PR: Pick the best of BL at Yaoi Suki

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

BL readers take note: Yaoi Suki is running its annual BL awards again, and voting is now under way for the User’s Choice award. Jordan Marks and Jen Parker, the dedicated pair behind YS, are approaching their topic with cheery irreverence, so this should be fun.

YAOI FANS UNITE TO PICK BEST BL MANGA OF THE YEAR
YaoiSuki’s Annual Awards Are Under Way, And Voting Is Open for User’s Choice Award!

PORTLAND, ORE. – October 19th, 2007 — Yaoi news and review site YaoiSuki has announced their second annual Yaoi Awards as the lead-in to the site’s extensive coverage of Yaoi Con in late October. This year’s lofty awards include the “Read On Mute” award for bad dialogue, the “Most Unpronounceable Title” award, and the “Thank God It’s Over” award, among other prizes of varying sincerity.

On October 19th, the site opened voting for the biggest award of the series: the User’s Choice Award for Best BL Book. With eleven main contenders from such BL creators as Fumi Yoshinaga, Toko Kawai, and Ayano
Yamane, it may be the hardest decision and BL fan has to make— but readers can submit additional nominations, so it’s a wide-open game!

Voting closes at 12pm Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, October 25th, with the final awards presented on Friday, October 26th.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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