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Introduction to the BLBL Newsletter

 

Hello to all BL enthusiasts out there! How were your holidays? We hope you are feeling great and that you are in the mood for more and more BL coming in the new year!

We are the BLBL—or Brilliant Library of BL—ScribbleHub's group of writers and readers of the Boys' Love genre in any way or form it is known as, whether that be BL, LGBTQ+, M/M, slash, mxm, danmei, yaoi, shounen ai, bara, or whatever its name is. We welcome and appreciate all!

We decided to create this monthly Newsletter to help support, encourage, and promote the BL authors on Scribbly, and to help find, categorize, and follow the news across different stories for the BL readers (due to the site not being very helpful in that regard yet >_>).

 

What does this mean?

♥ For Writers ♥

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For writers, we are trying to build a community outside of the reader response because, for whatever reason, the readers on SH are quite shy and reluctant to join, fave, or interact with the stories. Not to say we are going to catch all the potential readers and force them or anything (don't worry, readers +_+ we have your backs!), but we understand that it might be unfeasible to expect readers to come to all the books especially when it's so hard to find most of them when they are buried so deeply in the BL ranking chart.

Most people (like some of our mods, too) are shy and introverted and wouldn't want to comment or interact with the books they read even when asked. But many authors are shy as well and wouldn't even dare to ask. Unfortunately, due to the lack of reader response, many authors get dejected here on SH and end up leaving before managing to break the 10 chapter mark, thus, further diminishing the chances of their works meeting the readers through continuous exposure.

While we cannot provide this outlet of reader response directly, we can help promote BL author stories through our Newsletter and special BLBL events, and above all, provide the sense of a BL author union (or should we call it a guild?) where we can ask each other questions and aid each other in all the writing matters.

For that, all BL authors are welcome to join our Discord server, a writing club room, and the BL thread on the forum! If you post in the SHF thread, we will send you an invite to the private BL room we have on the site and will be able to interact on BL topics outside of the general forum sight ^^. (Secretly and sinisterly planning the world domination through BL, of course).

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♥ For Readers ♥

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For the readers, this Newsletter will help you connect with all your favorite authors through interviews and their participation in our Short Story Anthologies and competitions centered around BL! Plus, you can take part in the SH community BL life and participate in our forum threads and share your favorite BL News and Recommendations! Check out these—we want to see more BL-enthusiastic people regardless if you prefer to read or write!

Within the Newsletter, we want to provide our readers with the features that Scribble Hub, for now, lacks. We have tried to make the administration expand the tags or genres, or let us have our Recommendation Lists, or searching by tags to be a little more coherent (tag definitions, please! T_T).

In short, the features we are talking about is gathering all the BL-centered news on this site in one place. The new releases, the news about novels going on hiatus or coming back from them, authors talking about copyright issues they encountered in their publishing, authors sharing their social media accounts, and inviting people to check out their books in stores and dedicated sites. Plus, as you will see soon when our first Reading List comes out—the Recommendation Lists grouped by tone or genre that the Series Finder cannot necessarily do.

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Just scroll through the Newsletter, and you will see ^^. Why explain more?

 

 

 

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BLBL Newsletter

January 2021

 

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Interviews with Authors

Since the Newsletter is already a bit long and weird (●_●), we have decided to separate the Author Interviews from the Newsletter and release them throughout the month according to the themes of the current Newsletter Issue.

This month's Newsletter theme is Short Stories and, as always, congratulating those authors who have managed to finish their stories recently. Thus, the interviews will ask those authors you can see featured most in the Short Story section later today ^^, and the authors you can see in The Book Finishing section.

Look forward to it, will you? ^^

 

 

 

 

The BLBL Short Story Anthology Announcement

We are also starting our own BL Short Story Anthology. Please read more about it here, on Scribble Hub's forum if you wish to participate as a writer or reader! (◠‿◠✿)

And, just so you know—the Anthology will be centered around the Springtime and First Love! (◡‿◡✿)

 

 


 

 

New BL Releases

Here are all the Novels starting to release in December 2020! Since it's a bit boring to list them all just alphabetically or chronologically – check them out based on ~vague genre denominations ^^.

Some of the novels will be marked with a heart ♥ and some with a star ★ ! The hearts are the authors who support and participate in our Newsletter, so we are allowed to gather news from their profiles and chapter announcements, while the stars mark the books with more than 10 chapters—so binge-worthy material!

 

Intersectional BL

(BL Novels featuring GenderBender or/+ Girls Love)

 

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GenderBender

Sword and Chalice by minacia (3 ch) ♥

the world magicians sexual adventures by theweirdestimagination (2 ch)

2AM Karaoke Stream by minacia (6 ch) ♥

 

Girls Love

Heroes and their love life on earth by Velester (2 ch) ♥

The Silk Rose by RimuThighHighs (2 ch)

the world magicians sexual adventures by theweirdestimagination (2 ch)

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

Short Stories from Earth 1011 – A More Wholesome DCU by SkirtsnScribbles  (1 ch)

 

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Setting-specific BL

(Marked as Scifi, Mecha, Sports, or Historical)

 

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Sports

Sword and Chalice by minacia (3 ch) ♥

3 Beats per Second by summervaca99 (3 ch) ♥

 

Historical

Cultivation Master with infinite imagination. By Velester (16 ch) ♥ ★

The Companion [BL] by Waterrain (2 ch) ♥

Latî by Rikaaan (4 ch) ♥

Your Majesty, the King by CatMasseuse (29 ch) ♥ ★

 

Scifi/Mecha

A Different Life [BL] by Waterrain (3 ch) ♥

2AM Karaoke Stream by minacia (6 ch) ♥

 

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Tonal BL

(Comedy, Drama, Tragedy, Psychological)

 

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Comedy

Heroes and their love life on earth by Velester (2 ch) ♥

Cultivation Master with infinite imagination. By Velester (16 ch) ♥ ★

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

Rebirth to Become a Dominant Omega by latteectrie96 (10 ch) ♥ ★

Short Stories from Earth 1011 – A More Wholesome DCU by SkirtsnScribbles (1 ch)

 

Drama/Tragedy/Psychological

My Strange Friend by Kalip (6 ch) ♥

Death Threat by heheawecomemana (7 ch) ♥

Heroes and their love life on earth by Velester (2 ch) ♥

Cultivation Master with infinite imagination. By Velester (16 ch) ♥ ★

The Imperial Prince and the Servant Prince(ss) by purmassuri (7 ch) ♥

Latî by Rikaaan (4 ch) ♥

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

Your Majesty, the King by CatMasseuse (20 ch) ♥ ★

Reborn in Eclipse by DreamingKeys (3 ch)

Short Stories by Raven15 (12 ch) ★

2AM Karaoke Stream by minacia (6 ch) ♥

A Thousand Cranes by Luna_1101 (1 ch)

Short Stories from Earth 1011 – A More Wholesome DCU by SkirtsnScribbles (1 ch)

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Fantastic BL

(Fantasy or/+ Supernatural)

 

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My Strange Friend by Kalip (6 ch) ♥

Unhappy Medium: Hellfire and Oceanspray [BL, don't forget it!] by The_Long_Serpent (4 ch) ♥

A Reaper's Luck by Blossom_From_Fear (3 ch) ♥

Sword and Chalice by minacia (3 ch) ♥

Heroes and their love life on earth by Velester (2 ch) ♥

The Silk Rose by RimuThighHighs (2 ch)

just a word | bxb by haruhan (3 ch)

Latî by Rikaaan (4 ch) ♥

A Different Life [BL] by Waterrain (3 ch) ♥

the world magicians sexual adventures by theweirdestimagination (2 ch)

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

Infinite Christmas! By Aachiin0914 (27 ch) ♥ ★

Your Majesty, the King by CatMasseuse (29 ch) ♥ ★

Rebirth to Become a Dominant Omega by latteectrie96 (10 ch) ♥ ★

Full Moon at Daybreak by 5hehzada (25 ch) ★

Reborn in Eclipse by DreamingKeys (3 ch)

A friends reunion by FavreMyOrange (2 ch)

Game Maker by Amili-pai (2 ch)

The Price of Patience by SiQingMei (7 ch)

 

Supernatural (w/o Fantasy)

Death Threat by heheawecomemana (7 ch) ♥

3 Beats per Second by summervaca99 (3 ch) ♥

[FANFICTION] [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint] She wanted a bagel by qpzmal (1 ch -- ONESHOT!) ★

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Mystical BL

(Horror/Mystery)

 

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Death Threat by heheawecomemana (7 ch) ♥

Latî by Rikaaan (4 ch) ♥

Full Moon at Daybreak by 5hehzada (25 ch) ★

The Price of Patience by SiQingMei (7 ch)

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Sexy BL

(Smut/Ecchi)

 

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The Imperial Prince and the Servant Prince(ss) by purmassuri (7 ch) ♥

The Silk Rose by RimuThighHighs (2 ch)

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

Reborn in Eclipse by DreamingKeys (3 ch)

A Thousand Cranes by Luna_1101 (1 ch)

The Price of Patience by SiQingMei (7 ch)

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Daily Life BL

(Slice of Life or School Life)

 

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Sword and Chalice by minacia (3 ch) ♥

3 Beats per Second by summervaca99 (3 ch) ♥

The Companion [BL] by Waterrain (2 ch) ♥

2 Families Sweet Fate by Velester (7 ch) ♥

just a word | bxb by haruhan (3 ch)

A Different Life [BL] by Waterrain (3 ch) ♥

Rebirth to Become a Dominant Omega by latteectrie96 (10 ch) ♥

Short Stories by Raven15 (12 ch) ★

Short Stories from Earth 1011 – A More Wholesome DCU by SkirtsnScribbles (1 ch)

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Hiatus and Slower Releases Announcements

Welcome back from the holidays, exams, hiatuses, and slower releases! Winter is a harsh time, especially this year, with the Corona and all—families have a harder time meeting across countries, health issues, depression, and an overall graver mood after such a disastrous year. But hang in there. We wish you to get better and to take care. It's no big deal if you end up releasing stories slower or cannot come to read quite as often as you did before—take a hug and good luck in the new year ^^!

 

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Coming back from Hiatus

 

The demon lord decided to marry the hero to win by DominiqueAd

Second Chance by Heart

Thin Ice by FantasyDeath

Elements of Lunarya by Lulible

 

Going into Hiatus

 

Nothing has officially entered Hiatus in December! Yaaay!

There might be novels that enter Hiatus inadvertently or without their authors making announcements, but we are not yet decided on how to separate those from the titles that just release suuuuuuper slowly, like one chapter every half a year. So sorry, for now, we need to come up with a way to define what counts as an impromptu or “soft” hiatus if it doesn't have an official announcement made.

But officially—no novels entered Hiatus this month.

 

Slowing Releases

(Not Hiatus at all – just slightly slower than usual, do not worry!)

 

For February's Rain by namio

Dating the Strongest Caster [BL] by Lon3ly

Harry Potter and the Peculiar Malfoy by LingShan0218

Accidentally Became the Heroes' Lover by iamaducklingwriter

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Finale Announcements

Yay! It's hard to believe—but some of us actually finish their stories! (Crazy, right?) To commemorate all the brave soldiers of BL who have managed to push through to reach the end of their journeys, here is the special section of our Newsletter that celebrates those who are entering their finale stages or have already finished their stories in December!

You are admirable! Take congrats and lots of hugs! \(*o*)/

And Readers—take note of these stories and give them your love before it's too late! You can still read some of them while they are still ongoing, but not for long! 

 

Alphabetically by author name:

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Finally Found You(BL) by cravingsoul

(@^▽^@)

 

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Waylaid [BL] by crimson_carnation

\(^○^)人(^○^)/

 

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Thin Ice by FantasyDeath

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Grandmaster's Weird Disciple by Owl

(゚ー゚*)(*゚ー゚*)(*゚ー゚)

 

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We've Lost the Plot by Pandoraeh

(ノ◕ヮ◕)*:・゚✧

 

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Media and Meta Story News

Authors announcing their stories sold on Amazon, Kobo, and in other venues, or maybe authors sharing their accounts on Tumblr and Twitter? Other news worth spreading and raising awareness about in the wide net like piracy of our stories and the issues with translators and contracted work on other sites or adaptations of their work into any other format? New covers being released or sharing fanart and fanfiction of our own books? Any news like that—here!

 

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Social Media and Sites

 

bafflinghaze shared a personal site to check out their writer asks answers and the end of the year lists!

CatMasseuse invites you to check out the quizzes for their story in the chapter announcements, a twitter, and to check out their drawings ^^.

FantasyDeath starts accepting commissions and invites you to support them on Patreon and Ko-Fi, and also to check out their books on their site here, and on tapas.

Lesson101 invites you to support them on Patreon, Ko-Fi and Tapas!

LucyPanDora shares the link to their own website. Check it out!

Go to MyLadyQueen's profile on SH to find their BL exclusives on different sites ^^.

ScrapAuthorProducingScraps announces that they are moving their story away onto another site TT__TT.

tigerine shares their personal site and twitter hashtag through which you can find all the discussions about their story!

Check out yansusustories' twitter and site as well!

 

Worrisome News and Copyright Violations

If you want to help Owl, go to their account to see how you can help them track the Pirating sites that steal their book, Grandmaster's Weird Disciple, and try to paywall it. Keep an eye out for any of the SH stories you see appearing on other sites, including the translator sites.

 

Book Deals and Books in Stores!

FantasyDeath invites you to check out their published book in the store! \(*o*)/ Congrats on publishing a book, FantasyDeath!

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Chibis of the Author Characters

for the Next Newsletter

 

See the chibis with all the most influential and memorable of BL couples in fiction? Wonder if you can guess which one of them is which! (Tell us in the comment section ^^).

But the more important note is that this is the banner solely for the first Newsletter to get us all in the mood for some great BL in the new year! Each following Newsletter will feature the banner with 5-6 BL couples from the stories published on SH, chosen randomly from the authors participating in our Newsletter. Hope to see you there and hope that some of you might even guess the characters just from their chibis without peeking at any of the spoilers that will come with the banner next time ^^.

 

And for now—please come and check out our forum thread about sharing BL News and Recommendations where we drop our most favorite titles for others to appreciate!

 

 

 

Take care and good luck to you all! (And good BL-ing to you ^^)

Look forward to the Author Interviews we will start releasing in our Newsletter soon!

 

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