Showing posts with label seasonal reads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasonal reads. Show all posts

Sunday, December 3, 2023

December is a Winter Frost Wonderland

2023 is coming to a close. Even though next year brings changes to our content and lineup as we grow, Undawnted continues spreading the Yuletide spirit in the now.

A Novelist Idea will have another graduation for completers of our newsletter's creative program, Hint of the Divine, but this curriculum will move from the newsletter to a fee-based membership in 2024. Stay tuned as Undawnted's Member's Only area develops. 

This last month of the year will see more events arise. The cover reveal party for The Town Santa Forgot will be hosted by our publisher: Sonoran Dawn Studios: Yuletide Jingle: Cover Reveal Party. December 9th-11th, this party will bring our audience new authors to follow and read, as well as contests and prizes. Don't miss your chance to celebrate the holidays with DL Mullan, especially her upcoming Winter Solstice and The Town Santa Forgot release parties (via A Novelist Idea Newsletter). 

Join now and be ready for more publication and cover reveals in the coming weeks. Undawnted's Winter Frost Seasonal Reads program helps with gifting and getting into the spirit of the season. 

This year has been wonderful for creativity and the imagination! 

Thank you all for your continued support of independent creators.

Have a joyous and fulfilling holiday season.

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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. 

 Keep up with her activities by subscribing to her monthly/quarterly A Novelist Idea Newsletter.




 





Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Undawnted Expands into Poetry, Prose, and Promo Shorts

Promo Short
Undawnted is still in our Summer Time seasonal reads program (Promo Short), but the month is counting down to September and the beginning of Autumn Cider. 

The third and final installment of the Saint series will be published and will have a wide release party later this month. We will continue to provide our creative writing program and projects via A Novelist Idea until the end of the year.

Behind the scenes, Team Undawnted is hard at work creating and uploading poetry and prose shorts to our YouTube Channel. We have added the section: Poetry Slam (Playlist), which will house our poetry videos, including our feature films. 

The short videos will also give our readers samples of DL Mullan's prose content. Hear a snippet before you read it! These prose selections will be placed in their appropriate playlists.

As always, the book covers, art, and writings on Undawnted are human derived from the creative imagination, but our shorts and other video compilations are using AI (artificial intelligence)/CGI components to them. These tools allow us to create more variety and expand our entertainment offerings. 

We hope you continue to share in our journey. 

Have a great and wonderful day.

 

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Summer Time is Alive with the Sound of Seasonal Reads

There are less than fifty-three days until Undawnted switches from summer to autumn seasonal reads. 

Undawnted is releasing the Saint trilogy wide in epub and mobi formats. So, if PDF did not work for your eReader, check out the new versions this summer. 

Join us for the expansion into bookstores and other fine retailers. 

Team Undawnted

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About Saint in the Big Easy

After a relationship breakup, Eavanlee Zilpha Lewis finds herself wandering in the Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. In the evening, she makes a wish on Marie Laveau's tomb. Will she, will she not... find love?

Little did Eavanlee (ˈē-vən-lē) know that her answer lies in the adventure of the heart and soul. A dark, mysterious stranger leads her on a journey past her preconceived notions and straight into the heart of the matter.

Eavanlee did not need the help of spirits, she was born a Saint.

What happens when you discover the only person who can save you is you?


 

Monday, June 5, 2023

Summer Time Seasonal Reads for 2023

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!

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Here is Undawnted's Summer Time fiction story recommendations:

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

Saint in Communion
Communion is more than a destination: it's a Saint's only refuge. 

Saint in the Devil You Know 
When clergy and demons work for the same team, it's always the devil you know.  

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Short Stories 
The Story of Excalibur
Where did the sword come from? 

Lyrical Prose
The Jonah Collector -New Release Coming Soon! 
Don't be the weakest link.


...and the collection grows every year! 

Catch a fantastic ride this Summer Time with Undawnted. 

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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, Supernatural Superhero Series.

With her education and experience in writing, DL Mullan shares her knowledge via her newsletters. If you too want to become a Fearless Phile, then subscribe to one of her newsletters on Substack.

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

Learn. Grow. Master… with Undawnted.

 

 

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Spring Dreams: Did You Hear the Call to Adventure?

With Spring Dreams Seasonal Reads program, Undawnted answered the call to action. 

From March 1st to May 31st, we began an adventure in our exclusive Legacy Universe. We read the adventures of Roben Hode, in Hode: The Legend Lives Again, a modern day Robin Hood. Next, we learned that you cannot cross the gods in The Story of Vigdis and Adalbrandir. Then, Fearless Files discovered other dimensions in The Reality Hackers

Undawnted's Creative Tribe honored the Hero's Journey. We became the characters. We were our own heroes. With both those themes in hand, we brought the stories to life! 

During it all, we delved deep into mystical magical, and mysterious poetry of Galactic Ride and Eclipse.

Our next seasonal reads will begin on June 1st. 

We cannot wait for our next adventure... can you? 

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This year's program is the: Hint of the Divine, in which participants learn the archetypes found in human culture, and storytelling.

Bring depth to your writing.

Join our Creative Tribe

Learn. Grow. Master... with Undawnted. 



Sunday, September 4, 2022

Believe in Magic with Undawnted's Imaginative Poetry and Prose

Autumn is a magical time of the year. 

Our temperatures moderate from the summer heat waves. The evenings turn crisp as we reach for our sweaters and hot cocoa. Ghosts and goblins haunt our steps... for candy! 

And, our ancestors await our recognition. 

Nights grow longer. Do you add more to your DVR? Or, would you like to curl up with something new? A book, perhaps? 

Poetry and prose are great ways to spend time with yourself. Inside your imagination, let the characters and stories swirl around and create images in your mind. What do you see there in your mind's eye? 

Reading is another great mechanism to expand your creativity by living in someone else's world. That energy can be used to fuel your own innovations.

What are your fiction favorites? Genre topics like vampires and werewolves?

Or, how about rhymes that are sublime to elevate the uneasy factor?

How about some satire? 

 

Take the time to Believe in Magic along with Undawnted. Autumn Cider begins this magical time of year of holidays, celebrations, and parties. We have those get togethers scheduled throughout the rest of the year.

Join our community by bookmarking this site, commenting on our social media and video posts, follow us on Twitter and Youtube, liking our posts, as well as subscribe to Undawnted's A Novelist Idea newsletter

You, too, can experience the wonder of the changing seasons.

Have a wonderful and magical day, 

Team Undawnted

 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads for 2022

This fall season has many exciting updates. Autumn Cider begins with an expansion of Undawnted's reading program. There is more to love while drinking and eating your pumpkin spice everything

We still have our cult classics like In the Name of Blood, which turned the vampire genre on its head.

Additions will include new cover designs, re-releases, and publishing new poetry for your collection. 

 What isn't there to enjoy about Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads 2022?

 Team Undawnted has been working overtime to bring you more of what you love

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

~Albert Einstein

Details coming soon!
While you are at it, browse Undawnted's Substack offerings. The holidays begin with the Autumnal Equinox in less than 20 days.  Isn't it time to take stock of your goals and devote time to your own personal and professional growth as a creator? 

A Novelist Idea and WordWalker programs are perfect segues to start personal growth and professional enhancement activities. Join A Novelist Idea now for our free year-end activities, and then WordWalker during Winter Frost Seasonal Reads programming, when our schedule of projects and courses will be published for the New Year. 

Make 2023 a time for: studying, planning, resting, recuperating, introspecting, and meditating. A slower energy will manifest next year, but that does not mean we rest on our laurels! We can do much more with ease than we do with exertion. 

Just look at what A Novelist Idea and WordWalker have in store for our program participants: creative projects, entertainment, growth, and camaraderie.

More details coming soon!

Become a part of Undawnted's growing communities and develop your creative spirit through imagination, purposeful projects, and the Hero's Journey.

Learn. Grow. Master... with Undawnted.

 

 

Monday, August 29, 2022

Review of Summer Time Seasonal Reads Program 2022 and a Look into the Future for Undawnted

This Summer Time season has been a productive one to say the least!

Undawnted has outdone ourselves with new features, customization of projects, expanding our programming, and enjoying these moments together.

We are grateful for the time you have shared with us as we have learned and grown along with you.

*****

Our six publication releases have been epic as well. We finished the Saint trilogy that added to our Legacy Universe. We polished up The Rain, and published a Long Form poem.  

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Novelettes
Saint in the Big Easy -Re-released
What happens when you discover the only person who can save you is you?   

Saint in Communion -Published
Communion is more than a destination: it's a Saint's only refuge. 

Saint in the Devil You Know -Published
When clergy and demons work for the same team, it's always the devil you know.

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Short Stories 
The Story of Excalibur -Published
Where did the sword come from?  

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Long Form Poetry
The Rain: Monsoon in the Desert  -Re-released
Immerse yourself in the desert southwest in this folk narrative. 

Undisclosed  -Published
Are you being deceived about UFOs?  

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We didn't stop there. 

Next, Undawnted celebrated our founder's 50th birthday with a party and giveaways.

A Novelist Idea Newsletter has kept our community updated with news and events as well as entertained with art, movies, and music. The projects this year have been inventive, innovative, and imaginative. 

With summer coming to an end, astronomically speaking, of course, we are gathering what we have harvested and placing those fruits of our labor into a basket. 

What do you have stacked there? Poetry? Prose? Art? A Novelist Idea projects?

Winter is coming in a few months. What did you do during the spring and summer that will carry you through those longer and darker, cold nights? 

Team Undawnted and DL Mullan have many blessings: a great spokesperson avatar, new marketing materials and concepts, upgraded book cover designs, additional publications to add to our seasonal reads programming, and our awesome audience! 

Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads will round out the productive part of the year, as we head into the holiday season. 

What are you grateful for? What do you still want to do? 

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Details coming soon!
Check out Undawnted's Substack offerings. The New Year will be here in less than 125 days. Thanksgiving in less than 90 days. Isn't it time to evaluate your goals and devote time to your own personal and professional growth as a creator? 

A Novelist Idea and WordWalker programs are perfect segues to start personal growth and professional enhancement activities. Join A Novelist Idea and WordWalker during Winter Frost Seasonal Reads programming, when our schedule of projects and courses will be published. 

Make 2023 a year for: studying, planning, resting, recuperating, introspecting, and meditating. A slower energy will manifest next year, but that does not mean we rest on our laurels! We can do much more with ease than we do with exertion. 

Just look at what A Novelist Idea and WordWalker have in store for our program participants: creative projects, entertainment, growth, and camaraderie.

More details coming soon!

Become a part of Undawnted's growing communities and develop your creative spirit through imagination, purposeful projects, and the Hero's Journey.

Learn. Grow. Master... with Undawnted.


Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Summer Time Seasonal Reads 2022

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!  
 
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Publications available for purchase through Lulu

Saint in the Big Easy

What happens when you discover the only person who can save you is you?  
A Writer's Guide to Writing
Push the envelope and become great.

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

The Rain: Monsoon in the Desert
Immerse yourself in the desert southwest in this folk narrative. 

*****

Legacy Universe mythological short stories being released are:  

June 6th
The Story of Vigdis and Adalbrandir
What if you discovered the gods' secret? 

 
June 14th
The Story of Excalibur
Where did the sword come from? 

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As well, A Novelist Idea has a new project and other community activities for our Fearless Philes. Become a member. Participant with others. Share and Like the content. The expansion of your imagination through creativity is based on your own contributions. The more you play; the more you win! 

Undawnted's Summer Time Seasonal Reads Program runs June 1st through August 31st

We hope you join us in our summer activities. 

Have a great and wonderful day. 




 

Friday, December 18, 2020

Winter Frost Seasonal Reads: Turquoise Chapbook

Download your copy of Turquoise (PDF).  

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."

"That's fuckin awesome!!! Wow.. I love your work."

Get hooked on Turquoise today!  

*****

Want to read and even review some poems from this chapbook? The head over to My Poetry Forum...

Imaginary Suicide 
Loaner



And visit, Turquoise's dedicated Undawnted page.  

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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.

 





Sunday, November 22, 2020

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.

 

 

 

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Undawnted's Halloween Poetry Event Continues on My Poetry Forum

So far, I have published for review some Halloween-themed poetry on Undawnted's YouTube Channel. These poems are as follows:

Breathe
Identity
The Collection

One more poem will be released before Halloween. Be sure to look for that post when it comes in the coming days.

These poems will be on the forum until the end of autumn, which for Undawnted is when Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads ends on November 30th, and then will be removed so that others may be placed in their stead. 

I wouldn't want to bore my audience.

I will also be attending Sonoran Dawn Studios' Upon Hallow Ground Reanimated 2020.  

I hope you will join me in celebrating books, music, and entertainment from around the world.

Thank you for your continued support.

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.






 

 

 

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads: In the Name of Blood

 Ready for a haunting read? Try In the Name of Blood:


Riley Austin believes life is predictable. That is until she helps her friend, Tony, catch the kidnapper of three little boys. While using her sixth sense to find the missing kids, she and Tony are attacked and Riley is taken by Julian, a vampire, who wishes to use her gift for his own purposes.

When he asks for her assistance, Riley discovers a kindred spirit in Julian. Moreover, she discovers that an insane, power-hungry vampire called Wilhelm is at the center of many disappearances. A bond grows between Julian and Riley and is strengthened when she saves his life. For her own protection Julian returns her to the safety of the mortal realm.

What Julian does not realize is that Riley was never going to remain safe...

Buy In the Name of Blood on Lulu

Bring this vampire crime drama to life in your imagination.

 

 

Monday, September 28, 2020

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!

 

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

It's Time for Some Autumn Cider 2020

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!

Join Undawnted on her Autumn Cider Seasonal Reads


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


Thursday, February 27, 2020

Winter Frost Seasonal Reads Leap Year Version

This year, on that four year cycle, our calendar added one more day to February. 

So our Seasonal Reads Program: Winter Frost gets one more day to please. Choose from novels to poetry and more to fill those cold evenings before bed. 

March 1st begins a new season here at Undawnted. Our program follows the meteorological seasons, not the traditional seasonal starts. 

Undawnted has many new items, workshops, and reads for 2020. 

Remember, this site is reader funded. If you would like to see more, be sure to buy a shirt, mug, poster, or book from Sonoran Dawn Studios, our publisher.

See you in Spring!

Have a great and wonderful day!


Sunday, January 6, 2019

Special Engagements, Writer's Workshops and Onomatopoetry, will be Added to Undawnted's Seasonal Reads Program

All alone inside when the weather is so inclement outside? 

Undawnted has added Special Engagements to our Seasonal Reads Program lineup. So our readers can become involved in the writing process. 

Celebrate creativity with your own imagination. Or, just learn how Undawnted's works! 

We will be diving into myths and legends, as well as archetypes and literary devices. So join us on our journey to expand our minds.

Have a great and wonderful day!  
 
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Workshops have been transferred to our Substack newsletters and other selections.

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, Supernatural Superhero Series.

With her education and experience in writing, DL Mullan shares her knowledge via her newsletters. If you too want to become a Fearless Phile, then subscribe to one of her newsletters on Substack.

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

Learn. Grow. Master… with Undawnted.

 



Tuesday, December 11, 2018

New Look for Psychotic Elephants

The last cover for Memoirs of a Psychotic Painting Elephant did not give the impression of anything psychedelic or elephanty. 

To celebrate the beginning of this year's Winter Frost Seasonal Reads Program, Undawnted updated the long form poem's image. 

I kept the theme going with different colored page headings... in neon inspired tones. 

If you are going to be creative and have fun, you might as well go for it!


I hope you have fun with this poem as much as I did writing it. 









Sunday, December 2, 2018

Time Again for Winter Frost Seasonal Reads

Undawnted's seasonal reads program turns the calendar over to December once more and that means it's time for Winter Frost.

Cold nights sitting by the roaring fireplace with hot cocoa 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!  

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Autumn Cider Tshirts

I was so excited about the Autumn Cider mug for my Seasonal Reads program that I had to create my very own shirts... Autumn Cider Plain or Autumn Cider Reads.


Autumn Cider Plain
Autumn Cider Reads













Now read in style.

Buy your own for a job well done!

Thank you for supporting this disabled author. 

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