{"id":115,"date":"2018-09-08T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mangamaven.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-09-08T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:53:43","slug":"monthly-manga-mailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/monthly-manga-mailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Manga Mailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have some exciting news to share with everyone today!\u00a0 Part of my job is to advise fellow comics retailers on which manga they might be interested in stocking in their stores.\u00a0 Because the demand for this service has gotten so high and is causing me to cross-post in several groups, I&#8217;ve decided to create a mailing list!\u00a0 While it will be geared toward comic shop retailers, certainly anyone who would like to see my monthly thoughts on upcoming titles is welcome to sign up.\u00a0 I just ask that everyone bear with me as I slowly learn how to use MailChimp to its fullest potential, haha.\u00a0 The link to sign up is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dGth_f\">here<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll be posting it in several locations over the course of today so that it reaches everyone who might want it!<br \/>\nIn other news, I haven&#8217;t written much lately, but I assure you all that I&#8217;ve been reading a ton.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a shojo romcom kick lately; I read seven volumes of\u00a0<em>Waiting For Spring<\/em> the other day, and have slowly been working my way through\u00a0<em>High School Debut<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why, but every now and then I just feel the need to read something sweet and positive, and shojo romances really fill that requirement for me.<br \/>\nMy last post was a review of a middle reader graphic novel that\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> a manga.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;ve abandoned manga (obviously), but I do want to mention that I probably will be doing more non-manga reviews in the future.\u00a0 I believe that middle reader and young adult graphic novels are among the best (and best-selling) graphic works right now, and I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention them, especially as so many of them have been influenced by manga and are being read alongside manga.\u00a0 Media, after all, does not exist in a bubble.\u00a0 Works for young audiences are important right now, creating many new readers and strengthening visual literacy.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s all to report right now!\u00a0 Just some little updates to tide you over until I post again &#8212; or until you sign up for my regular emails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some exciting news to share with everyone today!\u00a0 Part of my job is to advise fellow comics retailers on which manga they might be interested in stocking in their stores.\u00a0 Because the demand for this service has gotten so high and is causing me to cross-post in several groups, I&#8217;ve decided to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/monthly-manga-mailing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthly Manga Mailing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39,68,112,113,162,163,171,223,248,249,299],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-best-practices","tag-comics","tag-graphic-novel","tag-graphic-novels","tag-mailing-list","tag-manga","tag-middle-reader","tag-recommendations","tag-shojo","tag-shojo-manga","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mangamaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}