Orange Junk

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Hey guys!

Just a reminder that I recently created a Patreon account where you can check out sneak pics of the newest Orange Junk chapters. If you wish to support me, you can do so from $1 a month! :D

Hey guys! I’ll be updating Patreon once a month with WIPs of the Orange Junk covers, free for everyone :) Here’s the cover for chapter 28! Click HERE for captions :D 

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Hey guys! I set up a Patreon for those who wish to support me :D!

Feel free to check out the rewards and see if something piques your interest!!

Hello, Sparkler fans, and welcome to our December issue!

It’s been an exciting year here at the Sparkler offices, and while I’m looking forward to saying “good riddance” to 2016 as a whole, I couldn’t be more proud of what our team and creators have accomplished, bringing fun, emotional (and sometimes sexy!) Female Gaze content to readers and listeners worldwide. It’s a joy and a privilege to be doing what we do, and your comments, emails, and shares help keep us all motivated. We hope that the stories our creators lovingly produce bring you just as much joy!

For our final issue of the 2016 calendar year, we’ve got some terrific things lined up: the conclusion of Volume 2 of Windrose (cliffhanger, yikes!!), the start of a new chapter of Knights-Errant (backstory?!), horrifying ghost eyeballs in Dead Endings, the next literally explosive installment of Decoy and Retrofit from Always Raining Here guest stars Bell and Hazel, and squeal-worthy romantic progress in Orange Junk! And for our podcast this month, we have /report host MK (Moonklutz) join us to discuss the Internet’s understandable obsession this winter: the figure-skating anime Yuri on Ice.

As always, members can download the full issue here to read it in advance, or you can enjoy the daily free updates on the site!

XOXO,

Thank you so much everyone!!! Thanks for all the reblogs, retweets, mentions, posts, and thanks to all my wonderful friends who offered to help with their drawings and constant support!! I don’t know what I’d do without you guys! ;A; 

We passed 50% yesterday, so we’ve got a new Kickstarter announcement: That’s right–A short story about Bruce and Louise’s first date?!

If this Kickstarter succeeds, we’re getting this bonus short comic to scream over! (Bruce’s letterman jacket, OMG. <3) It will appear in the back of Volume 2 - both the ebook AND the paperback!

Once we hit $6,000 in this Kickstarter (75%), we’ll announce ANOTHER bonus comic going in the back of Volume 3!

ORANGE JUNK KICKSTARTER!!

We finally reached 20% but we’re just a few days away to reach our goal! Please help us reblog to reach as many people as possible! 

This is a comic I’m drawing and if this is the first time you hear about it, I invite you to check it out HERE, you can read it for free up until chapter 21!

This is a school comedy where everyone is the opposite to how they look like :) A shoujo I created after getting tired of reading the usual shoujo tropes. It’s mostly comedy with bits of romance and family issues. Please check it out!

Right now we’re at 30% and there’s 2 big updates today: 

1. There’s a new tier that includes everything (the 4 books, ebooks, keychain, stickers, wallpaper) plus bookmarks! For those who don’t need a dakimakura but still want the rest of the goodies :D 

Guess what else we have in store for you all this month?!

A brand-new Kickstarter to release Orange Junk vol. 2 & 3 (and possibly 4?!) in print! Among our backer rewards are keychains, with a design selected by you, the fans, plus double-sided body pillows, stickers, and more!

Hello, Sparkler fans!!

It’s time to cuddle up with some cocoa or a favorite hot beverage of choice (as long as you’re not in Los Angeles, where it’s still 85 degrees out), and check out our new issue!

We’ve got a hell of a plot twist in Knights-Errant, passionate confessions (?!) in Orange Junk, attempts to grow wiser while growing older in the prequel story to Tokyo Ghosts, dark pasts and shivery secrets in Magical How, and…the first installment of Decoy and Retrofit, the terrific new BL light novel from Hazel & Bell, creators of Always Raining Here and The Prison Tower! This was a goal in our Year 4 Kickstarter, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with a team as fresh and original as Hazel & Bell. We hope you all enjoy this story as much as we do!

As always, members can download the full issue here. And if you’re not a member and would like to read ahead of the site (there’s a lot to look forward to with this one!), you can sign up here!

Enjoy!

XOXO,

As part of our ongoing Membership Drive, voting is now officially open for the Orange Junk key-chain (and additional merch!!) that we will be making once we hit 400 members. :-D

Happy October, Sparkler fans!

In honor of the rapidly impending Halloween, we’ve got a spooky, sexy, scary issue for you this month! Cailen and Everett are introduced to the world of ghost whisperers in Dead Endings, Wil’s run-in with the Margrave turns personal in Knights-Errant, a sinister stranger appears in Magical How, Tara is stuck in a horrific hell-mire in Nine Circles, and in Orange Junk…someone’s moving in for a kiss?! Read the Orange Junk chapter that has the whole Sparkler staff in a shrieking frenzy! :-D Plus, man on man, look at that awesome masquerade ball cover. I love it when characters play dress-up!  

And don’t miss Heldrad’s special Orange Junk merch livestream on Sunday, October 16th, where you can prompt Heldrad for the chibi of your dreams, and we’ll turn the winner into a keychain. :-D Orange Junk is also moving to five free pages per week on the site until Issue #040 comes out–to help you free readers catch up to the magazine faster–and Heldrad is even the guest of this month’s podcast! She’s a joy to talk to, so listen in for some juicy insight into making modern, Western shojo, including her ridiculous production pace!

As always, members can download the full issue right now! Not a member? It’s never too late to sign up, get content ahead of the free-page schedule, and help support our hard-working creators! :-D

Enjoy!

XOXO,

Hooray, it’s our September issue!

We’ve got another great issue for you this month! Knights-Errant is back with exciting battles and intrigue, Orange Junk hits the “budding romance” button nice and hard, Nine Circles puts the “terror” in “time-share” (shut up, I know that’s not how it works…), we get new friends (?!) and scandalous backstory in Magical How?…and to wrap it all up, we’ve got a special standalone Skyglass story that takes place after the end of the novel!

Our Sparkler Podcast this month is about visual novels, the type of video game we just released with last month’s Out of Sync. We have special guest (and Sparkler staff member!) Pachi joining our roundtable of Jill, Lianne, and Leah to discuss Out of Sync, Japanese otome games, indie visual novels (and Ren’Py), dating sims you can buy in English on your smartphone…the whole shebang. You’ll probably learn something interesting and/or hilarious from this broad discussion, whether you’re an experienced gamer or total newbie.

Enjoy!!

Hooray, it’s our September issue!

We’ve got another great issue for you this month! Knights-Errant is back with exciting battles and intrigue, Orange Junk hits the “budding romance” button nice and hard, Nine Circles puts the “terror” in “time-share” (shut up, I know that’s not how it works…), we get new friends (?!) and scandalous backstory in Magical How?…and to wrap it all up, we’ve got a special standalone Skyglass story that takes place after the end of the novel!

Our Sparkler Podcast this month is about visual novels, the type of video game we just released with last month’s Out of Sync. We have special guest (and Sparkler staff member!) Pachi joining our roundtable of Jill, Lianne, and Leah to discuss Out of Sync, Japanese otome games, indie visual novels (and Ren’Py), dating sims you can buy in English on your smartphone…the whole shebang. You’ll probably learn something interesting and/or hilarious from this broad discussion, whether you’re an experienced gamer or total newbie.

Enjoy!!

Hello, Sparkler Fans!

Thanks to all your reblogs, sharing, and support, we’re primed and ready for a killer Year 4 of Sparkler Monthly!  We’re off to a late start this month, but that’s because it took a little extra time to get all this awesomeness together. ;-)

On the docket for Year 4 we’ve got video games, new audio dramas, new series, more of the great content you’ve come to expect from us…and…we’re opening submissions again! The biggest debut of Year 4 could be YOU!

To celebrate the success of our Year 4 Kickstarter, we’re thrilled to announce that this first issue of the year…is ABSOLUTELY FREE TO DOWNLOAD! Free readers, lurkers, newbies, friends you’ve been pushing to try Sparkler – everyone can get their copy without paying a dime to see the sort of monthly delights we offer our members. And what an issue it is…

Issue #037 includes our very first video game with dev team Paper Star Studios! Out of Sync is a BL visual novel about two J-pop idols (in separate boy bands) who reconnect after being separated by the industry, and boy, does it get hot (you have to purchase the Cherry Bomb version of the game to get beyond the “fade to black” scenes, though! ;-) ).

Also in this issue: the series finale of Tokyo Demons after 5+ years of serialization (get the tissues…), a scream-worthy new chapter of Windrose with more shocking romantic developments, and a heartfelt chapter of Orange Junk that reveals something…that a lot of you have been hoping for more of in the pages of Sparkler. :D And our podcast of the month is with Eurika Yusin Gho, the hilarious creator of Magical How? who sits with her Sparkler editors and discusses boys in skirts and the future of the series!

Enjoy!

XOXO,