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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 understand this is to compare two types of meetings, the ‘reasonable’ way and an ‘unreasonable’ way (‘right’ and ‘wrong’ may be a stretch)… but I keep thinking without knowing the rest of the situation, this may be an accurate assessment of Joey.
I don’t know if either one is RIGHT — I mean, Bork Con keeps putting a guy in a position of authority who just suggested something that could lead to peoples deaths
I mean, they put a guy in charge who insisted using the ashes of a dead person for some insane ritual.
However, I think this is a prime example of “decorum does not mean maturity within an organization.” I think folks get a random hair up their ass about how an event should be governed and see all these cspan shows thinking that’s how things should be done. Yet fail to realize that ensuring a semi-professional (SEMI, yes, not entirely. fer chrissake you shouldn’t take yourselves THAT seriously) atmosphere instead of a strict decorum is what actually gets things done.
I mean, for ffs, our board once voted on a budget issue in the middle of an auction (to help support another convention, btw) only because 3 members were present. (This ended hilariously and good for those curious)
It has to be the right tool for the right job. Parliamentary procedure isn’t required for a concom of what looks to be seven people. On the other hand, as orgs grow larger, some sort of meeting format is required or it just turns into chaos. Where the sweet spot between needing rules and rules being in the way will always depend on the group.
I’m not sure how the system ended up randomly assigning you the “Glenn” avatar, but it makes me very happy that it did.