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Our Hawaiian Cookbook Memoir ...

won First Prize in an International Competition. The judges explained that they had never seen such "fine writing in a cookbook." It is a real cookbook, not a recipe book; that is, it teaches you how to prepare the recipes. And there are 250 of them representing all six of the ethnic tables of Hawai’i (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, European and, Hawaiian). No need to have a separate cookbook for each cuisine.

Our Authors ...

have grown up in the Islands or have lived the major portions of their lives here. They bring to their writings, whether about boats and sailing, Hawaiin Regional Cuisine, or hula wahine and Hawaiian culture, a depth that allows the reader to be confident of the authenticity of their material.

In addition to ...

the authors Diamond Hawai’i publishes, we also feature other Hawaiian authors and playwrights whom you may now wish to experience. Wayne Moniz is an award winning writer who works out of Maui and appeals to many who may remember the islands of an earlier day when great white ships brought movie stars and other interesting personalities to our sandy shores. (Click for more ...)

And also ...

there is William Wayne Dicksion, a story teller whose style allows the drawl and inflection of the old time teller of tales to emerge in the text. And Bill has been at his art a long time. (Click for more ...)

A Brief Moment In Time: Short Stories PDF Print E-mail
William Wayne Dicksion

Image Released in February 2005.

A Brief Moment in Time is a collection of stories about events in the life of a child growing up in dustbowl Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties. These stories are told in sequence beginning when the child is only five years old to the last event which occurs after that child has grown to an adult and is just entering manhood during World War II.

Each story is told from the prospective of the child at the time in which the event is occurring. These stories are compelling and are told in a way that everyone can relate to regardless of when or where the reader may have grown up. Reading these stories will allow the reader to grow up again as the child in the stories is growing up. It will allow each and every reader to relive again, A Brief Moment in Time.

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