Deanna Hoak

I made chocolate-chip banana pancakes this morning. Breakfast was a hit. :-) I also came across a really cool word while looking up something else: ventifact. Web 11 has it as “a stone worn, polished, or faceted by windblown sand.” I love it!

I woke up at 3:30 a.m. somehow certain that in my flustered frustration I’d made multiple typos in that last entry, and yep. :-P And now that I’m awake, I might as well work.

Okay. I’m going to describe a particular fact-checking problem to you all. Some of you may be shocked that I don’t know all this information right off the top of my head, but, well, I don’t. (Not that I don’t know a lot of information off the top of my head–I do. That’s partly due [...]

Well, I’ve now had a pic up on a MySpace account for an entire day and a half and haven’t gotten one weird message yet, which is very nice. I deleted my zip code and town and put in that I was only interested in networking, and it seems to have done the trick! says [...]

What I love the most about really good science fiction ideas is knowing that they could become reality. Superhuman senses through your tongue. How cool can you get?

If you haven’t already, you should go read ‘s post about getting back into your creative writing groove. She’s smart and sweet and talented and has incredibly useful things to say.

Hey, are any of the other locals going to the OASFiS picnic in Orlando on Sunday? I guess a call was put out for Travis Teas, and since I am one, I thought I’d go. It would be my first official appearance as one of the perpetrators of Atlanta Nights! Kinda funny that it’ll probably [...]

The story of my first publishing job is awfully straightforward. I got my bachelor’s, whipped through my master’s coursework in a year, and decided I wanted to go into publishing. I was in Fort Worth at the time, and the only big gig in town was Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers. I sent them a [...]

Hi, everyone! We’ve just returned from Pennsylvania, where we went to help my mother-in-law (who is the sweetest person I’ve ever met–I’m really lucky to have her in my life) celebrate her 80th birthday. So if I haven’t been around much…it’s because I haven’t been around. :-) The kids had a great time visiting family, [...]

I look through the blogs of everyone who “friends” me on LJ, but I know that not everyone who reads here has an LJ account. Would you like to introduce yourself? Point me and whoever else reads here to your writing or blog or just tell me about yourself? I’d like to know. :-) My [...]