Behind the Cover: ANZU

ANZU begin her career as a manga-artist at 1996.
 
Graduated from local college, Petra Christian University with Bachelor Degree in the major of Visual Communication Design at 2002 and begin worked as a Graphic Designer at the same year. She was stick with those jobs in a while, then back to her previous job as a manga-artist at 2003.



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February 2004, she was chosen as one of the representative in “Comic Asia 2004: Women in Comic Asia” (Asia Joryu Manga no Sekai 2004) held in Tokyo, Japan.
 
After done with The Reformed (Randomhouse, Inc., Spring 2008) she will be working as the artist for X-MEN shoujo manga.
 
http://www.anzu-art.com/

Behind the Cover: ANZU

ANZU begin her career as a manga-artist at 1996.
 
Graduated from local college, Petra Christian University with Bachelor Degree in the major of Visual Communication Design at 2002 and begin worked as a Graphic Designer at the same year. She was stick with those jobs in a while, then back to her previous job as a manga-artist at 2003.



( more pics )

 
February 2004, she was chosen as one of the representative in “Comic Asia 2004: Women in Comic Asia” (Asia Joryu Manga no Sekai 2004) held in Tokyo, Japan.
 
After done with The Reformed (Randomhouse, Inc., Spring 2008) she will be working as the artist for X-MEN shoujo manga.
 
http://www.anzu-art.com/

Gay Paris by Robie Madison

This is the second book in a series, but since the previous one is an het romance, I didn't read it (yes, I know, bad Elisa...). The note is necessary since it explains the feeling I had of Wyatt at first: the reader is plunged in the story like he knew Wyatt; Wyatt is a mourning character, he is sad and in searching of something, but what pushed him at first and why he is in Paris, we don't know. Probably if I had read the previous book, I would have hdd some hints, but in this way we learn about Wyatt reading the story and collecting pieces here and there... actually is not a bad way, and so, I would have no problem to recommend people to read the book as stand alone as I did myself.

Six years before Wyatt was living in Paris, as a struggling jazz artist. He was gay (he still is), but finding company was not first in his list of things to do, and so when he was at first approached by Zach, he was not very friendly. But Zach was nice and clearly not comfortable in the gay scene at all, and maybe Wyatt was moved by the man more than he wanted to admit. Wyatt and Zach spent two wonderful weeks in Paris, sightseeing and loving, but at the end of the two weeks Zach returned back in the closet, in Canada, leaving Wyatt alone in Paris. Life then forced also Wyatt to leave Paris and he was never happy again after that.

Coincidences and love, make a pact to bring back Zach and Wyatt in Paris at the same time. Now it's Zach who pursues and Wyatt who runs away: Wyatt is no more willing to suffer and he fears to fall in love again with Zach; doesn't matter that obviously something happened in Zach's life and that he is no more the man of six years before.

The story is medium long, 95 pages, but it is really romantic, as it should be for a story setting in Paris. Even if Wyatt is rough, he obviously doesn't want to punish Zach; all right the man left him, but Wyatt knows that it is not entirely Zach's fault if Wyatt's life is not what he would like to be. And so yes, Wyatt is not very friendly with Zach, but he neither rejects Zach's advances, as he didn't do in the past. Actually Wyatt's behavior isn't changed much, he is still impulsive, doing and saying things that regrets soon later. And Zach is the same, avoiding Wyatt's bursts to reach the man behind.

All in all I like the story, it's nice and romantic, the style is simple and the play of past and present that mix gives a good rhythm to the story, that flows smooth and fast.

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419919978

Amazon Kindle: Gay Paris

Series: Heartbreak Anonymous
1) Good Enough for You
2) Gay Paris

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Gay Paris by Robie Madison

This is the second book in a series, but since the previous one is an het romance, I didn't read it (yes, I know, bad Elisa...). The note is necessary since it explains the feeling I had of Wyatt at first: the reader is plunged in the story like he knew Wyatt; Wyatt is a mourning character, he is sad and in searching of something, but what pushed him at first and why he is in Paris, we don't know. Probably if I had read the previous book, I would have hdd some hints, but in this way we learn about Wyatt reading the story and collecting pieces here and there... actually is not a bad way, and so, I would have no problem to recommend people to read the book as stand alone as I did myself.

Six years before Wyatt was living in Paris, as a struggling jazz artist. He was gay (he still is), but finding company was not first in his list of things to do, and so when he was at first approached by Zach, he was not very friendly. But Zach was nice and clearly not comfortable in the gay scene at all, and maybe Wyatt was moved by the man more than he wanted to admit. Wyatt and Zach spent two wonderful weeks in Paris, sightseeing and loving, but at the end of the two weeks Zach returned back in the closet, in Canada, leaving Wyatt alone in Paris. Life then forced also Wyatt to leave Paris and he was never happy again after that.

Coincidences and love, make a pact to bring back Zach and Wyatt in Paris at the same time. Now it's Zach who pursues and Wyatt who runs away: Wyatt is no more willing to suffer and he fears to fall in love again with Zach; doesn't matter that obviously something happened in Zach's life and that he is no more the man of six years before.

The story is medium long, 95 pages, but it is really romantic, as it should be for a story setting in Paris. Even if Wyatt is rough, he obviously doesn't want to punish Zach; all right the man left him, but Wyatt knows that it is not entirely Zach's fault if Wyatt's life is not what he would like to be. And so yes, Wyatt is not very friendly with Zach, but he neither rejects Zach's advances, as he didn't do in the past. Actually Wyatt's behavior isn't changed much, he is still impulsive, doing and saying things that regrets soon later. And Zach is the same, avoiding Wyatt's bursts to reach the man behind.

All in all I like the story, it's nice and romantic, the style is simple and the play of past and present that mix gives a good rhythm to the story, that flows smooth and fast.

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419919978

Amazon Kindle: Gay Paris

Series: Heartbreak Anonymous
1) Good Enough for You
2) Gay Paris

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle