Some exciting news!

My book, “The Last Aloha,” won an award at the 2010 Ka Palapala Po’okela awards held April 30th at Bishop Museum in Honolulu. I hope to have pictures from the event up soon!

“The Last Aloha” ALSO recently won the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association “Best Book” award in historical fiction!

And, as I mentioned in a previous post, the book is a finalist in ForeWord Review’s  national “Book of the Year” award. Winners will be announced this month at Book Expo in New York City.

I am thrilled to be acknowledged!

Our island’s local paper, the Molokai Dispatch made mention of the above and I was pleased to share the page with Auntie Snookie, who was also honored in Honolulu for her book “Ho`okupu: An Offering of Literature by Native Hawaiian Women”.

Here we are:

You can get more details and read the original story here.