Finally Making Progress...
Posted Sep 4, 2025 - 14:07:32

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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.
- Traegorn