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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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Why do I find it awesome yet somehow disturbing that Veronica is cosplaying Attack on Titan?
because she’s obviously Potato girl
I’m from New Jersey and I’ve been going to cons since 2009; literally the only mention of room parties I’ve heard was from your comic series.
Same here.
Jesus. Didn’t we have this discussion…oh a few months ago, Trae?
I think we’ve got a soft spot for the ol’ room party at NebKon, otherwise we wouldn’t have started a room party block…
Either way, agreed its a dying art. Part of it has to do with several cons adapting late night programming…part of it. The rest of it I think just stems from some conventions just not wanting to deal with it anymore. I know Naka in KC has greater difficulty with room parties due to Kansas laws (Kansas laws suck donkey balls btw).
A few months ago? More like a year or two ago. 😛
bah, it hasn’t been that long
I also think the interest has died too. One year my brother and I had bought food like Doritos, Ramen cups, and yes even marshmallows as a way to barter at room parties because we knew food might be an issue at the parties.
However that year there was a huge lack of parties. I also think behavior has also contributed like 2 years in a row at No Brand Con, some drunks have shattered glass bottles in the pool area prompting the staff to drain the pool.
Overall the room party is a dying art but overall i feel it has to do with a lot of different factors.
I don’t even want to think about where that poor hairbrush had been…
No, just… no
Anime cons in the NE region of the US doesn’t have room parties like the ones in the strip. It’s usually just a friends thing. Sci Fi cons however are Saturday night dens of nerdy debauchery that Baccus would love themselves. Comic cons and other cons has there’s too.
So. Many. Stories.
Room parties are still huge at SciFi cons here too — they were a thing at Wisconsin Anime cons for a long time, I think, because most of the early Anime cons there grew out of people who had planned SciFi cons previously… so we promoted Room Parties.
Because that’s a thing you do.
(hey look, I’ve caught up!)
Tables are far more productive, so we’ve been leaning towards those.
I’ve noticed a decline in the notion of the room party at furry cons, but the room party hasn’t been something other cons use to promote themselves. It’s just “Hey, let’s hang out, maybe with some modest theme.” FurFright was the big Room Party con during its Waterbury years, due to half the rooms facing a central atrium.