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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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Man, I WISH most of my badge getting went that smoothly.
Not shown, twenty meetings with clueless people supposedly in charge.
This is even more fun when you have Dealer / Staff / Sponsor badges. Multiclassing, whee!
(I eventually mandated a hierarchy system. Also, making certain things just a add-on ribbon makes life pleasant.)
There’s a REASON I like working Con Ops – you have at least a fighting chance of finding out what the heck is going on before the end of the con. 🙂
How did she get into Artist Alley to talk to the head without a badge? 🙂 Yes, I’ve seen that scenario happen.
Most cons don’t put Artist Alley in a badged area, so pretty easily. 😛
Ours is, but you can get an escort. …or the old trick of “I need to speak with [person X] about a badge, are they in there?” works sometimes. Trying to get a badge is the best reason to be without a badge.