She goes by pinkpanda, known on Wattpad as sapphicgurlproblemz, and she is coming in with two books. Her ongoing vampire x werewolf BL fantasy, Moonbound, already has 71K reads and a comment section that has been in a consistent state of chaos since chapter one. Her second, Assigned to the Ruined Prince, is a historical palace intrigue BL slow burn that has been quietly circulating in fandom spaces since its first chapter dropped.
Moonbound is being developed as Book 1 of a series, with a planned release date of November 2026. A vampire prince sent into enemy werewolf territory. A fated mate bond that neither of them asked for and neither of them can outrun. The fandom for this story is already forming, and Bright Tide is building the house around it.
Assigned to the Ruined Prince is the studio’s second title in development. A disgraced prince confined to the Eastern Courtyard. A cold-eyed fallen noble assigned to watch him. Political intrigue, slow burn, and a love story that becomes irreversible long before either character realises it is happening.
The timing is not accidental. The BL industry has transformed from a niche genre into a global entertainment powerhouse in the last two years, with the live-action BL market now valued at several hundred million USD and analysts projecting the global genre could approach $1 billion in annual revenues by the early 2030s. The audience in India has been here the whole time. India leads the world in Instagram users with over 414 million, the majority of them in the 18 to 34 age group — the exact demographic that has been reading danmei, watching Thai BL, and writing fanfiction on Wattpad for years with nowhere to take it. LGBTQ+ fiction is seeing a sustained surge in sales globally, with queer themes now appearing across every shelf in bookstores rather than being confined to a single section. India, with its enormous, deeply genre-literate fandom community, has had no Indian publishing house speaking directly to it. Until now.
Bright Tide is also actively seeking a second author to onboard before the end of 2026. They are looking specifically for South Asian writers working in BL, GL, sapphic fantasy, or queer speculative fiction. Beyond the books themselves, the studio runs a Clubhouse community where BL and GL authors can collaborate, exchange ideas, and discuss the craft. It also hosts an active Discord server for the wider BL and GL community, bringing together readers, fans, and creators, with dedicated spaces for writers to network, share resources, and support one another.
The energy around this studio is hard to miss. A founder-led publishing house, no corporate layer, built entirely around writers who have been creating queer fantasy for free on Wattpad and AO3 and never had a real home for it. That changes with pinkpanda. And if the noise online is anything to go by, the fandom already knows it.
