Summer Party – Guests

Alex Bronnings (Albron) is a French artist who specialises in digital sculpture and 3D illustrations of big guys. His models are both fun and sexy, but always very muscular!

His creations are a blend of realism and cartoon. They have that unique style that lets you know this is an Albron image.

Albron is a digital artist who doesn’t use AI. He sculpts his models in Zbrush and renders them in 3D Blender software.

In 2015 Albron started his Patreon Page, this allows him to make a living from his work.

A librarian living in Switzerland, A.M. Brawne writes to escape but also to represent people who are like her. As disabled and queer, she is committed to writing about a wide range of subjects in a way that is both engaging and entertaining.

Charlie Dark grew up surrounded by books, devouring everything in sight, and as she got older, unable to quench her thirst, she went from reader to author.

After studying literature, performing arts and musical theatre, she had the irrepressible urge to write!

Encouraged by her wife, slowed down by their son, and pampered by their two cats, Charlie embarked on a new challenge: MM romance.

Once she’d started, she fell in love with this literary genre, and since then she’s spent her days writing stories, each spicier than the last!

Clémence Albérie is a romance author. What she loves is telling great and beautiful love stories, sometimes light-hearted, sometimes more profound. What she really loves is telling stories about life, about the extraordinary destinies in our ordinary lives. She gets attached to each of her heroines and likes to delve into their personalities and characters, working with realistic heroines with whom she can identify. For Clémence, nothing stands in the way of her writing, not the flaws, dramas, complexes or difficulties her characters may go through. She likes to tackle themes that are important to her, such as trauma and the complexes we all have, and turn them into strengths that serve her characters.

Clémence believes that we create our own destiny and that life is what we decide to make of it, and that’s what she likes to write about in her novels. When we have a goal in life, it’s up to us to make it a reality, but to do that we mustn’t be afraid to take the plunge! Whether in love, work or friendship, you have to accept that life can be scary, but realise that it is full of thousands of opportunities that you have to seize without looking back or down. For her, this philosophy of life has enabled her, among other things, to see her anonymous writings become a book of ink and paper that she can hold in her hands.

She is a hyperactive author with a thousand projects. She’s so full of imagination that she’s always working on several projects at the same time.

A lover of writing from an early age, she used to make up stories because she couldn’t find anything she liked to read. In her teens, Lisa NK discovered yaoi/MM fan fiction and read almost as many as she published on the internet, despite her dysorthographia.

After several years of writing in her notebooks, Lisa set herself the goal of writing her very first novel. It didn’t find any takers, but it motivated Lisa to write every day and to continue to pursue MM romance, because that’s where she felt most at home.

Her second novel was finally published in 2022, followed by two sequels. Unfortunately, this experience with a publishing house did not prove fruitful. So in 2024, having recovered her rights, Lisa embarked on the great adventure of self-publishing.

Her first self-published novel, Texan, a contemporary romance, came out in June 2024. And the next, B.HE.A., a post-apocalyptic MM romance, will be available when it comes out for the Y/CON Summer Party, on 17 May 2025!

You can call me Ma. L., I’m a writer and illustrator.

With the help of thousands of cups of tea and my trusty graphics tablet, I bring to life with words and images the hundreds of ideas that have been racing through my head for years now.

I hope you’re ready for some Greek mythology and MxM romance galore!

Nadège Da Rocha was born in 1993 in the Loire region of France. She works as a librarian by day and as an author in her spare time. Ever since she could hold a pen, she’s been writing stories to escape. From Greek mythology to demon-slaying nuns, she loves creating imaginary worlds filled with intrepid heroines.

In partnership with the ActuSF editions.

Born in Mauritius in 1985, Rutile is a comic book scriptwriter published by Soleil Editions, Le Lombard, Jungle, Bamboo and Glénat.

After co-writing the successful webtoon series Colossale, she became an editor at Dargaud in 2023, launching her own collection of webtoons on the ONO platform. Themes close to her heart include queer identities and entertainment aimed at a female and/or queer audience.

Want to sing along to your favourite opening or ending? The convention and its karaoke will give you the microphone! It will be run by the Animaniak association. We hope to see you there to discover and rediscover the songs we love to hum!

Animaniak is an association whose aim is to promote popular culture, particularly Japanese, through activities such as quizzes, blind tests, picture games and karaoke.

Born into a world of books (or th 92 department of France, according to her marital status, which is sorely lacking in poetry), Camille Jedel grew up with a pen in her hand (her parents didn’t quite agree with that part, but who cares?) and a head full of stories.

Between her first adventures on online writing platforms and her publication with Éditions Bookmark, she discovered the Omegaverse. It was narrative love at first sight. She plunged body and soul into it and has been basking in it ever since, much to the dismay of those around her, who are always a little dubious about this ‘knot’ story that she swears is so essential.

As a fan of big muscles (and a bodybuilding enthusiast myself), I love drawing characters who are exaggeratedly muscular and virile, but whose characters are often at odds with their impressive physiques. My recurring characters appear in most of my illustrations and comics, which often turn into hot, humorous situations.

I started fanzining with the Themalicious collective, and have been producing my own fanzines for the last ten years. I’m also active on social networks (Instagram, Bluesky) and Patreon.

Dorian Sifaoui is a contract PhD student in English-language literature at the ILCEA4 laboratory (Université Grenoble Alpes); his thesis aims to further research into the link between queer communities and storytelling. He is fascinated by questions of identity construction, the notion of canon and derivative works.

I was born in 1979, and I’m part of the Club Dorothée / Magical Girls generation from Channel 5.

I took part in several comics fanzines in the 90s, with CLAMP as my main inspiration.

I came back to fanzines in 2020 when I created Dokkun, a Japanese-inspired homo-erotic comics fanzine. Artists such as Logan, Hakujin, Ghuraok, DY, ArtbyFab… have all taken part.

I’ve been drawing ‘bara’ fanzines ever since.

Gaëlle Carrion is one of the co-founders of the publishing house Reines de Cœur, set up in 2015 alongside Isabelle B. Price and Edwine Morin. With a double Master’s degree in Management and International Marketing as well as in Editorial Management and Internet Communication, she uses her skills to steer the house’s communications and promote its female authors and their works.

Committed to improving the representation of women and lesbian stories in literature, Gaëlle Carrion defends an inclusive and resolutely modern editorial line. Her aim is to offer readers stories in which homosexuality is not an obstacle but a matter of course, and in which love between women is expressed freely, reflecting the diversity and richness of women’s experiences.

Isabelle B. Price was born and grew up in Le Puy-en-Velay, in the Auvergne region of France. For many years, she worked as a surgical nurse and developed a passion for LGBT films, TV series and books. In 2005, she founded Univers-L.com, a website dedicated to female homosexual representation in the media, which was to be a benchmark for over a decade, attracting over 100,000 unique visitors a month.

In 2015, she went over to the other side by creating Reines de Coeur with Gaëlle Carrion and Edwine Morin, the publishing house she would have dreamed of finding when she was looking for novels telling stories she could identify with. Ten years on, and with over a hundred books published, she continues to bring to life the stories of women who love women as co-manager and editorial director of the publishing house.

A dreamer with a vivid imagination, she has also written a lesbian fantasy novel: L’Héritage du Pouvoir with Edwine Morin and a short story Venue de Loin.

NAO Studio Publishing is an independent French publishing house, founded by Noémie Coplo, specialising in LGBTQIA+ works, including webtoons, manga and graphic novels. Its aim is to bring to light stories that are inclusive, sincere and powerful, with emotions at the heart of the narrative. Through its publications, NAO Studio Publishing seeks to demystify queer romance while offering stories that are deeply human and representative of the diversity of identities.

Winner of the national ‘101 Women Entrepreneurs for France’ competition, Noémie Coplo is passionate about her project, which is fuelled by her own experiences and her desire to create a publishing space that is caring, daring and demanding. As a publisher and digital project manager, she is also developing a digital services business to support small businesses in their online communications and visibility.

At NAO Studio Publishing, Noémie works with a team of talented freelancers – translators, illustrators and designers – and regularly collaborates with LGBTQIA+ associations to ensure accurate and respectful representation. Each publication is conceived as a meeting of cultures, styles and sensibilities, with particular attention paid to editorial quality and design.

More than a publishing house, NAO Studio Publishing is a project of the heart, a bridge between worlds, and a committed player on the contemporary cultural scene.

The ‘dudes’. Or as I call them ‘my big gentlemen all naked’, is a project born in 2017 from the desire to represent a positive image of the big male body. Sometimes a bit comical, sometimes with a poetic touch, without descending into the pornographic, I often use the sublimation offered by eroticism to highlight the beauty of bodies. My work very quickly took on a militant, gentle form, against grossophobia, which I now accept and assert as one of the major axes of my production.