dawn.vogel | July 17, 2024
Elijah Kinch Spector’s Kalyna the Soothsayer (Erewhon Books, 2022), is a sweeping secondary world fantasy novel featuring high stakes, political intrigue, and loads of deception. Kalyna’s father and grandmother both had the Gift, the ability to see the future of people with whom they are not close. However, Kalyna was born without it, a fact her […]
dawn.vogel | July 16, 2024
My non-fiction, tongue-in-cheek, book of novel writing advice, An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel, is out today! Most books about writing a novel give you advice about plot and structure and stakes and more. This isn’t most books. Within the pages of An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel, you’ll find information about writing novels from […]
dawn.vogel | July 15, 2024
I had the idea to write a post about my revision process, but it occurred to me that it’s different depending on the length of the piece I’m revising. When I’m writing novella or novel length pieces, my revision wall is my go to method. But the revision wall is way too much when I’m […]
dawn.vogel | July 12, 2024
Sometimes, Fridays are just for fun, not necessarily writing prompts. This is one of those Fridays! Today, check out the Just for Fun page at Writing World! While they also offer prompts (which I think I’ve shared before), this offers a variety of tools and other fun things for authors, including title generators, fictional recipes, […]
dawn.vogel | July 11, 2024
I’ve had a handful of fantasy short stories and poetry out since my last round-up post! In November 2023, “Family Tree” appeared in Wyldblood Magazine. This story follows an orphaned teenage girl living with her aunt and uncle and what happens when she tires of their ill treatment of her. My flash fiction piece, “Mutualism by […]
dawn.vogel | July 10, 2024
Reading: Mostly books to review. Watching: There hasn’t been a whole lot of watching lately, with family visits and a lot of other stuff on our calendar, but we watched the entirety of Hazbin Hotel on the Fourth of July, and I’m a fan! Super irreverent musical cartoon? Yeah, I’m in! Listening To: As an additional […]
dawn.vogel | July 9, 2024
I mentioned earlier this year that backers of my Patreon at the $3 a month level would be getting a new Sure Shot novella in November, but I’ve wound up changing my plan on it. That particular novella will be delayed until some time in 2025, but instead, I’ll be putting out a MASSIVE collection […]
dawn.vogel | July 8, 2024
Another panel I was on at the WriteHive Online Conference was Historians on History. With a couple of other historians, archivists, and writers of historical fiction, we talked about doing research for our historical stories and how to avoid certain pitfalls of research rabbit holes (not always successful) and how to deal with difficult history […]
dawn.vogel | July 5, 2024
Looking for yet another source of writing prompts? I’m always finding new ones! Today, it’s this list of 400+ writing prompts (some fiction, some non-fiction) from Self-Publishing School. They link to individual genre lists, so you can jump down to the appropriate list that grabs your attention!
dawn.vogel | July 4, 2024
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 82 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 63 (+9; +1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 46 June continued my slow submitting trend, though I did submit more stories and poems than in May. But […]
