A new entry has been made! You can now learn more about one of the major settings in Yscariot™, West Nazares High School!
Just click on the logo or check out the Glossary of Yscariot! There will be more updates as time passes. You may also check out other random pieces of information to get familiar with Yscariot‘s world!
皆さん！はじめまして！
僕の名前はマーカスです！
マイサイトにいらっしゃいませ^^！
新しいの伝説の準備をして！
僕は世界の小説の愛読者向けどのストーリー「イスカリオットα」を書いています。
2~3月に三つの章のFREEプレビューを発売したい…
そして、僕はあなた達はこのストーリーが好きになるでしょう。
フォローありがとうね！
～マーカス～
English Message!
Hello everyone! I am simply moving to have my story translated in Japanese. Japanese culture is the major source of inspiration behind writing my works. I am currently assembling a strong team of Japanese speakers and residents who will help my story, Yscariot™ make a transition to Japanese audiences. As we welcome and ready Japanese readers for Yscariot: Neo-Alpha, please stay tuned for news on Yscariot: Epsilon! Thank you!
~Marcus
Epsilon is near completion which will contain a new batch of chapters to continue from where Delta left off. I hope that you will be ready to check out these newer chapters of my story. It will also be fun and free! Get ready!
It’s that time again! A new month is here and over 3000 Delta preview mini-books have been downloaded. I also have some more news:
Also, I have recorded an introduction to my podcast, which was released on the same day as the Spanish BETA Verses. You can listen in if you have about 45 minutes to kill.
The Delta now has over 2500 downloads and that is amazing! I do want to also show everyone a physical print of my first major preview to my novel writing project, Yscariot: Neo-Alpha. Once again, thank you! Your support motivates me a lot!
On January 10th, 2015, a “Friends and Family Tell-All Challenge” was a placed bet on the future of my return to my original hometown, Dallas, Texas. The bet was easy to do and as such:
If I score 50 downloads, I will return to California. Since it is important that I go through California to return to South Korea, I thought that I could spend a few days between other cities to vist any and all friends living in the state to include: San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for example.
Scoring 100 will land me into New York, where it will be my first time ever stepping foot in-state, as well as a monumental moment in time for me, as I enlisted in the Marine Corps due to the attacks on the World Trade. I feel that I owe it to myself to be at the place of such event, and besides, it’s NEW YORK!
Scoring 1000 downloads, a seemingly tough feat compared to the other requirements, will finally get me home. I have been living in South Korea for over a year now, and so many friends and family want me to come home. I thought, maybe they will participate and go crazy over this challenge for two reasons. Firstly, no one from where I am from is doing anything in life like writing a book, and I was sure that they would have shared such a thing with their friends and family. Secondly, it’s me writing this book. A project of this magnitude deserves some kind of attention, and I was hoping that with the big handful of friends and family that I have, that they would convince at least 2 or 3 people each to download my digital book, even if they were never planning on reading it because… well… it’s ME that wrote it! Such an accomplishment like getting 1000 downloads should be easy with a guy with a HUGE family.
Did it happen? Well, that’s where the news comes in!
Between the release of the Spanish BETA Verses preview and January 28th, I was unable to get past 300 downloads. At some point, I used my Twitter page to grab over 100 downloads from recreational fiction readers. Then, I advertised the Spanish BETA to a Spanish-speaking audience to get about 200 downloads. I didn’t get any feedback from friends or family about them talking directly to their friends, and there was a total lack of shared posts regarding my project. Well, maybe there were about 3 Yscariot-related posts per week. However, I still failed to reach enough downloads in a two week period after those first few days. So what I did about 48 hours ago from now was pull the plug on the challenge and preemptively deemed the challenge a FAILURE! A few factors may have interrupted the challenge. For one, my brother’s wife spawned a beautiful baby and … I actually do not know any legitimate reason why my other family and friends failed to spread the word… Perhaps, it was that everyone was sharing the same IQ-lowering viral videos and images over and over and over again. And this is not part of the good or bad news. So you ask, “what’s the news?”
Okay… okay… now for the GOOD NEWS!
I took the ball and managed to get over 1000+ downloads for my new preview book Yscariot™: Delta Verses! I was amazed that this all took place in less than 48 hours! And now you ask… “is there anything else?” Well…
I’m afraid I’ve got some BAD NEWS!
Due to pulling the plug on the challenge (and that I was self-sufficient in getting 1000+ downloads on the Spanish BETA Verses and the new Delta Verses), I will NOT be returning to Dallas anytime during the year 2015. Thank you all for reading my latest post! ❤
Miho, the character introduced in the Yscariot: Neo-Alpha preview now has a bio page with background information about her. Click on her picture to find out more about her.
Today, around 2pm, I entered a printing shop in hopes of getting a demo copy of the Neo-Alpha preview book in paperback form. To my surprise, it was finally in my hands. A physical copy at the price of 18,000 South Korean Won, which is a little similar to about $18 USD. I walked with it practically all day and showed it to friends/coworkers, and they thought it was pretty great. Keep in mind, this is the very first print of my book. The cover was in color and the pages were in Black and White.
Fast forward to about 8pm later that day. I went into a candy shop to buy a few goodies and call it a night. Thinking I would be in-and-out in a short moment, I was wrong. The cashier asked me about my book, “Is that a comic book?” I told her no and that it is an unfinished action novel. She continued to ring me up and ask me what was the book about. I told her simple details and that it was an “action and fantasy story… basically, a superhero novel”. She told me that she loved Iron Man and I then told her I am writing the book “Yscariot”.
She was amazed and complimented me for being the first person she has ever met that was writing a book and even expressed the hope in reading it. She even said that she feels that this story is going to be a big hit and says that I will one day be famous. Now I cannot say that I believe her, but I can safely say that my faith in myself has increased dramatically because of this random incident. Keep this in mind as well: the girl is a young woman who looks about 20-21 years old and spoke really good English for a Korean. Anyways, I set the book inside of a bag that I placed my candies in, but then I thought about it, and decided to give her the first and only copy of Yscariot: Neo-Alpha. She seemed to be more enthusiastic about the book than anyone I know personally. Hopefully, more people will start to follow it and the word of mouth gets bigger and better.
~M~
Verses 9~11 are now available on Google Play!
Click the image below to download it now!
Yscariot.com 