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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 just assume they have gym membership at someplace so that’s how they showered. Or they know some people who have been kind to let them shower at their places.
A number of storage places are also set up near truck stops
So, um, how have they been showering?
I work in tech in the San Jose area. Several buildings have shower facilities and the onsite cafeteria serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Around two years ago, I was scouring Craigslist for a new place. My rent was going up from obnoxious to obscene and I really could only afford “unreasonable” anyway. I had to be out by the end of the month and wasn’t finding anything. I seriously considered moving most of my stuff to storage and sleeping either at the storage place or in a rarely-used storage room in the lab I worked at. It didn’t come to that, but I considered it.