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So this has been probably one of my most productive years creatively in a long time. Back in January I published my first novel, The Witch and the Rose, and followed it up in June with a sequel, Bloody Damn Rite. Well, today I'm excited to officially announce the third book in the series, Shadowcasting, will be available on 12/15/2024! Like the earlier books in the series, you can pre-order the book on Kindle immediately, and it will arrive on your device December 15th ready to go.
Honestly, I'm super excited about this one. It's probably my favorite book in the series, and I can't wait for you guys to get your hands on it. Here's the back of cover synopsis:
Winter has clawed its way into the heart of Parrish Mills, and something far darker may have come with it. When Mia Graves, a witch with a habit of getting into trouble, and her best friend Riley Whittaker stumble across a grisly scene along the Wabash River, they find it reeks of dark, forbidden magic and has left at least one charred body in its wake.
With the help of young Bobbi Crawford, the further Mia and Riley dig into the events that took place on that cold Indiana morning, the more dire their circumstances reveal themselves to be. Between a stolen grimoire and a group of young witches who may not know how dangerous their actions are, shadows loom in the dark of winter.
And one of those shadows may be more dangerous than anyone imagined.
(Also, and this is unrelated, the non-Kindle, DRM free ePub version of Bloody Damn Rite is now available in my Patreon store too)
Wow I called this one and I didn’t even know what the story intends to do.
I’m waiting for when they go to the police station and start to describe Terrance the police chief goes, “He sounds like someone we’ve been looking for for the past year. He escaped from a mental asylum”
I’ve been seeing a lot of this recently. Terrance isn’t insane. Yes, he lives in a world that is different from reality, but the only difference is that, in Terrance-world, Terrance is always right. He’s not nuts, he just never stops to double-check or reconsider, because there’s no need. He’s right, so why waste the time? Therefore, any time he seems to fail or be wrong, someone else must have sabotaged him. Probably someone he already has a low opinion of, therefore proving he was right to dislike them. And if anyone doesn’t like Terrance, clearly they’re either jealous or evil, because how could you not like Terrance? He’s great!
Exactly right.
Terrence isn’t insane.
Terrence is just THAT MUCH of an asshole.
Dunning-Kruger Effect…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I dunno… He’s pretty much dinged every box for narcissistic sociopathy. Even in your description of him.
I tend to shorthand that as ‘insane’. His brain does not work with facts, it works with some mumbo-jumbo it made up on the fly. That does not count as sanity from where I’m sitting.
@Viktor: I was using the phrase ‘mental asylum’ for a comedic effect, knowing that it is an extreme and derogatory term for those who are in need of professional help.
And yes I’ve known assholes and professional victims like Terrence. Short of electroshock therapy*, there isn’t that much one can do with them.
*Again an exaggeration for comedic effect
I’ve discovered the legal definition of actual insanity has one specific symptom that Terrance doesn’t seem to have manifested, hallucinations.