Deanna Hoak

It is always amusing when you see your kids being shaped by their environment. Blaine is so clearly the daughter of a copy editor.
Today, she was telling me a story about some little girl in her class. Blaine was quite irate at this child’s poor manners. The story went this way:
“Mom, you would not believe [...]

Design
Robert Frost
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth –
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth –
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper [...]

I am one of the most monomaniacal people I know. When I am absorbed in something, I find it utterly impossible to think about anything else. I don’t want to do anything else; I don’t want to be interrupted; I just want to finish what I’ve started. Having kids hasn’t, unfortunately, broken me of the [...]

So the intraocular lens I had implanted in January when they did the corneal transplant is causing pressure to build up in my eye. It hurts like hell despite the increasing doses of glaucoma drops they have me on. Apparently, when they put these things in the anterior chamber like they did, part of the [...]

I went off my writing hiatus to accept a few copyediting projects I didn’t want to turn down, and I’ve ended up swamped. I had an author/editor request of an Alan Dean Foster, and then I did a first project for Pyr (The Crown Rose, a lovely historical novel by Fiona Avery, who seems happy [...]