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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]