Deanna Hoak

It’s always a treat to work on John’s books!

Thank you so much, John! I always count myself lucky when one of your books crosses my desk.

Just got my copyedit for When the Moon Hits Your Eye, and once again @deannahoak.bsky.social has done a terrific job saving me from myself and my apparent tendency to give multiple entirely unrelated characters the same last name. I 100% recommend her for all your copyediting needs.

Ha!

Ha! Definitely niche knowledge.

Thank you, John! It was a pleasure, as always.

The techbros bizarrely underestimated the number of shitposters there are when they decided AI should be used to resolve search engine queries.

That’s where I am on this too—just not worth it.

Professional Editors Discuss Self-Publishing, Networking and More Each year, Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Word for Word Literary Series dedicates an event to a panel of creative writing professionals. This year, the spotlight was on the role of the edi...

Part 2 of the edited transcript of last month's Word for Word Editorial Panel featuring @datlow.bsky.social, @deannahoak.bsky.social, and @joemts.bsky.social is now up on the Penmen Review. Check it out!

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This was a fun panel and conversation. Check it out!

The Role of the Editor in Publishing Each year, Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Word for Word Literary Series dedicates an event to a panel of creative writing professionals. This year, the spotlight was on the role of the edi...

Part I of the edited transcript of last month's Word for Word Editors Panel featuring @datlow.bsky.social, @deannahoak.bsky.social, and @joemts.bsky.social is now up on the Penmen Review. Check it out!

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Thank you for the invitation!

The panel was a lot of fun. I felt like we could have kept talking for hours.

Come listen to us chat about editing!

Spoutible - 207,114 breached accounts In January 2024, Spoutible had 207k records scraped from a misconfigured API that inadvertently returned excessive personal information. The data included names, usernames, email and IP addresses, pho...

Spoutible was breached. They got phone numbers and all. allinfosecnews.com/item/spoutib...

Thank you!

Not bad! Take a UV flashlight with you into thrift shops and antique stores. Sometimes they don’t know what it is.

I recently started collecting uranium glass, and this is a pretty I got today.

Thank you!

I like this selfie I took the other night. Hadn’t gotten dressed up in a while!

Oh, no. So sorry, Bo. 😢

My sister gifted us some hot Hatch green chiles, and I used an entire pound of them to make green chile stew tonight.

It was painfully good.

Some wild turkeys enjoying a stroll on Christmas Eve.

So very sorry for your loss, Garth.

I found a gift link for this elsewhere. Important reporting. wapo.st/3RDnfko

The snow last night made this buck look spectral.

Aw! Beautiful kitty! I have one about her age too.

Oh no! So sorry to hear something has hit all of them at once!

Happiest of birthdays to you!

Mine is an up-close photo of tree bark. 🤷‍♀️