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Trae Dorn has been attending and working at conventions for over 20 years. If you'd like to know more about them, view the whole page about Trae here

Maybe Try Being Normal to Strangers on the Internet?

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Trae Dorn

So there’s a thing that happens when you make stuff and post it to the internet — people who’ve never directly interacted with you before feel like they know you. I don’t mean like your beloved social media mutual who
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We Will Find a Way Forward

Posted on January 10, 2026 by Trae Dorn

I’ve been trying to put my feelings into words about the events of the last week. In theory, I’m a writer. That’s a thing I should be able to do easily. I’ve sat here with a blank document for the
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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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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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Recent Blog Entries

  • Who Wants to Join my Advance Reader Copy (ARC) Team and Read My New Book Early? June 6, 2026
  • Figuring Out My Next Project May 31, 2026
  • You Can Now Pre-Order ‘The Perfect Host,’ the Fifth Book in the Mia Graves Saga! May 18, 2026
  • Do The Small, Kind Things. May 16, 2026
  • No Brand Con, Attendance Counts, and Being Honest May 8, 2026

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  • Mia Graves Book 5 Stuff! May 18, 2026
  • Jukebox of Doom! May 13, 2026
  • Pets! May 4, 2026
  • Big Meme Thread of Doom! March 23, 2026
  • Had our first spammer on the forum. March 17, 2026

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