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Dusk- 04-10-2007
The Slash Skinny news and market report
The Slash Skinny is a news and market report on four genres of professionally published literature and art featuring same-sex attraction: original slash, femslash, yaoi, and yuri. The April 2007 issue is available through the link in this sentence for 99¢ as an HMTL download. Ordering help page. Regular columns: Publishing industry news, news of individuals, interviews, awards and con-*test*-('")s, conventions and other events, new issues, new books, older books, new online works, calls for submission, staff openings, markets and submission guidelines, dead markets, booksellers, professional organizations, publishing cooperatives and subscription Websites, and self-publishing. Top news this month: A slash writer leads a revolt at the new Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America blog. An award-winning science fiction author objects to the labelling of her novels as slash or yaoi. An editor who was friendly to writers of GLBT science fiction and fantasy steps down from a major speculative fiction press. A fan fiction writer hits the big time with her professionally published fantasy novels. Two new yaoi presses emerge. A printer refuses to handle certain yaoi titles. Scholars look at the legality of yaoi manga. An original slash author, a yaoi author, and a femslash author receive awards recognition for their professional fiction.

Dusk- 04-11-2007

Oh, I almost forgot . . . ERWF members mentioned in this issue: Laura Baumbach, James Buchanan, Marquesate, Fiona Glass, Vashtan, and Emily Veinglory.

Dusk- 06-12-2007

The Slash Skinny: June 2007 (99¢ HTML file). What is original slash? Top news this month: Iris Print unveils plans for a new magazine and offers hints of the press's future. A new subscription fiction site arrives. LiveJournal's Strikethrough affects original slash authors. Original slash authors participate in International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Yaoi and slash abound at Amazon. Releases & Reviews: Male/male fiction, female/female fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, vampire fiction, science fantasy, shapeshifter paranormal, speculative fiction, historical mystery, and contemporary fiction. Fiction by Nene Adams, Jesse Hajiceck, Jules Jones, Parhelion, Kimberly Powell, J. M. Snyder, Ann Somerville, and others. Art by Anne Cain, Jinger Heaston, and others. New at the Website: The Master List of Professionally Published Original Slash | Links | April 2007 issue.

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