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So this has been probably one of my most productive years creatively in a long time. Back in January I published my first novel, The Witch and the Rose, and followed it up in June with a sequel, Bloody Damn Rite. Well, today I'm excited to officially announce the third book in the series, Shadowcasting, will be available on 12/15/2024! Like the earlier books in the series, you can pre-order the book on Kindle immediately, and it will arrive on your device December 15th ready to go.
Honestly, I'm super excited about this one. It's probably my favorite book in the series, and I can't wait for you guys to get your hands on it. Here's the back of cover synopsis:
Winter has clawed its way into the heart of Parrish Mills, and something far darker may have come with it. When Mia Graves, a witch with a habit of getting into trouble, and her best friend Riley Whittaker stumble across a grisly scene along the Wabash River, they find it reeks of dark, forbidden magic and has left at least one charred body in its wake.
With the help of young Bobbi Crawford, the further Mia and Riley dig into the events that took place on that cold Indiana morning, the more dire their circumstances reveal themselves to be. Between a stolen grimoire and a group of young witches who may not know how dangerous their actions are, shadows loom in the dark of winter.
And one of those shadows may be more dangerous than anyone imagined.
(Also, and this is unrelated, the non-Kindle, DRM free ePub version of Bloody Damn Rite is now available in my Patreon store too)
I’d like to mirror Lynn’s reaction. Who on earth risks compromising a whole business just to get back at one individual…? Especially when that individual is a newcomer who was asked to come help out… O.o
He doesn’t see it as risking the con. The con isn’t fun for him anymore, therefore it’s already failing. Getting rid of Lynn will make it fun for him, so he’s actually saving the con. It’s perfectly reasonable as long as you’re selfish as hell.
Why the hell does he want to take her down a peg? She hasn’t done anything wrong.
Because she’s getting things actually done, despite all the procedural insanity. That threatens his comfortable little cage of circle-jerking around and not having to actually do much. Never, NEVER underestimate how much some people are threatened by demonstrated competence. It’s one of the biggest reasons I’ve seen for firings and like.
He wants to go back to running around in circles gibbering until it’s too late to do anything, then pulling some plan out of his arse that is immediately dumped on whatever poor SOB is too dumb and too gutless to tell them to get bent and do their own work – at which point if it works wow he’s a genius – and if it doesn’t it was all the poor SOB who shall be referred to as proto-Scrappy’s fault! Shame, boo, etc.
Or… I may be projecting from past experience a bit. But only a bit. No joke, a lot of committee stuff works that way. Sad, true.
Fair enough, I guess that does sound reasonable although Lynn will not put up with his bullshit and she will put him in his place or at least knock him down two pegs.
That’s very fulfilling personally but irresponsible. The resulting personality war could destroy the con. It’s arguable this guy doesn’t care anymore but Lynn can’t make that claim.
The best result from picking a fight with Garner is having Lynn ejected from the staff. Garner’s honesty says he feels very comfortable in his position, whatever it is he actually does. And that he could win a conflict between him and Lynn.
I’ve heard honesty is the best policy, but in this specific case, it seems unwise.
….because she’s competent at her role with the con? cause she’s qualified to do it professionally?
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! But no really, we hear of the wrath she can do, and I wanna see it. Punch!
There’s actually a really old story about this happening in Greece or Rome. Aristides, I think. He was ostracised at one point, which was a fancy form of being voted into exile.
During the voting, an illiterate citizen asked Aristides to write the citizen’s choice on his shard for him. The man wanted to vote to have Aristides ostracised. Aristides, not telling the man who he was, asked the man why. The citizen said he was tired of hearing Aristides addressed as ‘the Just’, and thought Aristides should learn some humility. Aristides wrote his own name on the shard as requested and returned it to the citizen ready to be cast.