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* [http://www.eharlequin.com/cms/index.jhtml eHarlequin] - Harlequin's online community
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* [http://www.eharlequin.com/cms/index.jhtml eHarlequin] - Main Harlequin website

Revision as of 01:06, 1 March 2007

Harlequin usually refers to the publishing company Harlequin Enterprises Limited, a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is the world's leading publisher of romance and women's fiction. The company publishes nearly 110 new titles each month in 27 different languages, primarily category romances.

About the Company

Current Harlequin Imprints

  • American
  • Blaze
  • Everlasting Love
  • Historical
  • HQN - Harlequin enters the single-title market.
  • Intrigue - Harlequin's romantic suspense line.
  • Love Inspired - This imprint is devoted to inspirational (mainly Christian) romances.
  • Mira - Mira is Harlequin's high-end single title imprint.
  • Next - Women's fiction
  • Presents - This imprint is devoted to glamore and passion, often with International settings
  • Red Dress - this imprint publishes primarily "chick-lit"
  • Steeple Hill Books - Steeple Hill is devoted to publishing Inspirational romance.
  • Superromance - Longer titles focusing on family issues.
  • Violet - Violet is Harlequin's manga line. Currently, only existing titles are being reprinted.

Current Mills & Boon Imprints

Current Silhouette Imprints

Defunct Imprints

Harlequin

  • Duets - A humor line featuring two books in one.
  • Flipside
  • Love and Laughter - The Love and Laughter line featured short, humorous stories. The line later became Flipside. While humor remains a popular topic, dedicated Harlequin lines never seem to catch on with readers.
  • Romance
  • Temptation - Temptation was Harlequin's long-running sensual line. As the hotter Blaze line drew off readers, Temptation finally ceased publication in 2005.
    • Heat - Blaze was the original "flash" on the cover of Temptation books drawing readers looking for hotter, sexier reads. After Blaze became its own line, the Heat "flash" debuted.

Silhouette

On the Web