So, as a card-carrying academi-nerd, when I started reading manga the first thing I did was look for books on the subject. Which led me to the massively useful Manga: The Complete Guide. Jason Thompson, author of MTCG, is raffling off all of the manga he collected in writing said book, a new drawing for five books every day. Go to www.suvudu.com and fill in the form box on the left sidebar, and you too could WIN FREE MANGA! (Entries don't turn over, so enter daily for best results.) Also, if free manga can't get you to visit a site daily, there's a new manga review by JT and his cohorts more-or-less every day. (They also have a RSS feed, if that's still not enough inducement.)

I am the proud recipient of five volumes of yaoi, as you may see below (taken in lab; my home decor is lacking but even I don't have boxes of microfuge tubes hanging around the living room). Since my personal collection of yaoi is vast and extensive, I was half expecting to end up with five duplicates, but still. Jason Thompson's personal manga! I wonder if I can get it signed... As it happens, JT was prescient enough to send over some of the few things I do not have, to wit, the first three volumes of Youka Nitta's Embracing Love (which is out of print, no less). Plus also Yuko Kuwabara's Blue Sky and V1 of Makoto Tateno's Blue Sheep Reverie, both of which I remember vaguely liking, and a postcard for JT's new graphic novel, King of RPGs. The system works!

Incidentally, of the 15 or so people who have sent in photos to date, I'm like the third yaoi fangirl. Our name is legion, for we are many.