dawn.vogel | September 30, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. This week, I’ll be talking about the “Elevator Pitch Workshop” with Patchree Jones, which I helped facilitate. Patchree has a communications background, so her approach to this topic was a fantastic way to look […]
dawn.vogel | September 16, 2026
Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. First up is one of the panels I spoke on, “How to Find the Right Home for Poems and Short Stories“! During this panel, we talked about the challenges of submitting short fiction and […]
dawn.vogel | July 24, 2026
On Monday, I posted the eighth prompt from the Big Pink Book, which had some zen-like vibes. Rather than use those vibes to write fiction, I used this page to think a little bit about balancing the various demands on my time. This was likely because I worked on it after having participated in the […]
dawn.vogel | October 27, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I watched a panel called “Troubling Tropes,” which was a fantastic panel for learning about tropes that can be problematic and how to work with them. The panelists talked about identifying tropes that are problematic, particularly those that rely on stereotypes for people from marginalized groups. They also […]
dawn.vogel | October 20, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I was the moderator for a panel called “Shared Worlds: Writing Multi-Author Series.” I was excited to be on this one since a lot of my writing is in the Cobalt City Universe, which currently has six authors actively writing in the same shared world. The panelists talked […]
dawn.vogel | October 13, 2025
I’m slowly but surely catching up on panel recordings from the 2025 WriteHive Online Conference that I missed during the weekend. Not too long ago, I watched the panel on “Video Marketing for Authors,” which was one I was particularly interested in because I don’t currently do any video marketing. The panelists mentioned that video […]
dawn.vogel | September 8, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference in July, I was one of the panelists for “Breadcrumbing Clues in Mystery Novels.” This was a fantastic discussion with other authors who write mysteries, generally in conjunction with speculative fiction elements, like I do. We talked about the use of breadcrumbs to leave a trail for our readers to […]
dawn.vogel | August 11, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference a few weekends ago, I was the moderator for a panel on LGBTQ+ History in Publishing. This was a fantastic panel in which the panelists talked about the history of queer authors and publishers, as well as publication of books with queer characters. Our panel description read: “While recent years […]
dawn.vogel | July 28, 2025
During the WriteHive Online Conference this a couple of weekends ago, I was the host for an interactive fiction Q&A with Livia J. Elliot, an author who co-created the app Unearthed Stories (Android and iPhone/iPad) with her partner. We had a great session in which Livia talked about some of the dos and don’ts of […]
dawn.vogel | July 21, 2025
July 11-13 was the WriteHive annual online conference for this year, and as I have for the past couple of years, I attended and participated in a bunch of events! On Friday night, I was the interviewer for an interactive fiction Q&A with Livia J. Elliot. This was a fantastic Q&A, with Livia providing a […]
