I’ve had a change of heart.  After stressing over the situation, and trying to write additional scenes (not easy when you’ve decided to stop writing in this genre) and having a complete panic attack which was so embarrassing (I was tempted to remove the post, but I decided against it ), but we decided– 1 volume, the script remains the same, and the book will get drawn the way it was supposed to. 

We’re still going to put off releasing in the summer due to the artist having computer issues, but either way, Games With Me is on track– releasing April 1, and I can still breath a sigh of relief.

In other news– I got my first batch of returns from my distributor, since allowing returns in the last quarter of 2011.  It consisted of only two book.  Wow.  I expected it to be so much worse.

-Tina

This weekend has been very eventful, so many entries…which is unusual for me, on this blog.

After discussions with the Italian publisher, I’ve been asked to alter the release date for the combined volumes of Roulette on the KINDLE, so that they can release the first Volume of the print edition, in Europe first.  Since they plan to take Roulette to the  Angoulême International Comics Festival as part of their new Italian-bara style line, next year, and they wish to release one Volume at a time, they’ve asked me to hold up on releasing Roulette in its entirety.

My books are now sold on Amazon.it, Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de, for foreign KINDLE’s,  in their original English language.  If I were to release Roulette in English to all of these, it would be competing with each print edition the publishers paid us to produce, and would reveal the ending of the book, before Teke Eket had a chance to release Volume 2.

I’ve decided to honor their request, and alter the release of Roulette, until after Angoulême, in 2013.  I’m so sorry to all who’ve been waiting for this series to release since discovering it in Dramaqueen’s RUSH – and putting up with the delays and issues we’ve had over the years since the series began in 2007.   Many false starts and lots of false hope–but the series is finally on track financially, and is being completed for a publisher that can actually produce it.

I wont interfere with that, even if it means I have to wait another year for it to see print.

Thanks,

Tina Anderson.

We have changed our release date to April 1, 2011 – in order to ensure that all parties involved with the production of Games with Me (ISBN 978-0-9744195-5-8 ) are able to finish their part.

Thank you for your understanding, and we hope to see our readers at San Japan in August.

 

Lots of homoerotic comics weirdness of late– it seems that the editors in Italy would like ‘Roulette’ expanded to a two-volume release; in order to accommodate them, I’ve had to add a new scene to the original DQ script (which was 176 pages); and for the second volume, I’ve been asked to add a side-story…  At first I thought ‘no way!’ not writing BL anymore…but… as I thumbed out the extended scenes, I’d forgot how much I love the volatile pairing of Riley and Colletti.

I’ll be writing an ‘epilogue’ of sorts, a little small one-shot that will give Volume 2 the page count it needs to release with the Final Chapter of Roulette.  Lots of shockers in that Chapter, I think readers will find it’s been worth the wait.

The Italian publisher plans to take Roulette to Angouleme this year, so Volume 1 will be released before that.

Not going to get anyone’s hopes up– but Gynocrat Ink is seriously considering attending San Japan in August.  It’s always been a wonderful convention for us, and we won’t be going as guests– but as art-alley-peeps.

If I order limited copies of Loud Snow, and take a convention stock of Games with Me and Roulette,  as well we Only Words– total potential sales look great, even with an overhead budget that focuses heavily on postcard-handouts for digital editions awareness.  We would take a loss by going,(this is determined by total overhead–purchasing stock to sell, purchasing sales placement on floor, hotel & travel) but only a $55 loss, which as a sales and promotional outing, is really not that bad.

The only thing that would keep me from attending would be if Roulette doesn’t release on time, and Games with Me V2 fails as a digital release, or I can’t score an art-alley table.  0_0

If you don’t know what the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, go here for biased, yet clear definition.

As many of you know, I’m a bit torn on this version of the legislation.  I’d love to end the issue of piracy, as I’ve seen my sales directly affected by readers uploading my books online and offering them up as ‘free to read.’  To me, this is true piracy.  Yet according to SOPA, in it’s current form, if a fan decides to make fan art of characters I’ve created for a publisher (I designate a publisher because Gynocrat Ink would never go after any one engaging in fan-work), then they risk censure, fines, and more.

I started out in publishing by creating my own fan books, all of which are now out of print, but under SOPA, I’d be risking jail time and fines–not just me, but my printer, my artist-partner, and the conventions at which I sold my books, anyone associated with my PIRACY of the those original works.  That’s right, I admit that under SOPA,  what I did is piracy– I created those books, ran a short print run, and sold them only to fans on eBay, and at conventions.  I NEVER interfered with Darkhorse’s ability to sell Gungrave or Trigun–just like I never interfered with VIZ’s ability to sell Kenshin, or Inuyasha.  Part of what makes this medium an exciting one, is the creativity of the fans, and creative fans run the risk of offending the bulk of parody works fandom, by creating a derivative that may be considered offensive.  That’s not piracy.

The genre of BL is driven by artistic fans that are oft considered rabid fever-dreamers weaned on main-stream manga, where they create their own subtextual possibilities–if you want to be technical, the official Japanese genre of BL was cultivated around the popular fanworks of a handful of “discovered” doujinshika. The business of BL in Japan has its origins exclusively in publishers seeing the enormous popularity of sexual or romance driven homoerotic fan comics.  In Japan, it’s big business–in America, you run the risk of being scolded by the licensor of the work you’re parodying.  Scolding and disapproval from American pubs, is a far cry from fines and jail-time and the jacking of your domain name.

Right now, SOPA is being presented as a tech-war between media and media-servers, and on the surface, it looks like it will effect only those sites that stream unlicensed manga, but if you read the details–it get a bit…complicated. SOPA, in its current form, may seem wonderful to American License-holders of Anime and Manga works, but remember–this kind of bill always lead to a slippery slope.

My name is Tina Anderson, and I’ve written graphic novels and fan comics for fans of homoerotic stories, since 2004. I started Gynocrat Ink in 2008, it is my ‘doujinshi circle’, or what fans unfamiliar with Japanese fandom terms call, my ‘small-publishing house’.

Gynocrat Ink exists to produce only my own work, which has been illustrated by various talented artists.  Some of these titles are self-published by choice, while others were self-published due to issues with publishers that were originally meant to produce them.  Either way, Gynocrat Ink and its imprints ‘Circle-G’ and ‘EM Novels’, has always specialized in the ‘the works of Tina Anderson.’

If you own a Kindle, and are enrolled in Amazon Prime, you can now read the eerie supernatural horror ‘Gadarene’, for free.

Also available free to Amazon-Prime members is Boy 90, a mature speculative short by author Tina Kolesnik.

 

Read them today!

Inks are finishing up, and tones have begun.  Here are some familiar faces appearing in volume 2 -

Gynocrat Ink is now out of Rush 0 and #1, we were the sole providers of new copies at Amazon.com. 

If you wish to purchase new from Dramaqueen, please visit their DQ Shop.

Roulette, our series that ran in this anthology, will release in English, summer 2012.

Thanks to every who supported us by purchasing from us -

Tina Anderson & Laura Carboni.