Welcome to Winter Frost 2025-26 on Undawnted

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! 

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Winter Frost brings holidays, supernatural, rebirth! It is Act IV of the Hero's Journey: Reclaim the Elixir. The Journey back from the Underworld is time to feel and returning home with Undawnted.

 

Start your adventure here:

Fiction
Novels  
Nocturnal Redemption: In the Eye of the Beholder - Release Feb 2026
Professor Ryan Blackburn is about to discover a world beyond her own imagination where vampires, werewolves, and magical gypsy witches exist.

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Novelettes

Kurst - Release Jan 2026

An inheritance is taking curses to the next level.

 

The Town Santa Forgot  -Available Now!
Never received a present from Santa? Maybe he just forgot you.

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Short Stories
Goblin King - Release February 2026
The myth behind the legend.  

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Poetry

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

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Music Albums & Singles
Albums & Singles

Yuletide Celebration -Available Now!
-Deck the Halls, Released Single

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Winter Reads run December 1st to February 28th
(29th in Leap Years).

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.

 

Winter Frost Seasonal Reads Program: Time to Feel

Winter is full of wonderment.

We bundle up in our thick sweaters and outerwear. We build fires. We drink hot cocoa and eat peppermint everything. 

From December 1st to February 28th (29th during Leap Years), Undawnted features our Winter Frost Seasonal Reads. We want you to feel the energy of this time of year with our characters, poetry, and prose. 

Enjoy the season with a great book that will let you experience the world in a new and fascinating way.

Take that journey with our resident writer and creator: DL Mullan, and join our growing community of creative enthusiasts.

Feel the magic of the season with Undawnted.

 

 

 

 

On Poem Hunter for Review: Desert

Another short, structured poem was added onto Undawnted's Poem Hunter page.

Desert is a Cinquain. Five lines to change your mood with a descriptive narrative. 

If you like this poem, then please bookmark: DL Mullan's Poem Hunter page.

We would appreciate our readers to take a moment and leave a comment, rating, and review. 

Ms. Mullan loves to hear from her audience. 

 

Have a great and rhyme-filled day.  

 

Onomatopoetry Workshop Added to Winter Frost: Holiday

Want to incorporate the holiday season and its spirit into your poetry?

The holidays are full of religious and secular meaning, symbolism, and stories of their own, so why not use these aspects as sources of inspiration for your own rhyming creations? 

For our Winter Frost Special Engagement series, Undawnted is bringing this poetry workshop to you. 

Learn to create holiday poems of your very own on the Onomatopoetry: Holiday Workshop page.

If you would like to learn more poetic forms, then visit Undawnted's Special Engagements: Onomatopoetry Workshops' page. 

 

Have a great and wonderful day.  

 

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UPDATE: Poetry workshops have been moved to our Premium Content page.

Learn. Grow. Master... with Undawnted.

Onomatopoetry Workshop Added to Winter Frost: Haiku and its Variations

Want to learn how to write a Haiku? 

Here is your chance. You can write a traditional version or a variation on the old. It's your choice. 

Most writers know that Haikus are a 5-7-5 syllable stanza of three verses (17 syllables altogether) is the English language equivalent to this Japanese art form.Yet, most do not know there are rules to writing a traditional Haiku poem. 

Learn that form as well as more innovative ones on our Onomatopoetry: Haiku Workshop page. 

Haiku is a great way to express yourself in a minimalistic way. In case you are wondering, yes, you can:

3 Little Words

Apprehensiveness;
inevitability;
infatuated.

Sorry, beat you to it!

If you would like to learn more poetic forms, then visit Undawnted's Special Engagements: Onomatopoetry Workshops' page. 

 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

December 23rd: Today is the Last, Last Day of Your... Death?

You are living mythology and you don't even know you are doing it. 

Religions of the past and their current manifestations tell of a man born of a virgin who died and was resurrected.  

Mythology is why solstices are a little more exciting than equinoxes. Solstices are like we hit the edge (Earth's wobble) and at the last possible second, we are saved by someone yanking on our shirt collar.

The mythical aspects of this time of year, winter, is special too. Humans are connected to our Earth cycles from biology to religion. We are now in our death cycle. We will be in the winter season for 88 days and then spring will resurrect us.

For the mythology and literary aspects, December 21 of Winter Solstice is our annual death day. As religion mimics the natural cycles, the sun stays nearly unchanged in the sky for the next three days. That means December 22th, 23rd, 24th are our mythological death. We are Persephone. 

So on December 25th, the sun in the sky begins to move upward once again. That is how the ancient people knew that the Earth cycle was now on its way back to spring time, thus the resurrection. In a few days, everyone on Earth will be resurrected as was the sun gods of ole.

You are living mythology. You are living your death and will be resurrected. So how does it feel to be a sun god? 

Isn't mythology grand? 

 

Now how can you use mythology in your writing (literature)?

Hint: research Dionysus, Persephone, Osiris, Odin, Ganesha, Lemminkainen, Tammuz, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, Attis...

Then how can you use these gods' qualities in your character(s)? plot? 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

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!  

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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.

 

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.

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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

 

Coordinated Look for Special Engagements Seasonal Workshops

Undawnted needed to coordinate the lecture, poetry, and writer's workshops with the Seasonal Reads program. 

So I went through old book cover designs that were created but have not been put into use. I chose a design from an earlier Hode mockup, and then I combined that with my Seasonal Reads images. 

The end products are uniform as well as different for each season. Green and a shamrock for Spring Dreams. Purple and a hummingbird for Summer Time. Orange and a pumpkin wreath for Autumn Cider. Red and a snowman for Winter Frost. 

Each workshop will be linked back to the season it is listed under.

This visualization will keep workshops straight as more and more lectures, poems, and writing workshops are published.

When workshops are then codified into separate mini-course certificates, then there will be no confusion on what course fits into which program. 

So I hope you enjoy the cover designs as well as the workshop series I have created. 

Have a great and wonderful day. 

 

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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. 

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!

Desert Mesquite

Desert Mesquite
Undawnted (c)DL Mullan 2019

This poem has been published on My Poetry Forum for reviews, but now is no longer available for perusal. See articles below.

Thank you.

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Articles pertaining to Desert Mesquite: 

• On My Poetry Forum Poems to be Retired for 2022 
• The End... Poems No Longer Available on My Poetry Forum, but a New Year of Authenticity Begins!

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The definitive ride on rhymes is the upcoming Chapbook: Oracle.

Oracle : an authoritative or wise expression or answer 

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

"Nice one here! Drag it out a bit more next time. I like the style."

"Superb piece of writing..."

"Beautifully expressed. It comes as no surprise that in a world structure as this one finds oneself in a complex emotional equation as this, until it runs its course and takes a turn at some point."

Visit Oracle on Undawnted.

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This one is my poetic contribution for Sonoran Dawn Studios' Winter Frost Poetry Anthology, 2018 Edition. 

Have you submitted a microfiction or poem yet? Message Sonoran Dawn on Facebook and inquire, there might be still some room for a few more artisans!

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.

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.

 

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. 

 Buy your copy today!