News from Iris Print

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Iris Print recently canceled their planned boys love magazine BL Twist, and they have also been rather quiet lately. Now Yaoi Suki posts a letter from the publisher and the news that if you want more of that sweet, sweet BL, you should pre-order their next two books. Here’s a quote from the letter Iris editor Kellie Lynch sent out today:

The short story is, Iris Print ran out of funding. Orders for in-stock books are still shipping, and refunds for BL Twist are being issued, slowly but surely. But there hasn’t been enough money coming in to support this venture for a long time, and to be honest, the plug was pulled a lot later than it should have been.

As Lynch is the sole employee, and she has to go back to her day job to keep the company going, she is also looking for volunteers to help with editing, typesetting, web stuff, etc. Watch her blog for future updates.

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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