dawn.vogel | November 16, 2022
Apex Magazine: 2021 collects the stories published in Apex Magazine in 2021 into a single volume. Containing eight issues worth of new stories, this is a thick volume with a wide array of speculative fiction stories ranging from humorous to heartbreaking. It’s hard to select only a few favorites from a collection such as this. […]
dawn.vogel | November 15, 2022
If you enjoy reading steampunk, I’ve got five books, for both adult readers and younger readers! First off, I have the Brass and Glass trilogy: Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering is the first in the series, followed by Brass and Glass 2: The Long-Cursed Map and Brass and Glass 3: The Boiling Sea. These […]
dawn.vogel | November 14, 2022
In September, I posted about a return to hybrid work (some days in the office, some days working from home) and how it was likely to impact my writing. Now that I’ve been doing this pretty regularly for a couple of months, I have more insights. Working in the office, along with the commute, is […]
dawn.vogel | November 11, 2022
Perhaps these images don’t look like they go together at first, but I’ve already got a story brewing in my mind from looking at them! The first image is an illustration of a sunrise or sunset filtered through trees at the left of the image, with hazy details of a mountain in the background, and […]
dawn.vogel | November 10, 2022
I had three new pieces out in the month of October! My poem, “Portrait Day at Zapus Zone 9 Academy,” appeared in the October issue of Star*Line. Super exciting for me was that this poem is on the BACK COVER, so when people flip over the issue, I’m right there for the world to read! […]
dawn.vogel | November 9, 2022
Reading: Primarily books to review, though I also just got a huge stack of craft books from a Microcosm Publishing Kickstarter, so I’ve got those to wade through as well! Watching: Since my last post, we finished She Hulk, which we loved all the way through (yes, even the last episode, which was strange but […]
dawn.vogel | November 8, 2022
Have you checked out my Patreon lately? It’s a way for my fans of my writing (or me!) to throw a small amount of money my way to support me and learn about what I’m working on! I share updates about my works in progress, including snippets of stories for my patrons! I’m getting closer […]
dawn.vogel | November 7, 2022
Not too long ago, I realized that I had random ideas for stories all over the place–in my email, on my phone, on my computer, and in assorted notebooks. While it’s exciting to have so many ideas, it’s really inefficient to have them all over the place. But then I thought, “hey, self! You like […]
dawn.vogel | November 4, 2022
As the weather turns chilly, it’s nice to have some autumn themed ideas for writing. Here’s a great list of 50 autumn writing prompts that might inspire you to write a story or add a scene to your NaNoWriMo novel!
dawn.vogel | November 3, 2022
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 105 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 62 (+5) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 22 New Submissions: 5 Stories out at the end of the month: 65 This year was a bit on the slower side for submissions. I have a ton of stories that aren’t […]
