dawn.vogel | March 16, 2023
If you’re looking for something spooky to read, here’s a few of my recent horror and dark publications. “The Divergence in the Woods” is a creepy flash fiction tale of two young women looking for their missing father in the woods. You can find it in Trees. “Chrysopoeia” is a microfiction story of exposing a […]
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dawn.vogel | January 19, 2023
Have you ever noticed that when you read a book describing the weather, sometimes you feel like the weather outside must match what you’ve been reading about? If this is the case for you, and you’re tired of the cold, what about checking out a book about a summer camp? Maybe that can bring some […]
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dawn.vogel | November 22, 2022
Sometimes, the best reviews for a book you can get are the ones that aren’t necessarily posted online. My mom reads all of my books, and she sent me a message a few days after finishing Camp Haunt. She said she really wanted to read it to see what I remembered about camp, and she […]
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dawn.vogel | October 31, 2022
Happy Halloween! If you’re wanting to learn more about writing spooky stories, there are a ton of resources available online. I really like this recent article on tips for writing spooky stories geared toward a very general audience!
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dawn.vogel | October 27, 2022
If you’re looking for some spooky reads of short stories, here are a few of my recently released dark and horror stories! “Memento Mori” appears in Queer Weird West Tales. This story involves Calamity Jane and the detritus of Wild Bill Hickok’s life, along with some surreal and spooky events related to the two. “Dangers […]
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dawn.vogel | October 25, 2022
If you’re looking for some spooky Halloween reads, I’ve got a few options available! Volatile Figments is a collection of six dark contemporary fantasy short stories in which the protagonists deal with the supernatural. They generally tend toward dark contemporary fantasy rather than horror, so they’re spooky without being terrifying. Doorways in the Gloom is […]
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dawn.vogel | October 21, 2022
All of my Fun for Fridays are themed toward this being October and the prime spooky season! Today, I’ve got a list of horror writing prompts! There are a variety of different types of seeds here, so you may need to poke through a few before you find one that will resonate with you, but […]
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dawn.vogel | October 17, 2022
On the heels of the horror writing course I took, I’ve been writing a lot more horror. So it’s only natural to turn to some advice about writing horror, like this article by Tim Waggoner. It has a ton of great points on dos and don’ts that are invaluable to someone just getting started in […]
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dawn.vogel | October 7, 2022
It’s the spooky season, so this week’s Fun for Friday prompts are from the horror genre! The graphic in this post shows a breakdown of many horror genres and subgenres, along with the films that fall into those subgenres. (If the graphic is blurry, you can click on it to enlarge, or go here to […]
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dawn.vogel | October 6, 2022
For the first time in a long while, I don’t have any new stories or poems out in the past month! But not to fear, there will be more new pieces coming soon. So in the meantime, I did have a new book out this month: Camp Haunt. Which is actually a re-release of sorts, since […]
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