Attention, Cool Teens who are like already totally over Valentine's Day: The Toronto Public Library has planned an event just for you! The Anti-Valentine's Day Anti-Party, as originally planned, would give prematurely jaded pre-adults the opportunity to vandalize romance novels. Totally punk rock, right?!

Well, isn't this just a match made in boring sexy heaven! It was announced yesterday that romance publisher Harlequin will partner up with dumb-dumb lady magazine Cosmopolitan to produce Cosmo Hot Reads, a series of erotic e-books that will begin dropping in May, with two books (each title hovering around 30,000…

His lips descend, firm and demanding. You sway towards him bonelessly, feeling the heat course through your body. He lifts his head a fraction to whisper, his voice roughened with passion, "Pay up." Harlequin's patenting the kiss. Literally.

Harlequin has introduced its newest line: Harlequin Teen.

One market that's not suffering: escapism. While other publishers founder, Harlequin is way up, taking full advantage of ebooks and internet advertising and launching a short erotic efiction line called Spice Briefs. [PW]

A few years ago, I became fascinated by the Harlequin romances produced in the late 70s and early 80s. In what I can only assume was a backlash against the feminist movement and increasingly independent portrayals of women, these romances contained an appallingly misogynistic bent made even more disturbing when you…

Harlequin Mills & Boon, the publishing company known for its romance novels, will be entering the market in India for the first time on February 4, reports the Times of London. Andrew Go, the head of the Indian operation says: "India is crazy about true romance. Look at the basic Bollywood plot: boy meets girl;…