Christie Gordon's Blog, page 7

Does Yaoi exploit gay men and do we care?

Wow, what a question to start off with when I've been absent pretty much all summer, huh? From what I've seen out there in author-land, there seems to be some polarizing views on what Yaoi and M/M romance written by and for a female audience (yes, I know many men like it, too, and I think I've already covered this ground in "Yaoi versus M/M Romance: What's the Difference") should be and how it may or may not affect the gay community.

Let's take the first part of this, shall we? Does Yaoi...

Are Anime Stories Better Than Hollywood? + Comments and Contest Winner;)

I'll just get the "business" part over before hitting on today's topic, if you don't mind.

Yay!!! My comments finally work! I freakin reuploaded everything only to find out I did some disastrous boo-boo in setting up my page links, causing my comment dilemma. I'm over it. Moving on…

Congratulations to Lakisha for being the ebook winner at my "Grand Opening"! If you all are interested, I wrote everyone's name down on a folded peice of paper and then had my younger son pick from a hat. Yep...

New Home – Grand Opening and Contest!

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Now that I have your attention*snicker*  Hi everyone and welcome to my new and hopefully better blog and website. I'll be blogging here about the same things I did over at House of Manlove, namely Anime, Yoai, M/M Romance and JRock and I believe you can subscribe to my blog and get an RSS feed if you're so inclined;) Of course, I'm still working on the bells and whistles of trying to make it easy to subscribe…

If any of you are wondering, yep, ...

Book Trailer for The Obsession!

Whew! Am I tired... It took three days and two nights of less than 6 hours of sleep for me to pull this together. But anyway, I'm happy with the results. I used Corel Painter to mess with pictures I pulled off of Dreamstime (love that site for royalty free photos), plus just my own drawings that I used on the book cover. I edited the frames and such using plain old Windows Movie Maker and made an excerpt of the live English version of the song Kurenai from X Japan (which I'm pretty sure is le...

Yaoi versus M/M Romance: What's the difference? Is there a difference?

*Pic courtesy of Homotography
So before I begin this discussion, I suppose I need to define what constitutes "M/M Romance" and "Yaoi". Of course, by setting a definition I may very well answer my original question;) But here goes:

M/M Romance: This is usually defined as women writing homoerotic romances for women. It usually comes in book form - short stories, novellas or novels. The covers of the books are made up of largely  half nude, buffed men. The covers are also done with photo-manipulat...

The Obsession

The ObsessionA Yaoi, M/M Contemporary Romance© Copyright Christie GordonAll rights reserved, eXtasy BooksISBN: 978-1-55487-494-1
Blurb: As a senior-year art student at a Santa Barbara university, Tristan is caught in a mental prison of his own making. Sexually repressed and emotionally abused by an oppressive mother, his preference for men leads him into sexual addiction. Then a new roommate appears in his dorm - Collin, a stunning psychology major from class he's fantasized about since the...

Yaoi Talk: L and Light Yagami

Me: Welcome to another edition of Yaoi Talk with your host, Christie Gordon. Today we have with us L and Light--Light: I said leave it alone!L: But there is a 99.963 percent chance of you having candy in there.Me: (leans over the table) In where?scuffle, scuffleLight: Get your hand out of there!L: But something's in there, I feel it!Light: No there isn't...OW!L: I got it (smiles big)Me: You've got what?
Light: That's not candy! (falls backward in the chair)L: Ah! (falls backward in the chair w...

Hot JRockers in the Spotlight

So my first question here is - who do you think is the hottest JRocker? And - what makes them so hot? I know a lot of you out there fawn over Gackt, and yes I think he's pretty easy on the eyes (to say the least). But for me, Hyde is the one that does it. I'm not sure exactly why that is - maybe the big, dark eyes, the pouty lips, the amazing voice, the hot way he sticks his tongue out in almost every frickin picture he poses for, LOL. It makes you wonder what he's thinking of licking;) His w...

Yaoi and Slash Yahoo Group

I've made a Yahoo Group just for us : Yaoi_and_Slash. It's for discussing all the things I tweet and write about in this blog - yaoi, slash, M/M Romance, anime, jrock, etc. I want to bring fans, authors and artists together, because I looked over all the Yahoo Groups and there wasn't one active group like it...really. You can post links to your favorite sites, pics of your favorite yaoi pair or talk about the fanfiction story you just read. Really, just like that. And even talk about your fav...

How much does your boyfriend or husband like Yaoi?

So I just recently downloaded and watched (for a whopping $3 each, mind you) Little Ashes with Robert Pattinson and Dorien Gray with Ben Barnes. I loved these movies, especialy Little Ashes. Without giving you all spoilers, I'd just like to say there is one very hot and erotic scene in particular I liked *TT* in Little Ashes.

This story revolves around Salvador Dali's homosexual relationship with Frederico Garcia Lorca (played by Javier Beltran). Pattinson plays up Dali's bizarre behavior...