History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

On Kickstarter: Playlist of the Damned

| April 26, 2023

Horror + music? Sign me up! Weird Little Worlds launched their Kickstarter for Playlist of the Damned, a horror and music-related anthology, last week. It’s already filled with luminaries from the horror fiction community, and they’ll be opening to submissions at the beginning of May to fill the other slots in the anthology. In addition to […]

Droplets from the Universe Out Today!

| April 18, 2023

My latest collection, Droplets from the Universe, is out today! This is a collection of joyful and humorous science fiction stories and poetry. Droplets from the Universe contains short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the vastness of the universe. Dance amongst these droplets of joyful and humorous science fiction. Not every story starts happy, but […]

See Me at Flights of Foundry!

| April 3, 2023

Over the weekend of April 14 to 16, I’ll be speaking on panels, giving a poetry workshop, and doing a reading at Flights of Foundry, an online convention. I love this convention especially because it’s always online, which means people from across the globe can participate without having to worry about travel needs! Here’s my […]

Droplets from the Universe Coming Soon!

| March 14, 2023

My next collection is Droplets from the Universe, coming in April! I absolutely love how the cover came out! Droplets from the Universe contains short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the vastness of the universe. Dance amongst these droplets of joyful and humorous science fiction. Not every story starts happy, but all finish with positive […]

The Sidewalk Diverges Out Now!

| February 14, 2023

Today’s the release day for The Sidewalk Diverges! If you like contemporary fantasy with a bit of humor, some familial love, and more, check out this collection! It’s sixteen stories of varying lengths and nineteen poems! In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, angels, and fae intermingle. These contemporary fantasy […]

January 2023 Publications

| February 9, 2023

I had two new pieces out in January 2023, a poem and a short story. The poem was “Embrace,” published in Star*Line. This is a short poem in what seems to be a very unofficial form, in which the first words for eight of the lines are pulled from the eight-word middle line. The poem name […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Shacklebound Books

| January 25, 2023

If you like reading flash fiction and drabbles, check out the Kickstarter for the second year of Shacklebound Books! They publish loads of drabble and flash fiction anthologies, plus a drabble magazine, Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles. They’ve published a few of my pieces in their first year, and I’m excited to see […]

Cover Reveal for The Sidewalk Diverges

| January 17, 2023

My next collection will be out February 14, so it’s time to show off the cover! It’s a simple one, based on some manipulation of one of my photos, but I think it works for this collection! In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, angels, and fae intermingle. These […]

Keeping My Patreon Going

| January 10, 2023

It’s 2023, and my Patreon is still going strong. I’m not quite to the goal where I’ll make a monthly video of me reading one of my stories or an excerpt from a longer piece, but perhaps this is the year for that! In addition to getting video readings, my Patreon is a great way […]

December 2022 Publications

| January 5, 2023

Publishing sometimes slows down a bit toward the end of the year, but I had a couple of pieces out this past month! “Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged” is a sort of steampunk flash fiction piece that was published in Factor Four. I say sort of steampunk, because it involves an airship, […]