Deanna Hoak

I’ve had some nice copyediting news recently. Scott Lynch told me in an e-mail that he was “delighted” with my copyedit of The Lies of Locke Lamora and continued with all kinds of wonderful-to-hear things about the job I’d done and my reputation as a copyeditor and so on. I particularly liked this line he [...]

I’ve had a pretty fair number of authors put me in the acknowledgments of their books, which is a rare honor for a copyeditor. Sometimes, though, I don’t even know that they have. :-) I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I tried putting my name in the Google Book Search to come up with [...]

Chris Roberson posted an interesting article on Self Publishing, Novellas, and Series Fiction in his journal the other day and had this to say about me in response to a question on quality control: I’ve been lucky enough to find a spectacular copy editor in the person of Deanna Hoak, who goes far beyond hunting [...]

Charles Coleman Finlay is saying nice things about my copyediting over in his journal. I always love to hear compliments. :-)

I almost forgot to put in here that I got a very nice note from China Miéville after he won the Clarke Award for Iron Council. He was so delighted and surprised about his win, and he noted in part: You were such a wonderful reader for that book, made such a difference to it–thank [...]

Over in his sff.net newsgroup today, I offered Wil McCarthy congratulations on the rave review SFRevu gave his To Crush the Moon. He responded with this absolutely lovely compliment: For those of you who don’t know it, Deanna’s biased, having copyedited the book. If you ever need a good copyeditor, be sure to ask for [...]

I had a lovely thing happen to me last week. Lou Anders at Pyr passed along some praise from Michael Blumlein, whose wonderful novel The Healer I copyedited, and told me, “I have yet to meet an author who doesn’t think you are a goddess.” :-) I love days like that.