Gena Showalter On ABC's Nightline To Celebrate Harlequin Success

Lights, camera, action! ABC's Nightline devoted an entire segment to romance giant Harlequin's recession-proof sales. This year marks the company's 60th anniversary as a market leader in the romance industry. TKA is thrilled to have a variety of successful authors published under the HQN imprint, as well as its multiple other imprints, including blockbuster writer Gena Showalter. Gena is actually profiled in the Nightline interview!! And we must say she looks amazing! Check out the vid below.

Besides Gena's beautiful face, you'll also spot the book covers of a few more TKA clients. Let's play "Where's TKA?". How many Knight Agency client book covers can you spot in the video? I found three. ;)

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Harlequin's 2008 Report Card & Things that make you go hmmmm...

Publisher's Weekly posted an article yesterday about revenue at Harlequin rising 2.2% and operating profit increasing 11.2% in 2008. Hopefully, this stalwart publisher will continue to weather the storm well. It's great to hear some good news from the front lines!

While fighting my way through the blog jungle this morning, I stumbled across this thought provoking video on Books, Boys, Buzz. Definitely something that will make you go hmmmm...

Marley, thanks for the video!