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“Gathering Places” Tour a Success!

East Hawai‘i, of course, has so much interesting history, and one of the fun things about our tours is that we can sneak people into places one doesn’t ordinarily get to see.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, –

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Q&A With Darien Gee About Her New Novel ‘Friendship Bread’

Darien Gee is a Big Island writing dynamo, and acquaintance, whose new novel Friendship Bread (Ballantine Books/Random House) comes out April 5, 2011.

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How Freelance Writing Has Changed, & Why Editors Get What They Pay For

If you’re not in the freelance writing business, you might not know how much it’s changed. But oh, how it has changed.

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history.”

A poem about books and time.

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‘Captain Cooked’ Book Signings – Meet The Author!

Steve Grogan is going to be here, on the Big Island and O‘ahu, signing books, and you should swing by. I’m going to stop by when he’s at Basically Books in Hilo on Saturday. He is an interesting guy and you should stop by, say hello and pick up a book, which he’ll sign for you.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.” – Ray Bradbury

“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books, even without taking them

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Leslie Lang, Personal Historian

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I am a writer, editor, cultural anthropologist and historian who lives near Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. My interests are recording and sharing people's (and places') stories.

I write: • Histories of people, families, businesses and more. Want to turn your (grandmother's/business's/family's) story into a book or oral history? Call me. • For business clients (newsletter copy, press releases, blogs, web copy, ghostwriting, sales letters, more). • For magazines and books.

I edit: • Other people's memoirs, other books, articles, blogs. I am a whiz-bang editor.

Please give me a call if you need a relationship with a writer, editor or historian. I'd be happy to discuss how I can help.

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