RITA ARIYOSHI'S WAY

September 28, 2022

My father “Big Jim” was a large man in every sense of the word, and he told big fat lies. He was drafted toward the end of WWII but Japan surrendered the day before he was to report for duty. He told us they gave up because they heard Big Jim was coming. He couldn’t swim but took us to the beach. He’d go in the water and just sink. He said that was how Russians swim and the technique was called “snorkel.” 

         I began my own story-telling before anyone could read my penmanship. My first writing job was creating ads for a Fifth Avenue store that sold fur coats. Lucky for me, I was diverted from the ad world when I was offered editorship of Hawaiian Airlines in-flight magazine, then called Latitude 20. With children to support, I spent many years editing other writers’ stories. I wrote my first book Maui on My Mind while working full time by getting up an hour early every day and putting 500 words on paper. It became a best seller and won first place in the national Lowell Thomas Travel Book awards. I quit my job and wrote for many publications including Travel & Leisure, Islands, the Washington Times and Los Angeles Times. National Geographic commissioned me to write a book about Hawaii. 

         I wrote fiction in my spare time, mostly on planes and in foreign hotel rooms. One of the first published was selected for a Pushcart Prize. Another won grand prize in the National Steinbeck Center short story competition.

         My first novel, LION'S WAY, like much of my fiction, was inspired by the things I discovered while pursuing magazine assignments. In this case, I was horrified to find out that slavery not only still exists, but flourishes, even in the U.S.A. LION'S WAY is one slave’s story, his anguish, escape, and ultimate surrender to love.  Lion Majok from Sudan becomes a priest in Hawaii. He goes from island to island, healing, consoling and getting caught up in adventures. I intend that his journey from inner turmoil to peace is both a little light and wildly entertaining. I also hope it is a worthy heir to Big Jim’s whoppers.

RITA ARIYOSHI

 

RICHARD ROSE DOES IT AGAIN!

December 12, 2021
Writing has always been my supreme passion!


It was nourished at Wabash College, an all-male liberal arts college in Indiana, where as an English major I contributed short stories, satiric articles and cartoons to the literary and humor magazines. Following most of a three-year hitch in the Army Security Agency on the East/West German border, I embarked on a long career as a First V.P. Investments with a major investment firm in Chicago. During this time, I made stock market history when in 196...

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WELCOME BACK, GEORGE B. HUDSON

October 26, 2021

My list of writing achievements include a lot of work in the murder/mystery genre and in historic biography.  My first novel, published by Savant, Purple Haze, was recognized by the Pacific Rim Book Festival and is under contract to be made into a motion picture.  I also did the screen play for the movie based on the book and am doing a second screen play for another murder/mystery entitled New Moon Murders published by Outskirts Press.


SHEP'S ADVENTURES  is my first attempt at adolescent fi...


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WELCOME VERN TURN, SAVANT EDITOR!

September 2, 2021

Vern Turner has been writing and editing since high school in Ohio.  He's written and edited general essays, scientific articles, treatises and theses.  His editing experience also includes published novels written by friends and acquaintances.  Vern has been an avid reader of everything since he was old enough to hold a book.  His favorite genres these days include historical fiction, military fiction and history, action/adventure, solid, plot-driven crime, non-fiction politics and science-b...


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Author Richard Rose's "RoboCallers from Hell" Blog Post

December 23, 2020
If you are as infuriated by the deluge of robocalls you get as I am, you’ll enjoy listening to this podcast (http://flashforcast.com/wild/rw013.mp3). I have devised a way to fight back and have some fun in the process. - Richard Rose

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INTRODUCING AUTHOR CHERI WOODS

December 13, 2020

How I have loved my teaching years, so full of cultivating young writers, as well as enjoying opportunities for traveling to many places around the world.  In Canada, I taught English to young adults of different nationalities, and in Portugal the parents of my kindergarten class were missionaries which led me to an African safari.  In the southern part of Crete, I discovered an international poetry seminar and was enthralled.  As my teaching career of encouraging young writers wound to an en...


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RE-INTRODUCING SAVANT'S INCOMPERABLE WILLIAM MALTESE

December 1, 2020

As a WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA author, I've written over 200-published books of fiction and non-fiction in just about every (if not every) genre … including erotica. Because of the latter, I'm apt to warn potential readers to be sure to check with me to see whether or not a book of mine is a cozy mystery, a mainstream romance, western, sci-fi, horror tale, children's book, or an exposé with enough sex to turn your grandma's toes.


My very first published piece was an article for a men's magazine,...


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2020 SAVANT POETRY ANTHOLOGY GREETINGS

July 9, 2020
It is my special pleasure to introduce the contributors to ALOHA LA'A KEA (Sacred Light of Love) - 2020 Savant Poetry Anthology. 

Thirty-five remarkable poets including Greg Dasalla, Garrett Uehara, Moses Pilla, Malia Elliott, Nicole Maika’i-St. Louis, Jay Palompo, Ken Rasti, James Andrade, Dorothy Winslow Wright, Skyla Reyes, Karen Sisler, Hongri Yuan, Daniel S. Janik, Rüdiger Herzing Rückmann, Chuck St. Louis, Michael Lau, Milionea Toluao, Christopher Scott Halicion, Brent Kutara, Uhene,...
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INTRODUCING MUSIC RECORDING STARS LEON & MALIA

May 27, 2020
Award-winning composers, recording artists, performers and producers, Leon Siu and Malia Elliott comprise the versatile, creative team of Leon and Malia whose works range from film scores to commercial jingles, to symphonic works, to children’s songs, to vintage and current Hawaiian music, to contemporary pop and exotic world-beats.


Leon and Malia’s writing credits include the benchmark symphonic cantata, BOY WITH GOLDFISH (Albany Records 2007), recorded with the prestigious London Sympho...

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MEET THE NEW HELEN R. DAVIS, AGAIN!

April 17, 2020

Helen R. Davis is an international-award winning author.  Her latest work, TRUTH AND TELL TRAVEL THE SOLAR SYSTEM (Savant 2020) is her first foray into children's literature.  Based on two beloved stuffed animals that Davis had created her own world for, Davis decided to publish this work and introduce her joys and imagination with others.   Davis's imagination is not limited to creating two brave caterpillars. 


She has also published several alternate history novels that imagine happier endi...


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Daniel S. Get to know new and established Savant authors and what they're working on these days.

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