dawn.vogel | June 19, 2026
So this prompt page wound up with me writing a lot of tiny notes, and it’s kind of a mess, honestly. Instead of trying to transcribe it, I’ll summarize what I’ve got. First off, I identified the flags as papel picado, because I hadn’t known their actual name before. They’re connected to the Day of […]
dawn.vogel | June 18, 2026
“Propagating Rosa glacies” and “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” are two of the flash fiction pieces in Chimerical Remembrances, which fit nicely together, as they share a theme of magical revenge. “Propagating Rosa glacies” is written from the perspective of a botanist giving advice on growing a particularly finicky plant. Their most important pieces of advice are tied to […]
dawn.vogel | June 16, 2026
Have you checked out Bounty of the Atoll? It’s a fantastical history novella that mashes up bits of two fairy tales, plus a couple of essays about the setting and history. And it’s got gorgeous cover art from Kloudinthesky! Far from Spain, there are rumors of a beautiful princess held prisoner by a witch and […]
dawn.vogel | June 15, 2026
The next prompt in the Big Pink Book is another page with loads of room for writing. It has a small round sticker at top left that says “Here” (glittery yellow with purple text), a string of black and gold papel picado (perforated paper flags often seen at Day of the Dead events), and a […]
dawn.vogel | June 12, 2026
On Monday, I shared the blank version of this page, and today, you get to see what I did with it! Here’s what my notes say: Hymnal of Transformation (with an arrow pointing to the books) music as magic = lyramancy RyA theme -> predicament what if you have to finish a hymn if you […]
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2026
My next collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, will be out from DefConOne Publishing on July 14! This collection takes two of my published Sarah Castile stories and adds a third, unpublished story to the mix. All three stories are set in the post-World War II era, with two in Europe and one […]
dawn.vogel | June 10, 2026
Cheryl S. Ntumy’s They Made Us Blood and Fury (Rosarium Publishing, 2026) is a gorgeous, sweeping, epic fantasy with wonderful characters and intricate worldbuilding that will delight fans of the genre! The novel follows the interwoven stories of several characters, key amongst whom is Aseye, a young woman who works as an armorer far from her […]
dawn.vogel | June 9, 2026
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 29 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 33 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 My May numbers are a little late, because I had thyroid surgery at the end of May and have […]
dawn.vogel | June 8, 2026
The next prompt in the Big Pink Book is a simple page with a single, larger sticker that depicts books (four stacked, one open, some plant clippings, and a purple liquid in a corked bottle. Of the books in the stack, only two have titles showing. The higher one is The Hymn of Transformation, while the […]
dawn.vogel | June 5, 2026
Time to share what I did with prompt 3 from the Big Pink Book! I’m not much of a puns person, so I took the “It’s funny” prompt and came up with some first sentences connected to that. Even though there were 20 dots on the page, I only wrote 10 sentences, since some took […]
