Deanna Hoak

I’m leaving for the glorious LaunchPad today and am excited but have been a bit glum over being away from my kiddos for an entire twelve days. I will miss them! But I got a call this morning from Kathy Gear, and she and Michael will be at WorldCon! I’ve been editing the Gears for [...]

Hey, all! I’ll be leaving for LaunchPad on Wednesday and then hope to see some of you at WorldCon! Here’s my official schedule: Launch Pad: Astronomy for Writers Wed 11:30 Editing and Being Edited: Is the pain worth the result? Sat 17:30 Drop me your cell if you’d like me to have it.

Blaine, my lovely nine-year-old, did a photo shoot for me when she got home from book-making camp today. (Scans from her book to follow, since I have her full permission. ;-)) I don’t know which I’ll substitute as my bio photo yet. Maybe I’ll actually try some without my belly showing. It looks to me [...]

And damn, it feels like a weird birthday. I’ve also decided the hot pic on my Bio page is officially too old to use in good sense and will have my nine-year-old attempt to take a new one tonight. (She took the current one and did a good job, so I have named her my [...]

I bought the twentieth-anniversary edition of The Princess Bride and watched it with my kids this week, successfully introducing them to an integral aspect of geek culture. And it took! (At least with my son–my daughter rightfully thought Princess Buttercup was useless.) Herewith my son doing an exceptionally cute Inigo Montoya. :-) [flv:http://deannahoak.com/wp-content/uploads/mvi_0058.flv 480 360]