Goodreads

*Meerkat into blog*

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.
Here it is CUSPIAN Goodreads Page

*Looks left then right*

Okay I gotta go! I think they know I'm here.

*Ducks out*

 DC

Title Change!

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! 

Tag, I'm it!

I was tagged by my author friend, Tawdra Kandle, to participate in The Next Big Thing Blog tour. This Blog Tour is on a mission to discover the new project authors are currently developing. So I took a break from editing to give a quick interview about my Next Big Thing: Zeros.  

The Next Big Thing

What is the working title of your book?

Zeros: The Cuspian Series. I know. I know. I had to look up Cuspian on Google too.

Where did the idea come from for the book?

The idea for this book was written in the stars. Don’t look at me like 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. I’m a Cuspian as well, so after researching the topic so much the idea sprouted so I decided I should write it down. 

What genre does your book fall under?

Zeros is a young adult and urban fantasy novel.

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

I happen to be a huge movie buff so this was one of the easiest questions to answer.

Kendal Myles- Beau Mirchoff

Kennedi Myles- Lucy Hale

Kimberly Myles- A blonde Jennifer Connelly

Chancellor North- Eddie Cibrian

Jacen North- Tyler Hoechlin

Beau- Chris Zylka

Tripp- Alexander Ludwig

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

Yikes, this is a hard one but I’ll try: Twins investigate their mom’s unexpected death while trying to manage their new found super powers.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Stay tuned folks…

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?

It took me over a year to complete my first draft.

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

If I Am Number Four, Pretty Little Liars, Hunger Games and X-Men (I know it’s a comic book but I’m a rule breaker) had an orgy baby then it would be Zeros.

Who or What inspired you to write this book?

I am inspired to write by people who enjoy taking portals to other worlds through novels.  

What else about your book might pique the readers’ interest?

Zeros is a mature young adult/urban fantasy novel with (hopefully) witty dialogue, interesting plot, and characters you’ll love to hate. The supernatural elements in my novel are in the peripheral to the real life (romantic, family, platonic, and even toxic) relationships.

Check out some of my author friends and discover their Next Big Thing!

C.G. Powell

Elizabeth Sharp

Mandie Stevens

First loves...

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.

Why me?

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. 

The voice that calms my panic storm whispers “Why not me?”

...i'm crazy

A lot of the time. 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.

Introductions!

Writer.

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.

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…

*POOF*

I was a DC Hall, the writer.

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...

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.

Or my favorite is:

Oh, which one of the big 6 are you signed to?

* blank stare*

This was the point where my tongue swells to the size of a sea slug and I would mumble some noncommittal grunt. (ßYep it’s as strange as it sound.)

But I wasn’t hiding anymore. I was a writer. So it didn’t matter what others thought right?

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.

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 writer 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. AWriter who was built like a ship. A Writer able to withstand uncooperative characters, writers block and the iceberg of literature – reject letters.

So I would like to re-introduce myself.

*Clears throat and stands on nearest chair*

My name is DC Hall. And I’m a Writer.