Fitness4Writers

“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.” ― Ace Antonio Hall

“When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!” ― Ace Antonio Hall

“Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.” ― Ace Antonio Hall

“Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” ― Ace Antonio Hall

“To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.” ― Ace Antonio Hall, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers

“If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.” ― Ace Antonio Hall

TRIVIA

First professional job in entertainment came when Ace played all the music for the New Kids on The Block (N.K.O.T.B) remix, Dirty Dawg, although uncredited.

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After the death of his father, during an 8-hour walk home from North Hollywood to Chatsworth, California, Ace decided to quit his 80K job as a Director of Education of the Sylvan Learning Center and pursue writing and acting more passionately.

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Ace's father, Chris Hall wrote the lyrics to the Miles Davis jazz classic, "So What", which was sung by Eddie Jefferson, recorded in 1968 on the Body & Soul album for Prestige Records.

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Ace's 2nd cousin, Chris White was an American jazz bassist that accompanied Nina Simone from 1960 to 1961 and subsequently was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's ensemble until 1966.

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When Ace first moved to L.A., in trying to make ends meet gave Rebbie Jackson's daughter, Yashi (Michael Jackson's niece), a vocal lesson in the privacy of their home in Woodland Hills, California.

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In the late eighties, Ace danced with Madonna in a dance club called The World, in Manhattan, and almost knocked her hat off when he did a spin move.

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Thanks to publisher Montag Press, author Ace Antonio Hall wrote a zombie book targeted to young adults. This may come as no surprise to his former students, as Ace championed young adults as an eighth grade Language Arts teacher for well over a decade in New York. The book will feature the character Sylva Slasher who is an eighteen-year-old necromancer, living on a parallel Earth.

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Ace has had over 55 jobs since the age of 15, and credits the fact that he has never been afraid to work hard, and always had a girlfriend with expensive tastes. He has worked in a diversity of industries, including Lifeguarding, Education, Shoe Sales, and even Piloting a Ship for Radio Disney at Animal Kingdom, Orlando, Florida.

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Ace married his high school sweetheart, but after only five days, was devastated when she died in a freak car accident.

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In 1996, Ace turned down the offer to create the theme song for the Huggy Bean Doll. An African-American doll which his father created for Golden Ribbon Things.

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In 1986, Ace's put his first band together called Smooth As Silk, and was an ensemble that featured the first contemporary jazz song he'd written by the same name.

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Under the name, Toni Hendrix, Ace's first rock band, WEBSLiNGER was funded solely from his teaching salary. He paid his bassist, drummer and guitarist fifty dollars per hour for rehearsals and the same for live performances. He procured legendary mastering engineer, George Marino (whose work is renown with Coldplay's "Parachutes", Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway", the Offspring's "Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace," Three Doors Down's eponymous release, Arctic Monkey's "Favourite Worst Nightmare," Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood", Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction," and classic mastering on early Stevie Wonder projects) to master his punk rock eponymous CD at Sterling Sound Studios, NY.