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Soap In A Box
YA Twitter was stirred up by the penis-shaped soap (NSFW images of said soap are in the linked article) delivered in fandom subscription boxes for Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses. The Book Boyfriend Box was not an official marketing item from the publisher. Some criticized erotic merch in a box for a YA book, and some noted that the book is New Adult. The box creator reminded everyone that the book includes explicit sex scenes, and the box was adult-rated. One issue to be addressed is that the box also included erotic fanart and fanfiction, and, as the article states, “for-profit fanfic is generally viewed as copyright infringement.”
Anne With An E Renewed For Third Season
Expect a third season of Anne With an E from Netflix and CBC in 2019. The second season of the series, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, is currently available on Netflix and will premiere in Canada on CBC September 23. “Our beloved Anne will be 16 years old when we return to this season full of romantic complications, bold adventures and dramatic discoveries,” said showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett.
Keanu Reeves’ Esoteric Imprint
The headline really makes this story, but the story itself is interesting too: Keanu Reeves is publishing an imprint of esoteric books. Reeves launched X Artists’ Books with his business partner, artist Alexandra Grant, in Los Angeles. Click through for the New York Times’ T Magazine profile of the imprint.
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