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 [...]

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 [...]