Ok, This Looks Good.

Instead of sweeping my pool, I’m procrastinating on the internets.

This looks good. It’s the pencils from the upcoming Artifice short, written by Yaoi911’s Alex Wolfson.

Oh Lord, the fail. Hey, at least they’re leaving Yaoi alone. ((^_^))

{Thanks to Erastes for showing me this} Heinz…what the hell ails you?

And good luck to Lynsley Brito, she might be taking her manga Venom Fang [now called Shenjie] to the Philippines for their yaoi convention, Lights Out.

Over at the gay historical romance blog, The Macaroni’s, Ann Herendeen looks into the odd habit of infusing that special female character into what should be a romance, about gay men. Seriously…do we really need a woman here? Is it down to– we’ll publish this, if you turn it into a three-way romance with a woman in it–or is it just cold feet on the part of historic writers?

MY take: Personally, I don’t enjoy three-some stories that are mixed gender. It adds fuel to the misconception that women who peg have boyfriends who are willing to be shared with another man. Most bend-over boyfriends are not gay…at least not consciously…and no, they don’t want to experiment with another man to make you happy. LOL! It’s just not straight-boy nature. But alas, it’s about escapism right? It’s not supposed to be realistic. Ok. (^_^)

Josh Lanyon’s new book from LooseID went on sale today.

And this makes me sick. Please…do not spent over $20 on Finder. I know it seems hopeless right now, but for G*dsake! This book will come out eventually, and when it does it will likely be the Libre edition license and it will look better than this one. You’re going to feel like a real doofus for paying $100 for something someone bought for about $14. Scour Youtube, ask the right questions privately–find the scanslations. 0_0 It’s only erotica, ok? At those prices listed on Amazon, Asami should be able to peel himself off the page, and service you.

The Original GreatwhiteSnark.

Buddy Cole.

YOUTUBE VIDS UNDER THE CUT

You Must Chill.

I’m not going to say your name, because you know who you are.

So some fuckwit who ruined ‘working in comics’ for you gets to keep his job. That’s hardly a reason to turn your back on comics and then gripe at everyone else for not being as personally butthurt, as you are. I understand your pain, but only to a degree. My own genre suffers from fuck-wads disease; and despite my saying ‘I’m through with American publishers’ I certainly will never stop reading the material they produce and supporting the genre.

To put it in perspective: Try watching graphic novels you spent the better parts of a year FINISHING [yes, writing it finishing it and submitting it], suffer at the hands of a publisher. It’s happened to me, twice. Iris Print still hasn’t sent me any info about my books and the second quarter of the sales year is over. DQ got a graphic novel from me, written for their anthology, I don’t get paid until it prints–and they’re MIA and probably will be for quite awhile. Try dealing with that bullshit and then still have the passion to keep writing it. :/ Am I saying my butthurt trumps yours? No–but I’m not calling for fans to stop supporting GloBL. Do I refuse to cover GloBL? No way.

My own issues will never eclipse my love or original m/m comics [ok, there's one creator at Class Comics I won't review--but that's not the entire genre! ^_-] Shit, despite the intense dislike Yamila Abraham and I have for one another, I’ve still reviewed Yaoi Press titles; I still rec them…even the stuff written by her.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, if hurt pride is all that’s fueling your anti-DC jihad, then you’re going to run out of juice real quick. I’d have more sympathy for your cause if they actually fucked you over financially and artistically, but they haven’t. They’ve just pissed you off as a person, which has somehow manifested into ‘you’ being pissed off as a comics fan.

I still like your blog, so I’ll see you when you’ve run out of anger. ^_^d

Damn You Media Blasters!

I was hoping you brought Aoi Futaba and Kurenai Mitsuba to Yaoi Jam in order to announce that you were licensing West End…you know, like a West End omnibus or something!  I was counting on it…I even bought a piece of celebratory cherry cake in anticipation.

What did you announce instead?  Some yuri in color as close to the original release as possible.  Wow.  I can even haz reversible book jacket so I can see the nekkid anime gals.

>______<

No.  Ok?  No.  I’m sure there are some ladies out there jazzed by this yuri in color release [and a few guys stupid enough to be jazzed because they think Yuri is all about them...] but I’m sitting here eating this cake and what am I getting for it?

Fatter.

I’d rather be fatter, and getting a West End omnibus.

Please Frank Pannone…please license West End; don’t let me get fat for nothing!

Love,
Tina Anderson.

Production Post: Gadarene

Someone recently reminded me that I haven’t posted anything, from a publishers perspective, about Gadarene–in quite some time. ^_^ The second quarter saw our biggest sales because of reviews!

Units moved to date: 57 Print copies, 12 eBooks, 3 Hardcovers

+These sales do not reflect books I gave away for reviews, promotions, to local libraries, or distributor solicitations - which equals to about 20 books, at my expense.

That’s not much is it? Well, I don’t have a distributor except for Amazon, and bookstores wont deal with me until I do. ^_^ It’s ok though, I’m not stressing this at all because I’ve got zero overhead at this point [I made all the money back I put into promoting the book at cons, and my small-bookstore market plan that went nowhere. ] So I’d say to date– I’ve made about $24 profit for this book after paying back my production and promotional costs–AND it’s only the 3rd Quarter…the year isn’t even over yet.

Yes, producing original print material is tough, but at this point–I’m not losing any more money, so it only gets better from here.

About Gadarene: In the notorious Five Points slum of 1870’s Manhattan, Galen ‘the Mongoose’ Driscol steps out of jail and back into the arms of his transgendered lover, Wira Boruta. When Galen tells Wira that he’s tracked down the man who tried to kill them as children, Wira is unwilling to listen, and pleads with Galen to forget the past, and live only for the future…their future. Only Galen doesn’t forget, nor does he forgive. He doesn’t give a second thought about exacting justice, but justice has a price, and it’s come to collect from the one person Galen loves most…

Via Amazon $16.99 | Via Amazon Reseller $8.24*-$14.99
Via EM-Novels ON SALE BECAUSE I HAVE ABOUT 5 COPIES LEFT ON HAND.

eBook $4.00 | KINDLE $3.99
Hardcover $21.99

A word about seller Warehousedeals. My printing is done by Createspace which is Booksurge–and both belong to Amazon.com Whenever they print a book that doesn’t meet retail standard [any crooked printing, pocked pages, ink dots-- etc, they cannot ship those to a reader that's paid full price!] they toss it aside.

Someone there then goes through and finds the copies most salvageable–then they sell them as ‘used-good’. :/ I don’t complain because, they should be able to make back some money on the occasional POD-bonked book.

Amazon has the option of buying from me wholesale on my publisher page at Createspace, and they haven’t yet. I’d be annoyed if I found that they were selling Gadarene ‘new’ at a lower price, because this would indicate that they’re printing and selling my title without paying me my royalty! When I saw them listed on my sales page as a reseller, I made it a point to email and find out what was up: I learned that ‘used-good’ means they’ve got some minor-botched books and they’re cutting the price in half to move them.

Monday Sunburn.

Argh! I didn’t sleep well last night, mainly because I have sunburn on my stomach and legs. ( >_< )

I’ve given up on doing any more comic scripting this summer. F-it. My mind is all over the place, and I’ve got 4 new graphic novels going to print at the end of this year and start of next year [one of them is 2 volumes] in Europe, so I’m not busting my ass to make anymore new work right now.

I owe one more volume of Sacrifice in Poland, which I’ll get to once the first volume is completely drawn, and the last thing I submitted to anyone is a Gay YA novel called ‘Lost Along the Way’; when that comes back, I’ll focus on revising it—yet other than that, I’m tired and I need a break.

Today’s paper plate lunch:

The inside of a left-over stuffed pepper on mac & cheese…

On a work note: The production company is going to France at the end of the summer, and I’m trying to opt out of it. The company now produces two shows, and the other show needs a ghost writer/back up scripter as well, so I’m going to talk to my boss about writing for that show while the production period on the other show closes out. I’m hoping my gender will help me, since the other show features a woman lead—but somehow, I doubt it. >.>