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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

Vote in Every Election.

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So in Wisconsin the April 1st Spring election is in less than two weeks, and it’s a doozy. It’s our first major election since the garbage fire that happened last November, and here in America’s Dairyland we have a massively
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It’s Time to Be Internet Cockroaches

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So I talked about this on my Tumblr and my TikTok (and cross posted stuff to Bluesky and YouTube), but it would be deeply ironic if I didn’t post something about it here on my actual blog/site. With TikTok likely
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My Novel ‘Shadowcasting’ is now available in my Patreon shop!

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So Shadowcasting, the third book in the Mia Graves Saga, came out back in December in paperback and on Kindle. Well, its been three months, and that means its time for the eBook to get wider availability! Shadowcasting is now
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The Quiet of the Night.

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Trae Dorn

I know hardly anyone ever reads what I type in this blog, it’s sporadic posts only getting occasionally seen by the folks who follow me on other social platforms clicking through on indistinct links I don’t describe well enough, along
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Find Me at Evercon 2025 this Weekend!

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Well, it’s time for my first convention of 2025! This weekend (February 28th-March 2nd) I’m going to be at Evercon just outside Wausau, WI. I’m going to be in the vendor room with copies of my novels, comics, and the
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My New Novel Shadowcasting Is Now Out!

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Trae Dorn

I’m excited to announce that Shadowcasting, book three in the Mia Graves Saga, is now out! I could run through a brief description of the book and I give the back-of-book synopsis again (like I did when pre-orders went up),
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Find Me at UWEC GEEKcon This Saturday!

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Trae Dorn

So the world may be on fire, but we don’t stop living just because we’re also doing our best surviving, y’know? This Saturday I’m going to be at UWEC GEEKcon 2024, a one day convention held at the University of
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Welcome to the Morning/Mourning

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Trae Dorn

“Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!” -Joe Hill My brother texted the family group chat this quote before he went to work today. I’m not in a good place this morning, but we can’t lose ourselves to despair. I know
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Going from Script to Page

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Trae Dorn

So the big difference between Peregrine Lake and my earlier comics is, obviously, that I’m not the one drawing it. When I was doing my earlier comics, I never wrote down what I was planning, I just had it in
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Pre-Order ‘Shadowcasting’ – the Third Mia Graves Book!

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Trae Dorn

So this has been probably one of my most productive years creatively in a long time. Back in January I published my first novel, The Witch and the Rose, and followed it up in June with a sequel, Bloody Damn
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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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