Will Harlequin Spice please go public?
I first became aware of the imprint when they published one of my all-time favorite authors, M. J. Rose’s, novel Lying in Bed. To this date I still haven’t seen it in stores.
Why not? Harlequin’s pretty good at scoring themselves a big display of their various imprints in Kmart, Target and elsewhere. We’re talking imprints such as HQN, MIRA, Luna, Desire, Temptation, Blaze and probably more. With one notable exception.
Spice. Yes, the imprint that has more street cred than most of all the Harlequin imprints. Because it’s not just romance. It’s not just sex. I might actually qualify it as literature. Mind you, I haven’t actually read any of the Spice books yet, but I do own two.
One of them is our very own Megan Hart’s Broken. I have a lot of books on my Reading Wishlist, Broken included, so surprised was I when I went into Borders in early-to-mid December and found the novel - and a few copies at that. No other Spice titles, not that I was particularly looking because I’d already bought Lying in Bed off eBay.
So I’d like to thank Borders of Knox City Shopping Centre in Victoria, Australia, for stocking Broken. And I’d like to thank the people on eBay Australia who’ve managed to get their hands on Spice books to sell to us. Still no sign of Dirty, however…
Harlequin, I know there are probably legal reasons for your erotica novels not being stocked in chain stores where kiddies populate. But keep in mind that the public wants to read your Spice, so please consider getting bookshops involved…particularly here in Australia, please.
Have a lovely day! :-)
Tez Miller
Reporting from Victoria, Australia
Currently bidding on Megan Hart’s Tempted on eBay Australia
pleez no owtbid me nao kthxbi
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