Friday, June 22, 2012

Manga and Romance Blog Hop



Hi to everyone! Hope the weekend treats you well. 

Now on to business. I'm participating in a blog hop titled Manga and Romance. Manga is a form of Japanese comics that involves gay relationships. And Romance is the genre I write within, M/M fiction. I'm not familiar with Manga but after today that will most definitely change.  This blog was designed to bring the two together and introduce something new to readers. I for one am always looking for new material to read.

Like I stated above, I write in the M/M genre. This is also the genre I typically read but I read everything and anything I can get my hands on, but when it comes to putting words to paper its the love between two men that sparks my creative writing flow. 

I do get asked on occasion what qualifies me to write about a male-male relationship when I'm a woman. Simple, love is love and a little research never hurts. (wink*wink)
But seriously the dynamics between man-man, woman-woman, man-woman all have the same foundation, at least for me and how I view relationships. Love is the center of it all. Sex is just an added bonus. And as a I writer it doesn't matter what genre you write in its all about the creative way of describing your thoughts clearly to the reader. To be able to paint the perfect picture so the reader feels apart of the scene. 

On a personal note on why I love this genre so much is that its something different than I've ever read before. Growing up I read a lot and my mind was always thirsting for more and still is. When I came across a story involving two male characters it touched me in a way that had me seeking out more books of this nature. I love the pairing of two men. Its a love that is different yet the same from a traditional socially accepted relationship. I'm married and I love men and in my mind there is nothing sexier than when two men come together and fall in love. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. This is a blog hop and my giveaway will be one of my books, winners choice. I'll pick two winners in this hop. All you have to do is leave a comment and a valid email address so you can be contacted it you are the winner. Also if you want feel free to click the follow button to the right. I'm caught in the middle of two works in progress and preparing for edits on a release in September, but I'm doing my darnedest to keep my blog updated. 

Also there is a grand prize giveaway. When you leave a comment and valid email address on participating blogs you are entered! Haley B. James is in charge of that giveaway.
Here is the link to the page with more information: 

Blog runs from Friday June 22 until Sunday June 24. I'll pick my winners on Monday morning.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck. Click on the above picture and it'll take you to the main blog hop page and to a list of all the participants. Stop by their blogs for a chance to when some awesome prizes!!!

AJ Jarrett


20 comments:

  1. hey AJ!!! I happen to know you write m/m very well! So I believe that qualifies you. I love your books!!

    morris.crissy@gmail.com

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    1. Thanks,Crissy!!! Now if I could only get my husband to read my M/M stories. LOL!

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  2. Susie Bright once said something along the lines that it's perfectly valid for women to write about gay male sexuality, because women can fantasize about whatever they damn well please. Awesome!

    vitajex(at)aol(dot)com

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  3. I hope you enjoy reading yaoi manga! I tend towards the anime since it's sometimes hard to find or follow translated manga online. Wish I read Japanese!

    lina7391(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  4. Hi AJ, thanks for participating in the hop! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!


    charliecochet(at)gmail(dot)com

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  5. I love reading your books and look forward to many more. Thanks for the Yaoi blog; I am learning so much
    Yvette
    yratpatrol@aol.com

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    1. Thank you! I'm excited to learn more about this Manga/Yaio too!

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  6. I agree that gender doesn't matter--it's how the author can convey with words the love between the two characters.

    Thank you for participating in the hop :D

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  7. So very true, AJ. Love is love no matter what cover it comes.

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  8. The m/m genre seems to allow more latitude in the type of relationships or interactions that the characters can have as opposed to a m/f relationship. Have been learning about Yaoi and Manga which are not familiar genres to me.

    strive4bst at yahoo dot com

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  9. I agree love is love! I don't see why some people insist you can only write what you have experienced. If that were true reading would be a lot less fun :)

    Lillywriting@gmail.com

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  10. Hi AJ ^.^ Happy to see you in this hop too. I've been having fun reading the blogs and I've sunk myself into some yaoi as well, because I love yaoi and get easily distracted by it.

    Erica
    eripike at gmail dot com

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  11. Thank you so much for sharing! This was a great post and I enjoyed your views on writing M/M as a woman. :)

    ~Night Tempest♥

    NightTempestBlog@gmail.com

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    1. *LOL* seems like there are several of us that will being checking into yaoi! Me included. :)

      ~M

      ~nomoretears00@hotmail.com

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  12. I, too, stumbled on mm romance and went "whoa". That opened up a whole new world of reading for me and I love it.

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  13. Only for the last year or so have I really read mxm romance. I was strictly a BL fangirl (someone who reads yaoi/Boy Love manga and watches BL/Yaoi anime). I am really excited to see that there are SO many different authors who actually write books. Real, drawn out, real story line books. My 'to read' list keeps on growing, and I am really looking forward to relaxing and reading again, which was missing in my life for a while. So much romance... so little time...!

    Manda (Krowhop@gmail.com)

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  14. I'm a big yaoi manga and anime fan. I also love m/m novels, romance, mystery, fantasty, etc.

    Two of my favorite yaoi manga are Junjo Romantica and The Finders series.

    Thanks,
    Tracey D
    booklover0226 at gmail dot com

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  15. Thanks so much for participating. Sorry for the late reply, but my computer crashed and I'm borrowing one. I decided at the start of this hop that I was going to go to all the stops, so I'm finishing what I started. And as it's not yet 11:59 here, I'm finishing up here. I'm a fan of both yaoi and m/m and so I love that this hop is introducing two of my loves to others. Thanks again for playing!

    tiger-chick-1(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  16. Hi there! I know the hop is over, but I'm catching up on the blogs I didn't get, as they all have interesting things to say!

    Forgive me for fussing, but I noticed at the beginning of your post you said "Manga is a form of Japanese comics *that involves gay relationships*." It may have been a typo, in which case you can disregard this next bit.

    Manga is Japanese comics, yes, but the gay relationships are a category WITHIN manga called yaoi. Therefore all (most?) yaoi is manga, but not all manga is yaoi.
    Also, yaoi is supposed to only refer to the sexually explicit M/M, with Boys Love, or shounen-ai(obsolete now) referring to the more romantic stories--but lately yaoi means both kinds.

    Being an anime and manga fan for years I feel the need to dispense knowledge when needed. *bows* Apologies for my blathering, doubly so if you already know all that. ^_^U

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    1. Yeah, I'm new to all this manga and yaio. Thank you for explaining. :-)

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