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Welcome to the final day of the WordCrafter Legends Book Blog Tour. Today I’m pleased to bring you a guest post from contributing author, Sara W. McBride, who wrote the wonderful story, “My Pumpkin Ate My Wife”, and an excerpt reading from my story, “The Last Stage Coach”. It’s been a great tour, but it’s […]
We’re celebrating the release of Legends: Monsters that go Bump in the Night on Day 4 of the WordCrafter Legends Book Blog Tour over on Undawnted with host, DL Mullan. We have a guest post from contributing author Robb T. White about his story, “The Urbexer’s Girl” and a promo for Abe Margel’s “It was […]
For Day 3 of the WordCrafter Legends Book Blog Tour, we’re over at Carla Loves to Read with a video guest post and excerpt reading from “Sema”, by Joseph Carrabis, a guest post from contributing author Danaeka Scrimshaw on their story, “The Legend of Tilly Mae”, and a review of the book by host Carla […]
[Intro.] The Giveaway We made a puzzle out of the Legends cover. Follow the tour to find the clues hidden in the guest posts, readings and promos. Name the Legend each story is based upon as you go through the tour. Place your answers in the comments. For each correct answer, you earn one of […]
It’s day 1 of the WordCrafter Legends Book Blog tour and we’re over at Poetry by Mich, and Hotel by Masticadores, and Masticadores Phillipines. Meet contributing author Chris Barili and hear an excerpt reading from his story, “The Legend of Trooper 666”. We’ve got two great giveaways. Help us put together the Legends puzzle by […]
About My Queendom for a Horse Kristiana Liepa was supposed to use the money to save her family farm. She was not supposed to spend it all to save a massive, black stallion. But when she saw how he was being treated, what’s a vet to do? She had no idea that gorgeous beast was […]
I’m delighted to welcome author and poet, Jan Sikes, as this month’s Treasuring Poetry guest. Jan is the author of a significant number of novels, novellas and short stories and she has recently published a collection of short stories and poems including contributions from her late husband, Rick Sikes, and her granddaughter, Sydney. Welcome Jan […]
There are some movies that I can watch over and over and never get tired of them because they are so fun to watch. I’m sure certain movies are the same for everyone, in this respect. For “Everyone is a Critic” in 2026, I’d like to talk about my all-time favorites, because if you haven’t […]
This column discusses Artificial Intelligence, AI. Articles and essays are written with citations. Creative nonfiction is offered with the author as a main character interacting with a robot with AI software. What Undawntech, and probably most columns, has not done is ask AI what it thinks. So, I did. Here is the scenario I wrote […]
Borrow a Character Exercise For years, authors have borrowed characters from other authors’ works. For example, Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, details the early life of Mrs. Rochester, wife to Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Likewise, George MacDonald Fraser uses Tom Brown and Flashman from Thomas Hughes’s novel, Tom Brown’s School Days, […]
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