Great Paranormal and Supernatural Treats this Autumn Cider Season on Undawnted

Autumn is most people's favorite season. How is that even a question? Hot cocoa. Campfires. Halloween. What is there not to love? 

Aaachoo! Oh, may be that. While we grab some tissue, see what Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads has ready for download from Lulu & Amazon: 

Novels  
In the Name of Blood: Vampires are Relative
Some people have a supernatural lineage unlike any other.

Short Stories

The Reality Hackers
Don't let your life get hacked. 

Long Form Poetry
Baptizing the Dead 
Beware... the Devil may come bearing gifts.

Wild West and the Pueblo Diablo 
A lone sheriff tracks the devil to a remote pueblo.

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If there are treats, then there has to be a trick, right?

The Legacy Universe's Ophlupin werewolf mythology short story will not be out until after All Hallow's Eve! Darn it! 

We knew there was a catch.

Short Stories
The Story of Ophlupin  
How the mythology and origin of werewolves began: anger the gods, pay the price. 

But that doesn't mean we won't party-hardy on October 31st. Join DL Mullan and Undawnted as Sonoran Dawn Studios hosts this event for our favorite holiday with music, movies, and author takeovers. 

It will be 24 hours of not stop action...

Sonoran Dawn Studios' All Hallows' Eve: What Web We Weave Book Event

So what are you waiting for? If you are an artist, author, or provide publishing services, then be sure to have a slot to sell your wares. It's easy, just post a comment below the Sign-Up Sheet.

See you there! 

DL Mullan to Participate in Sonoran Dawn Studios All Hallow's Eve: What Web We Weave Book Event

What are you doing for Halloween? 

DL Mullan will be celebrating her 2023 releases with other authors like Robbie Cheadle, Joseph Carrabis, and Kaye Lynne Booth at Sonoran Dawn Studios' All Hallows' Eve: What Web We Weave Book Event, on October 31, 2022. 

Why don't you join us? 

If you are an author, artist, or offer publishing services, then sign up for a 30- or 60- minute slot. There you will meet other creators and grow your community. 

Isn't that what events and parties are for? To grow our community? 

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Ms. Mullan will be discussing her Legacy Universe, her mythology books, and the newly released origin story: The Reality Hackers. 

 

Legacy is a global crime-fighting unit dedicated to defending humanity against the  negative effects of supernatural forces. A paranormal law enforcement division, through specified taskforces within Legacy, sends special agents to investigate and halt activities against the mortal realm. All the while, the organization keeps humanity ignorant of its existence and the unseen forces behind the everyday curtain of normalcy.

When ghouls, goblins, magicians, sorcerers, werewolves, and the plethora of undead become rogue actors, who are you going to call? The Special Agents with the Legacy Taskforce.

If there are paranormal problems, you can bet that one of their special agents has already been assigned to the task.

Nothing is what it seems.

Legacy special agents are what monsters fear. 

Come, and learn more about this multi-book series, plus her poetry chapbooks. 

It will be an exciting day of movies, music, and mayhem! ...as well as contests and giveaways!

See you there! 

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A writer at heart, Undawnted's own creative spark, DL Mullan, began writing short stories and poetry before adolescence. Over the years, Ms. Mullan has showcased her literary talents by self-publishing several collections of her poetry. She also writes novels, designs apparel, and creates digital art. Ms. Mullan‘s creative writing is available in digital and print collections, from academia to commercial anthologies. As an independent publisher, she produces her own book cover designs as well as maintains her own websites. She is an award-winning digital artist and poet.

Currently, she has embarked on writing her multi-book Legacy Universe series. The Reality Hackers, published in Visions anthology, is the first Origins book of the series.

With her education and experience in writing, DL Mullan has begun sharing her knowledge via her newsletters. If you too want to become a Fearless Phile, then subscribe to her newsletter on Substack.

Her innovative style teaches writers how to reach their creative potential, and write more effectively.

Learn. Grow. Master… with Undawnted.

Thank You: Sonoran Dawn's Celtic Green Book Event

Undawnted had a wonderful time this morning at the Celtic Green Book Event for April 2, 2022.

We will see you all at the next one set for July 2022.

 

 

 Have a great and wonderful day!

 

 

The First Day of Spring on Undawnted for 2022 Means More of What You Love

It is time for warmer weather, fields of flowers blooming, and aachoo! allergies. 

Spring is also a time for renewal and beginning new projects. We are in the season to create our future. So we take this present and brainstorm. Where would you like to be by autumn? 

Undawnted will continue with creating and publishing more of our art, poetry, and prose in the form of ebooks, shirts, posters, and more. All the while, devising new and innovative ways to inspire our readers of A Novelist Newsletter. 

Undawnted on MPF

We will continue to offer sneak peeks and creations for public review via our Undawnted Youtube Channel. There we will introduce more people to our brand. Imagination cannot be fearless if you don't put yourself out there. 

Undawnted lives and breathes our creative spirit. 

Join us on Substack to enliven the energy inside you to be a participant in your own story. 

And don't forget to Like, Follow, and Subscribe to our other social media accounts for the latest updates. 

March 17th, Undawnted published the scifi/fantasy Long Form poem: Galactic Ride to rave reviews.

April and May will see additional publication releases. Are you ready for more creativity that pushes the boundaries of the norm? Why be normal? When you can be Undawnted.

Check out our Spring Dreams Seasonal Reads Program for what is available to inspire you to use your imagination fearlessly.

 

If you still want to participate in Sonoran Dawn Studios' Celtic Green Book Event, you are just in time! The date was pushed back to April 2nd. 

Have a great and wonderful spring dreams! 

 

Sonoran Dawn Studios' Celtic Green Book Event

Thank you to Sonoran Dawn Studios for Autumn Wonders Book Event

We hope everyone enjoyed the book event on Saturday.

If you were not able to attend, don't worry. Sonoran Dawn keeps each event and party up in perpetuity. So you can visit and revisit old friends. 

Undawnted will be seen next at Sonoran Dawn Studio's New Year's Eve Party on December 31st, 2021. The event will be posted soon, watch for the link. 

Until then, support our publisher by making a purchase. If you would like event specific merchandise, then please visit the Sonoran Dawn Collection of Parties and Book Events on Zazzle. 

Memorabilia from the Autumn Wonders Book Event will be posted later this week. 

We hope you join us for the interactive party full of movies, music, and mayhem. Well, if you count sipping sparkling cider mayhem. We might get rambunctious.

Be there or be square!

 

Event Booked: Undawnted is Signed Up for Sonoran Dawn Studio's Autumn Wonders Book Event

Want to meet the person behind the story? 

Here's your chance to meet and greet with the novelist, and other writers/authors. 

December 4th, 2021 at 6pm, Arizona Time, DL Mullan will be available as a participant in Sonoran Dawn Studios' Autumn Wonders Book Event. 

Be sure to friend Sonoran Dawn for updates and to host your own time slot: https://www.facebook.com/sonoran.dawn.7

During this event, Ms. Mullan will introduce you to her creativity, personality, and writing. 

So join her and other creative minds for this afternoon and evening presentation. 

We hope to see you there! 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

On Undawnted, Life Matters When Writing

Tonight on Undawnted...

I did a load of dishes. I fed the birds and cats. I cooked dinner. I will be putting a chicken in the oven later this evening to keep the house warm. Then I will do a load of laundry after that. 

Well, I cannot sit around and write all day! 

Did you know that motivating helps your brain? If you get stuck writing, then take a walk or do some chores. Sunbathing is nice too. That is what I do. 

With a chicken done, then I don't have to worry about cooking large meals for a few days. That is nice when you have 20K more words to write, and you don't want to break your concentration for too long. 

The notes and scenes I will be doing this week will be enough to keep my mind busy. With the paying of my last two bills in the next couple of days, I won't have any money to spend. So, good thing I am a creative writer. Everything I need is in my head. 

After Immortal Spellcaster is at my formatter on the 20th, I will be doing my Movie Reviews. Isn't that exciting? Spoilers too. (I give a warning!) I like to do five in depth reviews a month. I wanted to be a movie critic when I was a teen. Now, I am. I like how that worked out for me. 

Then the blog/book tour will happen at the end of the month. I want to also add in a Book Events through my Sonoran Dawn publishing house. 

December will begin with me finishing up Immortal Spellcaster. The break of doing reviews and tours will allow me to see my manuscript with fresh eyes. Then I will be able to correct any more mistakes that I may find and add whatever word count is left for me to do. 

If done and polished, Immortal Spellcaster will be entered into a Contest. 

Awesome! 

I would love for the story to place. If so or not, I won't know until late into 2022. If the novel is returned without being optioned, then I will do a few more polish runs before publishing it myself. A good release time would be Winter 2022-23, don't you think? 

December will see me expanding my short story, The Reality Hackers. This science fiction story will be made into a Novelette and entered into another contest. 

That is a good story. I just have to have it in the hands of the right people, and of course, no more formatting issues! When you work with old technology and software, crap happens. You have to keep pressing forward. 

I want to have a few novels and short stories published by third-party publishers in the next five years. As well as, I would like to have some original plays and scripts under production.  

This is the life of a writer. Just make sure not to forget about your real life in the process. I don't. I even add some real life experiences in my fiction to make scenes and characters more realistic. Truth is stranger than fiction... and my truth is way stranger than that. 

 Have a great and wonderful day.

Corporate Philosophy has Tainted the Writing Community

Nominated for a 2017 Book Cover Award

I write here on Undawnted as well as manage, create, and direct over at Sonoran Dawn Studios, my design slash publishing house. Well, the book cover art I created for another author's book was nominated for a Book Event held by another promotional company.

The winning author gets one of three prizes. The book cover artist just gets the street cred. Hey, I could live with that. 

So I went on my Facebook writer's groups only to be turned away. No self promotion. No this rule. No that rule. How can anyone get anything done? 

I found one group that appeared to be okay with me asking some questions like: what do I do to help out my author? where do I begin? what is this event thing anyway?

I never got a response. Actually, I believe the desperate plea was deleted by the Admin. Nice.

So my thought was: has the corporate philosophy of me, Me, ME! gotten in the way of doing the right thing for another person? 

You do realize that this Western Category cover is not in competition with your vampire, romance, religious, or whatever book you have written, right? 

In today's world, piety and grace are left for preacher politicians to tell us how to live according to their interpretation of a dusty tome, but anyone else of that sect or another have forgotten their empathy.

Is this the legacy independent writers would like to leave about themselves and their craft? 

Has the corporate dog-eat-dog world been so pervasive in our culture that we as human beings cannot interact with each other except to step all over everyone else?

That is a sad state of affairs indeed. 

I choose not to be so callous or antipathic. I will do what I must, learn what I need, and help where I can. Although I am disappointed with the lack of basic human decency, the corporate dystopic behavior has bled over into our crafts, creativity, and camaraderie. 

What does that say about us? 

Have a great and wonderful day! 

...if it's in your bylaws!

Random Acts of Kindness

It's been awhile. Karma and me have been on the outs. I don't speak to her and she definitely doesn't speak to me.

I have felt alone in this universe for a very long time. That makes a person feel older than s/he really is. I feel a ton of weight on my shoulders most of the time. A weight that too makes me feel old.

Crotchety. Crusty. Crumplily. 

What's a girl going to do? Buy something meaningless to make her feel better for a moment in time? Our consumer driven society has not yielded us girls a moment of satisfaction. We keep looking outwardly for inward solutions to our needs. 

So this weekend I found two souls who very much needed some help. One with a book cover and event. The other with just a book cover. 

Luckily, these two souls were very gracious to my abrupt entrance into their lives and taking over like i do! Yet, Karma will have her way. These two were due for some good Karma and I was due to create some Random Acts of Kindness. 

The feeling of helping someone else out and from the accomplishment is more than any currency can afford me. Not that a disabled person has any currency after the bills are paid, anyway. Still I feel better. I think those two souls feel better as well.

So Karma, it is nice every once and awhile that you are far from the bitch we all believe you to be. The funny thing is that WE can create all the good Karma for others and ourselves if we just take a moment to step outside our comfort zone and lend a helping hand to someone else without any asking for a reward. 

Maybe someday, Karma, you will shine down on me with a little good luck. 

And, we can all use a little of that in our lives. So the next time you feel down about something, go out and be a good person to someone else. The act will not only lift that person's spirits but yours as well. 

A Random Act of Kindness is a prescription we should all take as much as possible.

Have a great and wonderful day!