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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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Heh, wowwwwww this arc is a huge piece of deja vu for me. Been where Terence is, been where the others are too. This rarely works out well unless someone snaps out of the “Things used to work fine, why you no do them fine go do things!” mindset and takes the extra time to get the new person really read in. Too many years of having people you can just tell to go get stuffs done without much explication tends to make many a mighty edifice sway in the wind when you don’t have those people to lean on anymore. Question is, do people realize this and take corrective action, or shout at the new folks while the house burns. If this was an entirely realistic con portrayal – I’d suspect option B honestly. Seeing as how this is a comic, and people sometimes try to act like sensible humans I’m going to vote A.
Actually I’ve been where they are and one of the things every new staffer needs to learn is to ask for help, as almost noone will think about that possibility. Of course, a real concom will not give a newcommer a hugely important impossible task to see how they’d handle it, but people with potential will get tasks that are out of their scope or comfort zone, just to see how good are they at handling them and if they actually get the thought of asking for help. A team needs to work like a team in the way that every member should be comfortable enough to ask for help and not just become abrasive and hostile.