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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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Now see, that’s why I like Sarah – always thinking. Get murdered AFTER you spend your money at the con, please.
And she’s generous…he’s not going to be spending money at HER table, so she’s letting him spend it at other tables. Also, she’s so polite about it, merely offering it as an optional modification of his daily schedule.
This is how customer service should be done. Were I a con-goer who happened to overhear this conversation, I would be very tempted to go buy a couple buttons from her.
I understand his frustrations at not finding what he’s looking for among the vendors’ wares; but neither his tact or animus
You ever watched a vendor table for a while? That kind of crap is sadly not entirely uncommon. Cons draw some people with interesting gaps in their social skills, sadly enough. Doesn’t make it make sense, no – but I understand it happening quite well. Some people are just looking for someone to at least metaphorically yell at – the actual issue involved is tangentially important at the absolute best. You get a lot of nascent “I paid for this… I can act like a jackhole! For once I can be that annoying guy instead of being the target.” goofballs.
This is not just a con thing. Plenty of people seem to think that all retail workers are robots who should be happy to clean up spills or get yelled at for stuff completely out of their control. Empathy, sadly, seems to be a lost art.