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A New Book Trailer for the Mia Graves Saga

Posted on January 5, 2026 by Trae Dorn

It’s been a while since I put out a series-wide book trailer for my contemporary/urban fantasy series the Mia Graves Saga, so it seemed about time I do an updated one. As you may have noticed, I say book 5,
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Modifying zFeeder 1.6 to Run on PHP8

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Trae Dorn

So I don’t make a lot of code nerd posts on this blog, but it’s mostly because I am, frankly, not that great a programmer. I like to describe myself as “experienced enough to only break things in weird ways
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Reflections on the Past

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Trae Dorn

As the year comes to an end yet again, I’ve ended up reflecting a lot not just on the last twelve months, but my past in general. Who I am, where I’ve been, and who I’ve brought with me. When
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Peregrine Lake is Doing Another Holiday Bonus Event!

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Just a little announcement today regarding Peregrine Lake and the update schedule for the next two weeks. Last year, we did a flashback story called The Move where we saw a brief little tale of how Lynn and Megan moved
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Our Cyberpunk Present.

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Fifteen years ago today I wrote a blog post title “We’re Living in a Cyberpunk Novel,” and it was when I had the dawning realization that so much of our world felt like it was ripped straight out of a
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Buried Memories, the Fourth Mia Graves Book, Is Out Now!

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So the day is finally here — Buried Memories, the fourth book in the Mia Graves Saga, is now officially out! I posted the official blurb on pre-order announcement a few months ago, but the book’s premise is basically “what
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If You Want to Pitch Me, Maybe Talk to Me First

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So I already made a post about this on TikTok/Bluesky/Tumblr/YouTube (because I am, if anything, distributed these days), but I wanted to talk about it here — as it feels more permanent. This last weekend I was at a convention,
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UnCONventional Started 16 Years Ago

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Trae Dorn

On December 8th 2009 the first strip of UnCONventional went online. UnCONventional wasn’t the first webcomic I ever attempted (the first was “Room 825” which ran for a few months back in the year 2000), but it’s the first one
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Find Me at UWEC GEEKcon on Saturday!

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Well the world is dark and cold, which means it’s time to do something fun — and in this case that something fun is go do a convention. This Saturday, December 6th, I’m going to be at UWEC GEEKcon at
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Home Earlier Than Expected, But Safe

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Right now I’m sitting in my favorite chair in my living room, safely home after having spent Thanksgiving with most of my family in Milwaukee. Normally I’d still be there, and wouldn’t have come home until tomorrow night — but
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UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.

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