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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’m not one for profanity, but…
*applauds*
Hold up hand, wiggle fingers a la Vir…
This is going to be very good
Now I wanna rewrite the Hopalong Cassidy theme song to match Sarah’s term…
As funny as this is, shouldn’t the hatchet job be done by executive staff or someone from the HR department? Of course, this assumes that the con has that sort of structure. I just think that Terrence will ignore the dismissal since it didn’t come from the ‘right’ person/people.
I doubt they have that much structure, although “staff management” may be part of the duties of whoever is volunteer coordinator this year or a similar role.
That said, yeah, this needs to be coming from someone else. A, it’s just polite to not be a dick when you fire someone. B, Terrance would probably be right to claim that Sarah doesn’t have the authority, which means he’ll end up talking to Veronica anyway, so just cut out the middle man.
There’s also the “I sent someone else to fire you, because that way I won’t $@#^*ing strangle you right here – then set the body on fire and dance around singing joyfully.” method of employee termination. Perhaps it’s more a case of that?
Not the most professional manner to fire someone, but it does hold a fair bit of personal satisfaction. And yeah, likely be a needed level of verification.
I suspect her choice of words are going to come back to bite her… Sarah doesn’t seem known for intelligent decision-making, especially when it comes to social interaction.