Harlequin and Author Solutions Announce Publishing Partnership

Self-Publishing Imprint Dellarte Press Furthers Opportunities for First-Time Authors

TORONTO (Nov. 24, 2009) – Harlequin Enterprises Limited—the global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers for women—has announced the launch of Dellarte Press; a self-publishing partnership with Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI)—the world’s leading self-publisher.

Harlequin, Book Business magazine's 2009 Publishing Innovator of the Year, regards the self-publishing venture as an accessible opportunity for emerging authors to bring themselves to the attention of the reading public.

Through this strategic alliance, all sales, marketing, publishing, distribution, and book-selling services will be fulfilled by ASI, but Dellarte Press will exist as a division of Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Harlequin will monitor sales of books published through the self-publisher for possible pickup by its traditional imprints.

Dellarte Press is the second such partnership ASI has launched with a leading trade publisher in the last two months. The parent company of industry-leading self-publishing imprints AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford Publishing, and Xlibris, ASI brought to market more than 21,000 new titles in 2008.

To learn more about the publishing packages available through Dellarte Press, visit www.dellartepress.com.