Welcome to the online panel “Cyberpunk World Building.” Natsukoarts: This is Natsukoarts Design Studio and we are talking with Natsuya Uesugi to discuss his new upcoming self-published novella “grydscaen: dark,” the next volume in the grydscaen series called “grydscaen: desecration,” and getting started on work for episode 3 of the grydscaen “A Storm’s Coming” anime series. Welcome Natsuya. Natsuya Uesugi: Thanks for having me. I look forward to speaking with you today on a topic that is central to the…..
I came across an issue in one of the writer communities that I am part of because I write yaoi with the graphic noiz series. I guess there was a row regarding having a Person of Colour on the cover of a gay romance book and the publisher wanted to white wash it and not include that image. This started an ugly exchange, if I have the story straight and there was backlash in the romance writer community. Now I…..
“grydscaen: dark” chapter draft by Natsuya Uesugi. ARC excerpt. © 2018 Natsuya Uesugi. Wanted to share the first chapter of “grydscaen: dark,” the new dystopian cyberpunk, tech noir thriller I am writing. This is the final version of chapter 1 and I wanted to get any feedback if readers are so inclined. Take a read for free. #hackersunite #hacktillyouredead Chapter 1: Dot Hack Stock “Not here. Hide the data till we are off the street. This way,” Toapfyl hurriedly motioned…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl making waves and coming to you live and direct from the Red Light District in the Echelons. We are on our way to the Hack tech and ware nightclub tonight looking to hook up with a source. I got a few more hours on the outside to roam free and see what I can see, then I am once more sequestered inside and need to ask Anj the leader of the Processing Centre…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl making waves and coming to you live and direct from the streets of the Shizuoko ghetto near the Lafayette subway stop, the last stop on the subway line in the Echelons. We are walking to The Maze today which is a craze of corridors and alleyways that gets you deep into the depths of the devastation. We are halfway towards our trek from the Lafayette subway stop. We have a meet up with…..
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…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl making waves and coming to you live and direct from the Soul Deep, the jet jockey area in Haven 15 of the Echelons where the illegal hacking goes on underground. Want to buy an organ, off a spouse, steal someone’s identity – you can find it here in the Soul Deep. But you got to be righteous to get in. Jazz doesn’t screw around. We are subversive today making a call in to…..