Moving to Blogger!

My name is Kalyn Surls, but you will know me by my pen name, Dana Lockhart, from here on out.  I'm an aspiring author working towards getting my first novel published in the next couple months. I'll be carrying out my adventure from now on here at Blogger, but for any previous posts, you may view them at Wordpress. You may also follow along on my facebook page.

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