Planning Undawnted's 2022 Calendar: What Do You Want to See More Of?

Plan, to plan, planning... sounds like an excuse for colored pens and an array of stickers.

And, you would be correct. 

2022 is going to be high energy for Undawnted. More writing, publishing, and publications. Nothing says dedication like exhaustion. 

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Undawnted has: 

• Social media interactions
• Original, award-level poetry 
• Designer apparel
• Authentic storytelling
• Book and Movie Reviews
• Fine Art print productions
• Seasonal Reads
• Events & Parties
• Blog Tour & other Bookings
  
• Special Engagements
• Writer's Workshops 
• an Upcoming Newsletter

So there is much that can be cataloged onto a calendar. 

Undawnted likes all that is happening in our little corner of the internet, but what makes Undawnted stand out from the crowd? 

What would you like to see? 

A psychotic painting elephant? Done! 

 

Have a great and wonderful day!

 

Poetry in Review on My Poetry Forum for an End of the Year Culling

I have 18 poetry selections on My Poetry Forum, which will now be available on Undawnted's YouTube Channel. 

At the end of the year, all poems will be removed to make way for our video shorts and feature films in the works.

But if you enjoyed a poem and feel that it is in jeopardy of being taken down, then you have the power to keep that poem in circulation. Go on to Undawnted's YouTube Channel, subscribe and then give a great review!

The more you, the audience, interact; the more I can give you of what you want: fearless creativity.

Have a great and wonderful day. 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

Seasonal Outlook for New Opportunities

I wanted something more for Undawnted as to the change of seasons. 

Therefore, I created four different book covers: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. I wanted to jot down how the seasons reflected my inner dialogue. These books will be an amalgamation of art, prose, and poetry. 

If others would like to join this e-book, then I can make an anthology series. I would publish the books under the Sonoran Dawn Studios (my publishing house) banner. If no one joins this unique series, then I will write it off as C'est la vie, such as life. 

Here are the book covers so far. 

If you would like to participate, please drop me a line using the Contact Form.





Have a great and seasonal day!

Amazon Kindle, Here Comes Undawnted's DL Mullan in 2022!

Undawnted is currently moving available titles to a larger platform than Lulu in the coming year.

A few concerns about the current publishing platform have arisen as some readers cannot access, download, titles. In light of this realization, Undawnted will be transferring our publications to this other platform beginning in 2022.

If a title cannot be downloaded during this time, you have our apologies, but we are making strides to have our publications available to a wider range of readers with the ease of accessibility.

Thank you for your patience.


Have a great and wonderful day. 

 

 

 

On My Poetry Forum for Review: You

You is a stream of consciousness poem that blends raw emotion with a repetitive-style that allows the audience to be immersed in the depths of reminiscence and despair.

This poem is an emotive powerhouse that will be featured in the upcoming chapbook: Impetus: Read it for yourself and leave a comment. 

If you would like to read other poems by DL Mullan, be sure to subscribe to Undawnted's YouTube Channel.

Impetus is a new book of poetry from DL Mullan. From heartbreak to romantic love, emotions are the driving force of our existence. Feel them all.

"Succinctly powerful in what is expressed..."
"One of the best poems I have ever read."
"Excellent descriptive write. Nonpariel."

Take a journey. Live a lifetime.

Visit Impetus on Undawnted.

Have a great and wonderful day

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 

 

 

Exciting! Autumn Cider 2021 Begins Today for Undawnted's Seasonal Reads Program

As the evenings turn cool, fire pits are decorated with people cooking marshmallows and wearing sweaters.

The holidays are close at hand. First, we get to enjoy the descending darkness into longer nights. We get costumes and candy... and fireside stories from beyond.

How do you get your fall fill? Well, read, of course!

Here are some of my reads for your reading list:

Fiction
Novels  
In the Name of Blood: Vampires are Relative
Novel about the supernatural ties that link people between the ages. 

In the Name of Blood: Vampires are Reactive
Novel about the supernatural ties that link people between the ages. 

In the Name of Blood: Vampires are Restorative
Novel about the supernatural ties that link people between the ages.

Novellas
Haunted
Is the life you have really your own? Walk-ins are unwelcome.

*****
Nonfiction
Articles, Essays, & Research
TBA

*****
Poetry
Chapbooks 
The Descent: a darker breed of poetry  
Haunting... paranormal... cryptic... literary and contemporary fantasy. 

Habitué
Are we our own best enemy?

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

Structured Poetry
TBA

 

Autumn Reads and Workshops runs September 1st to November 30th.

 

 

 

 

Seasons are Changing: Last Day for Summer Time Reads for 2021

The last time of meteorological summer is upon us. Be sure to take a final look at our Summer Time Seasonal Reads program. 

Next stop: Autumn Cider and exciting new reads!

 

When summer rolls around, we are ready to sit by the pool with an iced tea. A book is worth all the rays of the sun. Summer is about finding time for yourself, to relax. 

The days are longer. The nights are warm. Summer is the fantasy season of our lives.

Out by the water, what to do? Read with your sunglasses on, of course! 

Here are some of my reads for your reading list:

Fiction
Novels 
Crossing Kaitlin 
Kaitlin Lane has made some mistakes in her life, but being a part of an FBI investigation may be the biggest one yet.

Novellas
Saint in the Big Easy
What happens when you discover the only person who can save you is you?   

Saint in Communion and Saintuary
What's next is anyone's guess.

Saint in the Devil You Know 
What do you do when the devil dances in the pale moonlight?

*****
Nonfiction
Articles, Essays, & Research 
A Writer's Guide to Writing
Push the envelope and become great.

***** 
Poetry
Chapbooks 
Effloresce
Escape into Poetry with this dynamic chapbook about nature's volatility. 

Long Form Poetry
The Rain: Monsoon in the Desert
Deep... emotive... lyrical... epic poem!

Structure Poetry
Thrice
Three line poetry variations like Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka, as well as non-structured poetry.


Summer Reads and Workshops run June 1st to August 31st.

WordCrafter Blog Tour, Robbie Cheadle's Poetry Collection: Behind Closed Doors Review

Poetry is a difficult craft to mold one's own ideas into as a creative process. Words are often written, even spoken, out of context with idioms, axioms, metaphors, and cliches to add further complications. Poetry is even more challenging than grammar when expected to follow certain rhyme schemes or cadences.

Behind Closed Doors is a poetry book that marries the conventional with the creative. The poems are stream of consciousness illustrations of life, love, and remembrance. Unusual thoughts that show us the world we live in through another person's point of view, but is that so unusual? Or, is the uncommon often seen in the simple and direct in times of uncertainty?

Everyday life and the people we associate ourselves with are how we see ourselves and the outside world. In the section on the lockdowns, that is where Ms. Cheadle deepened her reach into our emotions. With the poem "No Contact," she expressed her feelings as a ghost with being insubstantial and unreal. This exhibited depth and resonance from which her creativity can only grow and take her writing to the next level of expression.  

If you like to know more about Ms. Cheadle and her creative works, please check out the rest of the Blog Tour at Writing to be Read as well as her Youtube channel: 

 

Have a great and wonderful day.

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Behind Closed Doors, a collection of unusual poems

What goes on behind closed doors: in the boardroom, after death, in the home, during lockdown, and in nature? This collection of poems, ranging from rhyming verse to twisted nursery rhymes, captures the emotions and thoughts people hide behind the masks they present to the world.

What thoughts are hidden

Behind her immobile face

Quite expressionless

Eyes cold and indifferent

Scrutinising me – hawk like

This book includes some of Robbie Cheadle’s spectacular fondant art and cakes.

Robbie Cheadle author bio

Author and Poet Robbie Cheadle

Robbie Cheadle is a South African children’s author and poet with 9 children’s books and 1 poetry book.

The 7 Sir Chocolate children’s picture books, co-authored by Robbie and Michael Cheadle, are written in sweet, short rhymes which are easy for young children to follow and are illustrated with pictures of delicious cakes and cake decorations. Each book also includes simple recipes or biscuit art directions which children can make under adult supervision.

Robbie has also published 2 books for older children which incorporate recipes that are relevant to the storylines.

Robbie has 2 adult novels in the paranormal historical and supernatural fantasy genres published under the name Roberta Eaton Cheadle. She also has short stories in the horror and paranormal genre and poems included in several anthologies.

Robbie writes a monthly series for https://writingtoberead.com called Growing Bookworms. This series discusses different topics relating to the benefits of reading to children.

Robbie has a blog, https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/ where she shares book reviews, recipes, author interviews, and poetry.

Social Media Robbie Cheadle

Website

https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/

Blog

https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/

Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15584446.Robbie_Cheadle

Purchase links

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09BBR94NC

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Behind-Closed-Doors-Robbie-Cheadle/dp/B099C8R3T4

 

 

 

On My Poetry Forum for Review: Step on All of Us

Step on All of Us is a hybrid poem that blends the sixteen bars of a hip hop/rap and classical couplet poetry.

This poem is political in nature and the first of an upcoming chapbook called: United. This poem is being switched over to Undawnted's YouTube Channel. Subscribe and leave a comment. 

 

No matter what your political leanings are, some truths cannot be argued. The media has destroyed our country with lies and manipulation. It is time to call this yellow journalism out. This poem is the first step in the creative writing community to do just that. 

If you would like to read other poems by DL Mullan, be sure to search that forum for more of her selections under Undawnted.

Have a great and wonderful day.

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 

 

Watch: Turquoise Chapbook Presentation

Want to learn about my chapbook, Turquoise? 

In this short video presentation, you will get a few snippets of poems and read through a couple from beginning to end.

Turquoise Chapbook Presentation

You can also read up on the chapbook here: Turquoise. 

The healing power of color comes the emotive, evocative, and provocative chapbook that will hit every note with ease and leave you wanting more.

 "Amazing."

"I love it. I can relate and "feel" the moment and the experience it brought on... thanks for sharing."

 *Features nominated poems: Imaginary Suicide and Loaner.

Turquoise, buy your copy on Sonoran Dawn's Poetry Spotlight via Lulu.

Undawnted has a Youtube Channel for Books, Poetry, and Workshops

Undawnted is now on Youtube! 

Now DL Mullan's creative writing will be in video form. First, we are doing unnarrated versions of poetry and will work up to narrated ones. We are working up to get samples of novels up as well. 

Anything we can do in under 15 minutes. 

So Like and Subscribe. The more people we have, the more we can do for you. 

 Visit the channel here.  

Undawnted's website presentation.

 

Have a great and wonderful day!

 

 

 

Winter Frost Seasonal Reads 2020 Begins

Cold nights sitting by the roaring fireplace with hot coc
oa in hand is what the chill of winter's frost brings us.

The holidays are being celebrated with parties. Carolers make their rounds through neighborhoods, People shop at the local businesses for gifts. Children have sugar plums dancing in their heads.

What to do on those long winter's nights? But read, of course! 

Here are some of my reads for your reading list:

Fiction
Novels  
Nocturnal Redemption: In the Eye of the Beholder
Professor Ryan Blackburn is about to discover a world beyond her own imagination where vampires, werewolves, and magical gypsy witches exist.

*****  

Poetry Chapbooks 
Turquoise 
With everything that happens in this world, you're stronger than you know.

Long Form Poetry
Memoirs of a Psychotic Painting Elephant
You may want to think twice about drinking alcohol after this.
 

 Winter Reads and Workshops run December 1st to February 28th

 

Have You Gotten Your Autumn Cider? Undawnted's Seasonal Reads Program Guide

As the evenings turn cool, fire pits are decorated with people cooking marshmallows and wearing sweaters.

The holidays are close at hand. First, we get to enjoy the descending darkness into longer nights. We get costumes and candy... and fireside stories from beyond.

How do you get your fall fill? Well, read, of course!
Here are some of my reads for your reading list:

Fiction
Novels  
In the Name of Blood: Vampires are Relative
Novel about the supernatural ties that link people between the ages.

Poetry
Chapbooks 
The Descent: a darker breed of poetry  
Haunting... paranormal... cryptic... literary and contemporary fantasy. 

 

Autumn Reads and Workshops runs September 1st to November 30th.

 

 

 

Fearless Workshop: Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of The Soul

Just in time for the autumn season:

 

 Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of The Soul

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*Update: all workshops and special engagements have now been concluded, and new projects are now under Undawnted's Substack.

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. This year, DL Mullan has begun sharing her knowledge via A Novelist Idea Newsletter. 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.

Moving Away from Lulu and Other Fee-Based Platforms

I have been trying to publish my chapbooks and other stories, but fee based platforms have gotten their rules and polices in the way.

That is quite disconcerting. All I want to do is publish my poetry and novels. I didn't believe such actions warranted an IRS form and forced revenue edict. I am disabled. I am not going to make enough to pay taxes on for years.

I am not in the biz to make a landslide. I love to entertain. That's what I do in the creative writing field. I am too ill for book tours or anything else. It's to keep my mind busy while I am stuck most days in bed (22+ hours, most of that is zzzz).

I have loads of experience in various fields as well as a Masters degree in Teaching and Learning with Technology. My website is my stage and my classroom. Anyone who ventures here will receive a first rate creative writing, literature, mythology, and arts education.

So I find the demands of corporations and the IRS just a little comical to say the least. I will have to find a new way of communicating myself to my audience.

I'm taking suggestions.

Habitue did drop today. If you would like a copy, then let me know via my social media page on Facebook and Twitter where this article will be posted. It's a short chapbook with a handful of poems about habit forming behaviors.

Maybe make a donation of a few bucks to help me with my technology expenses? I do everything from scratch these days. So every penny is appreciated. I take Paypal. Maybe that will work...

See, I am still working out the rough patches. 

 

 

Being a writer should not take a corporate intervention or demands of the IRS, I should be allowed to be the adult I am. I file my taxes as appropriate. I can do that with a simple printout of what I made between two dates as already available via the Lulu software in my account settings.

I think it's time to rethink the writing business because it's no business of anyone's except my own.

If the IRS disagrees, then maybe it is time to abolish the IRS.

Have a great and wonderful day.

Breathe in The Descent this Autumn Season

The Descent is "a darker breed of poetry."

As readers have wrote:

"As a genre poet myself, I have to tell you how much I enjoyed this."

"This is first for me. I have never read genre poetry before. I love it. Hugely imaginative and utterly unique..."

Breathe is one of those poems that settles into one's soul. So grab some chocolate and red wine. Then nestle with a blanket and a pet with a fire in the fireplace... as one reader suggested she did and enjoyed this poem in all its flavors, repeatedly. She added that: 

"The poem is as scrumptious and sensual as it is dark and deep."

So delve deep into your sultry side with each breath. 

Grab your copy today... The Descent.

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The Descent is getting a new cover! 

DL Mullan created the cover art to better reflect the poetry within the pages of this darker breed of poetry.

Join Undawnted in our Re-release coming this Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads 2023. Subscribe to A Novelist Idea for the details and an invitation to the Release Party.

Learn. Grow. Master... with Undawnted. 

Undawnted is on Author Space

Enjoy the formal and/or structured poetry forms of less than 10 lines. 

Read cinquains, haikus, and everything in between. Undawnted on Author Space will highlight the short form poetry that DL Mullan workshops.

See you there!

 

Two Nominations on My Poetry Forum for the poem: Pretend

Poetry allows the writer to expand on ideas and philosophies. Pretend is such a poem about Existentialism. The poem is a mirror with which to see ourselves and our current status in religion, politics, and our own personal embodiment.

 

Pretend seems to spark that same sentiment in others as the poem was nominated twice on a poetry site.

The poem has garnered accolades including: "It's the best poem I have ever read" on a forum that has since closed.  

Thank you so very much.

If you would like to read the poem for yourself and leave a review, then please head on over to Undawnted's YouTube Channel.

Have a great and wonderful day. 

 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

 

 

 

 

9.12.01 Poem Available for Review

A creative person looks to comment on events through different lenses. 

When a horrific personal tragedy happens, sometimes time is necessary to find that perspective. This poem, 9.12.01, could not be written until 9/11/06. If you would like to read the poem, please subscribe to Undawnted's YouTube Channel. 

While you are there, check out and comment on my other pieces. 

Have a great and wonderful day!  

 

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Undawnted's YouTube Channel offers poetry shorts to full-fledged poetry feature films in our Poetry Slam section. This new playlist will give you more of the rhymes you crave.

Subscribe for more award-level poems written by DL Mullan.

 

Summer Time Reads: Effloresce, Poetry for the Season

Effloresce is a chapbook

To burst forth; bloom- everything in nature from flowers, fires, and ferocity. 

"The two first lines drew me in, ..I think this brings me to the ponderous moments while watching the magnificent sky..when you almost feel you are shifting along with the changes."

"I enjoy reading your work & find this a wonderful image spurring thought or is it a thought spurring image... A delightful senryu to please those ancient Japanese while pleasing modern interpreters of this form as well. "

 Read more about Effloresce here.

Buy Effloresce on Lulu today!