A rose by any other name ...
Publishers Weekly reports on Harlequin Horizons' name change to DellArte Press.
The thing that irks me slightly about the article is that it makes it look as if the RWA yanked Harlequin's credentials because they started a self-publishing arm, whereas, in fact, to the best of my knowledge, the RWA does not object to self-publishing. What they object to--what they objected to in Harlequin's case--is vanity publishing. (SFWA's statement makes this explicit.)
It is possible that the difference bet...
The thing that irks me slightly about the article is that it makes it look as if the RWA yanked Harlequin's credentials because they started a self-publishing arm, whereas, in fact, to the best of my knowledge, the RWA does not object to self-publishing. What they object to--what they objected to in Harlequin's case--is vanity publishing. (SFWA's statement makes this explicit.)
It is possible that the difference bet...
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