Deanna Hoak

I’ve talked fondly before about my own contribution to Atlanta Nights, the wonderful, hilarious sting SFWA perpetrated on Publish America.
Now, you can own your very own, one-of-a-kind Atlanta Nights hardcover edition! The only one in existence! From the site:
To match the astonishingly bad quality of the prose, the Evilrooster Bindery has created this abysmal hardcover [...]

I had a very nice workout this morning, and I just have to say…I am amazed that people can chest press 180 pounds. I haven’t actually watched them do it, but every time I go to get on the chest press machine, it’s set at some ridiculous number like that. You know how many pounds [...]

I woke up in a fairly dreadful mood this morning and wasn’t being able to accomplish a thing. I didn’t feel like driving to the gym and finally went out unicycling a bit. I feel much better now.
I’ve been revising all week, and I’m catwaxing about a scene I need but don’t feel like writing [...]

Ahoy, mateys! Quit yer blubberin’ and see if ye can’t act like a pirate instead!
Play “Pirate Adventure”!
(I spent an untold number of hours on this game as a kid, sitting hunched over the keyboard of my old TI-99/4A. Damn, does that make me feel old. :-))

Two weeks ago, I placed my two-year-old with a new daycare provider. He hated his old daycare (the only decent one I’d found on the island) and cried whenever I took him, so I rarely forced him to go. His new provider is a mother in my neighborhood who was a professional nanny for eighteen [...]

Chris Roberson posted an interesting article on Self Publishing, Novellas, and Series Fiction in his journal the other day and had this to say about me in response to a question on quality control:
I’ve been lucky enough to find a spectacular copy editor in the person of Deanna Hoak, who goes far beyond hunting down [...]

Ophelia turns in circles off our coast, ribbons of rain and wind streaming from her to soak the ground and strew the flowers from the trees.
The afternoon sky is soft and gray, and the sun is hiding. The rain drums to Ophelia’s tune, but lightly, and the sound is a soporific.
Maybe I’ll dream of her [...]

On Lenin’s Tomb, China Miéville has posted two more articles about the sickeningly inadequate response to Katrina. He notes, among other things, that the company that was paid to come up with the “Catastrophic Hurricane Management Plan” for New Orleans has “misplaced” the press release for it–and he has the screenshots to prove it.
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