Category: About Reading & Writing
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Christmas in Hawai’i
*This is a post from December 2019, before the release of my novel The Aloha Spirit. With my novel, The Aloha Spirit, coming out next August, my thoughts are in Hawai’i this holiday season. Before Christianity came to the Hawai’ian islands in the 1700s, the Hawai’ians celebrated a four-month tradition called Makahiki, a time when…
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Top Hist Fic Picks November 2022
November is the true beginning of the holiday season, which for me is all about family. This year we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving with my son and his family, at his house, and Christmas at our house. With a one-year-old grandson, I expect the holidays are entering a whole new era! This month we see a…
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Writing Short
(This article first appeared on Paperlanternwriters.com) I am a novel writer. I like taking thousands of words to develop a scene or foreshadow the plot. My books are thirty or so chapters.That’s why when Paper Lantern Writers came up with the idea for Unlocked, I initially hesitated. The idea was great, and I wholly supported…
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Looking Back on a Pandemic Book Release
Back in the day, before the world shut down due to COVID, my publisher (She Writes Press) gave me August 18, 2020, as the release date for my novel The Aloha Spirit. There are many exciting milestones on the road to publishing a book, but having an actual release date makes the whole process real.…
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Top 5 November Historical Fiction Releases
This post first appeared on https://www.paperlanternwriters.com/blog. Can you believe it’s November? The nights are colder, and we’ve even had some rain in California. In other parts of the country, leaves are turning colors and people are wearing coats. With Halloween over, we can begin to focus on the big holidays. Yes, I’m old school—no Christmas…