Mauka a novel of Hawai’i

Don Mitchell

writer / photographer / book designer / anthropologist

The Acks

I’m going to do something I’ve never seen done: pick up the Acknowledgments from the back of the book and put there here in the open. When I finish a book I always read the Acks. I’m always curious about them. Sometimes I run into the name of somebody I know, or the name of…

Five Years Later…

Right now I’m in the process of looking for a literary agent to represent my novel Mauka. Agents often ask for a “logline,” which is a one-sentence description. Here’s my long one: “When an unexpected letter asking forgiveness for a gang rape she’d kept secret for sixty years sends June Nakashima angrily back to Hilo…

Sharp Edges

I belong to a Facebook ground called “Fraudulent Archaeology Wall of Shame,” in which people post astonishingly nutty “archaeology” that they find out there on the web, but especially on Facebook. Giants, mudflood, Tartaria, aliens made the pyramids, and so on and so on ad nauseum. It’s completely wacky stuff. But a few days ago…