I don’t understand why any author would in this day an age pay a ‘vanity’ press to publish a book. The world of Lulu to print out your masterpiece and PDF files easily made and a paypal system on your website would make quick work to someone who wanted to ’self publish’ their work without much overhead.

I guess it’s a sit back and see how it all plays out thing… Everything in this industry is changing! Rapidly.

I took a look at Harlequin Horizons and it’s just too expensive for me. Also, they publish in standard trade paperback format. Which is all well and good, but I’d love to have my books published in the mass market format of most Harlequin books. Not being able to do so is a downside.

On top of that, there are free ways to self publish. You can create your own ebooks and even publish paperback books for free (or rather no set up fees) with Create Space or Lulu. You have to pay for your copies, but it doesn’t cost you a single dime out of your pocket to get all the work done.

I was excited to hear about Harlequin Horizions, but have to say, after looking through the information, it reminded me very much of all the other vanity presses out there (Author House, Trafford, I Universe etc). You’d think if Harlequin was going to go into that line of business that they would do something to set themselves above the rest. It doesn’t seem like they’ve done that.

Either way, I’ll think long and hard before I shell out hundreds of $$$ to get one of my books published!