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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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Wait who…. Looks up Crazy Paul…..
oh wow him, wonder if Josh really works here
*Archive dives the character tag*
Oh, that guy. Wonder if he talked to “Josh” again this time.
Nah, he talked with Terrance. It’s all good.
Also, the comic needs more of Antioch Blunderbus, just for the name.
He is going to get ejected from the con. I just know it.
I took Crazy paul seriously for a moment. Everything on Sarah’s table looks to be backdrop. The sight lines to Paul’s table don’t appear to be blocked.
Undoubtedly Sarah did not look up the con rules for what was an acceptable table and what wasn’t but being eye-catching can’t be against those rules.
I will say her table set up is NOT meant to be backdrop. Her cages are on the table, with a window she and Ruth can be seen through.
It’s a fairly typical setup though.
Cool, I did interperet her setup correctly. Typical, and not blocking sightlines to his table, unless you’re standing at the end of Sarah’s table, trying to look through her setup.
My 2 cents having run dealers rooms, and as feeelthy merchant scum who owns Stupid Amounts of gridwall.
Well, I do have to agree with him, setting up a display that blocks off other booths -is- pretty rude… but I don’t think that’s being done here. Do sorta wonder who he talked to, or thinks he talked to, this time.
Other Josh.
Ahh yes. This.
As Dealers Room head, I’ve seen this exact complaint be made (Though more gracefully) , and folsk have made seating requests to be sat next to people with less ornate displays. I can understand this, but people going vertical before or behind the table is also entirely reasonable. We have rules in our Artists Alley about display height, but in our dealers Room.. well, until you touch the ceiling, you can go high.
I’ve also seen *Guests Of Honor* have setups as terrible as Paul’s and I wanted to weep. People do pay attention to your storefront, and while you don’t have to go elaborate, boy can a good tablecloth and some verticality help, especially when you’re trying to do a lot with a narrow space.