Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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.
![Nerd & Tie[dot]Social Forums](https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/natsocial-nicepreview-square-300x300.png)
For some reason I’m reminded of the time the announcer could NOT make out the name on the card (and it was an original character so there were no other clues) and wound up announcing “Fred. From the planet Fred.”
(Sorry – the statute of limitations has run out of specifics. 🙂 )
HA, this one page brings back memories for me.
1) First time staffing, I got conscripted (pun intended) to run the Dealers room. I’d never had run a shop before, let alone a room full of people who were selling and buying things. I was such a nervous wreck during it. Helped a few dealers out, ended my 12 hours of doing so by going in to an anxiety attack from the nervousness and stress. Fun times.
2) Got talked in to running an eating contest. Never again.
3) Was excited to help out a convention-run video series (ugh…if you look it up…Awesome Rangers 3) as a brash Irishman. Ended up nearly killing myself a series of times.
4) Some how found myself as a backstage hand for the Cosplay contest.
5) One year, found myself on stage trying to buy time for the judges during said contest.
6) Conscripted in to forming my own committee. No regrets on this one.
We all died a little in Awesome Rangers. Some more literal that others. …some a little too close to literal, now that I think on it. 🙁
The Indestructible Ed.
Wow, I miss times when the Cosplay contest was actually that big… Ceremonies completely fills the Main Events room. Cosplay… not so much.