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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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Smooth move exlax!
This sounds like it’s a fun Bork Con lol.
So, funny story regarding Nan Desu Kan here in Denver… We had some jacks spray painting styrofoam in their hotel room. Bad news: it tripped the chem sensor on the fire alarm. Good news: We can apparently evacuate the convention floor in about 5 minutes.
Thankfully, we got the clear to go back in and got everyone back inside about 10 minutes before the tornado sirens started going off. So, once again, I can, as a convention staffer, read your comic and say, “Yep, that’s happened to me.”
I have Bad Weather Stories. I have Convention Stories. I do not have any Bad Weather Convention stories, though have heard quite a few.
Keep doing cons long enough, and the odds say you’ll end up with your own eventually 😛
I hope you see this, Trae. I finally made it to your website(s). You gave me your cards at the geek.kon in Madison and I said I’d leave you a note so you knew I actually visited your site.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Most likely, though as a country boy form Nebraska I confess I’m less worried by bad weather than I might be. So long as the tornado doesn’t hit the house, it’s not worth worrying about.
Not a story about a convention i was involved in, just one i attend every year.
3 days before the convention is due to start there is heavy rain, which follows several months of rain. That night a local river backs up, and all the drainage in the area of the convention hotel goes wrong.
The basement and ground floor of hotel get covered in Sewage. Hotel is closed. Suddenly convention which has been running smoothly, despite having added a massive once off event that would bring in an extra 200 people (normally 500 person con), is now in all sorts of trouble.
They managed to get space in another venue, which had issues but was at least open. They managed to have con booklets with maps for the right venue, and they communicated issues well.
But i can only imagine how bad it was for those poor convention runners.
Yeah! Tornado Con! 😀
Two years (three?) ago I recall the crazy snowfall we had at NBC. It wasn’t “inclement weather” proportions, but my poor friends did run out into said snowstorm to get me medicine. Con plague hit me hard on day one.