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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Author: Trae Dorn
Peregrine Lake is Doing Another Holiday Bonus Event!
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.
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!
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
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
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!
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
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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I Guess I Sometimes Review Movies (Again)?
This has been a strange week for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is deeply ironic. If you recall I wrote a whole blog entry about how I don’t care about having a large audience — instead
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Audiences, Community, and the Value of Interacting
As a person who makes creative projects and publishes them on the internet, there’s a push to find the largest audience possible. Modern social media focuses on follower count and reaching as many folks as possible, but the more I
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