About Melinda

Melinda Beasi writes about manga, manhwa, and other East Asian-influenced comics at Manga Bookshelf, the Boston edition of Examiner.com, PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon, and CBR’s Comics Should Be Good, where you can find her periodic review column, Tokidoki Daylight as well as The NANA Project, a collaborative project with Danielle Leigh and Michelle Smith. She’s also been spotted as a guest writer at MangaBlog, Flashlight Worthy Books, Comics Worth Reading and About.com. Find an index of her reviews here!

To obtain a shipping address for review copies or to contact Melinda for any reason, please send e-mail to melinda@mangabookshelf.com.

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Contributors

Michelle Smith has been writing reviews of books and comics (of various persuasions) at her blog Soliloquy in Blue since 2006. From 2008 to 2010, she wrote for PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon, serving as the Senior Manga Editor from 2009 onwards. In addition to her own site and Manga Bookshelf, she also contributes a column called Blue Moon Reviews to CBR’s Comics Should Be Good and participates in The NANA Project along with Danielle Leigh and Melinda Beasi.

Read all of Michelle’s posts here!

Hana Lee is a biology graduate student living in California. By day, she experiments with yeast; by night, she spends her time knitting and eating good food. She is also a longtime fan of anime and manga, as well as an avid reader of books. Hana is proud to call herself Korean-American and maintains her fluency in Korean by watching K-dramas, reading manhwa and browsing the Korean-language blogosphere. Her favorite comics include Hikaru no Go, Nabi and Ravages of Time.

Read all of Hana’s posts here!

Guest Reviewers

Deanna Gauthier is a hardworking Library Assistant and aspiring writer with two cats. She is an avid music lover and finds that the best way to destress is to sing along with her iPod, Toto, at the top of her lungs (while no one else is around). She has found her true passion in life is manga and is doing her best to work it into every aspect of her work and personal life. Her family and friends have been heard to joke from time to time about the need for an intervention. Besides manga, Deanna enjoys baseball, roller derby, concerts, and movies (all of which have taken a backseat to manga lately).

Read all of Deanna’s posts here!

Megan M. is a customer service representative for an evil credit card company who lives in Texas. She would be a single English major living alone with a cat if her apartment complex allowed pets, and has compensated for the lack of a cat with far too many books. She has read so much that it has turned her brain and her shelves are overflowing with romance novels, fantasy novels, mystery novels, american comics, and, of course, manga. If one looks closely, one may spot the rare volume of Serious Literature valiantly gasping for air, struggling to survive in the sea of popular fiction. Her fictional preferences for women with weapons and attractive, often roguish, male accessories were firmly established at a very young age due to early exposure to Star Wars and Willow.

Read all of Megan’s posts here!

Lorena Nava Ruggero is a professional writer and editor in Southern California. She loves nothing more than reading manga with her French bulldog, Rocky, at her side. When she’s not writing reviews or reading manga, she enjoys cooking, hiking and watching movies, including anime. Each year since high school, she has saved up all her nickels and dimes to head to San Diego Comic-Con International, where she immerses herself in all things “nerd” for an all-too-glorious four and a half days. In addition to writing for Manga Bookshelf, she also contributes to MangaCast and writes daily reviews for her own blog, i heart manga.

Read all of Lorena’s posts here!

Nancy Thistlethwaite is an editor who works on many popular shoujo manga series in North America. She has written feature articles and interviewed mangaka for the shoujo manga readership. After meeting her, Arina Tanemura made Nancy into a character in her Zettai Kakusei Tenshi Mistress ☆ Fortune manga. Nancy is currently learning the art of amigurumi and has various crocheted “bear bee” bits scattered across her living room floor. You can contact Nancy on twitter @nthistlethwaite.

Read Nancy’s post here!

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