dawn.vogel | April 3, 2024
Foz Meadows’ novella Finding Echoes (Neon Hemlock, 2024) is a secondary-world fantasy story packed with great characters (queer and otherwise) and worldbuilding, plus a whole load of feelings. Snow has the ability to speak with the dead, getting information from them and sometimes helping them move on. When his ex-lover Gem shows up in need of […]
dawn.vogel | January 31, 2024
Clara Ward’s Be the Sea (Atthis Arts, 2024) is an amazing sci-fi novel filled with found family, lost friends found again, stories, and dreams. Set in a world where climate change has occurred but been mitigated in places, it has a fairly cozy storyline and an eclectic cast of queer and disabled characters. Wend, a marine […]
dawn.vogel | January 17, 2024
If you’re looking for an awesome anthology to back, check out Aether Beyond the Binary from Duck Prints Press! It’s got aetherpunk (magic-powered technology) stories with characters outside the gender binary. In addition to the anthology, there are a bunch of great add-on items, from stickers to wands, along with more things to read! This Kickstarter […]
dawn.vogel | December 20, 2023
Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann (Apex Book Company, 2023) is a wonderful collection of speculative fiction stories and poetry, ranging through a variety of themes and lengths. Many of the pieces feature neurodiverse and/or queer characters, either explicitly or implicitly. The collection as a whole is brilliantly assembled, with many of the stories arranged in such […]
dawn.vogel | December 13, 2023
If you like spooky stories about camping, check out the Kickstarter for In the Neck of the Woods, an anthology of camping-themed horror stories by LGBTQ+ and BIPOC authors! In addition to the anthology, there are some very cool items along the camping theme included in the highest tier! The Kickstarter runs until December 31st, so […]
dawn.vogel | November 30, 2023
“Roadside Assistance” is a flash fiction piece I included in Wreathed in Steam, featuring warring families and queer women. It really wants to be a larger piece of a steampunk Regency setting, along with some of the other stories included in that collection. I haven’t gotten there yet, but I think someday I’m going to take […]
dawn.vogel | September 27, 2023
Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz (Amble Press, 2023) is a collection of short stories with mostly queer protagonists and filled with a delightful surrealness across the various worlds and characters of the stories. I first became familiar with Jacob’s writing when he submitted the story “Seen” for DefCon One’s I Didn’t Break the Lamp anthology, which […]
dawn.vogel | September 11, 2023
Today, I’m talking with Ryder O’Malley, who writes superhero and supervillain fiction, including some on the gay and steamy part of the spectrum! Read on to learn more! DV: Tell me a little about yourself and your writing. RO: Howdy! Most people know me as Ryder O’Malley, the author of gay steamy superheroes. My origin […]
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 | April 20, 2023
My story “Unconventional Soulmates” came directly from the idea of “what if someone used magic to locate their soulmate, but the soulmate the magic found wasn’t at all who they were expecting?” In this story, which flips back and forth from the POV of the seeker and the found, I also explore how soulmates from […]
