Yamila Abraham
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Yamila Abraham is the founder and publisher of Yaoi Press
, a publishing company based in Paradise, Nevada
that focuses on Original English-language manga
concerned with stories of boy/boy relationships (Yaoi
), marketed towards a female audience. She describes yaoi as being "a life-long obsession", having created works about boys in love during her childhood, Abraham discovered the online yaoi community in the late 1990s. Abraham is also the writer of numerous graphic novels with four different publishers, including the Winter Demon and Dark Prince series. Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.
On September 22, 2009 Abraham was arrested and pleaded not guilty for indictment of mail fraud, misbranding a drug, and introducing goods into domestic commerce by means of false statement. The case never went to trail.
Yamila Abraham has also contributed stories to the anthologies Yaoi Hentai
(volumes 3 and 4), and the first volume of Happy Yaoi Yum Yum.
Yaoi press
Yaoi Press is an independent yaoi comic publisher based in Nevada. Founded in 2004 by publisher Yamila Abraham, the company specializes in Global BL, or yaoi comics originally published outside of Asia. Yaoi Press publishes original OEL manga as well as European yaoi in translation, and features...
, a publishing company based in Paradise, Nevada
Paradise, Nevada
Paradise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census...
that focuses on Original English-language manga
Original English-language manga
Original English-language manga or OEL manga is the term commonly used to describe comic books or graphic novels in the "international manga" genre of comics whose language of original publication is English...
concerned with stories of boy/boy relationships (Yaoi
Yaoi
In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
), marketed towards a female audience. She describes yaoi as being "a life-long obsession", having created works about boys in love during her childhood, Abraham discovered the online yaoi community in the late 1990s. Abraham is also the writer of numerous graphic novels with four different publishers, including the Winter Demon and Dark Prince series. Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.
On September 22, 2009 Abraham was arrested and pleaded not guilty for indictment of mail fraud, misbranding a drug, and introducing goods into domestic commerce by means of false statement. The case never went to trail.
Works
- Winter Demon (2006–2008)
- Dark Prince (2007–2008)
- Pinned! (2005)
- Kingdom of Selfish Love (2005)
Yamila Abraham has also contributed stories to the anthologies Yaoi Hentai
Yaoi Hentai
Yaoi Hentai is a yaoi original English-language manga anthology series by various creators. This manga is considered extreme for yaoi and is reserved for mature and explicit content....
(volumes 3 and 4), and the first volume of Happy Yaoi Yum Yum.