male as a fantasy and as an enjoyable escapist experience; he’s not a dominant man who will subdue the heroine, but someone who’ll take the reins: strong, decisive, wealthy, a touch ruthless and intensely focused on the heroine – he’ll do anything to make her his. The Modern hero has a sensitive side which only the heroine can bring out in him.
Sensuality
These are provocatively passionate stories that sizzle with sexual tension and sensual action. Sensuality can be explicit, and arises from an emotionally-driven situation.
Favourite Themes
Core Themes: mistresses, marriage of convenience, secret pregnancies (not babies but conception), revenge. These themes are traditional and long-standing. However, we constantly seek to innovate by introducing fresh voices in the shape of new authors, and by introducing compelling new plot twists. Also, our writers and editors strive to maintain ongoing appeal by reflecting current, relevant trends, so that Modern is a microcosm of society’s love-affair at the moment with wealth, scandal and celebrity. Modern authors include many who’ve become international bestsellers such as Penny Jordan, Miranda Lee, Lynne Graham, Lucy Monroe, Sandra Marton, Emma Darcy, Michelle Reid, Julia James, Sarah Morgan and Sharon Kendrick.
Dee Tenorio
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."