dawn.vogel | May 17, 2023
As a K-pop fan, I was excited to sink into Hybrid Heart by Iori Kusano (Neon Hemlock, 2023) and dive right into the world of J-pop. But this isn’t entirely your standard J-pop setting, as it’s also a near future light sci-fi novella that looks at identity and freedom, or the lack of both of these […]
dawn.vogel | May 16, 2023
My next collection of short stories and poetry is a steampunk and gaslamp fantasy collection, containing a variety of tones and topics. It’s called Wreathed in Steam, it’s due out on June 18th, and it’s available for pre-order now! Clockworks, airships, and more! Wreathed in Steam contains stories and poetry in the steampunk and gaslamp fantasy realms, with […]
dawn.vogel | May 15, 2023
One of the panels I attended during Flights of Foundry was on the ways to decolonize climate fiction narratives. The panels talked about many of the very common tropes they’ve seen in climate fiction that tend to be from a colonial perspective, followed by ways to tell climate fiction stories from decolonial perspectives. They also […]
dawn.vogel | May 12, 2023
This week’s images all involve urban places. The first image shows two partial train or elevated rail cars, both in silhouette, with few people in either car. In the background, the cloudy sky is partially lit by the sun, as though the image was taken at sunrise or sunset. The second image is a nighttime […]
dawn.vogel | May 11, 2023
Have you checked out my latest collection yet? Droplets from the Universe is chock full of joyful and humorous science fiction stories and poetry. There’s still conflict, tension, and peril, but in the end, the characters see the rainbow beyond the clouds, in a manner of speaking. Droplets from the Universe contains short stories, flash fiction, and […]
dawn.vogel | May 10, 2023
Reading: Books for review. Waiting to sink my teeth into a couple of craft books, but they haven’t been the priority recently. Watching: Sanditon season 3, because I love the drama. We also had time last month to go see Dungeons and Dragons, and we loved it, of course. Listening To: Not much new on this […]
dawn.vogel | May 9, 2023
If you like my writing, you should check out my Patreon. Patreon backers get perks! If you back at even $1 per month, you’ll get to see snippets of my works in progress on Wednesdays. And every Monday, I post about what I’ve accomplished during the previous week and what I’ve got going on in […]
dawn.vogel | May 8, 2023
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 3, Section 7, on more closed forms. An alternate name for this section of the chapter on form could easily have been “closed forms that make […]
dawn.vogel | May 5, 2023
If you like writing sci-fi, the Smithsonian Museum of Air and Space has prepared a writing prompt based on objects in their collection, originally for a Sci-Fi Family Day. If the images of Smithsonian artifacts in that document don’t spark any ideas, you can also search their multimedia gallery to see if something there works […]
dawn.vogel | May 4, 2023
I didn’t have any new stories out in April this year, so let’s do a round-up of some of my spring-themed publications instead! “Fiddle in the Middle,” which originally appeared in MYTHIC Magazine, is set in spring in Seattle. It’s the story of two sisters working through their differences to get along and stop the people […]
