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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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Oh look! It’s every convention I’ve ever attended at the Gaylord in DC!
there’s a typo, you have wekend instead of weeked unless you intended it that way.
It’s a typo. I’ll fix ot in a bit.
i see what you did there
One year at Diecon a gaming convention outside of St. Louis, MO, the monthly psychic readers meeting was scheduled the same weekend in one of the smaller halls. I always wondered if any of them got mixed messages with us fight our way through dungeons and the 50k tournament. I kind of hope someone walked away thinking there was a orc battle in their future.
MechaCon 6 (2010) in New Orleans was the same weekend as the National Lutheran Youth Conference. The Marriott (where MechaCon was held) was filled with “Green Baggers”* and it made for quite a few interesting situations and some not-very-christian-like behavior.
Bourbon Street was also packed with “Green Baggers”.
*we called them “Green Baggers” because the Conference gave all of them Lime Green bags that you could spot from blocks away.
GeekKon 2009 had a shared venue and I have this pic capturing some woman’s bewildered look at a very well-done Zelda cosplay.
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P.S. I’m creating a character to explore this sort of theme for stand-up.. he’d be dropped into a con and the funny will be how he views the reality around him thru his lens of reference.
First year WonderCon was in Orange County/CA (very conservative politically and religiously) it shared the Anaheim Convention Center along with a high school girls volleyball tournament and a cheerleading competition. About 50k total. Everyone had to pass each other all day. So imagine girls of all ages in skimpy outfits along with cosplayers plus moms giving all geek girls and boys nasty looks for being too near the daughters.
When sub-cultures collide, there’s always some funny to be had.
I think it was the first year of animeland wasabi (colorado) They shared the hotel with a cat show. Otakus kept trying to submit catgirls for the cat show, it was hilarious!
Probably not to the people running the catshow 😛
Yea, they were less than thrilled 😛
I’ve been to a con sharing a hotel with a youth hockey tournament, it was SuperCon in Minnesota.
The first Anime Central shared the hotel with a Christian women’s leadership conference. I had an interesting elevator conversation with some of them. Later I realized I was wearing a t-shirt from Hades Project Zeorymer.
Hmm… reminds me of the year Geek.Kon shared with a fancy wedding! I still think the gift opening ceremony was kinda pretentious, never knew that was a thing. What was that, 2011?
2012 I think.
Let’s see..
Anthrocon: Baptist group (surprisingly chill), Wedding party (They dug us), Mensa (They all wanted to hang out at our con). and lots of incoming-overlap with engineering groups (Curious, polite)
Furfright: Wedding party (they dug us), Scrapbookers (They TOTALLY dug us), Miss Teen Connecticut (Mutual ‘who ARE these freaks’ staring).
And I haven’t been, but Further Confusion had to share their convention center with both a high school volleyball tournament AND HempCon (Exactly what you think) on the same weekend this year. Those poor convention center staff.
Wedding seem to intersect positively in general with furry cons, so long as there’s no bride or bride’s mother flipping out (Califur). People in tuxes and dresses love to get pictures with fursuiters.
I once herd of an incident at an Iowa con that shared space with an NFL team for something that same weekend.
One of the players paid and enjoyed part of the con but his buddies came in too. There was supposedly a sexual harassment incident that came out of this with NFL players hitting on and asking for sexual favors from some of the girls in the skimpier cosplays.
Most surreal one I’ve seen was the first year Daisho was at the Kalahari. Bunch of other groups, but the one that stuck out was seeing a couple people in band uniforms going through the convention, turning to my friends going “That’s neat, which show is that from” as an entire marching band rounded the corner.
Aquatifur decided to hold their first con (2017) at Kalahari.
They didn’t allow any fursuiters to leave the convention center way at the far end of the resort from the waterpark. Guess they didn’t want anyone confusing them for mascots.