Deanna Hoak

I am having a lousy week. We’re trying to pack/clean up clutter to prepare to put the house on the market this week, Evan is teething and on a growth spurt so is nursing constantly, and the vet told me yesterday that Cecil (our wonderful, huge, fiercely protective Rhodesian Ridgeback) very likely has lymphosarcoma, though [...]

We returned from Pennsylvania the other day; we had a very nice trip, though we learned that the eight-hour drive really needs to be taken in two stretches with a a baby in the car. I had a dreadful nightmare about copyediting the other day! In it, I had taken a copyedit of a textbook [...]

WisCon has put out a preliminary list of the panels people will be on: http://www.sf3.org/wiscon/peoplelist.html I haven’t decided whether to stay on the “Get ######!!” panel yet. I think it’s an interesting topic, but I’m not sure what I would say about it. The linguistics panel should be fun, though. And I still need more [...]

I called Tor/Forge again today, and they said that the Gears are welcome to have me copyedit their texts. They transferred me to the person who hires the freelancers, and I left a message on her voicemail. Hopefully it will all work out!

I’m afraid my daughter’s gotten pretty spoiled to me being on hiatus from copyediting. I’m taking part in the writers’ workshop at Wiscon, and I received the stories to look over last night. Blaine walked into the kitchen for a snack as I was taking the manuscripts out of their envelope, and she immediately stopped [...]

WisCon’s respite page has been updated to show the “living room” panel I’m doing! http://sf3.org/wiscon/respite/lr.html What questions would each of you ask if you were in the audience? I want to anticipate what the most common ones might be so that I won’t stumble over my answers.

I turned down a proofread yesterday. I don’t take proofreads anymore because they don’t pay as well as copyediting jobs. I’m also an incredibly slow proofreader and find it completely impossible to manage the ten book pages per hour that publishers expect from you. I honestly don’t know how people do that! When I started [...]

I was a good girl and called Tom Doherty today. I left a message on his voice mail saying that the Gears had asked me to call him and that they wanted me to copyedit their Tor books. We’ll see if he calls back, but now I can at least write the Gears and tell [...]

Well, I had on a high-cut shirt the other day, and my daughter came up to me and patted my stomach and said, “Mom, your tummy is too fat.” And my husband said, “Blaine, that’s not nice. Mommy just had a baby!” And I’m sure the poor, clueless guy has absolutely no idea that that [...]

Well, I’ve been bad and haven’t written since I subbed the story to SH. I did, however, sub a story to Ideomancer for the first time. They have an incredibly beautiful and well-done site, and I’ll be excited if they accept the story. (I wrote myself into a really odd little niche with it–dark, erotic [...]