Sonoran Dawn Studio's Book Event for July 2023

We are gearing up for another Author Takeover Event. 

We would like to invite all authors, artists, and publishers to help us celebrate the monsoon season with your publications. 

The Signup Sheet is coming soon... stay tuned!

Sonoran Dawn's Upon Hallow Ground Reanimated 2020 Evening Entertainment

Welcome to Sonoran Dawn Studios' Upon Hallow Ground Reanimated 2020 Halloween Party, Book Event, and Entertainment Fair.  

 

-Trick or Treating Time-

7pm Monster Mash Dance Party Mix

8pm Haunted | 2017 Horror

9pm CHARLOTTE (2017) | Full Movie | HAUNTED DOLLS HORROR COLLECTION

10pm THE WITCHING | Full Movie | SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE COLLECTION

11pm Ouija Summoning - FULL MOVIE - BEST HOLLYWOOD MOVIES

11:59pm -Reanimated Closing Ceremonies-

Thank you for participating in our annual Halloween special event! 

 

 

 

Sonoran Dawn's Upon Hallow Ground Reanimated 2020 Main Event List

Welcome to Sonoran Dawn Studios' Upon Hallow Ground Reanimated 2020 Halloween Party, Book Event, and Entertainment Fair.

The Caretaker of this event has the following graves filled with authors and hauntings:

- Book Event Opening Ceremonies-

10am Upon Hallow Ground

1030 Ghost Hunters: Hugged by a Spirit | Full Episode (S1, E1) | A&E

11am Our Rugged Individualism

1130 MonsterQuest: AMERICA'S WOLFMAN CAUGHT ON FILM (S4, E9) | Full Episode | History

12pm Moon Mullan

1230 Villa de Paz

1pm GeoRangers

130 Paranormal State: The Fury - Full Episode (S3, E10) | A&E

2pm Undawnted

230 The Holzer Files S01 E10 Bloodline

3pm Into The Limelight

330 1776 Patriot Project

4pm Feral Human Project

430 The Di-'Stor-Zhen

5pm Health Beat

530 Pre-dated

6pm Kaye Lynne Booth 

 

Won't you join us for a paranormal filled day? 

 

 

Winter Frost Poetry Anthology Due Out February 19th

Thank you to all the poets and prose writers who submitted work for our collection this year! 

Set in the dreamy town of Winter Frost... where our mayor is a snowman. Well, it was a great visualization. 

We are busy putting the anthology together and will debut it next month. 

Have a really weird winter. 

Yuletide Jingle begins!

Join Sonoran Dawn Studios for our Yuletide Jingle!

Our creators and various other authors like Kaye Lynne Booth, Robbie Cheadle, Alexandra Forry, Riley Skye, DL Mullan, and Chele Pedersen Smit will be introducing themselves and their projects, books, art, designs all this afternoon and into the evening hours. 

Won't you come? 

Fabulous holiday gift ideas you won't find on the shelves, plus plenty of time to receive them.

No fuss. No muss.

Sonoran Dawn's My Yuletide Gift.   

Let our gift be yours! 

 

My Yuletide Gift

Every year during the yuletide, Sonoran Dawn chooses a few authors to have their book cover art updated or created for free. 

Do you need a cover created? Do you need an update? 

For three lucky winners, Sonoran Dawn will create or update one cover (basic level) for three different authors. 

To sign up for the contest, please see the Pinned Post on our FB Event page: Yuletide Jingle: My Yuletide Gift and follow the directions.

Entries are from December 1st to December 7th at 11:59pm MDT.

See you there!

Are You Apart of Our Anthology?

Have a personal scary story?

To celebrate our All Hallow's Eve: Dead Man's Party, Sonoran Dawn is calling for submissions to our commemorative anthology. 

Hurry this submission deadline is November 4th, 2018 at Midnight AZ, MST. 

Submission Guidelines are as follows:

• Must be under 2500 words
• One Submission per author/writer
• Stories can be in free form essay, creative nonfiction, or poetry
• Family friendly campfire type tale (PG-13 and under)
• Participation in the event is unnecessary
• Submit via Private Message through our Facebook Page 

Have a haunting good day! 

Updated Our Events Page

Sonoran Dawn has been receiving requests to do book promotions and events. 

Authors from around the globe are asking for our services. We would like to keep our events as much in-house as possible. That means if you have one of our Book Cover Art pieces or have published your book through Sonoran Dawn, then you get first priority.

All other authors will be taken on a case by case basis.

We only have so much time and do not want to give anyone a lackluster presentation. 

Read our Events page and refer to it in the future. As we grow, our services will grow with you. 

Have a really weird day!

 

Nonfiction is Now Prosaic

Prosaic is another word for prose. Essays, nonfiction... discourse about a subject. 

Here are the new sections in our Spotlight series: 

Sonoran Dawn - Health
Sonoran Dawn - Home
Sonoran Dawn - Prosaic
Sonoran Dawn - Spirit

A couple more sections are yet to be open. Academic and Anthologies will be included.

Have a really strange day! 

Thank You for the Support!

Since we began publishing in May of 2016, we have received amazing community support. 

And Sonoran Dawn Studios would like to say a huge: THANK YOU! Every year we hope to expand and bring authors, poets, writers, and other talent a platform for innovative ideas. 

If there is something we can help you with, please be sure to message us on our Sonoran Dawn Studios page.

Thank you again!

The Wheels are Turning

Publishing is a strange career choice for a writer, but also a natural one. 

Authors are so programmed into believing that we need outside validation for our work. So we hungrily climb into the hamster wheel of publishing. We jump the hoops in hopes of one day getting a publishing contract. 

With on demand services, writers are no longer slaves to the wheel. We can publish ourselves. The task of learning front matter, back matter, copyright law, and book cover art may look daunting at first but in time any writer can create a simple, yet professional book. 

Electronic books are the easiest. PDFs are simpler still.  Print books need a little extra knowledge but not by much. 

Some writers cannot juggle all the ins and outs of publishing. That is why Sonoran Dawn Studios was formed. Writers can have their own publishing career without having to pay to play. Yes, some services and fees are necessary but writers need to watch out for vanity publishing. 

It is a fine line and with some research writers will know where not to cross and get trapped into the wheel of vanity presses. 

Right now, Sonoran Dawn Studios is getting its training wheels tested. Soon other authors will make their way into our ranks. 

Have a book or author you would like to see Sonoran Dawn Studios publish? 

Have a really weird day!

As a Matter of Fact

Book matter is a question many authors and writers have about the content pages in their books. While formulating the front and back matter of an upcoming novel release, Sonoran Dawn had to research what is the good, bad, and overemphasis of book matter. 

As a publisher of ebooks through Lulu, Sonoran Dawn looked into what authors should be addressing in their book's matter. A title and copyright pages are nice to have especially when the book is translated into print format. The title page is good for writing autographs. The copyright page is great for when someone tears off or loses the cover art. Both are very important pages when viewed from that perspective. 

A dedication or preface can be left toward the back (i.e., Back Matter).  

As authors and publishers we do not want to get so bogged down in the formalities of book matter to forget what truly matters: the readers and the story.  So if the matter matters to you but is not fundamental to the book, then leave that page for the back end. If the reader is interested, then he or she can peruse your musings after they have read the meat and potatoes of your imagination.

Make sense? 

So Sonoran Dawn hopes this advice was helpful when publishing your first novel. Make the Front Matter short and sweet. 4 to 6 pages and get on with it. Anything else can be left to the end. 

The End.

Print Versus Electronic Publications

People love their ebooks. How simple. How complete. Pick, pay, download, and read. 

As a publisher, we must weigh our options. Is print more credible than electronic publishing? In the time where ebooks are as popular as print materials, there should be no difference between the two when authors list publications in their credits. 

Yet there is still a stigma in certain circles. A print book credit is acceptable whereas publication on a website, blog, or ebook do not hold any or as much weight as their print counterpart. 

Sonroan Dawn Studios does not drink from the same well. We believe all publications are worth their weight as credits. So we offer electronic publications, but in the future we will also publish print books. 

People love the convenience of their ebooks. Authors and artists should garner the same respect for their electronic publishing credits. Time and energy to produce one produces the other. 

So what do you believe? Should the stigma of epublishing disappear with other antiquated perceptions that went the way of horse and buggy? 

We'll let you decide.

Have a really weird day!