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...

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. Pre-orders for the paperback can also be made from Amazon or any retailer with the ISBN 9798295897726...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

So I'm in the middle of prepping for two events: UWEC Baron 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 Baron County GEEKCon is pretty easy at least. I'm going to do a stripped down table setup there as an...

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...

Okay, a lot of you probably know that I am part of the group of people who run No Brand Con. Frankly, if you didn't, you're probably new here. It's an anime con. Wisconsin's longest running anime con to be specific. We're holding it May 1st-3rd here in Eau Claire. It's neat. Anyway, because I help run that event...

This morning I went down to Collector's Con here in Eau Claire. It's a fun little con, and I stopped by last year too. I thought about selling there (since I'm at, like, literally every other con in town) but a week after Evercon was just too much to plan for. I've done two cons in a row before, and it almost burnt...

Convention season is upon us, and it's time to kick off the year for me with Evercon 2026 in Wausau, WI! Well Rothschild, really -- but if Syfy can conflate the two, so can I. I mean, it pretty much is in Wausau. Just, like, next to it. I'm going to be in the main vendor room at booth six, roughly in the same spot...

If yoiu don't spend time in the odd corners of bookish and queer social media, it's likely you've never heard of Paul Castle. Hell, even if you are in them, you may have scrolled on by, never to take note. But for those of us who have had him slide across their algorithmically driven feeds, he's become fairly...