Deanna Hoak

This dining room (in the middle of being remodeled, obviously) holds an eight-person table….

I almost forgot to put in here that I got a very nice note from China Miéville after he won the Clarke Award for Iron Council. He was so delighted and surprised about his win, and he noted in part:
You were such a wonderful reader for that book, made such a difference to it–thank you [...]

We had a lovely, utterly poisonous coral snake (”Red on yellow kill a fellow…”) on our front porch this evening! I’ve grown accustomed to the four ‘gators in the pond next to our house, and they don’t bother me too much (they’re small–three to four feet long–but one has grown unafraid of people, which is [...]

Yesterday I found myself Googling for yet another piece of esoteric information I needed to verify for copyediting, and it struck me how horribly law enforcement would look upon my computer activities.
Yesterday’s search involved how long it would take a body to begin to a) smell and b)bloat–I was verifying for two different bodies, one [...]

Do any of you belong to Mensa? Do you like it? I have got to find a way to meet people around here….