dawn.vogel | January 17, 2025
I’ve just starting tackling Wonderbook as my next craft book read, and though I’ve only gotten through a bit of it, I’m loving it! One of the things included as a companion to the book is WonderbookNow, a website containing additional resources for folks as they go through the book. And within that site is The […]
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dawn.vogel | January 16, 2025
Since the last time I posted about my superhero fiction, I haven’t had much new come out in the world, though I’ve been busily editing a lot of other folks’ Cobalt City superhero fiction! I did publish a couple of marginally superhero stories in A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, which includes pieces inspired by the […]
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dawn.vogel | January 15, 2025
Jeremy curates lists of YouTube videos for me, which include trailers that he thinks I might be interested in. Which means that when the trailer for the Fallout TV series came out, he put that on the list. I watched it with some confusion, because I didn’t remember any wild west zombies, and the weapons didn’t […]
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Tags: Big Daddies, BioShock, Fallout, my brain, the non-player review of video games, video games
dawn.vogel | January 14, 2025
My Brass and Glass trilogy has been in the world for a little over five years, which is a wild thing to me! The first book came out in 2017 and the second in 2018. Then, after a bit of delay when my first publisher closed, I had the covers updated and the third one […]
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dawn.vogel | January 13, 2025
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Amusingly enough, I procrastinated quite a bit on watching “Tackling Procrastination and Creating a Routine.” But once I […]
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dawn.vogel | January 10, 2025
Have you ever wondered about the etymology of the words we use for … words about talking? Useless Etymology has, and they wrote a brief post about the etymology of jargon, jabber, and gibberish, which are related to one another. It’s fascinating to me to see the way these words are related and how they […]
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dawn.vogel | January 9, 2025
Have you checked out my Patreon? It’s a way for my fans to support my writing and learn about what I’m working on! I share updates about my works in progress, including snippets of stories for my patrons! I’ve got a book coming out this year in March, and backers at $3 a month or higher […]
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dawn.vogel | January 8, 2025
My numbers for 2024: Stories out at the end of 2023: 112 New Stories Written: 92 (1 novelette, 5 short stories, 50 flash or shorter, 36 poems) Old Stories Making the Rounds: 179 Total Submissions: 481 Total Rejections: 537 Total Acceptances: 16 Stories out at the end of 2024: 47 My subs for 2024 were, […]
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dawn.vogel | January 7, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 57 Acceptances received: 5 Rejections received: 25 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 12 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 47 December was a little slow on the submission end of things, though I did have FIVE acceptances, which made […]
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dawn.vogel | January 6, 2025
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! I enjoyed Kris Waldherr’s presentation on “Tarot for Writers,” which was a neat look at the ways in […]
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