Rainbow Romance Writers Looks like the contest is on for the first Rainbow Awards of Excellence… The object of the RAE’s is to recognize outstanding GLBT romance writing regardless of the author’s gender, sexual orientation, or RWA affiliation (or lack thereof). Any author who has had a GLBT romance published during 2009 with a valid [...]

MWA Delists Harlequin MWA’s Official Decision: That because Harlequin’s for pay publishing business violates MWA’s rules for approved publishers, MWA takes the following action: First, Harlequin shall be removed from MWA’s list of approved publishers upon the adoption of this motion; Second, that all current active status members of MWA whose status is based upon [...]

Mrs Giggles: Harlequin Horizons’s unintentional comedy “Commedia dell’arte was concerned mostly with disgraceful love intrigues, clever tricks to get money or outwit some simpleton.” My own search found this… A rigid convention of the commedia dell’arte is the periodic intrusion of Harlequin, who interrupts the play with low buffoonery. I have to agree with SFWA… [...]

Thanks to EREC for the heads up… With the launch of Harlequin Horizons, Harlequin Enterprises no longer meets the requirements to be eligible for RWA-provided conference resources. This does not mean that Harlequin Enterprises cannot attend the conference. Like all non-eligible publishers, they are welcome to attend. However, as a non-eligible publisher, they would fund [...]