So according to terrygold on the Youka Nitta LJ community, Nitta-sensei has opened up her own website, including a blog for sensei and a blog for her assistant(s) and some other groovy stuff.

Meanwhile, back at the ranchYaoi Con, we've left the convention for good and said our goodbyes. We DID decide to give you bingo players a freebie: we asked Juné about "Art of Loving 2." (The answer, as always: it doesn't exist yet.)

We are also getting ready to have a deathmatch over who will get to review Hinako Takanaga's The Devil's Secret, licensed by 801 Media.

But this isn't the end of our Yaoi Con coverage just yet! Keep an eye out over the next few days for a review of the two butler cafés as well as the transcript of our interview with Takanaga-sensei!

We'd also like to give a shout-out to the con, especially April who was awesome (and got us early seating at the bishi auction), and the staff in general who were always on-hand and ready to be helpful.

Don't forget, if you think you got a bingo, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it your name/username, card #, and all, five items that make up your bingo!

Shizuki Yamashita, the director of operations for Broccoli Books, is also the managing editor for Boysenberry, the company's young boys love line, and she's running the Boysenberry panel.

Apparently they were never able to work out a deal with Borders to get them in normally because of one of the cover characters looking a bit too young, but a few renegade Borders have them, as well as plenty of other shops and the sales have been doing well.

Pet on Duty is due out in November, and those of us here at the con get to pick up a copy here! ♥ And it should be in Borders, no problem. There IS some mature content in it, too, so score! Sex Friend will hit shelves in December.

And now, the new licenses!

• Cigarette Kisses ("Kuchibiru no Yukue") by Nase Yamato, which is a salaryman love triangle (not a threesome-- we checked)
• This is NOT a Boysenberry title, turns out, but it's called Koi Cupid by Mia Ikumi, the author of Tokyo Mew Mew. Broccoli doesn't go high-volume, so I guess that's why this very, very non-BL title is being mentioned. But hey, I like cute stuff, so maybe some of you do too? It IS obscenely cute, however!
• One more Broccoli title called Pandora Hearts, a Square Enix title by Jun Mochizuki-- a shoujo series. Again, not BL, but it's got a cute boy on the cover (he's pretty young, for those of you who are into that, but Shizuki showed more covers with older boys, all of whom look quite yummy). Probably a little on the slashable side, I'm guessing.

Also, Boysenberry Books' official website BoysenberryBooks.com WILL be up soon, hopefully within the next two weeks. (Currently it's just a splash page.)

Q&A time:

• The website will NOT feature an online store to buy Boysenberry's books, at least from the get-go. But Shizuki clearly feels strongly about direct sales, so that may happen in the future.
• One person has asked if they're going to do more *tame* stuff, which is kind of interesting. Originally the plan was to do tamer boys love, but it's a bit harder to find in Japan.
• Koi Cupid was originally run in ComiDeji Magazine, published by Broccoli Japan (natch). Pandora Hearts was published in G-Fantasy, by Square Enix.