History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

Fun for Friday: Fireworks, from a Different Perspective

| July 3, 2020

Most readers of this blog have probably seen fireworks in person at some point in their lives. If you haven’t seen them live, you’ve probably seen video of fireworks. Or, if you haven’t seen them, you may have heard them or felt their booms rattle through your body. But imagine if you had never seen, […]

June 2020 Recap

| July 2, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 129 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 58 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 102 Numbers are down this month, both because I didn’t get a lot of rejections, but also because I’ve been pulling […]

Comic Review: The New Brighton Archeological Society, Book 1

| July 1, 2020

We picked up The New Brighton Archeological Society, book 1 because a) it had an airship on the cover, b) cute kids having adventures, and c) archaeology (which I insist upon spelling with the extra “a”, even if the book does not). It primarily came through on points a and b, with not much archaeology to […]