Friday, July 24, 2009

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Free Yaoi Hurts Cell Phone Charm With Minimum Order Until July 28th!



Let's face it, sometimes YAOI HURTS! This cell phone or iPod charm features a red-headed chibi uke with an adorable blush and frustrated sweat drop. He's lamenting over his broken-hearted message. The charm is soft molded PCV plastic with black back. It's 1.5" wide by 2" long or about 35mm x 50mm.

Attach him to your cell phone, iPod, camera, bag, zipper, or where ever you like! Each charm is in a secure cellophane sleeve.

Read Yaoi Not Actually ~ The new yaoi parody web comic
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ON SALE! Yaoi Press titles, 801 Media books, Aurora Manga, DMP/June, Netcomics, and all Yaoi Novels!

News ~ Did you catch the Winter Demon and Dark Prince cosplayers at Anime Expo? We were so thrilled to have these fans cosplay Fuyu and Hakuin from Winter Demon and Jereth and Moors from Dark Prince! Also at Anime Expo Rightstuf International announced that they have licensed the Junjo Romantico and Antique Bakery anime series! Yaoi Press announced their new illustrated imprint, Yaoi Prose. Meet Yaoi Press publisher and and writer Yamila Abraham this July at Anime TuCon!









Happy Yaoi Yum Yum This Title On Sale!
HYYY will go out of print! We have very few copies left of the first printing of this book. It really is that good!

Yaoi smut tastes better when it's happy and fun! The successor to the ultra popular Yaoi Hentai anthology has a yaoi take on Jack and the Bean Stalk, a twisted take on Goldilocks and the Three bears, and Trach the tentacle monster gets caught in Kemonini forest in his longest adventure to date! (Kemonini means boys with cat ears and tails, or other cute animal crap stuck on them).

Yaoi Coloring Book

Here is the infamous Yaoi Coloring Book! This is 22 pages of sharp linework ready for your colored pencils. Pin-ups are taken from cover images done by Le Peruggine, M.A. Sambre, Yishan Li, Amelia Woo, Studio Kosaru, Fitri, and Rhea Silvan.

Color up a storm and post your art on Deviant Art or Y!Gallery. The coloring book has nice big 8.5"x11" pages. There are 22 pages in all ranging from simple and cute, to lavish and complex. Different artists give different scenes or lovely character pinups for you to play with. The cover image is one of the selections you can color.

Pin-ups come from Winter Demon, Yaoi Hentai, Dark Prince, The Aluria Chronicles, Spirit Marked, Stallion (bonus story), Surge, and Happy Yaoi Yum Yum.

Junjo Romantico vol. 10

Misaki must make a dangerous choice when he's invited on trips by three different members of the Usami family - for the same day! Will his life take a turn for the worse when he turns down the wrong ones? And as Misaki finds himself more involved in the Usami family drama, insecurities about himself and his relationship with Akihiko continue to increase. Will Akihiko be able to cheer him up when they take a steamy bath together, or will Usagi's father succeed in driving Misaki away?




Unsophisticated and Rude This Title On Sale!

Hiroto and his best friend Satoshi have been inseparable ever since they were little boys. But what's Hiroto supposed to do when Satoshi confesses that he's got a serious crush on a gorgeous (and popular) upperclassman named Nao? Hiroto wants his buddy to land the man of his dreams, of course...but there's a brand-new feeling tugging at Hiroto's heartstrings. Can this lifelong friendship weather the stormy waters of first love? Unsophisticated and Rude reveals that boys have it just as rough as girls when it comes to sneaky flirtation, passionate confessions and getting the one you love to love you back! In these short, sweet tales of friendship and heartache, a cast of beautiful men must decide when to let their true feelings shine through...and when to take the plunge into physical bliss! Sometimes, you have to risk everything to keep a perfect lover by your side.




Dark Prince Trilogy This Title On Sale!

Get the entire Dark Prince Trilogy, with a color postcard insert, for a savings of nearly $12 off retail. The shrinkwrapped bundles unite the three-part illustration that goes across the spines of the books.

Dark Prince Davon murders boys for mysterious reasons. When he finds the peasant Aeon he not only lets him live, but takes him as his consort.

This macabre and intricate tale of deviant royalty, twisted love affairs, and demonic gods continues to entrance yaoi fans in this new bundled set.

* Bundle price is a savings of nearly $12.

* The shrinkwrapped bundles unite the three-part illustration that goes across the spines of the books.

* Includes a full color postcard insert with a new Dark Prince pin-up by artist M.A. Sambre.




Cain Trilogy This Title On Sale!

Get the entire Cain Trilogy, with a color postcard insert, for a savings of nearly $12 off retail. The shrinkwrapped bundles unite the three-part illustration that goes across the spines of the books.

The young thief Vanqisher has been taken by General Cain. He's fraught with worry and confusion. Not only because of these powerful emotions brewing in him for his master, but because there seems to be a mystical link between them.

Memories of a salacious past life with Cain surface, that Vanqisher can not explain.

He sees dark wings on Cain's back, yet is unafraid. Just what is Cain? And why do the highest echelons of the church tremble in fear of him?




Shining Moon This Title On Sale!

Before there was Koji Mizuhara, the charismatic superstar, there was Koji Mizuhara, the teenaged prostitute. When he meets the straight-laced Uno-san, a seemingly pure and righteous salary man who is so different from his other customers, Mizuhara suffers an obsession. An obsession to tarnish the man's soul, and so he proceeds to seduce Uno-san. But things swiftly go dangerously wrong and it seems it will be Mizuhara himself who will be burned by the events he has put into motion.




Train Train vol 2 This Title On Sale!

While trying to achieve his goal to become a train operator like his father, 18-year-old Asahi Saruta has had to learn to do without - without money, food, power, running water, etc. Except for his prairie dog, Pure, and his newly acquired luck-pot, Asahi doesn't have much... well, he's as poor as dirt, actually. So when Asahi's train station senpai, Kaiji, decides to have him switch living arrangements with super-rich Hokuto, the hope is that each one will learn something. Instead... Asahi's homeless?! I guess it can always get worse, can't it! Now Asahi works and lives at Minami-Kitazawa Station - a perfect opportunity to find out what goes bump in the night there after the lights are off and everyone's gone home. Yikes!




Sense and Sexuality

Masatsugu Hanamura and Kuniomi Takakura are both Japanese nobility and heirs to two separate Marquis families. As childhood friends and rivals, they live hedonistic lifestyles. Their pastime is a friendly competition where they place bets to see who can win their target's affection first. Then one day, Kuniomi makes a passionate confession of love to Masatsugu and...!? What will become of their life-altering bet between these two beautiful men...!? A Taisho era love story!




The Aristocrat and the Desert Prince This Title On Sale!

In the luxurious Middle Eastern kingdom of Kassina, Takeyuki, 'The Desert Hawk', kidnapped by bandits for his beauty, in turn kidnaps Said, the young man with the blue eyes. With eyes that no one's heart can escape from and a voice that sends chills down spines, it must have been him Said spoke so rudely to on the plane to Kassina. Has Takeyuki been chasing him ever since?




Ai No Kusabi vol. 6 This Title On Sale!

Seeing Guardian's dark side in full, the pursued Kirie escaped to Riki's place. But Guy handed him over to the visiting Katz, leading to discord between Riki and Guy, and Riki left the slums behind to seek out Iason's approval. After a gap of a year and a half, Riki increased his charms and returned as Blondie's pet, but... It's the long-awaited volume 6 the series!




A Strange and Mystifying Love Story vol. 2 This Title On Sale!
He saved Akio Yamane from his incurable sickness, but the outcast, Setsu, has protected this cursed bloodline for countless generations. What will happen when something akin to love begins to blossom between them, in the face of incompatibility between humans and therianthropes. The past of the gentle therianthrope, Setsu, is also explored in the back-up story, "Ishi Kenbunroku" in this, the second volume of the super popular series!





The Guilty vol. 4 This Title On Sale!

Toya Sakurai is starting fresh in a new apartment, now enticingly closer to his lover, Kai Hodaka. When he invites his lover to come visit, he realizes the benefits of living so much closer. But when Toya's publishing company decides to put out a fan book on Kai Hodaka, Toya is shocked to learn just how little he knows about his lover after two years! Also includes a collection of short stories with deeper insight on our favorite guilty pair! Toya spends a love burning weekend with Hodaka in Hayama after the torturously written Emergence. Then, six months into their riotous relationship, Hodaka shows just what he's willing to do to make Toya happy. The loving, dangerous, guilty love they share comes to a climax in this final volume.




Color This Title On Sale!

Theirs was a miraculous and fateful first encounter... In a trance, Takashiro Tsuda gazed at the artwork that shared the same title as the work he had created. The title "Color", and the artist: Sakae Fujiwara. This coincidence was the driving force that led the men to inevitably meet, but what bond, if any, will the artists share?

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Anime Expo Yaoi Press Report!

AX was a wonderful show for us. Moreso than in prior years, it seemed. Having an endcap island in the dealer's room helped our visibility tremendously. We plan on exhibiting this way from now on.

There's so much to touch on. Here it is in list format:



* Yaoi Prose was announced! Our new illustrated ebook imprint was the big news at our Saturday morning panel. We're starting off with a Saihoshi continuation written and illustrated by the amazing Studio Kosen (teaser: Yinn fans will be pleased). The launch will also feature Winter Demon stories written by Yamila Abraham (me) and illustrated by a yet to be named top Yaoi Press artist. The tentative live date is the end of this year. Follow the Yaoi Press and Yaoi Prose Twitters for the fastest updates.

* Our first meeting with a production company was at the show (Valhalla Motion Pictures). We hope to move more towards film and other media, but the gay content does make our properties a tough sell to Hollywood. Here's hoping something pans out!

* Our exhibit was directly across from Media Blaster's. We flung the yaoi stress relief corns back and forth to each other. :D Yaoi fans occasionally intercepted.

* Dru Pagliassotti, professor, yaoi scholar, writer, and my editor for an upcoming nonfiction book on Boys Love I'm contributing to, was wrangled into working at our madhouse of a booth on Thursday. I know she hadn't planned on it. ~~; It was great to talk yaoi at an intellectual level for a bit. I can't imagine what she thought of Happy Yaoi Yum Yum. I did warn her!

* Winter Demon Cosplayers manned the booth Thursday and Saturday. I love them so dearly! Great staff = Show success. Sam, Carleena, Alison, Kailah – Fantastic work!

* 75 Copies of Happy Yaoi Yum Yum sold at the show!!! This is our all time record of sales for a single title at a convention. ;_; Everyone seemed to love it. Many happy fans came back to the booth with kudos.

* Much business discussed with Manager-san Mikako Ogata of Aurora Publishing. She was adorable in her schoolgirl cosplay! Our two companies have so much in common. Got to meet Elisa as well, who I pester at Aurora so very often. ~~; I feel great about collaborating with Aurora in the future.

* I sat at the Netcomics booth quite a while meeting with my very good friend, Vice President Soyoung Jung. Netcomics continues to be our digital distribution provider, and we agree the past two years have been a great success. We talked about other things though. I love that Netcomics USA is stronger than ever despite the bad economy. This is thanks to Soyoung. We compared notes on how little we sleep and how many hours we work. She has my workaholic record beat!

* My friends at Digital Manga Publishing gave me a lovely gift. A bottle of wine in a cloth sack. That was so nice of them! ;_; Sasahara-sensei himself carried the box of books I bought from them back to our booth. We walked and talked briefly. Anime Expo was a great chance to strengthen our friendship with this pillar of yaoi publishing. They've helped us so much over the years. ;_;

* I was also glad to meet with Rightstuf for a bit. They're moving cartloads of our books on their site. We will be expanding into our non-book merchandise with them, and may even do an exclusive item. :) I’m very happy that they're releasing more BL anime soon!

* Friday we had Dark Prince cosplayers! King Jereth and "Queen" Moors. It's funny to have a girl playing a guy dressed like a girl. :D They were amazing. These cosplayers were fans of the books I'd befriended last year. They surprised me with the Jereth and Moors costumes. I didn't make them cosplay my books—honest!

• Shoplifter boobytraps were one of our best ideas for the show. Nothing funnier than seeing a thief foiled and running away in terror. Next year we'll try to set up a video camera to catch some YouTube clips. Anime Expo is sadly the very worst show for shoplifting. All the dealers are on high alert. We were supported by plain-clothes security this year.

All in all a fantastic show for us. One of the very best we've ever done! I'm so glad I got all the networking I needed done here since we were too late to get exhibit space at San Diego Comic Con. AX was all about business this year. That suited me perfectly!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Point of Clarification on Docucopies Issue

I don't want to beat this dead horse much more. The coloring book that Docucopies chose not to print was handled by a local Las Vegas printer. It sold very well at Anime Expo last weekend.

I'm glad that Docucopies decided to clarify their position on what they will or will not print in this blog post. However, I take issue with this reply they placed in their comments:

"Regardless of when the term "disturbing" was first used, it should be clear that the woman who used it felt that way before it was divulged that all characters were male, otherwise she would not have raised issue with the job in the first place."

This is not true. Lynn called the pictures disturbing after I told her they were all male. I posted our email exchange in the order it happened in the May 27th entry about this.

There's some misuse of terms going on. Slander is untrue spoken statements that harms the reputation of a person or business. When these statements are in written form (such as comments to a blog post) it's called libel. Harmful statements are only slander or libel when they are untrue.