“A Farm in the South Pacific Sea” is the title of a book about an enterprising but restless Seattle woman who wanted to do something of value in her life. She’d married and divorced young, remarried twice and never had children. She owned an apartment building in Seattle, financed by her freelance bookkeeping career. She […]
The title could be Writing While Frightened, Writing While Anxious, Writing While Worried (www, but that stands for something else, so let’s not use that). Most of us are worried about the virus and its mutations, but we express the worry in words that don’t include Covid or Delta or Omicron or Virus. Instead, we […]
Hawai`i Pacific University’s literary magazine has published “Dawn of a New Day,” the opening and first chapter of my novel RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS. To read it now, click on this link:
Dainty Kua`ula Margin shells dangled from Jolie’s ears to brush her bare shoulders. The shells, a half-centimeter or so in length, reminded Eve of an infants fingernails. How many shells had the designer collected, pierced and strung to create each earring? Sixty, perhaps. Did she wear magnifying eyeglasses to poke threading holes in each tiny […]
In my new literary novel, RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS, we follow our main character, Eve Sorenson, from Kailua Beach on Windward Oahu across the Pali to Lyon Arboretum in Manoa Valley. After finding a Hawaiin man, Noa Kala;, recumbent and needing rescue, she meets with Sean Higa, a university professor who works with native […]
“So, what is a Ghost God?” a reader asks. “In this story, the Ghost God is a Hawaiian mythical figure that first appears to the protagonist Eve Sorenson as a barking dog when she arrives at Lyon Arboretum in O`ahu’s Manoa Valley. Eve is a Mainland haole of Swedish decent, not a Hawaiian. She’s been […]
My latest novel, RAIN SHELTERS and GHOST GODS, got off TO a rocky start with a case of books arriving battered and torn, after a delay message from the shipper saying there had been a mechanical malfunction. Okay, that accounted for part of the cover being torn off of one book and possibly for some […]
