dawn.vogel | September 16, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. First up is one of the panels I spoke on, “How to Find the Right Home for Poems and Short Stories“! During this panel, we talked about the challenges of submitting short fiction and […]
dawn.vogel | September 7, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Darryl Cunningham, whose graphic novel John of the Night came out last week! DV: Tell us a little about yourself and your writing. DC: I’m a UK based cartoonist/writer, known predominantly as a creator of non-fiction graphic novels on a variety of subjects, including science, mental health, economics, and politics. In recent […]
dawn.vogel | April 6, 2026
Today, I’m chatting with Kit Anderson, author of the Nebula Award finalist graphic novel Second Shift! DV: Tell us a little about yourself and your writing. KA: I’m a cartoonist from Colorado who lives with her partner and elderly dog in a small town outside of Zürich. I keep my writing mostly to comics, but […]
dawn.vogel | October 27, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I watched a panel called “Troubling Tropes,” which was a fantastic panel for learning about tropes that can be problematic and how to work with them. The panelists talked about identifying tropes that are problematic, particularly those that rely on stereotypes for people from marginalized groups. They also […]
dawn.vogel | October 20, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I was the moderator for a panel called “Shared Worlds: Writing Multi-Author Series.” I was excited to be on this one since a lot of my writing is in the Cobalt City Universe, which currently has six authors actively writing in the same shared world. The panelists talked […]
dawn.vogel | October 13, 2025
I’m slowly but surely catching up on panel recordings from the 2025 WriteHive Online Conference that I missed during the weekend. Not too long ago, I watched the panel on “Video Marketing for Authors,” which was one I was particularly interested in because I don’t currently do any video marketing. The panelists mentioned that video […]
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 8, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I was one of the panelists for “Breadcrumbing Clues in Mystery Novels.” This was a fantastic discussion with other authors who write mysteries, generally in conjunction with speculative fiction elements, like I do. We talked about the use of breadcrumbs to leave a trail for our readers to […]
dawn.vogel | September 1, 2025
Recently, I’ve been helping the fine folks at The Dream Foundry prepare, post, and promote some of the panel videos from the 2023 Flights of Foundry online convention. New content goes up every Sunday and Wednesday, and many of the videos are up permanently. (Some remain up for an limited amount of time.) Here’s a handful of […]
dawn.vogel | August 18, 2025
At Worldcon on Friday, I gave an Academic track presentation on “Historical Research for Non-Historians,” with an eye to folks writing historical fiction of all stripes, whether that be alternate history or fantastical history or something else! Because I’ve got training as a historian, I tend to do a lot of research for my historical […]
