Welcome to GGY-Meta

If you’re here, it’s because you’ve surfed in most likely looking for info on Gay Manga, Class Comics, shotakon, or yaoi.  Some of you actually find this blog while looking for Me.  :)  Amazing but true, it happens.

I tried to make GGY more Tina-centric, but have no American titles or convention appearances to promote since all my new books are releasing overseas;  the only other subjects covered at GGY would be my thoughts on fandom, of which I really can’t say I belong anymore.  I still create m/m scripts and stories, and still update my notebook from time to time, but because I’ve been writing outside of comics in order to pay my bills–I have little time to blog on writing comics.

Blogging about the creators and publishers of gloBL [global yaoi]  is something I’d love to do, but we’re just not big enough yet to warrant daily coverage.  My experiences with gloBL publishers in the US have not been good.  I started with a publisher that seemed unable to decide if they were a writer or editor, and it felt like they were turning my work into something they would write; the next company published me and then it’s owner decided to meltdown, become uncommunicative, and then fold up; while another company hired me [great editor!] and then mismanaged their business into a hole so deep they couldn’t get out of it.  I worked hard to promote all my titles with these companies, and all I got in return was drama or non-payment.   I don’t like blogging drama, though many readers seemed to enjoy reading it–and I despise being unpaid.  I love m/m, and will keep writing it – and the new opportunities that have come up for me since being published in Germany, are all foreign language and little interest to US fan sites or fans.

As for making this a fandom blog, my heart isn’t in it since I’ve experienced a complete disconnect to BL from Japan.  There are only a handful of new titles I enjoy, compared to the old days when I loved pretty much anything I could get my hands on.  I’ll be honest and admit that I wasn’t impressed with bara [what US fans call gay manga from Japan] at first because it’s just YAOI drawn differently.  Then bara started to diversify in style and story, and while there’s still lots of imitation-yaoi in bara [which its creators call Menslove] some of it sparks my interest because some of it isn’t written for gay male yaoi fans.  I’m not going to just blog about Gay Manga and Class Comics – though this seems to be what many readers come here for…

So with no new titles from me in English; no Menslove or BL to talk about, and my detachment from fandom stateside – I guess it’s time bring GGY-Meta to an end.

I thank everyone that’s been cool enough to link to me and promote me since I moved from LJ to a WordPress format in 2005 [even the bloggers I'm not fond of, you certainly made it interesting].  You can continue to link here because all my fandom entries will remain up.   The only blogs I’ll be updating are my Notebook and I’ll update my website at tina-anderson.net when I can.   I have a Facebook page for ‘Tina Anderson’ and my comics writing, but my personal Facebook account really isn’t about comics and such so if you ‘friend’ that, you might not get befriended unless I know you.

MY FACEBOOK PAGE.

Thanks again, everyone.

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