dawn.vogel | April 16, 2025
If you like anthologies featuring stories by marginalized authors, check out Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals, which is currently on Kickstarter! The anthology will feature horror, fantasy, and sci-fi stories about doors opening. Four of the stories have already been selected, but there’s an open call to fill the remaining spots in the anthology! You […]
dawn.vogel | April 15, 2025
My collection, Coast to Coast Stars, came out almost five years ago! It’s got five short stories set in Cobalt City and Cerulean City, with the former on the East Coast and the latter on the West Coast. Four of the stories are set in Cerulean City, but one of them, “Happily Never After,” features a […]
dawn.vogel | April 8, 2025
My first novel, Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering came out almost exactly eight years ago. Even though that’s quite some time ago, and I’ve accomplished a lot more writing goals since, I’m still proud of this novel! Though I don’t write as much steampunk any more, I enjoyed the worldbuilding and character development for […]
dawn.vogel | April 1, 2025
I had a TON of new pieces out in March 2025, including poetry, drabbles, flash fiction, and short stories! My flash fiction story, “Propagating Rosa glacies,” appeared in issue 12 of ALOCASIA. This is a flash fiction piece written as a gardening article (with a teaser for a future article at the end). It’s a bit dark […]
dawn.vogel | March 27, 2025
When I initially published Unfixed Timelines, I had a vague idea that I would do more of these collections. Still, I didn’t add a “1” onto the title, as that seemed a little odd to me. The second and third volumes, of course, have numbers, which now makes the first volume stand out a little bit […]
dawn.vogel | March 25, 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! “Just a Dollar” and […]
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 […]
