Some of you may remember that I reported on the strange matter of Yaoi House, a western BL publisher whose owner surrendered all her shares to the shareholders. On that thread I’ve received a couple of comments from a Rev. Tyler Grosset, who is a shareholder and now Yaoi House LLC’s web services head.

The company has (re?)launched its online shop, where you can buy individual books or a regular membership subscription for access to chapter-by-chapter updates of all of the company’s works. They’re also looking for more authors, so if you have a BL novel in you, you might consider getting in touch with them (although writer guidelines and whatnot don’t seem to be available on the new site yet).

Western BL took another hit today: the small-press publisher of BL books, Yaoi House, and its sister site, Yaoi Underground (which sells e-chapters of the owner’s fiction), are reportedly both up in the air after owner Kira Takenouchi announced that Yaoi Underground LLC will be terminated and money returned to investors, while she is surrendering her own shares of Yaoi House LLC and leaving it up to the investors to do what they want with it.

When I came across the post it reminded me to check up on Iris Print, another US-based BL publisher (of both comics and prose) that ran into some trouble a while back. They have managed to get two of their prose books, the novel A Strong and Sudden Thaw and the short story collection Connections up and available on Amazon’s Kindle; regular ebooks are also pending, according to owner Kellie Lynch.