dawn.vogel | April 8, 2025
My first novel, Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering came out almost exactly eight years ago. Even though that’s quite some time ago, and I’ve accomplished a lot more writing goals since, I’m still proud of this novel! Though I don’t write as much steampunk any more, I enjoyed the worldbuilding and character development for […]
dawn.vogel | January 14, 2025
My Brass and Glass trilogy has been in the world for a little over five years, which is a wild thing to me! The first book came out in 2017 and the second in 2018. Then, after a bit of delay when my first publisher closed, I had the covers updated and the third one […]
dawn.vogel | November 26, 2024
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby was one of the first things I self-published, back in 2016. At that point, I’d been writing for publication for more than seven years. And since 2016 was eight years ago (!), that means I’ve been writing for fifteen years, which is a wild thing to think about. But […]
dawn.vogel | November 19, 2024
If you love steampunk, I’ve got plenty of book options! First, my Brass and Glass trilogy is a completed series of action and adventure steampunk, involving airship pirates and whiskey. The first book, The Cask of Cranglimmering, introduces you to the crew and world, and the other two books take the story to its conclusion. If you’re […]
dawn.vogel | October 30, 2024
Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, 2024) is an expansion of his novella, “Tower of Mud and Straw,” which I reviewed previously. Now as a full length novel, the story expands beyond its earlier constraints and plays more with the theme of memories in this fantastical world! The original novella […]
dawn.vogel | September 12, 2024
When I was writing Brass and Glass 3: The Boiling Sea, I knew at least some of my characters were going to need to dive into that Boiling Sea in order to find the treasure they were looking for. But my setting is steampunk and roughly analogous to the nineteenth century in terms of technological influences. […]
dawn.vogel | May 2, 2024
If you like steampunk, have you checked out my Brass and Glass series? It’s a trilogy following Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and the crew of The Silent Monsoon as they look for a cask of whiskey, which leads them to search for a map, which leads them to the fabled location of a legendary treasure. All three […]
dawn.vogel | April 18, 2024
I included one very short piece of fiction, “Paint Pots,” in Wreathed and Steam, which is a gaslamp fantasy style piece of microfiction about a magical painter. I also have a number of poems in this collection, which vary between steampunk and gaslamp fantasy. Some of my personal favorites are two involving ghosts: “My Josephine” and […]
dawn.vogel | March 21, 2024
“Good Fortune” is a gaslamp fantasy flash fiction piece I included in Wreathed in Steam. It involves fortune telling and things from the depths of the seas, two of my very favorite things. I classify this one as gaslamp fantasy because it’s set in a location that feels very much like it would fit into a […]
dawn.vogel | February 27, 2024
One of the stories in Wreathed in Steam has the longest title of my published pieces to date: “Twelve Essential Things Found in Commander Scarlett Archer’s Spacesuit Pockets (And Some Which Were Not)”. I normally shorten it to “Twelve Essential Things …” for obvious reasons. The title pretty much tells you the plot of the story, […]
