Mills & Boon Makeover

I mentioned before that Harlequin Mills & Boon are revamping their books, giving some new covers, bringing others out in different formats, planning new publishing dates - and I promised to give you more details just as soon as I could.

Well, from June 1st there have been details of the new looks and some of the new schedules up on the Mills & Boon web site so you can read all about it here.

As I said, some of the lines are getting new designs for the covers and I've posted a few of them here. And there will be slightly different formats for some of the lines -

For example - From August 2009 Romance will be available in the shops as:
- 2 x 2-in-1s (£4.99 each)
These books will be available to buy in advance on the website from 1st July along with an additional 2 x single titles (£3.19 each).

And Medicals will be available in the shops as:

- 2 x 2-in-1s (£4.99 each) -

2 x single titles (£3.19 each)

These books will be available to buy in advance on the website from 1st July.

As I mentioned before, the schedule for Modern Romances is changing quite dramatically with publication twice a month.

There will be 6 new books available on the 1st Friday of every month and another 6 new books will be on the shelves on the 3rd Friday of every month.

These will include two of the Modern Heat books and will be at the same price of £3.19 each.

And to answer Rachel's query about buying on line - the announcement on the web site says that: These books will be available to buy in advance on our website from 1st July.
So I expect that means that all of them published in August - in whichever week - will be announced and available then.

And the covers for Modern Romance? Well, there's no difference there for now. These covers - along with some others, are currently being left just as they are. Which makes me pretty happy for now becuase I've just seen the paperback/Modern Romance version of the fabulous cover I showed you a few days ago - the one for my next release Kept For Her Baby. And for me this looks even better against the traditional blue Modern Romance binding:

The only thing that will be changing is that this book will be in the shops in the second set of publication - on the 3rd Friday of August.

So the date you need to be able to find this one is 21st August

I've been so lucky with the current set of covers with this and the one for Sold to The Sheikh - which reminds me - Mavis, I hope you enjoy the book as much as you love the cover!

Friends and Books

I had a wonderful evening yesterday. Meeting up with lovely Susan Stephens and her personal handsome Alpha Male, enjoying a meal and sharing a bottle of wine - and talking books,editors, writing, markets, books . . . It was great. Thank you Susan - we must do it again soon.

And then on to the poetry event in Borders where the Magnet had a great time too. He was so involved in chatting to everyone, talking about poetry and enjoying himself that they had to be asked to leave as the shop was closing! He was also delighted to see how many of his books the shop had on display.

And while I was there I spotted that the newest Mills & Boon titles had been delivered and were on display so of course I had to go and make my selection. And for the very first time I saw the 3 in 1 collection Sold to The Sheikh where my 2006 book At The Sheikh's Command is reprinted together with other novels by Miranda Lee and Emma Darcy.

I thought that the original cover of this book was great when it came out 3 years ago, but this new collection cover is just fabulous when see in print for the first time.