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[julesjones]

Short story submissions sent to Clean Sheets and to Iris (a new m/m publisher). 600 words on the mmf story. Annoyance with the keyboard suddenly developing a stammer - I suspect it is to do with the connection on the aforementioned port replicator being somewhat dodgy. My typing's not *that* bad. :-(

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

Had a look at Iris. Interesting, but not sure about the way they seem to equate slash and shonen ai, which latter I'd have thought quite a bit more specialised. Or about being a fan of "boy's love" - I think it's more men's with me.

[julesjones]

Unfortunately a lot of people have got hold of the idea that boy's love, yaio, shonen ai, slash and gay romance are all exactly the same thing. (Anyone who thinks that slash is identical with "gay romance" needs to be pointed at some B7 or Pros slash...) When I read the site in detail it looks as if they know the difference even if they're playing to the audience that doesn't, and they're also interested in slash-with-original-characters as you or I would understand slash (although the romance sub-set rather than the full works). So I bunged them the serial-numbers-filed-off version of Tea Ceremony. One of my fluffier ones, but definitely "men's love" rather than "boy's love". Of course, what an American publisher will make of an extended tea-and-tiffin joke is another matter. I'm not sure how well the crumpet joke translates, never mind the Carry On Up The Khyber references.

[bakkhos.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind that I friended you. I can't believe they have a professional publication in the US for shonen-ai. That's so incredible.

[julesjones]

Via

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Via <lj="anghara"> by the looks of your userinfo. :-) Welcome to the rasfc dogpile...

There are a couple of them -- you'll have missed my post some months back pointing at the American manga publisher:
http://www.yaoipress.com/info.htm

And Silver Moon has m/m anthologies which may include shonen-ai (I haven't seen any, and haven't read the guidelines in detail, so I'm not sure exactly what areas of romantic m/m they're covering).

I pick these up from places like ERA:
http://www.erotica-readers.com/ERA/G/G-Main.htm

And my interest in this is that my publisher is happily publishing stuff that would be called slash if it wasn't with original characters - including mine. They were one of the first romance publishers to do so, at a time when most romance publishers were of the opinion that women don't like That Sort Of Thing. Funny how a lot of the other romance publishers have since decided that women like m/m after all. :-)

[bakkhos.livejournal.com]

Yep, I found your page through anghara. ^__^ rasfc dogpile??

Thanks for all the links. Just curious, who is your publisher?

[julesjones]

I know her through the usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.composition, a group for science fiction and fantasy writers. There's a bunch of us on LJ.

My publisher is Loose Id. Erotic romance publisher who do mmf and m/m as well as het. http://www.loose-id.com