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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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“Garbage Person?” She’s improving. It used to be “Garbage Monster.”
Then again, maybe the Grouch Anti-Defamation League complained.
Scrappy’s paraphrasing.
She’s used a wide variety and spectrum of garbage based insults most likely.
For reference, their first meeting.
http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2016/12/the-switch/
The next strip he talked about her like she wasn’t there, and based on how casually he threw out the “like us” comment to Scrappy, I figure he’s probably made other borderline bigoted comments he thought he could get away with. Sarah’s not being unreasonable here.
That’s a fair argument. When it comes to webcomics that jump between the perspective of different characters I tend to err on the side of caution and only consider what is directly presented or explicitly implied. We haven’t seen much of Terrence’s negative behavior outside those occasions, so I was willing to at least try giving him the benefit of the doubt…
I’ve met people who come off as a total tool upon first impressions, but later found out they’re just woefully bad at interacting with people and social situations in general. I knew a girl in high school who came off as a snobby brat who bragged about everything, when it turned out she didn’t really have friends her age and spent most of her time with her rather well-off folks and their equally well-off friends. She literally just had no clue that talking about the stuff she got to do during the summer (Disney World trip, the occasional cruise) would be seen as bragging to people less well off.
That said…Terrance does seem to get more flaky as things go on (this said after seeing the following page).