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 two such instances. (I know I’m in more acknowledgments than those, actually, but I’m supposing that the Google Book Search doesn’t have every book in it.)
In case you don’t want to click, W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear said the following about me.
In The Athena Factor: “To our copy editor, Deanna Hoak, go the highest praises and appreciation. Deanna catches my goofs.”
And in People of the Raven, they thank me for my “superb copyedit.”
I love Mike and Kathy. They’re great to work with, and their novels are always enjoyable.
Nice of them!
And thanks for providing that link. It let me do an egosearch, and I turned up a mention I was unaware of. Kewl! :-)
I have a few myself, and another important one coming. I always like it a lot when authors do this.
I seem to live in a parallel universe – google provided me with ‘your search – deanna hoak – did not match any documents. Cool link, though.
How strange! When I click on the link, it still brings up those two books. :-/
Pretty interesting. Didn’t know publishers were putting out the full text of their books for this purpose, though I can understand the reasoning behind it. Was surprised to see my story from Gathering The Bones out there when I searched for my name. Pretty neat.
nd most importantly, of course, are the proper accolades laid at your door.
The Amazon booksearch feature also lists you in
The Scar
by China Mieville
“… Mark Bould; Oliver Cheetham; Andrew Butler; Mary Sandys; Nicholas Blake; Deanna Hoak; Jonathan Stra- han; Colleen Lindsay; Kathleen O’Shea; and Simon Kavanagh. …”
Iron Council
by China Mieville
“… gratitude to Emma Bircham, Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Mic Cheetham, Deanna Hoak, Simon Kavanagh, Peter Lavery, Claudia Lightfoot, Farah Mendelsohn, Jemima Miéville, …”
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power
by Carole M. Counihan
“… everyone who has helped bring this book to fruition-at Routledge, Deanna Hoak, Liana Fredley, Bill Germano, and Nick Syrett, and at Millersville …”
JoB
Thanks. :-) I’m in a few more than those, too, but it’s always neat to find ones you didn’t know about.