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 This collection takes two of my published Sarah Castile stories and adds a third, unpublished story to the mix.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the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 29 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 33 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 My May numbers are a little late, because I had thyroid surgery at the end of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 […]
dawn.vogel | June 1, 2026
The third prompt in the Big Pink Book is another list-making prompt, this time themed around some puns and an intro of “It’s funny.” The puns, in the stickers to the right, are: “You are deer to me,” “Love you a latte!,” “That’s bananas” (with the bananas as an image), “No Prob-llama,” and “Donut worry. […]
