Deanna Hoak

David Louis Edelman’s Infoquake has made the short list for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, which makes me hugely happy, since not only does the book deserve the nod, but I had the honor of copyediting it. That’s another to add to my sidebar. :-)

GalleyCat’s Ron Hogan ran an article yesterday on the drive to get me nominated for a World Fantasy professional award. :-)
I’ll be all smiles for months with this going on. :-)

So—a public service announcement. Did you have any idea that mango peel contains urushiol, just like poison ivy? I didn’t. And mango season is upon us in Florida!
Since tree-ripe mango has overtaken even tree-ripe peaches as my favorite fruit in all the wide world, I was ecstatic to find some at the farmers’ market last [...]

There’s a campaign out to get me nominated for a World Fantasy Award–Special Award Professional.
Thanks, everyone. :-)
Even if you haven’t bought a membership this year, you’re eligible to vote if had a WFC membership either of the previous two years.

So the bad thing about blogging, at least with me, is that if I go for a while without blogging, I start thinking that since it’s been so long, I’m going to have to post something really spectacular, or only something about publishing, since that’s what a lot of you folks come here for. And [...]

So it’s been a mystery to me what people were searching Google images for when they hit on various pictures in my blog. I finally figured out how to find the full link in my stats, though, and how to read it. Some of them are…creepy, but others are just hilarious.
Like the pic that accompanies [...]

Do any of y’all use Vonage? Do you find it slows down your Internet appreciably? Do you have any other problems with it? It looks like such a nice deal, especially with being able to call the UK for free….