Seiji is off to the publisher in January. Watch for it sometime next year. Here is a brief introduction to the character and his story: 
 

At five feet nine and a half inches Seiji is taller than average for men of his generation. To see him in a crowd, you wouldn’t take him for anyone special; his rectangular-shaped face is so ordinary looking that it is easily missed. It is his way of walking and his eyes, which take in everything and express kindness and humor that catch one’s eye. That and the fact that nearly everyone who sees him gives him greeting, which is returned with a smile and a few words before he is off again, his sketchbook clutched in one hand and his shirt pocket full of pencils.

 

Few are aware of the terror, pain and loss he experienced as a young boy during World War Two, and what it cost him. His two art teachers -- one of them a Japanese-American soldier -- know, and so does the young woman who becomes the love of his life. A major novel of love, romance, and recovery from the horrors of war