Deanna Hoak

SFWA just released the final ballot for the 2009 Nebula Awards, and there is an enormous amount of good fiction on it. I was lucky enough to get to copyedit three of the nominees this year: two of the novels (China Miéville’s The City & The City and Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker) and a novelette (Paolo [...]

So Evan, who just turned seven, asked me the other night if I would be his Valentine, and tonight he made me a creation from Legos that he says is his Valentine’s Day present to me.
I asked Evan to tell me about his creation, and this is what he said:
He’s, like, a ground-cave type, [...]

The deadline for nominating for the Nebula Awards (which will be held about 15 minutes away from me this year, in Cocoa Beach–I hope to see you there!) is next Monday, February 15. If you are a SFWA member and haven’t already done so, sign in to SFWA.org and fill out your Nebula Nomination Ballot.
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So I really don’t watch sports, but I have been glancing over at the Super Bowl now and then. I have to say, and this is my only comment on it, that from a copyeditor’s perspective, that commercial with Chevy Chase and the “It’s complementary with an ‘e’; it’s not free” line is absolutely freaking [...]

William Jones, the editor of The Anthology of Dark Wisdom, in which my first story, “The Robidermist’s Steed,” appears, has posted that the anthology has been recommended for a Bram Stoker Award. He notes that a recommendation does not mean the anthology has a full nomination yet, but it is still exciting news. I’m keeping [...]