We have all seen the news recently and the dustup regarding the United States and Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. With North Korea threatening Guam, a United States territory, it seems we have moved this game to a whole other level. Hopefully this will all settle down and the rhetoric will calm. But I didn’t bring all this up because I wanted to talk about current events, instead I wanted to relate this occurrence to my novels…..
Natsuya Uesugi is happy to announce that the next book in the grydscaen series will be released 21 July 2017. The title grydscaen: the seal maker is a cyberpunk detective story that surrounds a terrorist Hiro Yamaguchi, a murderer Akira Yamaguchi, and a cyber security jet jockey named Jaiden Pierce. The book is available on Amazon in Kindle ebook and paperback on July 31. It has been a year since the last grydscaen book was published and the buzz surrounding…..
It has been over 15 years since I have visited my parents. For many reasons I stayed away. The reasons are long and difficult. I ran away when I was younger and never looked back. I did not want to deal with them anymore and their controlling nature and constant judging of me and my lifestyle. When I introduced them to the love of my life/my first love back in college sophomore year, they passed judgement and dismissed the person I…..
So I have been getting reviews in for grydscaen: insurrection and the readers seem to have a few things that are being called out over and over again. The thing that they are asking for is they want to see this story as a manga or an anime. Now, there is a manga for the A Storm’s Coming story that is also getting a 5 episode anime but that was a short story. Getting an entire episode of the insurrection…..
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…..
We are currently working on the paperback book for grydscaen: dissonance. Last year we got the ebook make available everywhere but we did not follow up with a paperback book. We are fixing that now with the paperback version of the work. We should have the book available in the next couple of weeks. We are currently proofreading the galley and there are some things that need to change so we are paying close attention to the proofreading process. I…..
What work are you doing on the grydscaen manuscript? Work has started on the grydscaen: desecration manuscript n which is volume 5 in the series. I have edited it 3 times and now I am proofreading and going through it for the 4th time. I will have to get through it a few more times before it is ready for submission in mid June 2017. The story in the volume wraps up the battleship Escalon story arc and we experience…..