Sleeping Kitty Productions 2023


The Key



In 2023, Dennis Vogen celebrated 10 years of publishing, and 20 years of making music as The Next Step.



These are the essays written for that year of celebration.


The History of Sleeping Kitty Productions, Part I

Sleeping Kitty Productions 2023



SKP 2023: Origins

Splish Splash

The Triumph of Never Growing Old and the Spirit of Never Giving Up

Popina Academia

Met Men

Lost Boy

Cave Paintings

All The Wrong and Dark Things



SKP 2023: Online Writing & Unproduced Work

Caption This

How Time Got Solid

The Visitor! Revisited

Jargon Decrypted

March Hare



SKP 2023: Them

Raising Them

Review of a Review

How I Published My First Book

Heroes, Villains, Humans



SKP 2023: Us

Woke Up Call

How do I love failure? Let me count the ways

Final Thoughts on Us, and Them



SKP 2023: The Next Step

The History of The Next Step

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI



SKP 2023: Cold World

Building a Cold World

Loss & Grief

Faith & Spirituality

Communication & Understanding

Creating the (Snow) Cover

Building a house you can live in as is…



SKP 2023: Brushfire

Happy Brushfire Day!

Definitely More (Unnecessarily More) Than You Thought It Was About

We Don’t Decide Who It’s For

The Words I Needed Then



SKP 2023: The Weirdos

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII



SKP 2023: Theia

Tainted Love

Bittersweet Symphony

Stuck In The Middle With You

Heroes



SKP 2023: Flip

I Wish I Was Special

Dream a Little Dream of Me

I Got Dosed By You

National Novel Writing Month



SKP 2023: Push

The Book (and Boy) That Almost Wasn’t

But you really need to listen to me…



SKP 2023: A Dream of Tin & Eternity

Change, or Die

They’ll Come True, Impossible Not To Do

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