You hear a lot of complaints from authors about their publishers and you know? That's understandable.  My husband works for an amazing company, but there are days he wants to sit upper management down for "a talk". :)  The entities with so much control over our livelihoods are bound to inspire both positive and negative feelings at times. Right now?  I'm just truly loving Harlequin.

For such a behemoth company, they are incredibly innovative.  They're always trying new things, looking for ways to reach more readers and opening doors for their authors.  I'm sure you know they were the first major publisher to put their books out in digital format en masse.  And I'm betting you've heard of their new electronic only publishing venture, Carina Press.  But I wonder if you know about all the print alternatives they continue to provide beyond their regular lines and imprints.  The Manga versions of popular books and most recently their new venture - the Harlequin Showcase.  Showcase is a single title venture (shelved with all the romance books, not the Harlequin series) that brings back previously released series books in a 2-in-1 format for readers who missed the books the first time around.

 As an author, I'm thrilled by this new venture.  Why?  Because I get tons of letters weekly asking where readers can find my now out-of-print and often unavailable even in used venues Presents.  So, when I was told one such story, "The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement" would be in the May launch, I was over the moon!  I have a lot of readers who have asked about this story and where to get it and now, it's availalble again in a 2-in-1 with Julia James' "The Greek's Virgin Bride."  How cool is that?It's your turn:  if you could sit the publishers down and talk to them, what would you ask for as a reader?