"In 1989, Harlequin came up with a marketing scheme to capitalize on an untapped market: the women of East Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publisher handed out more than 750,000 copies of Ms. Jordan’s “A Reason for Being” to the newly liberated German women."
- Penny Jordan, author of 200 romance novels, dies at 65 - The Washington Post / Fascinating obit, including this strange detail at the end.
(Source:Washington Post)
