dawn.vogel | February 14, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! February is called “The Strangest Month of the Year” in this article on Medium from 2018. While it doesn’t delve too deeply into historical events, one might argue that the events it covers from seven years ago are recent history, […]
dawn.vogel | February 13, 2025
If you’d prefer to get your news from me in a once-a-month, digestible format, you should subscribe to my newsletter! In it, I talk about what I’ve been working on, interesting history and research rabbit holes, what’s coming next from me, and recommendations for other books and writing you might enjoy! If you sign up, […]
dawn.vogel | February 12, 2025
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor, 2020) is a lovely novel of bureaucracy, music, and found family. With a marvelous cast of characters and occasionally hilarious side comments, it weaves a cozy tale with secrets and a reasonable amount of peril. Linus Baker is a caseworker with the Department in Charge […]
dawn.vogel | February 11, 2025
My next book, Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming, will be out a month from today. It’s a sequel of sorts to Sure Shot in Las Capas: The Case of the Absent Star, but the books can be read in any order and don’t require you to read them both to understand either one. A […]
dawn.vogel | February 10, 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! Jessica Salina’s presentation, “Passive Marketing: How Authors Can Leverage SEO,” is a brilliantly useful watch for anyone who […]
dawn.vogel | February 7, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! A couple of these might sound a bit like winter holiday-oriented prompts, but you can also adjust them slightly to set them outside of the winter holidays! Write a piece about someone with a discerning eye about ornaments. Write a piece about the […]
dawn.vogel | February 6, 2025
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 47 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 14 (+1, +2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 13 New Submissions: 5 Stories out at the end of the month: 42 January seemed a little slow on the submission front, but it wasn’t too awful. I had two acceptances, […]
dawn.vogel | February 5, 2025
The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Long List came out at the end of January, and lo and behold, Weathering Youth is one of the collections that was nominated! Now I realize that this is the long list, which is no guarantee of being selected as a finalist, but I was super excited to see my […]
dawn.vogel | February 4, 2025
Right at the end of January, Holly & Broom (Hawthorn & Ash vol. 6) came out with four of my drabbles in it. One of those stories, “Glaistig,” is available on the Iron Fairie Publishing website as of yesterday, with the other three to come. The other three drabbles are “Witch Knight,” “Tarot Estoterica: The Black […]
dawn.vogel | February 3, 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 watched “Rooted in Story: Cultivating the Natural World in Ink” to get some cool ideas on how […]
