Deanna Hoak

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Hey, y’all!
As I’ve noted before, I’m turning the big four-oh this year. I’m rather dreading it. :-)
However, 40 deserves a celebration, and since most of my best friends are in the industry, I’d like to have a party at a [...]

So we’re supposed to punch our birthday (minus the year) into Wikipedia and post the following that happened on that day: three interesting things, two births, and one death.
So for July 10:
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground
1913 – Death Valley, California [...]

Mmmm. I’ve been copyediting a manuscript this morning that the editor has gone to the trouble to print out in nice large Courier New, and I’m munching on cookies the editor also sent. Talk about your ideal working conditions….:-)
But I have a grammar post that’s just pecking at my brain, wanting to get out and [...]

This just blows my mind.

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So, LJ hivemind, I wonder if any of you are computer experts? My whole system (which was only a year old) went dead about a month ago. We had the motherboard serviced, but once we installed it again, we couldn’t get any video output at all–can’t even get to BIOS. Everything whirs and goes, but [...]

I got a rejection yesterday that I’m really happy about! Sheila Williams said of my story “Mutual Feelings”: “This story was interesting, but it isn’t right for Asimov’s.”
It’s an erotic and disturbing science fiction story centered around the problems caused by a futuristic sex toy. I honestly didn’t think it would be right for Asimov’s, [...]