dawn.vogel | August 27, 2026
My collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, came out just over a month ago. It collects two previously published Sarah Castile stories, plus one that’s only available in this collection currently. The stories follow Sarah’s European adventures in “Red Scare” and “Der Schwarze Wolf von Piz Bernina,” while “Nochevieja” is set in Cobalt […]
dawn.vogel | July 14, 2026
My latest collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, with cover art by Luke Spooner/Carrion House, is out from DefConOne Publishing today! Since the founding of Cobalt City, there has been a Huntsman protecting its citizens. However, the women of the Castile family have never been allowed to bear the mantle more than […]
dawn.vogel | June 11, 2026
My next collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, will be out from DefConOne Publishing on July 14! This collection takes two of my published Sarah Castile stories and adds a third, unpublished story to the mix. All three stories are set in the post-World War II era, with two in Europe and one […]
dawn.vogel | May 8, 2025
Have you checked out Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming, the second of my Sure Shot novellas, which are stand-alone, alternate history, 1950s noir mysteries with superheroes? A mysterious case, a murdered friend, and something sinister behind it all. Sarah Castile, former superhero turned private investigator, is on the case! When her old friend Lillian invites […]
dawn.vogel | March 11, 2025
Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming is out today! This is the second installment in my alternate 1950s, superhero, noir mystery series, but each book is a stand-alone story that doesn’t require knowledge of the other books! This book has Sarah Castile returning to her hometown of Cobalt City for a case … or two! […]
dawn.vogel | February 11, 2025
My next book, Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming, will be out a month from today. It’s a sequel of sorts to Sure Shot in Las Capas: The Case of the Absent Star, but the books can be read in any order and don’t require you to read them both to understand either one. A […]
dawn.vogel | April 30, 2019
One of the concepts I introduce in my stories in Sparx & Arrows is that of the Lady Huntsman. In the Cobalt City Universe, Huntsman is a legacy superhero–a mantle that’s been handed down almost exclusively in the male line of one of Cobalt City’s founding families. Note the almost. Whenever I hear a qualifier like that, […]
dawn.vogel | August 31, 2016
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 23 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 17 Stories withdrawn: 0 (2) Resubmissions: 17 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 21 August’s submissions look about right to me. I had a photograph that I submitted as part of the 31/31 writing challenge accepted, so […]
