It's sad for me to have to make this announcement in the midst of such exciting times for BL fans-- the number of BL manga in the US just keeps rising, as does the number of anime adaptations in Japan, and did I mention ANTIQUE BAKERY ANIME?! --but make it I must.

After much discussion, Jordan and I have decided to suspend our BL coverage at ( Read more... )

I just got a frantic call from my pal gia, who apparently was checking up on her RSS feeds in the middle of a layover in Oakland and found this big news. For those of you who can't read it:

ANTIQUE BAKERY IS GETTING A TV ANIME!

Yes, yes, it's not technically BL (and gia and I both expressed our hopes that people won't assume it is and ignore it), ( Read more... )

YaoiCon has announced its guest of honor for 2008: Nitta Youka, creator of Haru wo Daiteita/Embracing Love! This isn't her first appearance at the con, either-- she attended six years ago. I bet more than a few of you will be excited to have her back, aye?

We first heard about it from the Youka Nitta LJ Community, btw.

Discuss on the forums.

 We got some nice e-mail valentines from both 801 Media and Iris Print, who seems to be plodding along according to their blog (also, I can't help but guess that the valentines day image, which features a "little red riding hood" and a wolfboy, is from their upcoming BL fairy tales project?).

But! 801 Media announced a few of new licenses, so let's ( Read more... )

CONFESSION TIME! When I first started the Yaoi Press Suki contest, we had our winner in record time-- the FIRST respondent! After some quick deliberation with Yamila over at Yaoi Press we decided we couldn't let the fun end THAT fast, so we'd just have two winners.

Well, folks, we now have our second winner! So congratulations to users quacky and ( Read more... )

Okay folks, here's your second hint for the title of the new upcoming Yaoi Press anthology series:

H_ _ _ _  YA_I  Y_ _  Y_ _

Ooh...I'm kinda mean. ;) Here are the rules and instructions!

Discuss on the forums.

Dun-da-dunn! I promised a new contest, and now it's time for me to deliver!

Yaoi Press is sponsoring a contest for us in which you get to guess the name of their new line of yaoi books, which will replace their Yaoi Hentai series. We'll be posting regular hints about the name in a sort of hangman-style fashion, revealing letters as we go. Whoever ( Read more... )

 Iris just sent out an e-mail alerting us that until noon tomorrow (that's January 25th, 12pm PST), Iris' pending titles Home on the Range and Queer Magic will both be 30% off at the Iris store. Use the codes "hotr30percent" (for Home On The Range) and qm30percent (for Queer Magic) to get your discounts, and get to it if you're gonna. The codes ( Read more... )

 
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So we haven't heard a word from Iris Print since they announced that they were cancelling BL Twist, but today we got a letter-- and anyone else on Iris' e-mail list did as well --from editor/owner Kellie Lynch, explaining the situation of her company.

You can read the full letter here, but the basic sum-up is: the company has run out of funds (or ( Read more... )