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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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this is why I have 2 alarm clocks to wake me up for work
My radio-alarm rings first to wake me up, and again to tell me it’s time to get off the computer and head to work. If something important is happening, I also set my phone to go off as well.
I find setting my cell phone to play long bits of increasingly harder to sleep through music. Usually the long “Climbing the Down” sequence from Watership Down, or Rascal Flatts singing “God Bless the Broken Road”. In case of seriously anticipated emergency, “Ride of the Valkyries”. 🙂
I have a Twitter bot that’s notify enabled on my phone.
It sends tweets over and over every morning until you reply to it with “Ohayo!”
It took me a little while to realize the Z’s were the alarm and not Megan snoring.
It was supposed to be Megan snoring because her alarm never went off, but now I guess it’s whatever people want it to be. 😛
I love the light through the blinds at 10:30. Actually I love that whole overhead view – a nice new perspective.