dawn.vogel | October 12, 2022
I’m an unabashed fangirl of the Locked Tomb series, so I devoured Nona the Ninth (Tordotcom, 2022) almost as soon as it was available. As the third book in the series, you’re going to want to have read Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth (which I weirdly have not reviewed) before you tackle this book. But similar […]
dawn.vogel | October 5, 2022
I grabbed a Kindle copy of Caytee by Susanna Kanto (Caudex Books, 2022) recently because it was touted as a modern retelling of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. As I’d wanted to read Northanger Abbey for a while, but often find Jane Austen’s writing style a little difficult to dig into, I thought this would be a […]
dawn.vogel | September 21, 2022
Unsurprisingly, we cruised through the first season of Sandman. This is a show I’ve been awaiting since 1995, when one of my college friends introduced me to the comic book. Short version: I was not disappointed when the wait was over! There’s been discussion of the casting and the differences between the comics and the […]
dawn.vogel | September 14, 2022
Corry L. Lee’s Weave the Lightning (Solaris, 2020) is a gorgeous beginning to a series about dangerous magic, totalitarian government, and finding love in spite of the odds. With many parallels to Russian and Eastern European countries and governments in the early twentieth century, the story feels like an alternate history-inspired fantasy world. The main characters, […]
dawn.vogel | September 7, 2022
Reading: Time to sink into some additional research for the novella I wrote in July, so I can plan out some revisions to it. Some of the research is to make sure I get the historical parts accurate, and some of it is so I can make it super spooky! Watching: We tore through The Sandman, […]
dawn.vogel | August 31, 2022
The Kickstarter for The Best of Mythic Volume Two has already reached its funding goal, but I wanted to put in a plug for it as a great way to get a collection of wonderful stories! You can get this volume and its predecessor in ebook or paperback. Bonus: both volumes contain stories by me! The […]
dawn.vogel | August 24, 2022
M. Darusha Wehm’s Hamlet, Prince of Robots (in potentia press, 2023) is an absolutely brilliant retelling of Hamlet that hits every note of Hamlet while updating the story to a science-fantasy future in which life-like robots are the technological battleground between the Danes and the Norwegians. In Wehm’s retelling, Hamlet is Hamlet 2.0, the second generation […]
dawn.vogel | August 10, 2022
Reading: Books to review, including one that I’ll be writing a blurb for! Watching: The show I’ve been waiting for since 1995, Sandman, is finally out! Squee! Still finishing up Umbrella Academy, The Owl House, and other assorted shows. Listening To: The usual assortment of K-pop. Really digging CraXilver and Xdinary Heroes, plus Stray Kids just dropped […]
dawn.vogel | August 3, 2022
Sandy Esene’s book, Daughter of Maat (Blue Benu Press, 2018), is an intriguing look at a world in which the Egyptian gods have persisted throughout the centuries, and the ways in which their machinations and schemes impact the modern world. Alex Philothea, an archaeologist, is swept up into this world because she signed up for […]
dawn.vogel | July 27, 2022
If you’re interested in the Regency period, particularly the fashion of the time, check out Fashion in the Age of Bridgerton: Plates from the Lady’s Magazine. It’s a fantastic resource for writers of historical fiction that happens to coincide with this time period, but it’s also of note if you’re interested in the history of […]
