Deanna Hoak

Alexis Glynn Latner was nice enough to contact me through my website last week to let me know how much she appreciated the job I did on her novel Hurricane Moon (which is wonderful hard SF with a romantic twist):
I e-mailed the MSS back today, much improved, thanks to you! I attached a cover [...]

The night sky at my house was gorgeous tonight. The sunset was the most unusual I’ve ever seen. I caught a photo, but I wish you could have seen it just a few moments before–those pink formations were a vivid fuchsia.

And then the crescent moon appeared in the sky, with Venus underneath it more vivid [...]

My son turned four today, and I’m amazed at how much he’s grown up, even in the last few weeks. I conducted a birthday interview with him over a period of several days, because his body is as physically active as his imagination is mentally!
And no, I didn’t make any of this up. To be [...]

The preliminary Nebula ballot is out, and one of the books I copyedited–Wil McCarthy’s To Crush the Moon–is on it. To Crush the Moon is the conclusion to Wil’s Queendom of Sol series; the first book in the series, The Collapsium (which I also got to copyedit–Wil is one of the authors who requests me, [...]

So my darling daughter turned eight today, and I was so enamored of John Scalzi’s “Exit Interview for the Seventh Year” that he did with his daughter that I thought I would like to do one with Blaine as well (and probably for Evan in a week, on his birthday, so brace yourself for kid [...]

I hope everyone’s holidays were wonderful. Mine were very relaxing, and I’m looking forward to the new year.
I always strive to grow as a person–in knowledge, in emotional understanding, in my treatment of others and of myself–and I grew more last year than I would have thought possible. A huge portion of that is [...]