F&W Publications division (and Krause sister company) Impact Books announced that it has signed a one book deal with Colleen Doran for Girl to Grrrl Manga:  How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga Styles, for release in Fall 2006.  The book will cover a variety of genres, according to Impact Acquisitions Editor Pam Wissman.  'Colleen's book will cover the principle styles of shoujo manga as they apply to fantasy, science fiction, romance, historical and dramatic storytelling,' she said. 

 

Doran is best known for A Distant Soil, published by Image.  Her most recent work was Orbiter, with Warren Ellis for DC.