dawn.vogel | September 30, 2025
Conceits of Whim and Fancy isn’t really a collection of spooky stories, but it does involve a lot of supernatural creatures, like witches, familiars, faeries, skeletal warriors, goblins, and liches. The majority of the stories in this collection are kid friendly, as well, which makes this collection a fun one to share with little ones […]
dawn.vogel | September 29, 2025
I spent all weekend on panels and events at Flights of Foundry, so I don’t have a blog post for today. Much like Stormy in the photograph, I need a nap! But next week, I’ll have my recap of all the panels and events I led and attended!
dawn.vogel | September 26, 2025
October is my favorite time of year, because it’s the official beginning of spooky season. And it’s time for the October 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to do things a little bit differently! I found a total of FIVE lists of prompts for the month of October. However, because everyone has spooky on […]
dawn.vogel | September 25, 2025
When I reached the point at which Brass and Glass became a trilogy, I had to sit down to outline the entire series. With one book under my belt, and two more planned, I needed to figure out how to sustain the overall story across three books but also make each book able to stand on […]
dawn.vogel | September 24, 2025
I learned about Juliet Brooks’ book, A Fae in Finance (Orbit Works, 2025), while I was at Seattle’s Worldcon in August, when I chatted with another attendee who was a friend of the author. When said friend explained it as “human trapped in the realm of the fae but still has to work her day job,” […]
dawn.vogel | September 23, 2025
My latest collection, Chimerical Remembrance: Tales of Contemporary Fantasy, is out today in ebook format! The world is a strange place, and the stories and poetry within Chimerical Remembrance amplify that strangeness. From selkies and werewolves to witches and ghosts, exploring unusual places, botany, candy making, and more, you’ll find both joy and sorrow in solemn […]
dawn.vogel | September 22, 2025
One of the panels I attended at Worldcon in Seattle was about newsletter marketing, and I wound up with an absolute TON of notes from this panel. The panelists shared a lot of great advice, so I’m going to recap some of what I learned about newsletters there! One of the early things the panelists […]
dawn.vogel | September 19, 2025
The other day, I started thinking about verb and noun pairs like evolve and evolution, resolve and resolution, and revolve and revolution. But “revolt” also becomes “revolution” when turning it into a noun, despite it not having the “suffix-volve” construction of these other pairs. What gives? This one might not really be quite as complex […]
dawn.vogel | September 18, 2025
The Hanged Man tarot card represents sacrifice, waiting, uncertainty, perspective, and contemplation. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a microfiction piece. The haiku, titled “Longing for your lips” after the first line, is a piece that reflects the “waiting” aspect of this card. The microfiction piece, “No […]
dawn.vogel | September 17, 2025
If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]
