dawn.vogel | March 20, 2025
The Chariot tarot card represents overcoming challenges and forward movement. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a flash fiction piece and a poem. “Refuge” is a flash fiction story about a person fleeing pursuers who finds an unusual location. The story takes place on a river, with the protagonist quite […]
dawn.vogel | March 18, 2025
I’ve published a handful of horror and dark fantasy pieces in the nine months since my last post on my spooky reads! Weathering Youth contains stories featuring younger protagonists, but that doesn’t mean the stories are all light and fluffy. In particular, “Remembrance” (drabble), “A Trail of Apples” (short story), “No Fear” (flash fiction), “Someone […]
dawn.vogel | March 13, 2025
Do you back my Patreon? Backers get exciting perks like seeing some of my early draft writing and free ebooks! Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming (aka Sure Shot 2) is out this week, and backers at the $3 per month or higher tiers get a free copy of that book and my future self-published books! In […]
dawn.vogel | March 12, 2025
It’s not quite spring yet, but we’re ahead of the game at DefCon One Publishing, with a list of spring reads! These books take place in the spring months, either in part or wholly, or have flowery covers. We’ve also got eight spring quarterlies from Mad Scientist Journal on the list, which often include spring-themed stories […]
dawn.vogel | March 11, 2025
Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming is out today! This is the second installment in my alternate 1950s, superhero, noir mystery series, but each book is a stand-alone story that doesn’t require knowledge of the other books! This book has Sarah Castile returning to her hometown of Cobalt City for a case … or two! […]
dawn.vogel | March 4, 2025
I had two new stories out in or around February. (One was technically January, but I didn’t realize it was out until after my January story post!) As I mentioned previously, I had four stories selected for the Hawthorn & Ash anthology, and the first of those has appeared on the Iron Faerie Publishing website. “Glaistig” […]
dawn.vogel | February 27, 2025
Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! The third […]
dawn.vogel | February 25, 2025
I’ve published a few new pieces for young readers in the months since my last post on the subject. The main one is “The Storyteller,” which appeared in Bikes, The Universe, and Everything from Microcosm Press. Though the protagonist is a young adult, the story is appropriate for kids as well. “The Storyteller” is also in […]
dawn.vogel | February 20, 2025
The Lovers tarot card represents relationships, of course, but also harmony and choices. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a flash fiction piece and a haiku. The flash fiction piece, “The Truth of Their Tunes,” revolves around heartsongs and a witch who can understand them. The prompt for this story was […]
dawn.vogel | February 18, 2025
My flash fiction piece “Little T, Big T” was originally written as a Drawlloween story with a prompt of “ghost,” but it turned into a cute, sweet story about sisters. I’m not sure where I got a secondary prompt for this, but somehow, I got it in my head to write a story about a […]
