dawn.vogel | June 30, 2025
Today I have a guest post from Marie Vibbert, author of Galactic Hellcats and the forthcoming Andrei and the Hellcats (among many other publications). I asked Marie to talk a bit about writing a stand-alone sequel for this guest post! How to Write a Stand-Alone Sequel My first novel, Galactic Hellcats, was a big hit for the […]
dawn.vogel | June 27, 2025
July is just around the corner, so it’s time for the July 2025 writing prompts! As per the usual, I took these from a variety of art challenges. I had a surprisingly difficult time finding some good ones for July, with the end result that these are a bit less summer themed than I expected. […]
dawn.vogel | June 26, 2025
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Family Tree” and […]
dawn.vogel | June 25, 2025
I love music in general, and music in video games is a large part of what makes them memorable for me, possibly especially because I’m not playing the games. The first two BioShock games have a ton of music from the first half of the twentieth century, with a few assorted pieces from earlier and […]
dawn.vogel | June 24, 2025
My collection Old Legends and New Fables collects stories and poems that come from folklore, mythology, and other stories from a wide variety of cultures. While most of the pieces are related to older stories, there are a few that touch on more modern mythologies and folklore. For my pieces, I often drew from stories […]
dawn.vogel | June 23, 2025
If someone is picking up your book, whether physically or at an online retailer, they’re likely going to make their choice to buy your book based on the back of the book blurb. And if you’re a self-published author, you’ll be the one writing that back of the book blurb. While I don’t think writing […]
dawn.vogel | June 20, 2025
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece from the perspective of a kite. Write a piece about an item replicating out of control. Write a piece set where the jungle and ocean meet. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts every other Friday, or check them out […]
dawn.vogel | June 19, 2025
I’ve published quite a bit of historical fiction, so I thought it might be useful to have one post where you can find all of those collections and novellas! Unfixed Timelines – alternate history stories and essays about the real history Unfixed Timelines 2 – alternate history stories and essays about the real history Unfixed […]
dawn.vogel | June 18, 2025
Aether Beyond the Binary (Duck Prints Press, 2024) is an anthology of speculative short stories with gender diverse characters, all revolving around a concept of aether, a semi-magical substance that has properties as different as the stories in which it features. Each of the 17 stories has a listing of “tags” at the beginning of […]
dawn.vogel | June 17, 2025
“Fiddle in the Middle” is one of several stories I’ve written that was inspired by a bus ride. The two main characters were initially a pair of older women I saw on the bus at the same time–one all in white, and one all in black. Their juxtaposition stuck in my head, and I knew […]
