Author: Trae Dorn

So it’s my birthday today. I’m forty-five, halfway through my forties, and everything is… everything. I’m not doing anything really special today for it — maybe I’ll order dinner or something — but we’ll be doing Meatgrinder Weekend in a
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So my personal site, which has been around in one form or another since 1996, has been running on Perl since 2001. Especially this blog. And lately my webhost has been shitting the bed with Perl scripts. Like random 500
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I’m finally finishing the last edits on the fourth Mia Graves novel, and over the next few days I’ll be doing the formatting of the book’s interior and reaching out to the company I pay to do my book covers.
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I know I’ve been a little quiet these last couple of weeks, but for the record I’m still here. Still existing. Still getting up every morning. This was my first weekend at home in like a month and a half.
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So this year’s convention train keeps going, because even though I’m still exhausted from Big Minneapolis Anime last weekend, I’m off to another con in a few days (August 9-10). Like last year, I’m tabling at Anime 414 in downtown
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So Big Minneapolis Anime was a lot of fun. Ethan and I talked to a bunch of folks about Peregrine Lake, I sold some books, and overall got to meet a bunch of interesting people. Overall, definitely a good trip,
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Hey kids and candelabra enthusiasts, this is your reminder that Ethan Flanagan and I will be at Big Minneapolis Anime this weekend (August 2nd and 3rd) at the Minneapolis Convention Center in, I guess, Minneapolis? I don’t know if that
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I love going on vacation and spending time with my family, but sometimes it’s just nice to be in my own home again. Crysta and I spent the last week in the Northwoods with my family. And by “my family,”
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Ever since I started making witchcraft content online, I started using a phrase “I’m not in your head, I’m in in your house.” It’s kind of a tag I end up adding on to a lot of other stuff, but
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So for those of you who aren’t on TikTok, you might not be aware that over the last few days a bunch of people have been obsessed with a particular situation. You see, a woman was invited to a party
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