Deanna Hoak

It’s a day for pulling pictures off the camera. :-)
Evan was giving me a concert the other day with the guitar I bought him while shopping with the inimitable Esther Friesner at WFC last year. He and I were playing and having fun; I took some pics of him, and he took some of me.
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There’s so much wildlife around Florida this time of year. It’s alligator mating season, we’ve had white ibis and sandhill cranes in our front yard, and the ospreys have finished their nests and are sitting on eggs.
Ospreys (which aren’t eagles or hawks, despite their common names) have a high-pitched call that sounds a lot [...]

A friend of Blaine’s had a birthday party this past weekend where the kids got to ride a horse. Blaine had been astride one before, but it was Evan’s first time. He was hugely excited. :-)
The horse got caught right in the middle of licking its lips after a drink of water. It looks [...]

My husband pointed me to this very interesting thread on a gun discussion board wherein the members complain about firearm facts that authors get wrong.
I always try to verify such things when copyediting, and I know I’ve corrected the “.12-gauge shotgun” that one member mentions. :-) (I had fun in my Atlanta Nights chapter constantly [...]

I’m always really leery of talking much about writing, because, well, I haven’t had any fiction published, so I don’t know why anyone would be interested in what I have to say about it, except in the ways it relates to my job. :-) I worked on a bit of setting yesterday, though—trying just to [...]

I had an incredibly useful writing chat with a month or so ago, in the midst of chatting about something else, and I found the talk so worthwhile that I saved it–and keep looking at it and looking at it. Finally, because I thought that maybe it would help someone else, too, I asked if [...]