dawn.vogel | February 16, 2022
Against the Grain by Melanie Harding-Shaw is a lovely urban fantasy novella about magic, romance, and celiac/coeliac disease. Told from the perspective of Trinity, a coeliac witch who believes she’s cursed when it comes to matters of love and romance, it’s a quick-paced story set against a glorious New Zealand backdrop. Trinity has always has […]
dawn.vogel | February 15, 2022
My latest collection, Avatar of Freya, is available for pre-order! This is a quick read including four superhero stories, two of which are quite short, and two of which are much longer than what I normally write. All of the stories feature Friday Jones, the titular avatar of Freya, along with some of her assorted […]
dawn.vogel | February 1, 2022
“Swift Vengeance” was a flash piece I wrote as part of a contest, using a prompt to write a story about a hunter. In my case, the story was about a hunter, and then about the hunter of that hunter. I tied it in with the mythology of harpies, and made it also about a […]
dawn.vogel | January 27, 2022
If you’re a sci-fi fan, I’ve got one sci-fi collection that might appeal to you! New Moons Under Which to Sleep contains mainly previously published sci-fi short stories, flash fiction pieces, and a couple of poems, plus a couple of poems that were new to the collection. I’ve had a bunch of other very short […]
dawn.vogel | January 26, 2022
The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor Books, 2022) is a ornate and lovely Gothic tale of intrigue, mystery, and lasting trauma. With a fantastical premise and world, the gorgeous prose will keep you glued to this book all the way through. The book revolves around Charm, the Emperor’s mistress and proprietress of a […]
dawn.vogel | January 25, 2022
The story “Fire Bad” in Intercity Illusions is one of my stories told from the perspective of an animal–in this case, a cat. It also shares a similarity with another of my stories, in that it espouses the idea that perhaps cats were once dragons. “Fire Bad” is a very short flash fiction piece, fairly simple […]
dawn.vogel | January 20, 2022
Have you checked out Unfixed Timelines 2 on Channillo? Each Tuesday, I’m publishing a story or essay related to the historical elements of the story there. You just need a Channillo subscription to read my stories and essays, and you can read other books there as well! A Russian pilot using a bit of magic and […]
dawn.vogel | January 19, 2022
The Case of the Missing Marquess is the first book in the Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer (Penguin Young Readers Group, 2007), which was the inspiration for the Enola Holmes movie on Netflix in 2020. And while the basic premise between this middle grade book and the movie is similar, there are also distinct differences […]
dawn.vogel | January 11, 2022
“Earworm” was a story I wrote for a very specific anthology call that involved “space opera” in a more literal sense than the genre typically means. So my main character was the alien beatbox for an operatic vocal group. As I’ve talked about before, the inspiration for the story was related to K-pop videos, even […]
dawn.vogel | January 4, 2022
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 127 Acceptances received: 5 Rejections received: 54 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 87 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 146 December was a pretty good month for acceptances this year. I sold a short story, a piece of microfiction, […]
