Deanna Hoak

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]

I’m off to World Fantasy in the morning! I managed to pack lighter for this con than I have for any ever, somehow. I keep double-checking, but I seem to have everything I need. I’ll see some of you tomorrow!

Okay. Here’s what I want to know about Harlan’s inappropriateness: Why didn’t any of us do anything in that moment? I’m asking sincerely, because I get furious with myself, after the fact, for actions I fail to take. When the groping happened, I was horrified; I leaned over and asked the person next to me [...]

I’m still logy from the con. After I posted my con report yesterday, it occurred to me that I left out John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, with whom I had several breakfasts, and didn’t mention once the person I spent the most time with, who was Chris Roberson. He held court in the [...]

WorldCon was an awesome time. The hotels and convention center were all conveniently close, and every room on the party floor of the main hotel opened onto a huge outdoor deck that made the room parties more tolerable than at any other con I’ve attended. (The floor was unfortunately a maze, though, that made particular [...]

Here are some more ReaderCon photos I’ve collected over the last few weeks! (Sorry–I won’t always have so many photos in this blog! I hope it doesn’t load too slowly for you.) Paul Witcover sent me this pic of the two of us: Ern Lilley of SFRevu sent me all these others. Here I am [...]

Okay. I’m going to go. Drop me a line if you’ll be there, and we’ll try to get together.

ReaderCon was fantastic. I couldn’t have picked a better venue for my fortieth birthday. I got to visit with wonderful people and had a blast all weekend long. If you’re wanting panel highlights and such, though, this post won’t be for you. I barely attended anything, electing to socialize instead. :-) Here’s a group shot [...]

I’ve been working loooooooonnnng days (sorry for not participating more in my last entry–people had so many interesting things to say!) to try to get through all the work I’ve had so that perhaps I could go to ReaderCon. By today I’ve decided that I’m going to make it! I sincerely doubt I’ll have time [...]

I went up to OASIS just for the day, to do the panels I was on. It was fun. I sat next to Piers Anthony in the “Ask the Pros” panel, and he was very nice to me. (I was somewhat surprised because, well, I’d somehow gotten the notion that he hates copyeditors.) At one [...]