Deanna Hoak

Over in his sff.net newsgroup today, I offered Wil McCarthy congratulations on the rave review SFRevu gave his To Crush the Moon. He responded with this absolutely lovely compliment: For those of you who don’t know it, Deanna’s biased, having copyedited the book. If you ever need a good copyeditor, be sure to ask for [...]

You know, I know we get these nasty hurricanes and all, but…behind the cut are just a few of the flowers in my yard right now…

I’ll answer a few more later, and feel free to chime in with additional questions if you have them. 1. I seldom decide to attend a con far enough in advance to sign up for programming. I did give a very well received panel on copyediting at WisCon a few years ago, though, and was [...]

Only three of you have asked me any questions. I know more people than that look at this journal…. I’ll answer the few I was asked, but chip in with more! 1. Yes, I write, and yes, many of the nitpicky traits that make me a good copy editor slow my writing. On my own [...]

I know I rarely post to this journal and am rather private about my opinions unless I’m truly riled, so I thought it might be nice to do the question meme that’s going around. You can ask me anything you like–anonymously or not, whether I know you well or not–and I’ll answer the questions that [...]