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Dana Hahn
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Personal Details
Name: Dana Hahn
Last visit: Jul 16, 2008
Work phone: 310-441-5151 ext. 13
Fax: 310-441-0944
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Interests
In general? Red Sox, Reading, Reality Television, Screenwriting, HDTV, Movies, Laminating, Word Games, Bowling, Painting (acrylics & watercolors), Life Drawing, Web Design, Graphic Design, Procrastinating, Wine, Talking about Myself, Talking about Other People (aka Gossipping), and Life.
Books
I won’t even begin to list every book I love, because there isn’t enough web space in the world to list them all. I will read anything, and I do. A book a day if I can. I’ve gone through various phases in my life, and my book selection has reflected it. I started in my youth with the classics: Boxcar Children, Babysitter’s Club, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike and matured into Sweet Valley High and Nancy Drew. My love of mystery took me to Mary Higgins Clark (my first adult book) and she’s still one of my favorite authors to this day. I then embraced female detective mysteries with gusto, reading Janet Evanovich, Sara Paretzky, Sue Grafton, Lora Roberts, Karen Kijewski, Laura Lippman, Carol O’Connell, with the occasional male author thrown in with Don Winslow, Carl Hiaasen, Robert Crais (love him!), and T. Jefferson Parker. As my selection of mysteries dwindled (could I really have read them all?) I moved to a new type of novel that was apt and appropriate in my early 20s: Chick Lit. Often considered the bubblegum of novels (well, most of the covers are pink), chick lit is highly underated, but oft repeated. Every romantic comedy film you’ve seen is a chick lit novel, even if it wasn’t adapted directly (though some were: “Just Like Heaven,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Must Love Dogs,” and “In Her Shoes” to name a few). I’m currently working on my own chick lit novel, and have many favorites that I would love to adapt!
Movies
As with the books, WAY too many to list. I watch movies any chance I can get (when I’m not reading or writing) and have a very eclectic taste: “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” “Fifth Element,” “The Player,” “Clueless,” “BASEketball,” “Two Weeks Notice,” “28 Days,” “The Terminal,” “Bull Durham,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” any Harry Potter movie, “Thank You for Smoking,” “Amelie,” “Dodgeball,” “40-Year Old Virgin,” “EuroTrip,” and many more: some bad, some good, some that I can’t believe ever got made, but I love them anyway!
Television
Now it’s just mean to ask me to list all of these. My living room TiVo is my best friend, but don’t tell my bedroom TiVo, cause its feelings would get hurt. It’s a good thing they know how to share via my home network, otherwise there would be an all-out war. I used to have an obsession with reality television, much to the chagrin of my fellow film school students (“they’re taking our jobs!”) but it’s waned a bit as the shows become a bit repetitive. I will always love Big Brother though, as I am the proud winner of CBS.com’s fantasy league for Season 4! Other than the reality TV thing, I’m a huge fan of Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Lost, South Park, How I Met Your Mother, Entourage, Sopranos, Weeds, Sports Night, Buffy, Angel, X-Files, Sex and the City, Simpsons, and many many many more!
Blog
Reflection - Leaving Your Mark
I recently had one of those "am I going down the path I should be going down?" moments. I thought about my life history, my job history and history in general, and wondered what impact I could have on it.
I take pride in what I do, love my job, and feel successful. But what mark am I making on the world? I don't start up and run charities (though I donate to several), I don't always vote, and I am starting to worry that I will only be remembered by those who know me, and when they pass, what is there to remind the world that I existed?
Writing is a way to leave something behind. Writing is a way to put your thoughts, hopes, dream, history, and future on paper (or in this case, out in cyberspace). My question to myself is, do I need to be published to have felt success in my writing? Or is it enough that I have written, that my family and future generations can feel that they know me because they have read my words?
I posed the question to my father, who is not a writer, but an engineer. His writing is in numbers, in math, and in science. His mark on this world is that he has created computer systems that all of us use in everyday life.
My sister posed a question to him after taking a computer science & history course in college: "Why is it that if you invented this thing that our lives depend on so much every day are you not mentioned in any of my books?" My dad's response was that what he created has been improved upon so much, that the first one that came out isn't important. What is important is that it broke ground for what was to come.
So what is to come for all of us? If we have a script that is rewritten, is it more important to get our names in the credits or to get our ideas on the screen? Will we be forgotten, but the films or novels we write live on despite us? Will we make our mark in this world?
Everyone reading this probably is working, writing, and communicating with friends because of what my dad started. They may not know his name, but he lives on.
As long as I write, whether I'm published or not, I'm leaving my mark, and if even one person reads my words, I will have left an impression.
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About Me
I'm an anti-social socialite. I'm organized in my disorganization. Basically, I'm a walking contradiction. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It means that I can find the balance between two extremes, and I long to be content.
I love my home, my computer, and my television. Sometimes I feel tivo is the only one who understands me, and always predicts what I'll be in the mood to watch. I also feel like my laptop is a permanent appendage on my lap, or on my shoulder in my computer bag I take everywhere with me.
I like being me, and my friends have always used my name as an adjective, describing anything that could be essentially me, ie "That's so Dana" or "You just pulled a Dana." Hmm, could there be a story in that?
Goal
I believe that life is a journey, not a destination so while I have goals, I feel they are ever-changing based on circumstances in life. My current goal is to complete the novel I'm working on, and I believe the next step will present itself when the time comes.
Professional Experience
Director of Sales and Marketing
The Writers Store
February 2008 - Present
Sales & Events Supervisor
The Writers Store
February 2006 - February 2008
Senior Bookseller/Events
Brentano*s Bookstore
September 2004 - February 2006
Agent Associate
Working Artists Agency
January 2002 - September 2004
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