History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

Patreon Backers Get Perks

| March 13, 2025

Do you back my Patreon? Backers get exciting perks like seeing some of my early draft writing and free ebooks! Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming (aka Sure Shot 2) is out this week, and backers at the $3 per month or higher tiers get a free copy of that book and my future self-published books! In […]

February 2025 Stories

| March 4, 2025

I had two new stories out in or around February. (One was technically January, but I didn’t realize it was out until after my January story post!) As I mentioned previously, I had four stories selected for the Hawthorn & Ash anthology, and the first of those has appeared on the Iron Faerie Publishing website. “Glaistig” […]

January 2025 Publications

| February 4, 2025

Right at the end of January, Holly & Broom (Hawthorn & Ash vol. 6) came out with four of my drabbles in it. One of those stories, “Glaistig,” is available on the Iron Fairie Publishing website as of yesterday, with the other three to come. The other three drabbles are “Witch Knight,” “Tarot Estoterica: The Black […]

Patreon in 2025

| January 9, 2025

Have you checked out my Patreon? It’s a way for my fans to support my writing and learn about what I’m working on! I share updates about my works in progress, including snippets of stories for my patrons! I’ve got a book coming out this year in March, and backers at $3 a month or higher […]

Do You Know a Kid Who Loves Spiders?

| December 31, 2024

We met up with a former co-worker of Jeremy and her young daughter at one point, and somehow got on the topic of my writing. Because I’m really good at talking to kids, I wound up addressing most of my comments to the daughter, whose eyes got bigger and bigger as I told her about […]

My Latest Urban Fantasy Pieces

| December 19, 2024

I have a handful of new urban or contemporary fantasy pieces out since my last post about that genre! My poem, “Bad Luck for the Fates,” which appeared in Asimov’s in April 2024, has a somewhat mythological basis in the Fates, but the setting is decidedly contemporary. There are a couple of contemporary fantasy pieces hiding […]

My 2024 Publications for Awards Consideration

| December 4, 2024

It’s the time of year when folks start posting lists of their stories and books from the past year that are eligible for award nominations, like the Nebulas, Hugos, and more. I’m including word count, because different awards require different word counts, and it’s easy for me to grab those so you don’t have to […]

My November 2024 Publications

| December 3, 2024

I had two new pieces out in November this year: a flash fiction story and a poem. My flash fiction piece was “We Dream in Color,” a post-apocalyptic story with queer characters, in Toad Shade Zine. This one came out of a one-hour flash fiction writing challenge and was inspired by an image of a […]

October 2024 Publication!

| November 5, 2024

I had one new story out in October this year–“Child’s Play” appeared in Bullet Points volume 7. This is a story involving a woman who’s on the run and the kids who inadvertently get caught up between her and her pursuers. It combines the military sci-fi theme of Bullet Points with a somewhat sweet story of […]

My Historical Fiction from Last Year

| September 19, 2024

I haven’t posted a summary of my historical fiction for a while, in part because there hasn’t been much to post. But last October, I released Unfixed Timelines 3 and Unfixed Timelines Omnibus. The former includes seven stories and one poem, several of which were previously published, along with essays about the history I altered […]