Yaoi Jamboree, June 20-22, Phoenix, http://www.yaoijamboree.com
I feel like a bride with her wedding eminent. I’m so thrilled about all the wonderful stuff we have planned. I just want to clarify that the entire convention isn’t in the Media Center. There is also a ballroom, panel rooms, a game room, and an anime theater.
I can’t believe it…just a few more days to go!
Yaoi Jamboree is minutes away. I hope you’ll all be there June 20-22 in Phoenix. We have guests Eiki Eiki, Le Peruggine, Mikiyo Tsuada / Taishi Zao,
Aoi Futaba, and Kurenai Mitsuba. Visit the site for the details: http://www.yaoijamboree.com
Here’s our schedules straight from the programming guide:
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Here’s our final Dealers Room:
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This is going to be such an incredible show. Please don’t miss it!
Please support Dany&Dany’s new vampire project Daimones in Tokyopop’s Pilot Program. Tokyopop wants you to read, review and tell them which TOKYOPOP Manga Pilot should be made into full-length manga. Of course that should be Daimones.
This is me and Dany&Dany at the opening ceremonies at Anime Central:
That convention was great fun.
Speaking of conventions… Yaoi Jamboree. June 20-22. Phoenix Arizona. Don’t miss it!
A-Kon opened their ‘Convention Alley’ last minute and Yaoi Jamboree Chair Kyla Mills jumped at the opportunity to get a spot for us to promote Yaoi Jamboree there. I’m shocked to announce that they’ve actually given us a spot. Yaoi Jamboree has half a table in the convention alley.
We will have a display for Yaoi Jamboree and thousands of fliers to hand out for YJAM. We’ll also be doing preregistrations at the booth.
I’m not going to miss this chance to sell Yaoi Press books and parasols in Dallas for the first time. We will be dedicating part of our tiny table real estate to book sales. Please hunt out our half-table this weekend at A-Kon. New staffer Nancy will be running the space for us.
Hello from Toronto where I have just arrived for Anime North. I’m still beaming over Anime Central. I’ve never had a better convention experience than that show. It was fantastic to see my dear friends Dany&Dany again, and also to receive the love of so many fans. The convention staff treated us wonderful. Chicago was amazing. I wish every show could be like this one.
At the end of the Chicago part of my trip I didn’t say goodbye to Dany&Dany but ‘See you later.’ This was their second show in the USA in less than a year. I know they’ll be back in 8 months or so for another event. ACEN asked for them to return next year since the fans went so crazy for them. I kind of want to bring them to a new area each time, but we’re not ruling out anything.
My head is spinning in Canada. I haven’t been here since I was 8 years old. I’m enjoying some culture-shock. The full-blown Toronto accent is so strange to my ears I almost think people are faking an accent to mess with me. I can’t believe how huge the smiles are here. People are so genuinely friendly in Canada.
Oh…and for any other adult publishers thinking of coming to Anime North…all my porn made it through the border. Mwa ha ha.
I’m off to Anime Central tomorrow, and will be going directly to Toronto for Anime North/Yaoi North from there. I can’t wait to see Dany&Dany again. I love them so much!
May 16-18
Anime Central Booths 434 and 436
JaCon Booth AH
May 23-25
Anime North Booths F and G
Yaoi North Guest Booth Area
Yaoi Press is sponsoring the Hot Yaoi Night once again at Jacon this year. There’s a Yaoi Press Industry Panel, a Boy Love (Dany&Dany) panel, and a how to draw anatomy panel by Dany&Dany at Anime Central. I’ll be running an Industry panel for Anime North, and a yaoi evening event at Yaoi North.
I need everyone to go to all these events. Even the ones that are in Orlando and Chicago at the same time.
Dany&Dany Yaoi-fied the ACEN Mascots:
Are you one of the 540 people who’ve pre-registered for Yaoi Jamboree? It’s time to sign up if you haven’t. I’m so excited about the events we’ve got lined up.
Yaoi Jeopardy - We got the proper permits to be able to offer CASH PRIZES! (Taxable, sorry). Contestants will be attendees screened right at the show. With multiple games culminating in a final show-down I think it’s going to be the hit of the convention!
Death Note, Bleach, Naruto, Harry Potter, and Gundam Wing yaoi parody skits!
Yaoi Bingo, the Bishounen Wheel, Yaoi Improv, Catch a Bishie for a Prize, Costume Contest, Slants Concert, Dance, Yaoi PJ Party, Fan Panels, Industry Panels, Artists, Games, Anime, Vendors, an Auction, and more!
Guests Eiki Eiki (Art of Loving, Dear Myself), Mikiyo Tsuada (Princess Princess), Le Peruggine (Winter Demon, Cain), Aoi Futaba, and Kurenai Mitsuba (Level C, West End).
We’re really going the extra mile to make the very first Yaoi Jamboree incredible. Be at the first show to get that 2008 tee-shirt so you can sport it around when you go to Yaoi Jamboree 2012.
Winter Demon will continue in Germany. I’m happy to say Fire Angels purchased rights to volumes 2 and 3 at the same time, with an option for the fourth and final volume.
Of course I get a little puffed out chest at the success of Winter Demon 1 in Germany, since I wrote it. It’s one thing to publish your own writing and have it successful. Another thing to be chosen by a publisher and have your work (and that of some fantastic artists) prove its merit to them. Artists Le Peruggine really put their hearts into the series. I think their art in volume 3 is the best work they’ve done so far in their lives. I adore them!
Also licensed to my second publishing partner in Germany is Dany&Dany’s newest project coming out in November. This is the third book they’re doing just for Yaoi Press (after Lily and the Rose and Dark Dreams). Wild Side grabbed it before I could even think of shopping it around. The Wild Side publisher is one smart women who I was lucky enough to spend time with at the 2006 Yaoi Con. I wish I was as pragmatic as her.
I’m extremely honored to be a guest at the following shows:
Anime Central - Weekend of May 16th with the lovely Dany&Dany
Anime North - Weekend of May 25th
Anime Expo - Weekend of July 3rd with the lovely le Peruggine
Being a guest lets me have more fun at shows than when I’m simply promoting Yaoi Press. I love meeting fans. I love giving panels or doing stage events. I’m always ready to jump in and do an extra panel or event off the cuff when a scheduled panelist didn’t make it. I’m uninhibited in front of crowds: being a little nutty, non sequitor, and edgy to get laughs. The Anime community is so friendly. It’s easy to have fun.
If you’re at Tekkoshocon this weekend please come by our two booths in the dealers room and say hello. My east coast staff person was unable to do this one, so I scrambled to get a plane ticket to Pittsburgh a few days ago.
You can keep track of all the Yaoi Press and Yaoi Jamboree convention appearances through our Google Calendar Account.
This is one manga-ai publisher benefiting from the weak dollar. We don’t buy many licenses, but we do sell a lot. The low dollar is turning our licensing fees into bargains. German licensors are signing contracts for books that don’t even have cover images yet. Their price has dropped by around 20%, but I don’t see any difference in the USD amount I’m wire transferred.
A Dutch publisher in Indonesia wants to have us censor some of our best offerings so the government will allow them to print. Brazil and Hungary have finally opened up to negotiation. I’m getting emails in indecipherable languages on a weekly basis.
The shipping cost of the parasols made export impractical before. The lower dollar is essentially making shipping to Europe free.
When I first considered going to Anime North in 2007 my plan was to just charge the USD cover prices, and take a hit when I converted the currency. We didn’t end up going in 2007, but I was invited to be a guest of honor this year. This is great. I can charge cover prices and the currency exchange in the end will just about be even.
I know inflation is bad. I hate that plane tickets have skyrocketed, and gasoline is outrageous. Besides these two things, I don’t feel the effects. I haven’t been touched by the mortgage crisis because I own my home outright. Food is no more expensive now than it was in 2006. Clothes seem to have gotten even cheaper. I can’t believe how cheap computers are now. The $500 computer I bought last month has better specs than the $2000 Toshiba I bought a year ago.
Not everything is perfect for Yaoi Press. We’re carrying more debt than I’d like, and a recent change our distributor made where publishers must now eat shortages reported by retailers has significantly reduced our only reliable source of income. I’m happy to get a push from any source I can.
