Kaye Ng's Blog
December 20, 2020
Afterword, 6th edition
Kizuna is now out in the wilderness of Kanazawa Station.
Both the famous tsuzumi drums and our resident school idol had to wait for their times in the limelight, but in return, the station gate gets a new coat of paint and Kizuna becomes the only girl able to model her own clothes on the book cover.
My relentless thanks go again to Rumikuu for her precision efforts at capturing the image in my mind. If possible, I’d like to borrow whatever camera she has. I’m sure it’d help me getting my w...
January 11, 2020
Like a reliable older sister
At long last, the journalism club + one is now complete.
Natsumi posing outside the Katsurazaka Gate, Kenrokuen Natsumi Nakazawa fronts the cover for Lily Clairet, Vol. 5. In doing so, she completes the line up for regular occupants of the Saisei High School journalism club room. Or in Natsumi’s case, just the doorway. I wonder if the day will ever come when those hinges will finally be squeak-free.
Volume 5’s reference photo, taken in spring 2018 For the background landmark, I’d planned on...
August 19, 2019
Giving voice to Lily Clairet . . . and everyone else, too!
An audiobook for Lily Clairet, Vol. 1 is now in production!
. . . . . .
Also, the audiobook for Lily Clairet, Vol. 1 is now complete!
It will be available on Audible, Amazon and iTunes!
Aaaah!
The audiobook version of Lily Clairet, Vol. 1 . . . . . .
Also, the manuscript for Lily Clairet, Vol. 5 is now complete!
Aaahh!
The announcement for Volume 5’s completion, made on Twitter It’s been something of a week for me. In the span of a few days, production of two major releases for the Lily Clair...
July 8, 2019
Kanazawa, the town where time stops only for itself
Kanazawa ( 金沢 ) is a fashionable castle town located on the coast of central Honshu. Facing towards the Sea of Japan, it’s a diverse, cultural city blending modern functionality with traditional sentiments. The beautifully preserved tea districts, the rebuilt castle and the famous Kenrokuen Garden sits side-by-side with the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, the Downtown Korinbo shopping boulevard, as well as the night lights of Katamachi. Kanazawa is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture....
May 17, 2019
Spring has come, and so has new editions
Or at least, this was true when it happened in March. Summer is only a hopscotch length skip away now, and as usual, I have to remind myself that this is the case.
Being the thoughtful type, Mother Nature ensures that the best way for us to appreciate summer is to live in constant fear of winter. As June peeks around the corner, a cold air mass from Siberia arrives with the unfaltering stubbornness of an old Casio watch.
Someday, one or the other will break first. And to be fair to the watch,...
May 9, 2019
A tea time blog is born!
Salutations! To be honest, I’m not at all interesting (what a hook) but it seems like everyone started a blog ten years ago, and if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s being late to trends.
I mean, what am I doing still writing high school slice-of-lifes? Didn’t the K-On! boom fizzle out years ago? There’s not even any smoke at this point. Only the faint scent of nostalgia. If I knew what was good for me, I’d have Lily open her eyes and wake up in the litRPG genre. That’d be something. Her s...
