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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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I’ve become very endeared to Ruth’s perch on the bins at every con she works.
Part of me wants to know where they get such durable bins. A different part acknowledges that Ruth is a heck of a lot lighter than I am.
You can get bins strong enough for oversized people to sit on, we had them. They’re expensive though. Those bins in the comic are pretty big if you look at how high two of them stack and how long they are as compared to people’s legs, so they could be industrial versions.
I have bins that can support my weight.
I weigh 300lbs.
Ruth is significantly less than half of that. 😛
You lucky, lucky bastard. All the ones I could ever find for sane amounts of money would maybe stand a couple other bins on them, if they were full so the lid couldn’t flex at all. At that, they had to be not full of insanely heavy shiat like books. Bah. Development in technology is a good thing, but from time to time it creates a, “Dammit, why couldn’t I have that stuff back in the day?? “/ ” reaction.
I’ve had some of these bins for decades…
Are you sure you’re not just cheap? 😛
Man I hope this is not all foreshadowing.
I just never found any that weren’t either too lightweight to handle heavy stacking, or too heavy material-wise – they added a lot to the overall weight. Apparently, I stopped looking way too soon. I think the problem may not be so much that I’m cheap as I’m easily discouraged. Shoulda kept looking it seems. So umm – you… not so easily discouraged bastard!