Orcs in Portland and Other Social Justice Issues is finally out on audible!
When it comes to Orcs in Portland and Other Social Justice Issues, it’s everything that first book did and more. While most of the story takes place in the Portland area, there is a fair amount that happens in Carnt. I don’t want to say much about the series, but I will say that it’s going in a direction where I don’t think you’ll anticipate.
My goal with the series is that as soon as you feel that you have a handle on what’s happening with the series, it changes direction again. The overall plot of the series stems from the way that television often resets the status quo by the end of the episode. While there have been more recent series that take the viewer on a journey that’s nowhere near where they started. There are still a large chunk of fiction that simply repeats the monster of the week phenomenon.
Since Orcs in Portland is most like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its structure, I’ll use the show to illustrate the point. Despite the fact that some ancient evil threatens Sunnydale every season, the status quo returns to normal the next year (for the most part). Fans of the show will remind me about the secret government organization studying monsters explains the status quo, but it takes four seasons to get there, and still doesn’t quite explain why the property value of Sunnydale hasn’t plummeted, you know with all the dead bodies around.
With Orcs in Portland, I wanted to mess with that concept. I wanted a Buffy situation with a monster of the week invading the school, but by the end, it explodes in a way where the characters can’t hide the problems plaguing the school from the rest of the world. Which, the fallout of the secret coming bubbling to the surface happens in book three (that’s currently being edited by the talented Scott Searle who edits all my books).
Not only is it funny, but the series is heading in a direction that I conceived right as I wrote the first chapters of My Three-Year-Old many years ago. Luckily for those of you going on the journey, Rebecca is doing book 3 that is tentatively set for a release this summer. I plan to release the book at the same time as the audiobook, because honestly if there is a way to experience this series it’s via audiobook.
Thank you for being here, and I hope you enjoy the book.
Orcs invading Portland, a warg in the janitor’s closet, black ooze dissolving the gym teacher: a typical day for the students of Beaverton High and their fearless teaching assistant.
Petra thought working for her old high school was the worst thing that could happen to her—until a magical disease infected her son.
Meanwhile, the Barbarians Breakfast Club faces creatures invading their high school and murdering their classmates and principal. Okay, so maybe the latter isn’t that bad.
The phenomena intensify, and soon, it is not just the high school that’s infested with murderous creatures. So, our hapless heroes must seek aid from old allies and enemies.
Find out if Portland can survive in the second Misfits of Carnt novel.
Necromantic rituals, murderous ogres, battle-scarred rangers: not a typical Saturday detention for unsuspecting teaching assistant Petra and her delinquent teen charges.
The Beaverton High School Breakfast Club show up for what they thought would be cleaning the locker room with a toothbrush when the morning goes horribly wrong, and they fall victim to a deadly, dark spell.
Some jerkwad moon mage shoves the consciousness of Petra’s three-year-old into the body of a musclebound barbarian, and she is transformed into a halfling.
The kids get stuck as a cleric, fire mage, and other stalwarts of your typical fantasy gaming party.
Now they must quest through a land of pissed-off warriors, angry giants, a pompous vampire, and a necromancer out to kill Petra and her child.
Despite being in a world where everything threatens to shuffle off her mortal coil, the hardest part is convincing a hulked-out man that the battle axe is not a toy, the undead are not cuddly, and he should use the potty.
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