dawn.vogel | June 30, 2023
July begins tomorrow, which means today is the perfect day to post my July 2023 prompts! This month’s prompts are mostly randomly generated, but the first column comes from the Kick in the Creatives July art challenge (with minor modifications). This month’s art challenge there is also to draw upside down, so you might think […]
dawn.vogel | June 29, 2023
My flash fiction piece, “First Rights,” is a sci-fi story involving salvage operations for high-end merchandise, the sort that might be tagged with an RFID chip. After all, if it’s valuable enough to tag, it’s certainly valuable enough to steal, right? In addition to its appearance in Droplets from the Universe, “First Rights” can also […]
dawn.vogel | June 28, 2023
Addison Smith’s Parallel Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy (2023) is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles. Though some common themes emerge amongst the stories, there’s also a great amount of variety, ensuring that most readers will find stories they thoroughly enjoy within this collection. Of the stories included […]
dawn.vogel | June 27, 2023
An interesting thing about trilogies (or any series, really) is that readership tends to drop off for later books in the series. I can certainly see this when I look at the reviews for each book in my Brass and Glass trilogy. The first book has twice as many reviews as books 2 and 3 combined. […]
dawn.vogel | June 26, 2023
At Flights of Foundry back in April of this year, I attended and spoke on a few panels about editing and freelancing. While I still work a full time job, I have also taken on a lot of freelance editing projects, especially in the past few months. So these panels were helpful to me in […]
dawn.vogel | June 23, 2023
In the past, I’ve done a three image post every couple of weeks, but I’ve found that my usual sources of images are not necessarily filtering out images that are created by AI. So rather than post images that may be the product of theft from artists, I’m going to phase out those image posts, […]
dawn.vogel | June 22, 2023
My story “Muss” is the story of a girl and her familiar, but it’s also a story about growing up and responsibility, like a number of my stories with younger protagonists are. It’s both sweet and bittersweet, and it presents the protagonist with multiple overt challenges, along with one less obvious challenge. And it’s the […]
dawn.vogel | June 21, 2023
Reading: Books for review, mostly, and books for the essays for Unfixed Timelines 3. But I’ve also just gotten The Anti-Planner, which is mostly not for reading, but I occasionally read through a few of the exercises to see what might be useful to me at that time or in the future. And I’m trying […]
dawn.vogel | June 20, 2023
“Mind the Gap” was written to a prompt about voids, so I decided to combine the void of “the gap” with another void. If you’re not familiar with the phrase “Mind the Gap,” it’s an announcement made in London in Tube stations. It may be used elsewhere as well, but I know it from British […]
dawn.vogel | June 19, 2023
This year, I’m doing the Clarion West Write-A-Thon from June 25–August 5! I’ve eyeballed it in years past, but never quite worked up the courage to give it a shot. But this year, I decided to do it. Did I really need something else on my plate? Nope, definitely not. So I’m planning to keep […]
