Deanna Hoak

This was fun. It’s enlightening to myself to see what I included and what I left out. :-)
Moved more than 20 times
Attended six different schools for my undergrad
Spent more than seven years solid pregnant and/or nursing
Slimed salmon
Had a corneal transplant
Got my dream job
Revived a half-drowned baby possum
Learned to ride a unicycle
Mountain-biked Moab
Made ice cream with [...]

Judging by the 1,800 pages of author- and editor-requested copyedits I have sitting on my desk, I really suck at this whole notion of “hiatus.”

I’m getting into this a bit late, but I’m proud to announce my part in the Atlanta Nights project. The challenge was to write as atrociously as you possibly could, to test whether a certain vanity publisher is actually selective about what they accept. (The publisher claims they are selective, as part of their argument [...]