Deanna Hoak

With thanks to Cheryl Morgan for the reminder, I see that the deadline to nominate for the World Fantasy Awards is today! If you are eligible to vote and haven’t done so, you should take a few minutes to get it done. Being the first copyeditor ever nominated in the professional category will always mean [...]

Some feeds were showing up a hack in my website, so I’m testing here to see if the problem is fixed. If your feed is filled with spam, I’d love for you to let me know!

I haven’t had a copyediting post in a while, so let’s talk about “a” and “an.” We pretty much all know that “a” is to be used before a consonant sound and “an” used before a vowel sound, right? That seems fairly straightforward, but in reality it gets a bit dicey because of the way [...]

So, guys, I haven’t been around a lot the last year or so because of various RL unpleasantness that I haven’t felt like blogging about. I’m somewhat regretting that decision, as I’ve missed your support, but I still haven’t decided to blog about it. :-) Perhaps in the future…
However! I have decided that I will [...]

Lucienne Diver has posted some excellent, commonsense blogging advice for those in the industry. You should all check it out.
And what she’s saying goes a long way toward explaining why I don’t have very many specific copyediting posts. My job entails fixing errors, and I won’t discuss specific projects unless I have an author’s permission, [...]