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  • Nostalgic Gems: Why These 90s Shoujo Manga Are Still Must-Reads Today

    Mars by Fuyumi Soryo Popular Rei and shy Kira are worlds apart until one fateful day brings them together. Rei stumbles upon Kira in the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher and saves the quiet girl from his clutches. And when the jock plants a kiss on a statue of Mars in the studio,…

  • Fugitive Heart by Mathitu Wairimu – Pre-Order Alert

    Fugitive Heart by Mathitu Wairimu Makena has been living in the shadows, evading her abusive past with her young son in tow, running every time it threatens to catch up. Then she crosses paths with David, a kind-hearted stranger who thaws the icy grip of fear around her heart. She faces a dilemma she never…

  • Evaluating Offset Printing vs. Digital Printing for Books

    Q. What is the process of offset printing? What kind of machines do you need and why is it so expensive to set up? The Process of Offset Printing Offset printing is a printing technique where an inked image is transferred (or “offset”) from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing…

  • Hana Yori Dango Vol. 1 by Yoko Kamio: A Captivating Manga Story of Love and Adversity

    Hana Yori Dango Vol. 1 by Yoko Kamio When her only friend, Makiko, accidentally offends F4 leader Tsukasa, Tsukushi boldly defends her. Enraged, Tsukasa puts the dreaded red tag in Tsukushi’s locker — a sign that she is now a target for the abuse of the F4 gang and the entire school. But when Tsukushi…

  • Essential Book Formatting Guide: Tips and Software for Authors

    Book Formatting Once you have written your book and are ready to publish it, it is time to focus on book formatting. Book formatting is deciding what your completed manuscript’s content will look like to your reader, on paper as a printed book or on a digital device as an eBook. 1. Why do you…

  • Discovering Ai Yazawa: Nana and Paradise Kiss Creator

    There are amazing women artists in the world of Manga. Today, let’s discover more about Ai Yazawa, the memorable Nana and Paradise Kiss creator. Both mangas have adaptations into anime and live-action movies. About Ai Yazawa Ai YAZAWA (矢沢あい) is a Japanese manga author. Her pen name comes from Japanese singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom…

  • Three Favorite CLAMP Manga

    About CLAMP Clamp, stylized as CLAMP, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that was formed in the mid-1980s. Many of the group’s manga series are often adapted into anime after release. The Artist Group currently consists of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and…

  • Binti the Series Guarantees Adventure this May

    Let’s fall into adventure. Binti is an amazing series that I got into this May. Read it in one sitting, falling into Binti’s world. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher…

  • Yargo

    Yargo by Jacqueline Susann A beautiful earth woman is kidnapped by Yargo, the incredibly attractive ruler of a distant world, and begins a romantic adventure to exotic planets. A tale ensues: I read this book when I was in grade school so many years ago. It was on the home library shelf and the story…

  • Defiant

    Defiant (Song of Chaos Book Three) by Michael R. Miller The great powers are stirring, and Holt and Ash are ready to return to the fight. A summons from the Life Elder sets them on a perilous mission, leading to steaming jungles and blistering islands where ancient secrets will challenge everything they know of magic…