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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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What kind of hat is that? The ears can bend when you have some anxiety.
It’s a normal hat that happens to exist in a comic. Like Max’s hair, it doesn’t need to make sense.
It could also be a modified version of those ears that move based on your brainwaves. I’ve forgotten the product name, but you can buy them.
Yet it isn’t! 😛
Now I want to kit-bash a hat that actually does that.
Maybe once Necomimi comes down sufficiently in price…
Necomimi [sic]
We havn’t -lost- anyone doing this… but there was the one time a guy got placed into a carefully labeled and properly recorded crate. We knew right where he was the whole time.
That happened to Duct Tape boy once…
Got caught in one of those earlier this year – seems the decision was made to extend the con to the end of Sunday, figuring we could stash everything in the temporary storage room. Alas, it turned out that we didn’t HAVE that particular room for more than a few hours after we closed down before the hotel had to make it up for something else coming up Monday morning. Good old missed communications. This will not happen next year. 🙂
I love how Sarah’s hat ears droop when she gets upset, it looks adorable.
In my experience, tear-down goes a *lot* faster then setup, at least if it’s well organised. I don’t know whether this would work at anime cons: but at the Free Software conference I mentioned before, at the closing ceremonies they always ask people to stay around a bit if they can, to help out with the tear-down — and there are always some who do. (Including myself: I really like helping out with carrying stuff — it’s an easy way to make myself feel useful…) This way everything tends to be over within like 1 1/2 hours or so.