What next for grydscaen? So we are finally working on the last grydscaen book in the main series entitled grydscaen: scout. This book is part of the Techno Thriller series featuring Rom the teenage homeless Level 9 hacktivist for the Packrats. The story features Rom, Jester, Faid, Jazz and Raven the main characters we encountered in grydscaen: dark. grydscaen: scout is the sequel to grydsacen: dark and picks up where that story left off. grydscaen: scout includes a twist that readers will…..
Cover Reveal – grydscaen: union We are excited to reveal the cover to grydscaen: union, volume 8 in the grydsacen series, featuring artwork by Natsuya Uesugi. The cover features the pilot Nathaneal Barjan who has a big part in the space opera story arc that takes place on the Pacific Territories La Paz space station with the 8th space fleet. Drawn traditionally and coloured digitally, the cover features Nathaneal in the cockpit of his Quadrion Isshin mobile frame, the high…..
The next grydscaen book is called grydscaen: atonement and tells the story of Gloughster Illian after the epic Convergence which affected Lino Dejarre and the Pacific Territories. When is atonement coming out? grydscaen: atonement will be out by 2/8/2019 and available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and many other online sites. About writing grydscaen: atonement Of all the grydscaen books, this one was hard to write as it has a space in a transition-like place between the battleship Escalon arc that ended…..
January 2019 brings a new fantasy book in The Seer of Grace and Fire series. Book 2 in the trilogy called The Seer of Ice and Sky will be out by January 26, 2019 and will be available at ComicCon at Natsuya Uesugi’s table. Come check out the table and learn more about the fantasy world of Arenth and the newly crowned faerie king Timorn and his dream seer twin the faerie princess Ethesian. The new cover is almost done…..
November brings a new book in the grydscaen series entitled grydscaen: metropolis. We are hard at work trying to get the book ready for release on November 30 and we can’t wait to have it out for readers to enjoy. I wanted to talk a little about the process of writing metropolis today and give you a bit of a teaser of the ware game Silence which is prominent in the story to get your jazzed for the release. Are…..
Shiro and Noiz lounging on a lazy afternoon from graphic noiz manga 3 What are you working on? We will be starting work on graphic noiz manga 3 after the December 7 publication of graphic noiz manga 2. graphic noiz manga 3 planning will start in January and tells the story of book 4 in the graphic noiz novella series. Book 4 is really dynamic and shows the growing drama and chaos that surrounds Shiro Ijima, the writer and his…..
We are happy to announce the upcoming release of the new second manga in the graphic noiz series. The 98 page manga features Shiro Ijima, the bestselling writer and Noiz, the amateur manga artist as they continue working on the artwork and script to create the Fissure manga based on Shiro’s scifi Fissure series. The story is as much about making manga as it is about the relationship between Shiro and Noiz. The cover features Shiro in the white shirt being…..
It is Release Day! Come Celebrate The Seer of Grace and Fire with Natsuya Uesugi. The Seer of Grace and Fire release day is Wednesday June 21, 2017. The image above is the cover which features the ranger Timorn on the throne in the antechamber of the high court at Kannon, the capital of the faerie kingdom of Itheria. Timorn’s hands are resting on his enchanted faerie sword which was cast with potent faerie magic. His sword was gifted to…..
Designing a Character for Anime/Manga Today I wanted to talk about character designs and work on the grydscaen: A Storm’s Coming anime episode 2 as we are coming up on the first rough cut of the episode being done. In this blog post I wanted to focus on how a character comes to life from original concept sketch to the lineart character design to the final character design in colour. We will be using the character “psychic killer” from…..
So I am getting ready to submit the manuscript for The Seer of Grace and Fire to the publisher. We have been working hard in the last four months with the beta reader on this dark fantasy story, the first volume of a trilogy. I have not had a beta reader before so this process was new to me. We are half way through the final read through and I am getting ready to submit. I wanted to take a…..