Yaoi House future clouded
Several sites are picking up on a blog posting which indicates that Yaoi House, a small boys love publisher is closing up shop.
[O]wner Kira Takenouchi announced that Yaoi Underground LLC will be terminated and money returned to investors, while she is surrendering her own shares of Yaoi House LLC and leaving it up to the investors to do what they want with it.
When I came across the post it reminded me to check up on Iris Print, another US-based BL publisher (of both comics and prose) that ran into some trouble a while back. They have managed to get two of their prose books, the novel A Strong and Sudden Thaw and the short story collection Connections up and available on Amazon’s Kindle; regular ebooks are also pending, according to owner Kellie Lynch.
While this sounds like trouble ahead for yaoi, poking around on Takenouchi’s blog reveals a gradual change of heart, including a spiritual awakening, hastened the Yaoi House disolving.
Let me be perfectly clear: I am not giving up my old life because God told me gay love was wrong. What is wrong is sexual promiscuity, the lack of an undivided, sacred union between any two people. More than this, what is wrong is that I was devoting my life to pleasure and to my own ambitions, rather than stepping aside and allowing the Will of God to flow through me.
It was not an easy decision for me. I wanted to keep my life and the success I was enjoying. I had just felt wonderful about my decision to devote all my time to writing.
Takenouchi is working on refunding money to early Yaoi House subscribers.
Above illo taken from a commission for Takenouchi by kir-tat and ©2007-2008 *kir-tat
04/8/08 at 10:49 am
Hey All,
I am one of the shareholders for Yaoi House LLC, and it’s Web Services Head. I am now the one responsible for hosting all of the sites.
Yaoi House is still very much alive. Heather (The Interim President) and I have been working away at getting another e-commerce solution running, as well as finding authors to pick up stories.
The new “Yaoi Shoppe” should be online within the next 12-24 hours if not sooner. Look for the main page at our website to change and begin linking to our new Shoppe.
If there are any questions I can be reached at tgrossett@yaoihouse.net
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Regards,
Rev. Tyler Grossett
Shareholder
Web Services Head
Yaoi House LLC
https://yaoihouse.net
tgrossett@yaoihouse.net
05/31/08 at 8:57 pm
Yaoi House is still very much alive.
That’s a laugh. No, this is the real story of Kira and YH:
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/publishing-house-alert-yaoi-house-llc/
Takenouchi is working on refunding money to early Yaoi House subscribers.
And, no, she hasn’t.
06/14/08 at 9:05 pm
Ashes,
At the time Tyler posted that comment things WERE going well. Unfortunately Kira came back *ha ha, didn’t really find God, whoops* and mucked everything up. But I agree with your sediment, I won’t be giving that company any of my money now. If you want some good yaoi with a stable business try Juxtapose (www.juxtapose fantasy.net) or, if you want to read stuff by the old Yaoi House authors who were smart and bailed when things got weird with YH again, try SL Publishing (www.slpublishinggroup.com)