dawn.vogel | August 28, 2023
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 3, Section 11, on shaped verse. This section goes through many different forms of poetry, but the thing the forms all have in common is […]
dawn.vogel | August 24, 2023
“Amanita” is an odd story on the border between reality and dreaming and, perhaps unsurprisingly, given the title, involves hallucination-inducing mushroom tea. (Amanita mushrooms can be poisonous, but they can also be hallucinatory. Or both.) It took a bit of work to get it to balance nicely between reality and dreaming, but I was pretty […]
dawn.vogel | August 22, 2023
My story “Five Days After” is one of the many stories that I first had the idea for while riding the bus in Seattle. Bus commuting is normally fairly quiet and boring. Many of the people on the bus are just trying to get to and from their day jobs. But sometimes you overhear interesting […]
dawn.vogel | August 17, 2023
I’ve got quite a few superhero books, mainly collections of short stories. Check out all the possibilities! Heroes of Necessity is my collection of women becoming unlikely superheroes. All four of the women in this collection have powers, but only one of them would consider herself a superhero (and she considers herself more of a sidekick). […]
dawn.vogel | August 16, 2023
The Crane Moon Cycle by J.C. Snow (2023) is a wonderful epic fantasy novel duology filled with queer characters, slow-burn romance, and a deep historical world. Aili and Nora are preparing to ship out as military nurses, but before they do, they take opportunities to meet other queer women. In doing so, Aili meets an […]
dawn.vogel | August 15, 2023
Today’s the day! Dead-Starred Futures is now available! If you like your science-fiction on the darker and dystopian side, this is the collection for you! It’s also all bite-sized fiction–nothing longer than 1,000 words, and quite a few pieces that are closer to 250 or 100! Visions of the future aren’t always gleaming starships and utopias. […]
dawn.vogel | August 1, 2023
“Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged” was inspired by seeing images of sprite lightning, which is REALLY wild looking. I decided to write about an airship with cloud divers who went after sprite lightning as a power source, which turned into this story. It was written as a flash fiction piece, which meant […]
dawn.vogel | July 31, 2023
As I mentioned previously, I’m working through Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled very slowly to absorb as much wisdom as I can about writing poetry. This week’s post covers Chapter 3, Section 10, on the sonnet. Why does the sonnet get its own section? Well, there’s a lot of history to unpack, two major forms, […]
dawn.vogel | July 27, 2023
“Rory” is a very short horror story that I wrote for a Halloween contest one year. It won the contest, but weirdly, I was never able to find the right market for it. My horror stories tend to be very, very short or close to 5,000 words, and there are far more markets out there […]
dawn.vogel | July 26, 2023
Sea of Souls by N. C. Scrimgeour (Alcruix Press, 2023) is a gorgeous fantasy novel inspired by Scottish mythology and filled with family secrets and loads of heart-stopping action and danger. Isla Blackwood left her family’s home to become a sailor. But on learning that her mother has taken ill, accompanied by a cryptic letter […]
