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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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Hypothetically we all could learn to speak Dutch or German, or French, or Cantonese, or South Korean, or Turkish(which I once could understand better than English at one point in my life it’s a long story and you would have to message me on Facebook for that one), but you know, we’re too tired and busy to learn them. Also technology is coming out so we don’t have to learn new languages.
Which is slightly sad. People tend to think better and make more logic choices when working in a second language. It’s one of the best things you can do to boost your brain power.
Granted, but it is a pretty vast investment in time/effort, especially if it’s not one you’re going to use constantly. Otherwise it seems to often fade after a while, ‘specially if it’s not one you learned as a kid. Those usually stick, but a language learned later in life – as I found out with my Spanish – gets realllllllly rusty when you don’t use it for a long while. I can still sorta stumble along in baby talk, but that’s about it. Rarely used these days barring sometimes grabbing a La Opinion to read or something, and written Spanish I find by far easier than speaking it. Heck I can probably read like a 5 year old instead of like a baby!
*helps that La Opinion seems to be written mostly in fairly simple Spanish. Always figured to accommodate readers from many different countries/Hispanic cultures at once