Crossed Hearts Launches Girls’ Love–Focused Imprint

Jan 05, 2026

Crossed Hearts, the recently launched publisher focused on adapting and distributing East Asian manga, webcomics, and light novels for English-language readers, has announced a new imprint girls’ love, or yuri, stories.

Glam Beat! will publish girls’ love titles in English across both digital and print formats, leveraging Crossed Hearts’ international distribution network spanning North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Oceania, Southeast Asia, and India.

Launched in September, Crossed Hearts is dually based in Los Angeles and Bengaluru, India. Its U.S. distributor is Publishers Group West. Licensing discussions for Glam Beat! are currently in progress, per the announcement.

 

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