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NEW LIME SERIES: YARU!
Hey All!
Well, our second "Global" manga has just been announced! Yaru ( Golden Fields of the Egyptian Afterlife) is being published in May 2007 by Tokyopop Germany!
Our first book, Evergrey has been getting great reviews and good sales, so we're excited to see how the response is to Yaru. We had so much fun working on both titles even though I was still on dialysis and within the same year David gave me one of his kidneys. It was a struggle, healing from the transplant, adjusting to immuno suppression and going to and from the hospital in NYC for the past two years. During this time Joachim Kaps and the rest of Tpop Germany played a huge part in our healing proccess. I cannot even imagine what it would have been like had they not granted us this wonderful gift of creating the two series.
Thank you, Jo!
Rae, a young skater girl with a troubled past, has a crush on Billy, a popular high school football player. Only problem, he just happens to be dating the hottest cheerleader in Oldwick High. The jocks have been targeting Rae and her friends frequently for their unconventional taste in clothes, music and just about everything else. For some, high school is living hell.
But fate works in mysterious ways and when Rae happens to receive an ancient Egyptian talking board from the local witch, Ophelia, she intends to enlist the help of the spirit world for her own purposes.
Talking Boards are commonly used to connect to the spirits of the deceased. But Ophelia cautions Rae to always follow three important rules. Only conjure up the energy of one spirit in particular, communicate with positive intentions and always, always close the session with good-bye.
Caught up in the excitement, unintentionally ignoring the advice of Ophelia, Rae stumbles upon three lost souls, Beezer, Ohm and Victoria-Rose. These three hapless ghosts were trapped outside of the ethereal realm when Rae opened the door by mistake. In order to find their way to the afterlife, the ghosts had stolen the very powerful Spirit Map from Ramun Khalid, an evil, thieving, demonic ghost from Ancient Egypt. But their inexperience with the map led them to commit some fatal errors and instead of arriving in paradise they were trapped in a small and stuffy cell, unable to free themselves.
Thanks to Rae, they are finally free again, their problems are far from over. Beezer, Ohm and Victoria- Rose still don't know how to use the Spirit Map and if things aren’t bad enough, they are now being hunted by Ramun Khalid . Rae doesn't really know what to make of the three bumbling ghosts either, ever since they entered her world the distance between her and Billy has grown and it seems the rest of her life is falling apart, too.
Will these spirits help to make her dreams come true or did she open the gate to something more sinister?