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I'm excited to announce that Shadowcasting, book three in the Mia Graves Saga, is now out!
I could run through a brief description of the book and I give the back-of-book synopsis again (like I did when pre-orders went up), but you can go back and read that post if you want to. The short version is "how do you talk a twenty-something out of using a magical nuke, especially when you just work retail."
In all honesty, this is my favorite book in the series so far. In some ways it's very different than the two earlier books in a couple of ways, but still feels like the same series. There's not much else I can say without major spoilers, so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
Like my earlier releases, for the first three months the eBook will be available only on Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited), but you can also get the paperback a couple of ways. First off, there's always Amazon, but you can always direct order a copy if you want to avoid Bezos. Finally, you can get it through any bookseller with the ISBN 9781088207031.
So yeah, the book is here, and I'm excited that folks will get to read it finally.
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uh oh i know that look artists HATE that look it means your about to be stuck doing a lot of work for no pay
…soooooo just like everyone else on a con staff, then?
A good artist you can exploit is much harder to come by.
You never let them go.
Not without recruiting their replacement at least.
Artist rule NUMBER 1 Never work for free
Artist rule NUMBER 2 NEVER! WORK! FOR! FREE!
Well, it gets a bit different with entirely volunteer run cons, as no one gets paid from the con director on down. So while I’m usually all gung ho “pay artists!” normally, I don’t feel bad asking for free art from staffers for the con,
You jus have to convince them to actually do it. 😛
Hey, I resemble that remark. And that grin :-]
Funny the words badge art come to mind…
Also where the heck are they going? and is that suzuki?
They’re driving to Yakisoba Con (it’ll be more obvious tomorrow, but it’s in the chapter heading).
And the SUV is an old Toyota RAV4.