Closure for Harlequin's Dellarte

Dellarte Press, the self-publishing imprint Harlequin US launched with the now Penguin Random House-owned Author Solutions, has been shut down. Harlequin told The Bookseller that Dellarte Press was “not an active imprint”, while Andrew Phillips, c.e.o. of Author Solutions said that Author Solutions has “never actively promoted” the imprint and that it was closed to new authors. Work by writers currently published with Dellarte Press will remain live. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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