During the Lunar New Year holiday, the Creator of X’el Studios and Yscariot™ visited Tokyo, and Yokohama to meet with friends old and new while revisiting sites that he either stepped foot on or was previously unable to visit years ago on his first trip to Japan. Most importantly was the meeting of the official Japanese-language translator of the upcoming Yscariot mini-series, “イスカリオット:α”. Continue reading The Author does Japan
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!
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~
Three NEW chapters will be available later this month to continue where the Yscariot: Neo-Alpha left off! It will also be for free and available on Google Play! Stay tuned, and download and read the book if you have not already! Thank you for following and helping me achieve my dream one read at a time 🙂
~M~
X’el Studios want to wish everyone a wonderful winter as the year 2014 comes to a close. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Oshougatsu (New Year), or just finishing the year off with a bang by sitting on the couch or doing day-to-day work, we hope you the best during these last days of Winter 2014! Thank you for making Yscariot a part of your life, and stay in touch with the site and the official pages for more info in the coming future!
The preview to Yscariot (subtitled Neo-Alpha) has been downloaded over Eleven-Thousand One-Hundered and Eleven times! Never in life has anything this great happened in Marcus Medina’s creative career. X’el Studios is proud to gain every follower, reader, and supporter of Yscariot! Let us know what you think! Enjoy reading as the epic is currently being worked on! Thank you!
To enjoy an early reading of Yscariot, please visit the downloads page!
Don’t want to show you too much, but here is a glimpse into the future for Yscariot™
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The author of Yscariot™, Marcus Medina, was born on November 20th, 1983. Team X’el is proud to have Marcus as the President of the studio. We all hope that you continue following this novel project and help and watch it grow into something much more successful. Happy birthday, Marcus! Enjoy Korea on your 31st, and may you continue your light on the world!
With the free Neo-Alpha preview being 33% complete and available for immediate download, it is imperative that this book receives well-deserved attention. For one, it follows some of the traditional fantasy elements presented in a “hero’s story”, but it also introduces a fresh new complex world that happens in modern times. I will go a little into detail why I need ratings (you can rate it here: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=nXLBBAAAQBAJ)
Why? Because ratings let the author know what he or she is doing right or wrong. Also, this is the first time I worked on something this major. Creatively, there are things I know I cannot change, but the way it will be presented may change in the future based on ratings. Just to simplify things, I just need your ratings from 1 to 5 with a personalized comment about what you like and/or don’t like about the book. It will be great to have ratings on display to encourage other readers into downloading it from Google Play. Of course, this comment is geared towards the loyal followers, but all readers are encouraged to rate! I do appreciate it!
The overall mission is to write a masterpiece, but how will I know if my book serves it’s ultimate purpose without any readers to back it up? Sometimes, I wonder, but I must be persistent.
Thanks for reading!
~M~
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