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Aug 10, 2026 - 10:13:47 CST Well it's official -- The Perfect Host , book five in my queer urban fantasy series The Mia Graves Saga , is now out! I know I say this every time, but I'm super excited for this one to get into reader's hands. It's the conclusion to the "first phase" in this series. Like I intend to write more Mia Graves books (the "second phase" is already mapped out), but if the…
Jul 29, 2026 - 12:08:48 CST Hey folks! The summer has been flying by fast, and August is almost here. That means Big Minneapolis Anime is coming up, and just like last year Ethan Flanagan and I have a table there! We'll be at booth 618, and besides print copies of the first volume of Peregrine Lake , Ethan will have a whole bunch of art and I'll have all of my books. That includes the new novel,…
Jun 30, 2026 - 17:17:22 CST This last weekend Crysta and I got in the truck and made the drive down to Milwaukee to see my parents. Several family members on my Dad's side of the family had flown into town for what is, normaly, a weekend where we go to a ballgame. Unfortunately, with the Brewers playing the Cubs, those tickets were way too expensive, so instead we watched the game on a TV in the…
Jun 21, 2026 - 22:03:29 CST So anyone who has spent considerable time with me has probably learned how much I love a drive in movie theater. Crysta and I started going to them when we lived in Indiana, mostly visiting the Lakeshore Drive In in Monticello (though the now-closed MELS at the Starlight in Mechanicsburg was in our rotation too). When we moved back to Wisconsin, we started going to the…
Jun 13, 2026 - 20:50:56 CST One of the hardest parts of being an independent creator is getting anyone to actually look at the stuff you've made. Like, writing a comic? Writing a novel? These are things I know how to do. But making things is not the same as promoting things. And I never quite know how to go about doing it. Like in less than two months, I have a new book coming out . Like the…
Jun 06, 2026 - 14:51:36 CST So one of the biggest challenges for a lot of indie authors who self publish like me is getting our books in front of other people's eyeballs to begin with. One of the easiest solutions is getting real, honest reviews onto platforms like Goodreads, Storygraph, social media platforms, and online stores like Amazon. These only really work if they're honest, real reviews…
May 31, 2026 - 15:21:37 CST So I've said this before, but my intention has always been to take a break from the Mia Graves books once I finished book five. And, well, with the fifth book, The Perfect Host coming out in August ( pre-order it! ) that means I need to figure out what the heck I actually want to work on. See, the problem is I always have more ideas than time to work on them. I've…
May 18, 2026 - 09:01:32 CST Hey guys! I'm excited to announce that The Perfect Host , the fifth book in the Mia Graves Saga , is coming out on August 10th, 2026! Like the previous entries in the series, you can pre-order the eBook on Kindle or on Kobo . Pre-orders for the paperback can also be made from Amazon or any retailer with the ISBN 9798295897726 (like Bookshop.org or Barnes & Noble ).…
May 16, 2026 - 21:04:34 CST I did a nice thing for a stranger today. I'm not going to bother saying what it was, or give any details about the interaction beyond saying that it cost me zero dollars, just a few seconds of my time, but still made a tangible difference in that person's seemingly rough day. I'm not saying this to brag or boast, just to say it happened. And the reason I did it is that…
May 08, 2026 - 20:18:44 CST With No Brand Con 2026 in the rearview, I think it's time to talk about the business of running a small, nonprofit convention. This year was genuinely really good for us, and kind of a miracle. Events like ours usually don't come back from the dead, and I want to talk about how that death happened, and how we used the lessons from that collapse to bring it back. When we…
May 06, 2026 - 12:27:20 CST So we announced it a little while back, but I'm excited to say that the first print collection of Peregrine Lake is now officially on sale ! That's right, all of Ethan's gorgeous artwork (and my acceptable writing) could be in your hands right now for just $29.99. Besides the first "Chapter" of the comic, you'll also get the now book exclusive mini-four page story "The…
May 04, 2026 - 17:36:22 CST No Brand Con did what a lot of people thought would never happen this last weekend – we came back from the dead. Like in 2023 we were truly dead, buried, in the ground, and all of us thought the con wasn't coming back. But a year ago some of us decided to do something truly insane. We decided to resurrect it. We decided to bring it home. We decided we weren't fucking…
Apr 20, 2026 - 18:10:06 CST So I'm in the middle of prepping for two events: UWEC Barron County GEEKCon on April 25th and No Brand Con the weekend after from May 1-3. And yeah, it's as exhausting as it sounds like. The con prep for UWEC Barron County GEEKCon is pretty easy at least. I'm going to do a stripped down table setup there as an experiment, to see how well it works. It's just a one day…
Apr 08, 2026 - 12:14:17 CST So say you're sitting down to dinner after a long day of travel. You're in the dining room of one of the historic inns in the Indiana State Park system -- let's say, the Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park on the shores of Lake James. You order food, sit back, and then realize something important. There's a good chance your waiter is a Nazi. You see, he's wearing an…