dawn.vogel | February 14, 2023
Today’s the release day for The Sidewalk Diverges! If you like contemporary fantasy with a bit of humor, some familial love, and more, check out this collection! It’s sixteen stories of varying lengths and nineteen poems! In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, angels, and fae intermingle. These contemporary fantasy […]
dawn.vogel | February 13, 2023
Having recently edited a co-written book (Femmes Fatale, pictured) by these two authors got me thinking about co-writing in general, so I decided to talk with some folks who have co-written stories and books. Here’s the third interview, with the folks who inspired this series of blog posts! DV: Tell me a little about each […]
dawn.vogel | February 10, 2023
This week’s images are vaguely wintery images for your inspiration! The first image depicts four individuals in silhouette walking a narrow, slightly raised path with snow across the landscape on either side of the path. The sky above is cloudy, blocking most of the sunlight, but the sun peeks out near the bottom of the […]
dawn.vogel | February 9, 2023
I had two new pieces out in January 2023, a poem and a short story. The poem was “Embrace,” published in Star*Line. This is a short poem in what seems to be a very unofficial form, in which the first words for eight of the lines are pulled from the eight-word middle line. The poem name […]
dawn.vogel | February 8, 2023
The Red Palace (Feiwel and Friends, 2022) is the second of June Hur’s historical fiction young adult mystery novels set in Korea that I have read and enjoyed. This book, set in the mid-eighteenth century, again features wonderful characters and a great mystery. And while you might guess the culprit earlier in this book than […]
dawn.vogel | February 7, 2023
If you like my writing, have you considered supporting me on Patreon? I’m almost to the goal where I’ll make a monthly video of me reading one of my stories or an excerpt from a longer piece! In addition to getting video readings, my Patreon is a great way to support me and learn about […]
dawn.vogel | February 6, 2023
I recently got a big stack of writing craft and books through a Microcosm Publishing Kickstarter, so I’ve decided to work through several of them for reviewing on my blog. I really love Jessie L. Kwak’s writing style, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. Her non-fiction style is so conversational and easy to grasp. So of […]
dawn.vogel | February 3, 2023
We’ve recently started an Instagram account for DefCon One Publishing, and one of the features on that Instagram is writing prompts every couple of weeks. You can catch them on Fridays on Instagram, or every so often, I’ll round up several of them and post them here! The three prompts this week are: Write a piece about a […]
dawn.vogel | February 2, 2023
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 83 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 45 Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 71 This month has been a little on the slower side for submissions, but I also haven’t had a ton that […]
dawn.vogel | February 1, 2023
Today’s Kickstarter recommendation is my friend Erik Scott de Bie’s Justice/Vengeance novel series, which I’m also the editor for. The base Kickstarter funds the first book, Libations for the Dead, and the stretch goals will cover other novels in the series. Libations is a great book, introducing a hero with a lot of questions about […]
