Deanna Hoak

If you have reservations for World Fantasy and find yourself unable to attend, please consider letting another attendee transfer the reservations to their own name and credit card first (they only need your confirmation number in order to do that). The main hotel is sold out, and any reservations that are canceled will not go [...]

One of the really interesting things about having a non-LJ blog is that you can see the Google searches that people used to get to your site. Andrew Wheeler posted an amusing set this morning, and I’ve been collecting some the last few weeks, too. I’m treating this like a meme, then. :-)
I do, as [...]

Has anyone else with a WordPress blog been suddenly flooded with attempts at comment spam? I’ve gotten more today than I’ve had the entire time I’ve had this blog.
(And yes, this is why I ask for an e-mail address [I don't do anything with it] and why I moderate the first comment you make; it [...]

So something happened with my daughter this week that absolutely infuriated me. (It wasn’t anything bad that my daughter did–she’s great, and I’m an incredibly lucky mom with both of my kids. It was something with the public school system here that made me glad as hell all over again that I send her to [...]

I had to stop in a long line of cars yesterday to wait for a big gator to cross the road, out on the island’s main drag. I guess it got tired of the pond it was in and wanted a new one.
And then, out by our neighborhood pond, we had two roseate spoonbills, a [...]

I love Florida more than anywhere we’ve lived so far, but September is my least-favorite month here, just because it’s the worst for hurricanes.
I never cared much about weather before I lived here; but if you’re even the slightest bit a fretful type, you start watching the storms when they’re way, way out, because we’re [...]

In a very good way.
I’ve been very lucky in having a lot of authors express their thanks to me for my work on their books, but Fiona’s is particularly wonderful for suggesting that copyeditors and other “invisibles” in the process deserve recognition for their contributions. For those who don’t click links, here’s some of what [...]