Pre-Order ‘Buried Memories’ – the Fourth Book in the Mia Graves Saga!

by on September 22, 2025 at 1:14 pm
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It’s taken longer to get this book out the door than the previous ones, but I’m excited to announce that Buried Memories, the fourth book in the Mia Graves Saga, is coming out December 15th! Like the previous entries in the series, you can pre-order the book on Kindle, as well as pre-order it in paperback from any retailer with the ISBN 9798349560958 (like, for example, Barnes & Noble).

This book is a little different than the previous three because rather than focusing on Mia, we’re following Sarah instead. Here’s the basic rundown from the back of the book:

Sarah Masters is having a bad time.

After completing her first job as a courier of occult and magical objects, her car breaks down outside of the small mountain town of Halcyon, CO. What at first appears to be just another fading community turns out to be so much more sinister. Between Mysterious sigils, people disappearing without a trace, and dreams that seem to taunt her with memories from her past, Sarah wouldn’t even be able to escape even if the roads weren’t closed.

With nowhere to run, she has no choice but to confront the danger around her.

Besides Kindle, the eBook will be available on Kobo and through my Patreon store come December. I’m really excited for you guys to read this one, and I’ll think you’ll enjoy it. And, of course, remember that you can catch up on the rest of the books in the meanwhile if you want to get started on the series.

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Conventions Sure Are a Thing…

by on September 14, 2025 at 4:45 am
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So I spent the last two days at two different conventions. Saturday, of course, I was at Eau Claire Comic Con here in town, selling copies of my novels and comics. It was a good time overall — saw some old friends, made some sales, and got to meet some new readers. Overall, it’s just a great little convention, and if you’re in town next year you should go.

But the day before that, I decided to volunteer at “Booked Eau Claire,” a bookish convention that was simultaneously happening that weekend downtown at the Lismore Hotel. I mean, I had the day off, so I figured what the heck, y’know? I’m actually signed up to sell at their 2026 event, so I thought I’d check it out.

Overall, it was fun, though imperfect event. I obviously have a lot of thoughts as both an author and someone who’s spent almost thirty years working cons. Hopefully they’ll iron out those growing pains for next year, because I’d like to see an event like that do well in this town. For people who’ve never run a con before, I think they did a decent job from what I saw.

And while I was there I got to have a lovely conversation with E.H. Lupton and their friend helping at the table, after discovering we were both strangely aware of each other for completely independent reasons on Bluesky.

Anyways, looking forward, I do have an updated convention calendar to share with y’all.

Here’s what I have currently booked:

Now you’ll note Anime 414 isn’t on that list… because as far as I know they haven’t announced a 2026 date yet. Honestly year two was leagues better than the first year for that show, so I kind of hope it comes back.

Also missing from that list is No Brand Con, but expect to hear more on that front soonish.

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Forty-Five Years Old.

by on September 9, 2025 at 10:42 am
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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 couple weeks, so that’s kind of the party.

But Crysta did give me a couple of gifts this morning, including the stuffed raven pictured above, so I’m already pretty happy about it. I don’t know, I’m feeling good.

Anywho, just as a reminder I’ll be at Eau Claire Comic Con on Saturday — so if you’re in town, you should stop by. I had a really good time there last year, so I’ve been looking forward to it. I need to do some updates to my con calendar this week, because I have shows booked that aren’t on it right now.

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Tech Whining Begins Now…

by on September 7, 2025 at 10:17 pm
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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 errors will just kick up on scripts that otherwise work. The problem is not my code (which I maintain and normally runs fine), but something that’s intermittently happening on my webhost’s end.

And support is just awful.

I’ve cycled through half a dozen support techs. Initially it took me forever to find one who would believe me when I said I was talking about Perl and not PHP. Then I found someone who saw the problem, and asked me to document instances of it happening, and acknowledged my code was not at fault — but then I got cycled to ANOTHER tech, and this one thinks it’s my code not serving headers.

Which it is.

And this guy just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s not as easy as just finding a new webhost either — a lot of hosts don’t support Perl anymore. So now I think my only solution is to recode my whole site to run in PHP — either to stay with my current webhost or to move to a new one.

Which sucks, because I don’t know PHP anywhere near as well as I know Perl.

So now I’m stuck googling functions, figuring out shit in a language I only kinda know. I’ve gotten one script done, and I’m just going to have to build a whole parallel version of my site in PHP and launch it when I’m done. But if you get random 500 errors on my site, that’s what’s happening.

Just hit reload in a few minutes I guess, and it’ll come back.

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FInally Making Progress…

by on September 4, 2025 at 3:07 pm
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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. This book was supposed to be in this state literally six months ago, and while I know the deadlines are self imposed, I really do hate missing them.

This month is a busy one. Besides my birthday, I have Eau Claire Comic Con in a little over a week (September 13th), followed by “Meatgrinder Weekend” (where we’ll record season 6 of that podcast), and then the week after that I’ll be doing a small appearance at CritWitchCon on Friday the 26th. Mixed in, I also have to finish prepping stuff for the opening of Campaign 3 of Stormwood & Associates, write more comics for Peregrine Lake, and get a couple of months of BS-Free Witchcraft prepped and recorded. Also, there’s some other stuff I can’t say publicly yet (in case it falls through).

It’s a bunch of stuff.

And honestly, I still feel bad that it’s taken me this long to finish this novel. Like I forget that I am doing all of this plus working a full time job. I did two cons in August, went to my grandmother’s memorial, and finished production on Season 5 of The Meatgrinder. I think I need to give myself a break sometimes.

…we all know that’s not going to happen though, right?

Anyways, I really like what I’ve written. It’s not quite the book that I originally intended to write, but I’m proud of what I came up with in the end. I won’t announce the title until the cover reveal, but you’ll find out before the end of the month most likely. In the meanwhile, I need to remember that even if some things are taking me longer than I hoped, I’m still getting them done.

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