Fifteen years ago today I wrote a blog post title "We're Living in a Cyberpunk Novel," and it was when I had the dawning realization that so much of our world felt like it was ripped straight out of a William Gibson novel. At the time I was looking at the current headlines and the state of technology, and it was...

So the day is finally here -- Buried Memories, the fourth book in the Mia Graves Saga, is now officially out! I posted the official blurb on pre-order announcement a few months ago, but the book's premise is basically "what if you were in a small town where people kept disappearing, but you were the only one who...

So I already made a post about this on TikTok/Bluesky/Tumblr/YouTube (because I am, if anything, distributed these days), but I wanted to talk about it here -- as it feels more permanent. This last weekend I was at a convention, and like most cons where I table a few people came by to pitch me their own creative...

On December 8th 2009 the first strip of UnCONventional went online. UnCONventional wasn't the first webcomic I ever attempted (the first was "Room 825" which ran for a few months back in the year 2000), but it's the first one that stuck round. The comic ran for almost exactly ten years, with the final strip going up...

Well the world is dark and cold, which means it's time to do something fun -- and in this case that something fun is go do a convention. This Saturday, December 6th, I'm going to be at UWEC GEEKcon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Davies center. I'll have print copies of UnCONventional and the Mia Graves...

Right now I'm sitting in my favorite chair in my living room, safely home after having spent Thanksgiving with most of my family in Milwaukee. Normally I'd still be there, and wouldn't have come home until tomorrow night -- but the forecast has a massive winter storm coming through tonight through tomorrow...

This has been a strange week for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is deeply ironic. If you recall I wrote a whole blog entry about how I don't care about having a large audience -- instead preferring a smaller, intentional one. In that post I mentioned how I had a decent TikTok following, and how it was...

As a person who makes creative projects and publishes them on the internet, there's a push to find the largest audience possible. Modern social media focuses on follower count and reaching as many folks as possible, but the more I think about it -- the more I see this kind of pursuit as unfulfilling. This isn't a...

November 17th 1984 is the canonical birthdate of Lynn Guadalupe Baxter, one of the main characters of Full Circle (2006), UnCONventional (2009-2019), and Peregrine Lake (2024-current). That makes today her official 41st birthday. So, uh, happy birthday to a fake person who mostly just lives in my head I guess? Out...

You need to start writing a blog. Yes, you -- the person who is reading this right now, either on my blog or a syndicated version on one of the websites I distribute this to. You need to go out, find some web space or a blog host, and start writing a blog. And you need to do it now. I talked about this back in March...

Way back in 2011 I ran probably one of the best known storylines in UnCONventional called "I Hate November." In the comic, Lynn is pretty much just having a shitty time. We find out some of her backstory, but the focus is much more on her emotional state than any specific events or plot. Its core is a feeling that I...

So back in December, you may have noticed that the webcomic I make with Ethan Flanagan, Peregrine Lake, went from color to black and white. The intention, originally, was to have this be a temporary situation. We always meant for Ethan to go back and update the pages. But, uh, it's been ten months. And that hasn't...