Category: About Reading & Writing
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Writing Heritage Fiction
Recently I told someone that I write stories about my ancestors. She immediately responded, “Oh, you write heritage fiction.” I liked that and decided to adopt it. Now you won’t find heritage fiction on any Google searches or Amazon categories, but it is a good description of what I write. Maybe someday, if I keep…
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Five Reasons for Adults to Read All Year
As the weather warms, summer reading for your children becomes a topic to consider. Summer reading is a thing because students have always been encouraged by teachers to read during that long school vacation. Libraries and bookstores even have special programs to encourage children to read all summer. Reading all summer should be a habit we…
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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…