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Dawn Vogel
Most books about writing a novel give you advice about plot and structure and stakes and more. This isn't most books.
Within the pages of An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing…
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In Denizens of Distant Realms, fantastical things intertwine in half a dozen fantasy short stories. Dragons and witches fend off suitors by unconventional means, old pacts with demons are fixed…
In the windy skies of the Republic, it's not always easy to chart your own course... When Svetlana Tereshchenko, captain of the airship The Silent Monsoon, catches wind that a…
In the stormy skies of the Republic, it’s not always easy to catch a favorable wind…On the hunt for a legendary, cursed map that leads to treasure unimaginable, the crew…
In the turbulent skies of the Republic, it’s not always easy to outrace the storm … With their destination determined, Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and the crew of The Silent Monsoon…
The spiders live in a shop in the swamp with Grandfather Spider. But when Grandfather Spider disappears, they must rescue him!
An explosion in the bay, a prominent film actor believed dead, and his brother missing. Sarah Castile, former superhero turned private investigator, is on the case! When Clarisse Glenn hires…
Supernatural Reform School or Horrifying Death Trap? Dedwydd Academy is meant to be a third chance for Briar Williams, exiled from the fae realm of Idyll for her part in…
Cities are filled with the strange and unusual, especially when you add the supernatural to them. This book collects urban fantasy stories and poetry highlighting the abnormal goings-on across myriad…
Unusual spacecraft, aliens among us, and finding new ways to survive. New Moons Under Which to Sleep is a collection of science-fiction short stories, flash fiction, and poetry exploring the…
Chrysanthemum and Marigold Marsh live in a mechanical garden with their family. But when strange things happen, these two girl detectives are on the case! Follow them through their adventures…
Fairy tales you’ve never read, magic workers young and old, and a few characters who defy description-all these and more can be found within Conceits of Whim and Fancy. Explore…
Camp Fairmarsh, founded in 1883, has a long tradition of giving teenage girls a residential camp experience. Girls spend eight weeks swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, making arts and crafts, hiking…
Droplets from the Universe contains short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the vastness of the universe. Dance amongst these droplets of joyful and humorous science fiction. Not every story…
Chrysanthemum and Marigold Marsh, girl detectives, investigate a break-in at their family’s mechanical garden, and discover the culprit is a mechanical cat. After learning that the mechanical cat has only…
In The Sidewalk Diverges, stories about magic sit alongside stories about superpowers, while ghosts, angels, and fae intermingle. These contemporary fantasy stories and poems all showcase the points where the…
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Unfixed Timelines Omnibus collects three volumes of the Unfixed Timelines series, mixing speculative fiction with pieces of history. Inside, you'll find twenty stories…
Liam Hogan, Dawn Vogel
Nine brand new fantasy and science fiction stories about space, the supernatural, selkies and more in the latest Wyldblood Magazine.
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Dawn Vogel (Ulysses S Grant Association Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Cobalt City is home to super heroes and villains. And trouble follows the heroes even when they aren’t at home. Kara Sparx and three different incarnations of the Huntsman battle…
Julian Dexter
When I was little, I didn’t have an imaginary friend, I had an imaginary bully. She was a little girl of my age, who looked just like me, and took…
Harold Holzer,Dawn Vogel
From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Abraham Lincoln is the most written-about story in our history. This title offers a generation of students, scholars, and citizens…
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Alyssa N Vaughn
Disaster photography, mental health assistance from unlikely sources, and talented velociraptors. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Winter 2020…
