dawn.vogel | June 15, 2022
The Devil Walks in Blood by David Green (Eerie River Publishing, 2021) combines the first two books in this supernatural private investigator series into a single volume, giving the reader a fuller picture of the fascinating world and characters. Nick Halloran died while on a case, but the intervention of a passerby made sure he […]
dawn.vogel | June 14, 2022
New Moons Under Which to Sleep takes its name from a line in one of the poems included in the collection–specifically “Golden Migration (In Four Parts),” which is a golden shovel of Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” “Golden Migration” is just one of the sci-fi poems in this collection. A few of […]
dawn.vogel | June 9, 2022
In May, I had four pieces come out–two flash fiction, one microfiction, and one poem! My flash fiction piece, “Not Their Real Names,” appeared in The Arcanist. This story is a fun and quick high-tech heist story with some quite relatable characters and scenarios, though always with a twist! My microfiction piece, “I Need a […]
dawn.vogel | June 7, 2022
“The Gift” began as an attempt to write a non-Halloween story during Drawlloween and instead coming up with a winter holiday story. The prompt was the goblin market, so I came up with a single dad needing to get a gift for his young daughter, but paying for it in an unusual (not scary!) way. […]
dawn.vogel | June 6, 2022
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 1, Section 4, on meters with three and four feet. Previous sections have focused on the many variants on two-footed meter, while this section is […]
dawn.vogel | June 1, 2022
Rati Mehrotra’s Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (Wednesday Books, 2022) is a gorgeously crafted story of a young woman learning the truth of her background and family while also discovering important things about herself and those she loves. Katyani, the protagonist, has been bound to the Queen of Chandela for as long as […]
dawn.vogel | May 31, 2022
Today, the follow up to my middle grade book, The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby, is out! It’s called C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives, and it’s jam packed with short story adventures of Chrysanthemum and Marigold Marsh, inhabitants of the mechanical garden! This includes the first story I wrote for publication, “The Recondite Riddle […]
dawn.vogel | May 26, 2022
I’ve got more superhero books available than any other genre of books I’ve published! 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 […]
dawn.vogel | May 24, 2022
Among the many legends and fables my pieces in Old Legends and New Fables touch upon, I have one small piece related to Japanese legends. “The View from Mount Fuji” is about a meteor or comet, with a brief mention of the oni. And while that’s a very broad group of legendary creatures, they were an […]
dawn.vogel | May 19, 2022
Have you had a chance to check out Doorways in the Gloom? It’s got a bunch of spooky stories and poetry just waiting to scare and unsettle you! Doorways can lead to many marvelous places. In this collection, however, the scenes they reveal are shrouded in gloom and darkness. See where the doorways take you in […]
