dawn.vogel | February 25, 2026
The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas (Neon Hemlock, 2025) is a charming novella that mashes up academia and superheroes with a largely LGBTQ+ cast of characters. Professor Laxman Yadav, who specializes in art history and archaeology, is brought in to examine a recently unearthed artifact, a rare example of a fully intact technology from […]
dawn.vogel | October 16, 2025
Since my last post about my superhero fiction, I have a couple of new things out. First off, my novella Sure Shot in Cobalt City: Homecoming came out in March. This novella is a stand-alone sequel to Sure Shot in Las Capas: The Case of the Absent Star. The two books can be read independently of each […]
dawn.vogel | September 4, 2025
I had one new story out in August this year. “Damage Abatement” appeared in the August 2025 issue of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine. This is my fifth appearance in this magazine, with two flash fiction pieces and two poems previously included, but this is my first short story there! “Damage Abatement” is also a Cobalt City […]
dawn.vogel | September 2, 2025
Brother’s Keeper is a Cobalt City novella featuring the superhero trio known as Triple Threat. Their team name is a bit of a inside joke between Jeremy and I about “triple threats” (traditionally singing, dancing, and acting) that we sometimes use about three random (and not always useful) skills or characteristics. The members of Triple […]
dawn.vogel | June 19, 2025
I’ve published quite a bit of historical fiction, so I thought it might be useful to have one post where you can find all of those collections and novellas! Unfixed Timelines – alternate history stories and essays about the real history Unfixed Timelines 2 – alternate history stories and essays about the real history Unfixed […]
dawn.vogel | May 22, 2025
All of the stories in Avatar of Freya include the titular character, aka Friday Jones / Dulcamara. Friday was originally a character I played in a Cobalt City tabletop game, and some of the characters she teams up with in Avatar of Freya were also characters in the game, played by some of my friends. While I […]
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 | April 15, 2025
My collection, Coast to Coast Stars, came out almost five years ago! It’s got five short stories set in Cobalt City and Cerulean City, with the former on the East Coast and the latter on the West Coast. Four of the stories are set in Cerulean City, but one of them, “Happily Never After,” features a […]
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 […]
