INTRODUCING CANARY STREET PRESS
Romance imprint HQN Books renamed Canary Street Press
New York and Toronto, October 31, 2022 – Harlequin Trade Publishing (HTP Books) announced today that it will relaunch and rename its flagship romance imprint HQN Books as Canary Street Press, reflecting its expansion to publish a greater variety of modern, commercial love stories. NEVER NEVER, by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher – available in print for the first time – will be the launch title in February 2023. Regular publication of Canary Street Press will then continue with new titles beginning in Summer 2023.
Canary Street Press remains a romance imprint but is expanding the books it acquires to include more inclusive stories that represent everyone’s happy ever after. Canary Street Press will publish in trade paperback and hardcover formats, as well as mass market paperbacks.
Susan Swinwood, Editorial Director of Canary Street Press noted, “The Canary Street Press name was inspired by the Canary District, an historic area in downtown Toronto that has undergone a renewal, and is an example of a modern, revitalized community with a rich heritage. Canary Street Press is expanding our editorial direction to celebrate romance for every reader looking to see themselves in a HEA.”
Exciting titles coming from Canary Street Press include:
Never Never (2/28/23) – available for the first time in print – is New York Times bestselling phenoms Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher's three-part collection. This dark, twisty romance about two soulmates trying to find their way back to each other, and the secrets that stand in their way, will leave readers breathless and believing in the power of love.
Even If the Sky is Falling (5/30/23) is an anthology of six stories by some of the industry’s most exciting black and brown romance writers including Taj McCoy, Farah Heron, Lane Clarke (writing as S.T. Cori), Charish Reid, Sarah Smith, and Denise Williams. Filled with hope, humor, and heat, the stories explore the chances a couple may take when they mistakenly believe the world is ending.
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up (6/6/23) by Charish Reid is a witty, contemporary love story with high emotional stakes and a multicultural cast, about a widowed bar owner who, upon returning to college at 42, inadvertently hires the woman who turns out to be the adjunct instructor of his online writing class to help tend bar at his failing establishment.
The Secret to a Southern Wedding (7/19/23) is the first book in Synithia Williams’s new Peachtree Cove series, filled with southern charm, good friends and bad decisions, about a woman determined to stop her mother’s impulsive wedding to man she barely knows, only to find herself irresistibly drawn to the groom’s son.
Exes and Prose (7/25/23) is the sophomore romcom from Erin LaRosa, a friends (with benefits)-to-lovers story about a romance author who's never been in love and who makes an ambitious plan to overcome her writer’s block: reunite with her exes to learn why—and document it all for her millions of new online followers.
Loriana Sacilotto, EVP and Publisher of Harlequin Trade Publishing (HTP Books), which includes Canary Street Press, said, “Canary Street Press will be a destination imprint for Romance of all kinds as we add new and fresh voices to our existing author list and continue our focus to bring new readers to the genre.”
About Harlequin
Harlequin is a leading publisher of commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. The company publishes more than 100 titles a month, in both print and digital formats, that reach audiences globally. Encompassing highly recognizable imprints that span a broad variety of genres, the publisher is home to many award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors. Harlequin is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Through HarperCollins’ global publishing program, Harlequin titles are published in 17 countries and 16 languages. For more information, please visit www.htpbooks.com and Follow Harlequin Trade Publishing on Instagram @HTPBooks and Facebook @HTPBooks.
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