RIGHT WAY, WRONG WAY...AND LION'S WAY

September 28, 2022
It is estimated that there are more than forty million people today living in some form of slavery. In Africa, you can buy a slave child for about forty dollars. Every hour of every day, somewhere in the world, a child slave dies. I discovered these horrible statistics when pursuing a magazine assignment on chocolate. Obviously this did not fit in a story on truffles, but it haunted me. I imagined such a child, kidnaped from a loving home. I gave this child a name, Lion, and he proceeded to tell me his story, which has become the novel, LION'S WAY. 
          Like Patrick of Ireland, Lion has a miraculous dream of escape and finds his way home. He is given a book about Damien of Molokai and is launched on his spiritual journey which lands him in Hawaii.
          Iris and “Pops” Kamana embrace the young African in the Hawaiian tradition of hanai, of absorbing people into your family. They have four children of their own, David, an attorney/activist for native Hawaiian rights; Moses, who is happy to work the family taro patches; Pohai a lovely rising star in Hawaiian music; and Lili, a rebellious teenager who gets pregnant. 
          As a priest, Lion is blessed (or burdened) with a gift for spiritual healing and is sent from island to island. My book is crammed with the people he meets, warm, loving friends, a cranky old lady, his worldly bishop, and a few murderers in need of redemption. He finds himself entangled in adventures such as a flash flood, a devastating hurricane, an encounter with a tiger shark, and even with the devil himself. Through it all, Lion struggles with his own soul and his need to forgive his captors, to practice what he preaches. He returns to Africa and finds he is now an observer in his own land. He has big decisions to make.
          Two of the most difficult things we do in life are forgive and surrender, and the latter is the harder, especially surrender of the heart’s desire. LION'S WAY tackles these issues. It is a multi-cultural story set primarily in Hawaii, one of the most beautiful and desirable places on Earth.
 

FINAL RETRIBUTION

December 12, 2021

EXCITING NEWS!


My new mystery/thriller, RETRIBUTION, has just been released by Savant Books and Publications.


In this sequel to the award winning THE LAZARUS CONSPIRACIES, Chicago Police Department detective “Mack” McPherson returns to the northeast Indiana lakes community after 23 years to confront those who he believes murdered his brother and others who covered up the crime. When they suddenly become murder victims, Mack is the prime suspect, challenging him to track a dangerous psyc...


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SHEP'S ADVENTURES, THE PERFECT YA ENTERTAINMENT!

October 26, 2021

One particularly glaring weakness that I discovered while teaching in our public schools for thirty plus years is the shortage of really good reading material for preteens and early adolescents.  I am also the grandfather to two boys in that age group, and it is easy to see from that position also. That is why I decided to come out of my usual murder/mystery genre and write this story about my childhood dog and best friend, Shep.


Of course, my Shep could not actually talk, but I often imagin...


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LOVE SURVIVES WORLD WAR TWO (WWII)

December 13, 2020

"Secret World War II  Letters Found," screamed the headline in my mind.  


I’d found letters in the home I grew up in, so where could they have been hiding these past 80 years?  And, why did my dad choose to reveal them to me, just a month before his death, and after all those lonely years since hers?  Though questions like these were never answered, this shoebox full of love letters to my mom took me on a journey into the past: the past of my parents and their love affair via letters, and th...


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WILLIAM MALTESE FLICKER'S AGAIN

December 1, 2020

AUTHOR/PROPHET?!


Writing as Christopher Dane in his 1981 book, "Riders of the Dragon," having predicted the 1997 Heaven's Gate suicides that accompanied the arrival of the comet Hale-Bopp ...


Did WILLIAM MALTESE predict the arrival of the 2020 CORONA virus in his FLICKER series [WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER: #1 BOOK OF ANSWERS (2010), and its sequel, WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER: #2 BOOK OF ASCENDANCY (2020)], wherein all the elderly are losing "power," young people gaining power without a clue how p...


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ALOHA LA'A KEA - 2020 SAVANT POETRY ANTHOLOGY IS HERE!

July 9, 2020
This year's anthology came into being during challenging times, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic. People everywhere are being forced to rethink every aspect of society and their individual lives. Without the selfless, tireless assistance of Savant Books and Publications, this year's anthology might never have risen above the vicissitudes of the times. I also want to acknowledge the devoted assistance of the numerous native Hawaiian and religious poets who helped bring this "praise" work to...
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LEON & MALIA'S ISLAND MUSIC CD RELEASED

May 27, 2020
LEON & MALIA'S ISLAND MUSIC (Savant 2020) is a 54 minute, 13-track music CD of classic favorites and original songs from Hawaii.


Award winning composers, recording artists and performers, Leon & Malia, present a compilation of songs that reflect growing up surrounded by the music of Hawaii...memories of island sunrises, flowers and ocean liners arriving at Aloha Tower...tropical days of sun and surf...nights of sunsets and romance.

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TRUTH AND TELL: TWO CATERPILLARNAUTS LOOSE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

April 17, 2020
WHOOSH! In the flash of an eye, after being led to a garden by a lying wasp, Truth and Tell, two brave caterpillars, are whisked away from their mother and their homeworld of Insecta, never to see it again! What is Insecta, you ask? It's a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, and on it are large flowers that contain portals to other galaxies, including our own!  After this fateful teleportation, Truth and Tell are now in our solar system and in search of a habitable planet to call home after not l...

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RICHARD ROSE'S COMIC CRUSADERS "IN THE NEWS"

February 3, 2020
An article about Richard Rose's newly-released screenplay-novel, COMIC CRUSADERS (Aignos 2019) just appeared in Chicago's "Skyline" Newspaper (http://www.richardroseonline.com/skyline2020a.html). In the book, a teenage cartoonist uses a magic pen to bring a superhero to life to help him find his father, who has mysteriously disappeared. In doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a grotesque supervillain and his Dark Legion, challenging him to find a way to save his father while preventing the Dark...
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CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA

January 24, 2020
CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA (Savant 2020) brings to life many real-life examples of how to conduct a phenomenological case study and program evaluation within an educational context. 


This book helps point out ways to help budding researchers find their own voice within their own research project.  It also helps to teach researchers how to grow from their successes and setbacks from a practitioner's point of view to help save new researchers time and effort in creating a study of t...

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