tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11650885468240073772024-03-05T18:52:28.868-05:00DC Hall AuthorDesmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-40854303127084768402014-12-21T15:17:00.002-05:002014-12-21T15:17:42.904-05:00Book 2: ASCENDANT <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkJKfV86jZzpgwGDWEWInv25nU_eMW-c1Z9D6P9ebzonOQocO5ejCNm-WcB0pFIHpJMsiJJeM-araWr6r-LSiyUkROWuyjRSN7wrdB-ftfKLtezSUrD6LyOw8pj1lG_fe6Oxxxccss-c/s1600/Ascendant_ebook_Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkJKfV86jZzpgwGDWEWInv25nU_eMW-c1Z9D6P9ebzonOQocO5ejCNm-WcB0pFIHpJMsiJJeM-araWr6r-LSiyUkROWuyjRSN7wrdB-ftfKLtezSUrD6LyOw8pj1lG_fe6Oxxxccss-c/s320/Ascendant_ebook_Final.jpg" /></a></div>
ASCENDANT, Book 2 of the CUSPIAN Saga has a cover and blurb! The release date is TBD but I'm aiming for March 2015.
Fraternal twins Kendal and Kennedi Myles are desperate for their broken lives to return to a time when stolen kisses, football games, and an overbearing parent was normal. But being the most powerful Cuspians—a superpowered subspecies of humans—in America isn’t exactly normal, and that time has passed from their lives forever.
Kennedi has spent her summer training for the inevitable moment when Beau—the Cuspian she loved and then betrayed—returns to kidnap both her and her brother for The Conservatory, an agency desperate to acquire the strongest of their kind at any cost. But Kennedi refuses to be collected like vintage couture. She’s ready to protect the ones she loves most—at whatever cost.
Kendal is fed up with waiting to be attacked for his role in the near-fatal assault that left three of The Conservatory's operatives in bloody pieces. With the threat of vengeance around every corner, he hacks into The Conservatory's database, yielding disastrous results. As new clues into his mother’s death emerge, Kendal must decide just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth.
Focused on their individual quests, the twins’ attention is divided and their weaknesses are exploited. Every decision they make drives a wedge further between them, and the pair soon realizes something they can never unlearn: the price that comes with power is often too high to pay.
Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-2217968161459224772014-04-08T23:22:00.001-04:002014-04-08T23:22:40.869-04:00CUSPIAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">New cover of CUSPIAN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYiwmuuOJX8qdxd2NmuDNt4xJycN81dqnStb8RUAI0Ds8D3JbThspYhwqbe4TGP79U5fnrz3pYZwNhrt_rso_fX3B5l1Q_NvRKC4sFfWNfHzs4U_18VXiv8URfKJA9o5quj8K_mDxRM8Y/s640/blogger-image--1995257547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYiwmuuOJX8qdxd2NmuDNt4xJycN81dqnStb8RUAI0Ds8D3JbThspYhwqbe4TGP79U5fnrz3pYZwNhrt_rso_fX3B5l1Q_NvRKC4sFfWNfHzs4U_18VXiv8URfKJA9o5quj8K_mDxRM8Y/s640/blogger-image--1995257547.jpg"></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08481075531293570420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-85833876366373019922013-07-30T22:25:00.000-04:002013-07-30T22:25:16.088-04:00LinksThe links are live for CUSPAIN!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuspian-Series-ebook/dp/B00E5SGSP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374929096&sr=8-1&keywords=cuspian">http://www.amazon.com/Cuspian-Series-ebook/dp/B00E5SGSP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374929096&sr=8-1&keywords=cuspian</a></div>
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<br /><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cuspian-desmond-hall/1116225457?ean=2940148463610">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cuspian-desmond-hall/1116225457?ean=2940148463610</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/340726">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/340726</a></div>
Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-46156879914412629942013-07-30T22:18:00.002-04:002013-07-30T22:18:33.769-04:00Review Im busy working on the second book in the CUSPIAN but here's a little something to hold you over while you wait. Check a recent review that CUSPIAN received.<br />
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http://selena-lost-in-thought.blogspot.com/2013/07/selenas-thoughts-cuspian-by-dc-hall.htmlDesmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-35740473894753693572013-07-06T09:39:00.000-04:002013-07-06T09:47:47.636-04:00Goodreads*Meerkat into blog* <br />
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Shhhh.... I'm suppose to be writing Book 2 in the CUSPIAN Series but I wanted to sneak in to share the Goodreads page for CUSPIAN, book 1 in the series.<br />
Here it is <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18159742-cuspian" target="_blank">CUSPIAN Goodreads Page</a><br />
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DCAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08481075531293570420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-1871215992674725442013-05-21T10:00:00.000-04:002013-05-21T10:00:10.127-04:00Title Change!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm excited to announce a title change for my series. Check out the updated cover and title! The release date will be announced very soon! </div>
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<br />Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-56093826377942249072013-02-10T21:55:00.001-05:002013-02-10T21:55:05.939-05:00DC Hall's Twitter Page<div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I've finally entered this century and joined Twitter! So in celebration I've posted an exclusive line from "Zeros" on my page. Follow me and check it out! </span></div>
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Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-47668667861178645762012-10-03T08:00:00.000-04:002012-10-03T00:59:02.860-04:00Tag, I'm it!<br />
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">I was tagged by my author friend, </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://tawdrakandle.com/?p=610">Tawdra Kandle,</a> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">to participate in The
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Zeros: The Cuspian Series. I know. I know. I had to look up Cuspian on
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that…I’m serious. My book revolves around twins who are gifted with
supernatural abilities due to them being born on the cusp – the precise moment
where one astrological sign transitions into another – of Scorpio and Libra.
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Zeros is a mature young adult/urban fantasy novel with
(hopefully) witty dialogue,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">interesting plot</span>, and characters you’ll love to hate. The
supernatural elements in my novel are in the peripheral to the real life (romantic,
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Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-60083708327183709152012-09-26T09:58:00.000-04:002012-09-26T09:58:50.941-04:00Goodbye<br />
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completing my manuscript and sending it off for the first rounds of edits I was
having a hard time finishing it. Here is my reasoning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m
ashamed to admit I have been avoiding my novel. I sit down to write, clicking
the word document entitled WIP, then something happens like I realize my dog
needs fresh water, or I need to clean out my car at that very instance and I
walk away. The next day I repeat my steps, and just reach for the red X in the
upper right hand corner, this time without any excuse besides I don’t want to –
can’t say goodbye to my characters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve learned the hard way that
there is no switching off from writing my novel. That just because I have powered
down my laptop for the night, it doesn't stop my fictional characters popping
into my head over a greasy cheeseburger and a mound of fries or keeping me
awake on the wrong side of midnight.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They're kind of bossy like that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And I all love them for that, of
course - even the assholes. Especially the assholes. They are my snotty nosed
kids, in the sense that they were conceived in my minds. And they have become
my closest friends - perhaps even closer, because I know everything about them
and they can’t nor want to hid anything from me (and who can say that about a
real person?) And they know everything about me as well, living inside my
twisted mind and all, yet they don’t avoid my eye contact because they know my
lofty dreams, and greatest fears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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understand how unhealthy this all sounds and after crapping out an unnecessary
line or two I realized that I have to let go. Not for my own sanity, I lost
that years ago, but for theirs. The strong willed characters in my head won’t
stand for the muddling of their life for my own selfish reasons. The ransom has
been paid now they demand release – I told you they were pushy. So I power up
my laptop determined to finish their story, not to be derailed, or lose focus
because as much as I have grown to love them, my characters deserve to be
shared with the world and to boss someone else around. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I
tell people that I am writing a novel, the first thing they ask is if it’s
fiction or nonfiction. Well that’s not entirely true, the first question they
ask if it’s about vampires with amazing ‘just rolled outta bed hair’ and
sparkle in the sunlight or teenage boys wielding magical tree bark. These
questions I’ve learn to filter into my spam folder of life with clipped (yet
polite) No’s then I wait to absorb their “he’s never going to make it” pity
looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then the
first <i>real</i> question they ask is if I
am writing a fiction or nonfiction book? And I square my shoulders, lift my
chin slightly, clear my throat and declare that I am writing a novel. This is
usually the part where they, completely unaware of their literary faux pas, repeat
themselves, and I lose all hope in the American education system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A novel by
definition is a work of fiction. To refer to a piece of literature as a
“Nonfiction Novel” is inaccurate and was created for the sole purpose of luring
you into the mislabeled book section with a well placed sign at your local
bookstore. A nonfiction novel is oxymoronic but unlike jumbo shrimp it can’t be
dressed up with crispy golden brown beer batter outside, it continued usage muddles
the English language. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-27904998484762917572012-07-16T09:00:00.000-04:002012-07-16T09:00:15.594-04:00First loves...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">For many people literature was that first
friend...the first to talk to us, the first to understand us. Literature has
always been that kind of friend to me. And like any relationship... I watched
it grow, I watched it change. The union of literature to the “mainstream”...
was a hard thing to imagine. Reading was always this personal thing that
belonged to just me. Starting with “Harry Potter" and “Twilight” anyone
with a library card or a Nook could get a piece of Literature. I knew I was
gonna have to share...and that was hard to get used to. But just when I thought
I knew everything there is to know about literature, it found a way to surprise
me... and reminded me why I fell in love in the first place. I remembered the
exact day I fell in love with reading, and little did I know how much it would
be a part of my life. Literature was as young, naive... confused... sometimes
innocent, and sometimes as mischievous as I was. And as I grew up, literature
grew with me...and along the way it took on all my baggage, my dreams... I felt
literature and literature felt me. And I know that everyone who loves to read
feels the same way I do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-68999551388267765412012-06-05T10:00:00.000-04:002012-07-15T14:17:16.308-04:00Why me?<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some days I wonder what it is all
for. Why these words plague my thoughts. Haunting me. Forcing me to cut myself and quill them onto paper
until it is saturated with
my story rich blood. Words seeping slowly, keeping with the tendency of blood
from a wound. I wonder naught what they mean, for the meaning is very
clear. I wonder why me. For my passion is a bitter mistress--A Dominatrix, coming and going
on her own whim. Her will
flows forth from her loins when stubbornness suits her and at a turn she has my willingness; playful, teasing
and taunting me nearer. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The voice that calms my panic storm whispers “Why not me?”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-12414299982976808962012-05-14T14:31:00.002-04:002012-07-03T13:19:20.170-04:00...i'm crazy<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 63.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strike>A lot of the time.</strike></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> Sometimes... Well, most of the time I’m sane. I’m the normal, everyday me. Then there are times when I become…crazy. Boiling. Electric. With the power to create. To weave. Carve. Mold. Breathe into existence a world unknown to anyone but ink and paper. Biting open my wrist and pour out my hard work. My breathing becomes labored. Lungs burning. Overtaxed by the force of pushing air into the fragile organs. My vision blurs until nothing makes sense. I hold back until it hurts… just to bask in the serenity of the moment for a few seconds longer until…until the sensation is over. The climax spent, splashed over the parchment. And I fight to recover with my next few breaths until it’s time to start over on the next page.</span> </span></span></div>Desmond Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08693349221291649215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165088546824007377.post-76927753306632254112012-04-16T12:45:00.000-04:002012-04-20T11:16:41.823-04:00Introductions!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello my name is DC Hall and I’m… a writer. Yeah I said it and it’s all I can do not to hang my head in shame from once hiding my passion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I was writing my novel I kept telling myself that… other people wouldn’t understand my passion. That I was alone in my literary quest. That I’ll tell the world I was indeed a writer…after I was finished with my work in progress. Then that point came when my novel’s plot was complete. Not edited. Not proofread. Not Beta reader tested. But the hours and hours and hours of writing and shaping my story was “done.” And then my excuses tasted like chalk on my tongue. I knew then my closet writing had to cease so…<u></u></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">*POOF*</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was a DC Hall, the writer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mind you I fancy that from the age of 12 when I first wove a story in my 5-Star notebook, that I became a writer, but now I shared my secret with those closest to me. The reviews were mixed...</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is your book like that vampire one. Midnight, Sunlight… come on you know the one where they glitter in the sun and the guy with the hair. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Or my favorite is:</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, which one of the big 6 are you signed to? </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This was the point where my tongue swells to the size of a sea slug and I would mumble some noncommittal grunt. (</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">ß</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yep it’s as strange as it sound.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But I wasn’t hiding anymore. I was a writer. So it didn’t matter what others thought right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then one day I joined a Facebook group and my life changed. It was amazing. Ladies. Gentlemen. People who knew my hardships, doubts and dreams so shallow that I couldn’t bear to speak them aloud. People who didn’t use a pen name for the sake of hiding from potential failure or shame but for privacy. People who weren’t afraid to be themselves. Writers. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As time passed I learned and learned and I’m still learning and something strange happened. I grew. Just a little bit. The change was so minute that I barely recognized it. The change grew bigger slowly changing me until I realized as a <span style="font-size: 78%;">writer</span> I was safe. I was as safe as a ship in harbor and with the help of my peers that I learned that ships weren’t made to be tied to a dock. Ships were made to withstand squalls, hurricanes, and even icebergs. (Well icebergs not so much.) And I wanted to be a one of those. <span style="font-size: 180%;">A<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Writer</b></span> who was built like a ship. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Writer </span></b>able to withstand uncooperative characters, writers block and the iceberg of literature – reject letters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So I would like to re-introduce myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">*Clears throat and stands on nearest chair*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My name is DC Hall. And I’m a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Writer</span></b>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4