Deanna Hoak

You know, I’ve never been the type to make New Year’s resolutions. In years past, I’ve just never had all that much I wanted to change–or if I did want to change something, I did it right away. Those of you who know me fairly well, though, know that 2007 has been really rough for [...]

Thankfully I live in a good climate for it, though. Today is the coldest it’s been here all year long–it’s 55°F–and I feel like I’m going to freeze to death. :-P

David Louis Edelman has posted (with my permission) an IM conversation he and I had this morning, as I was copyediting his novel MultiReal. I love it when I get to communicate with an author in real time during the copyediting process, because I think the back-and-forth helps clarify matters better than a simple query.

So, I was looking for the connector that the Xbox microphone plugs into today, and I feel compelled to wonder… Does everyone these days have a junk drawer that looks like this, or are we just waaaaaaay too technogeeky for our own good here? :-)

Wil McCarthy has a fun article up at Scifi.com this week. You guys might enjoy the portion entitled “Survival in a Parallel Universe.” It’s odd to think, though, that we rarely follow those eating rules in our regular diet. :-)

So there’s this hunter in my guild who’s named…Hunter (with a random letter in front because for some unimaginable reason that name was taken already). He’s looking for a new name, so I suggested… Epwnem! Ha! Get it? Huh? Huh? “Eponym” plus a funny “He pwn them” double play! And it’s totally untaken on any [...]