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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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Welcome to the cesspit where I live called Florida. It’s not as bad as it once was, but there was a point in time where this was the norm.
That poor man…
Once you’ve got your foot in your mouth, you should at least try not to chew…
Yeah, we get this all the time. NYC anime fans despise crossing into NJ for a con even though it’s nigh-impossible to run a mid-sized con in NYC due to costs. Trust me, we’ve checked.
I believe t’s called a “rack focus,” Mark.
What’s a real con? I mean what defines a Fake con from a Real con?
same criteria as gamer girls?
Same criteria as real cheese?
‘Is he personally involved with running it, and take pride in doing so?’ Anything less, not a ‘Real’ Con.
Are he and his staff going to turn out to be from Chicago?
*whistles whle looking off to the side*
You daffy bastard!
That’d be like people from Minnesota and Illinois running a con in Iowa! 🙂
@Berhard, Not quite as crazy as it sounds. Well, maybe it would be, for Milwaukee proper. Congenial (a Racine-area relaxacon) was started by Milwaukee fen and then taken over (relatively amicably as such things go) by Chicago fen who were heartily tired of the existing Chicago con scene. Not sure if it’s still operating, haven’t heard any references to it in a while. The “not a real con” comment was used non-ironically in the 80’s and 90’s to refer to any “media” (television-series- or movie-oriented) convention, because (as the gatekeepers held) “real fans read books”. Book books, not comic books. Comic cons, such as existed then, were more like flea markets or swap meets. Really boring if you weren’t really into it. “Real” cons were not-for-profit, had an art show, a hospitality suite, a masquerade for the costumers, discussion panels, and catered to a broad spectrum of interests….if your interests were literary, that is, because the GoH’s were authors and artists. Now it seems that you have to be a big glitzy (read: expensive) for-profit event with Big Name guests to be “real”…