- .Harlequin Enterprises ULC (Harlequin.com) is located at Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower, 22 Adelaide Street West, 41st Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 4E3 and sends informational and promotional emails on behalf of itself and Harlequin Digital Sales Corporation.
- .Harlequin Enterprises ULC (Harlequin.com) is located at Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower, 22 Adelaide Street West, 41st Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 4E3 and sends informational and promotional emails on behalf of itself and Harlequin Digital Sales Corporation.
HOW HARLEQUIN BECAME ROMANCE
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When Richard H. G. Bonnycastle, a former Arctic explorer with the Hudson Bay Company, launched Harlequin Books in Winnipeg in 1948, he had little interest in building a publishing empire around romance novels. Early in its history, Harlequin published inexpensive reprints of detective stories, cookbooks, westerns, and a smattering of tragic love stories.
When Bonnycastle's wife, Mary, took on editorial duties in the 1950s, she focused on the vast untapped market of female readers in Canada who loved reading British romance novels. She discovered that her favorite novels were published by a British firm called Mills & Boon, which had been publishing romances since 1908. She contacted the firm and asked to acquire paperback rights to some of its romances.
Under Mary Bonnycastle's guidance, Harlequin purged any potentially racy content from the Mills & Boon books and established a template for its own editions. The plot often involved a chance meeting in an interesting setting, a courtship that allowed both parties to overcome personal obstacles, and a happy denouement, almost inevitably involving marriage.
The formula worked. From Harlequin's first reprint of a Mills & Boon romance, Anne Vinton's The Hospital in Buwambo, there was a ready audience for chaste love stories that took place in exotic or historical settings.
THE GROWTH OF HARLEQUIN ROMANCE
Lawrence Heisey, a former soap salesman who had been appointed president of Harlequin in 1971, revolutionized romance publishing by distributing Harlequin romances to supermarkets and department stores, where they would be right at the fingertips of Canadian and American homemakers. The company often gave away one book as a free gift with the purchase of household items such as kitchen cleaners or napkins, hoping that shoppers would become hooked and buy the rest of the series.
By 1975, Harlequin had purchased British romance publisher Mills & Boon, and seventy percent of its sales came from outside of Canada.
Despite an early resistance to explicit sex scenes, Harlequin's winning plot formula and marketing strategies fostered the company's spread across the globe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Harlequin employees gave away more than 720,000 books at border checkpoints across the Eastern Bloc. Just two years later, Harlequin had sold seven million romance novels in Hungary alone and reached $10 million in sales in the Czech Republic in 1992. By 1995, it had released 550,000 copies of its titles in Mandarin Chinese, paving the way for the opening of offices across the world, from Tokyo to Mumbai.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF HARLEQUIN
By the 1990s, Harlequin had become synonymous with romance novels, grown the category into a score of successful subgenre lines—from the historical to the contemporary and the sweetly romantic to the sensually passionate—opened offices around the world and seen its books made available in more than 100 countries and over 30 languages. Now the publisher looked to move beyond romance novels and expand the breadth of its editorial into all genres of fiction for women.
In 1994 Harlequin launched MIRA Books, its first mainstream commercial fiction imprint. MIRA offered readers thrillers, suspense novels, small town dramas, macabre paranormals and more complex, involved romances. In addition to acquiring existing authors from other publishing houses, MIRA allowed the publisher the opportunity to lift authors who had honed their craft and build sizeable followings in Harlequin's category romance lines and give them the canvas to expand their vision and stretch their wings in a trade program. MIRA's ability to create bestselling novels and franchises also made the imprint very attractive to debut authors.
Four years later, MIRA Books was joined by Love Inspired, an inspirational fiction imprint, as Harlequin moved beyond the mainstream and into niche markets. In 2004 Harlequin launched HQN Books, its bestseller romance trade program, allowing the publisher to introduce its top romance authors to mainstream audiences. In 2009, two more imprints were established—Harlequin TEEN, capturing the imagination of young adult readers and Carina Press, a digital-first adult fiction imprint that allowed the publisher to explore subgenres of traditional genres and push beyond conventional boundaries.
In 2016, Harlequin continued its expansion of trade publishing by launching two new imprints—Park Row Books, which is dedicated to publishing voice-driven and thought-provoking books across a variety of genres, from mainstream literary fiction and book club fiction to literary suspense and narrative nonfiction, and Graydon House Books, a select hardcover and trade paperback imprint showcasing commercial women's fiction with a relationship element woven through. In 2017 Hanover Square Press was launched to publish compelling, original fiction and narrative nonfiction, including crime, thrillers, high-concept fiction, history, journalism and memoir.
Harlequin has scaled fresh heights with its new imprints. Multiple #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller placements, overseas triumphs, films and television shows adapted from its novels have all served to help transform the company from the dominant romance publisher into a leading publisher of books for a wide range of readers and tastes.
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Your symbols on the reels include the spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs card suits in olden filigree plus 5 different masqueraded ladies; one in a grapevine mask, another sporting a bird's beak, a glamorous white cat, a half moon and a golden sun. Land 5x of these icons on a payline and you'll scoop 15x your stake.
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As mentioned, the harlequin symbol is the wild and as an XNudge Wild it will appear stacked. When a part of it appears, it will be nudged up or down to cover the whole reel. For every nudge that it gets, the multiplier increases by plus 1. It's a cool little feature that this Wombat has admired before…
Harlequin Re-spins
When the xNudge Wild icon lands completely on the reels you'll set off the re-spins feature. You'll now receive up to 4 depending on how many reels are to the left of your Wild.
Next, the stacked Wild will turn into a walking wild icon and on each spin it will move left until it drops off from reels giving you many more chances to hit those winning combos.
Free Spins
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Land another 3x scatters during the feature and another Stacked Walking Wild will be added to the 5th reel. Edging you ever closer to those MEGA payouts.
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If you're having problems setting off the Free Spins, you can buy your own bonus – but it's not cheap at x70 your bet for the pleasure.
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Harlequin Carnival slot looks nice, but it's the high variance gameplay that's got this wombat in a right old tizz! Set off those Free Spins and the big big wins really will kick in. As for the ‘buy your bonus' – tread carefully wombat fans!
Harlequin has scaled fresh heights with its new imprints. Multiple #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller placements, overseas triumphs, films and television shows adapted from its novels have all served to help transform the company from the dominant romance publisher into a leading publisher of books for a wide range of readers and tastes.
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The tradition of the Harlequin party originated in Italy but quickly spread around Europe – and before you knew it every member of the aristocracy was at it! Sadly, it didn't extend to the Aussie Outback…
Fancy masks aside, we've been told this slot is a volatile as a smoking volcano, so let's spin to win!
Look and Feel
Hard rock casino rewards biloxi. The backdrop is pretty plush – with the stairs to a Venetian palace rising from a canal and some over-the-top flower arrangements decorating the palace's opulent arch. As for your reels, they are flanked by two Baroque marble statues while the soundtrack is a plinky Casio-keyboard version of Danza Húngara No.5 by Johannes Brahms (classical music lovers may need to cover their ears).
It's crazy, elaborate and exactly how you'd imagine those Medicis would have thrown a party. This slot is brighter than Beat the Bobbies at the Tower of London and that game is full of Bobby Dazzlers.
Game Play
Harlequin Carnival slot has 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 pay-lines, just under the number you´ll see on Parrots of the Caribbean and other games. You'll make wins by landing 3 to 5 matching symbols from left to right. Pop on your mask wombat fans and spin from £0.20 to £100 per go.
Your symbols on the reels include the spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs card suits in olden filigree plus 5 different masqueraded ladies; one in a grapevine mask, another sporting a bird's beak, a glamorous white cat, a half moon and a golden sun. Land 5x of these icons on a payline and you'll scoop 15x your stake.
Meanwhile, the red and black harlequin chick is the Wild in the game and will land stacked as 1×3 on reels 2, 3 and 4. It will also trigger the xNudge Wild mechanic when it lands in partial view. But more on that later…
The harlequin's face with ‘Bonus' written on it is your Scatter icon, and the way to enter the highly volatile Free Spins Round where you can get your paws on wins of up to 5861x your stake!
Free Spins and Bonus Features
XNudge
As mentioned, the harlequin symbol is the wild and as an XNudge Wild it will appear stacked. When a part of it appears, it will be nudged up or down to cover the whole reel. For every nudge that it gets, the multiplier increases by plus 1. It's a cool little feature that this Wombat has admired before…
Harlequin Re-spins
When the xNudge Wild icon lands completely on the reels you'll set off the re-spins feature. You'll now receive up to 4 depending on how many reels are to the left of your Wild.
Next, the stacked Wild will turn into a walking wild icon and on each spin it will move left until it drops off from reels giving you many more chances to hit those winning combos.
Free Spins
Let's get to the guts Wombat fans: this is where you'll win that jackpot sum of 5,861x your stake. If you're very lucky of course…
Land 3x or more Harlequin scatters anywhere on the reels and you'll scoop 8 free spins. In this money-making bonus round, the Wild will land with an 3x multiplier on reel 5 and will move from to the left until it drops off the screen. But best of all, the multiplier increases by 1x with each step it takes. This means at least 8 spins with a 7x multiplier… Oh, and the respins feature is active too – adding to that multiplier mayhem. EEEEKKK!
Land another 3x scatters during the feature and another Stacked Walking Wild will be added to the 5th reel. Edging you ever closer to those MEGA payouts.
Buy Your Own Bonus
If you're having problems setting off the Free Spins, you can buy your own bonus – but it's not cheap at x70 your bet for the pleasure.
Conclusion
Harlequin Carnival slot looks nice, but it's the high variance gameplay that's got this wombat in a right old tizz! Set off those Free Spins and the big big wins really will kick in. As for the ‘buy your bonus' – tread carefully wombat fans!
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