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.