dawn.vogel | June 29, 2023
My flash fiction piece, “First Rights,” is a sci-fi story involving salvage operations for high-end merchandise, the sort that might be tagged with an RFID chip. After all, if it’s valuable enough to tag, it’s certainly valuable enough to steal, right? In addition to its appearance in Droplets from the Universe, “First Rights” can also […]
dawn.vogel | June 27, 2023
An interesting thing about trilogies (or any series, really) is that readership tends to drop off for later books in the series. I can certainly see this when I look at the reviews for each book in my Brass and Glass trilogy. The first book has twice as many reviews as books 2 and 3 combined. […]
dawn.vogel | June 22, 2023
My story “Muss” is the story of a girl and her familiar, but it’s also a story about growing up and responsibility, like a number of my stories with younger protagonists are. It’s both sweet and bittersweet, and it presents the protagonist with multiple overt challenges, along with one less obvious challenge. And it’s the […]
dawn.vogel | June 20, 2023
“Mind the Gap” was written to a prompt about voids, so I decided to combine the void of “the gap” with another void. If you’re not familiar with the phrase “Mind the Gap,” it’s an announcement made in London in Tube stations. It may be used elsewhere as well, but I know it from British […]
dawn.vogel | June 13, 2023
My latest collection, Wreathed in Steam, is out today! Clockworks, airships, and more! Wreathed in Steam contains stories and poetry in the steampunk and gaslamp fantasy realms, with clever mechanisms and daring characters. Be astonished and amazed by heroics, fast thinking, and innovation! You can get Wreathed in Steam as an ebook from your favorite online retailer!
dawn.vogel | June 8, 2023
I only had one story out in May 2023, and it’s a reprint, but it’s definitely worth checking out this story’s new home! My story, “Turning the Tide,” which first appeared at Daily Science Fiction, can now be found among other dark military sci-fi stories in Dread Space 2! My story is a very short flash piece […]
dawn.vogel | June 1, 2023
Volatile Figments is one of my earliest collections, but I still love all of the stories included in it. It’s six dark contemporary fantasy stories featuring female protagonists dealing with eldritch gods, muses, ghouls, and mad scientists. Dani finds the new director in her college theater department more than a little unnerving, but she has […]
dawn.vogel | May 30, 2023
“The Shell Game” started out as a flash fiction piece, but it quickly became apparent that there was more to the story than would fit within the bounds of flash. It’s still a relatively short story, but it needed the extra room to breathe and really make the heist work. And that is, in essence, […]
dawn.vogel | May 25, 2023
“The House Provides” is a story I’ve been trying to write for years. It started out with a very solid and creepy image, and I have pages of notes on what I wanted to do with it. In the end, though, I wound up with a different story than I’d imagined, though it still has […]
dawn.vogel | May 23, 2023
I started writing “Wishes without a Birthday Cake” in a writing workshop with K. Tempest Bradford that involved her asking a question to begin the story, followed by additional questions to shape the story as we wrote. While the end result of that exercise needed some editing after all of the free-writing, it turned into […]
