Hawaii Book & Music Festival: Full Schedule

4:00pm HST

Author - Midnight Water City: A Novel

Chris Mckinney takes a surprising deep dive into sci-fi

“This distinctive novel brims with delightful innovations, razor-sharp social commentary and richly wrought characters, all set against a teeming underwater city.”
—Newsweek

“This gritty noir set in a sci-fi landscape is a real page-turner.”
—Buzzfeed

“Chris McKinney's cyber-noir novel, Midnight, Water City, is a riveting, cautionary tale about our earth-exploited future. His mind-blowing concepts and conceits are so spooky and brilliant one suspects he's the spawn of Asimov and Tesla. A must-read for sci-fi lovers!”
—Kiana Davenport, author of Shark Dialogues

Moderator

Tom Gammarino

Tom Gammarino is author of the novels King of the Worlds and Big in Japan and the novella Jellyfish Dreams. Recent shorter works have appeared in Entropy, The Tahoma Literary Review, Bamboo Ridge, and Hawai'i Pacific Review, among others. He has a PhD in English from the University... Read More →

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Chris McKinney

Chris McKinney was born in Honolulu and grew up in Kahaluu on the island of Oahu. He is the author of Midnight, Water City, book one of the Water City trilogy. He has written six other novels: The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row, Mililani Mauka, Boi No Good, and Yakudoshi... Read More →

Sunday October 3, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
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Authors, Fiction

4:00pm HST

*Special Presentation - Author: Fiction – The Island of Sea Women

Two women divers and lifetime friends on an island between two warring empires

“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine)

"Lisa See is a New York Times bestselling author, a thorough researcher and a wonderful storyteller. In this novel, she seamlessly weaves history, tradition and culture into a heartfelt story about love and forgiveness. It’s an unforgettable read."
—Toronto Star

"I was spellbound the moment I entered the vivid and little-known world of the diving women of Jeju. Set amid sweeping historical events, The Island of Sea Women is the extraordinary story of Young-sook and Mi-ja, of women’s daring, heartbreak, strength, and forgiveness. No one writes about female friendship, the dark and the light of it, with more insight and depth than Lisa See."
—Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings

"I loved The Island of Sea Women from the very first page. Lisa See has created an enthralling, compelling portrait of a unique culture and a turbulent time in history, but what's really remarkable about this novel is the characters—two women whose lifelong friendship is tested during impossibly difficult times. Compelling, heart-wrenching, and beautifully written, The Island of Sea Women will plunge you into a world and a story you've never read before and remind you how powerful women can and must be to survive."
—Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone

Moderator

Connie Hale

Connie Hale is a San Francisco–based journalist. Her award-winning features on hula, slack-key guitar, the sovereignty movement, the Hawaiian language, Big Island cowboys, and Spam musubi have appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic Adventure, Afar, Smithsonian, the Los... Read More →

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Lisa See

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese... Read More →

Sunday October 10, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
Authors

Authors, Fiction

5:30pm HST

Authors - Fiction - Radar Girls: A Novel of World War II & Ring of Fire

The little-known women of Hawaii recruited after Pearl Harbor to staff the islands' radar stations

An extraordinary story inspired by the real Women’s Air Raid Defense, where an unlikely recruit and her sisters-in-arms forge their place in WWII history.

“A wow of a book…[that is] a captivating story of friendship, heartbreak and true love. Highly recommend!” —Karen Robards, New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan of Paris

Amazon Editors’ Pick of the Month

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Patrick Featherstone - hero of Sea of Fire - frantically tries to unravel a plot by North Korean terrorists to destroy the Tokyo Olympics.

Rings of Fire is another winner, a very current take on what’s going on in Japan. It’s a great follow up to Sea of Fire. Shepherd writes another fast paced, fast action, fast moving, hard to put down novel about Patrick Featherstone. If you loved Sea of Fire like I did, you’ll love Rings of Fire as well.

Moderator

Tyler McMahon

Tyler McMahon is the author of the novels How the Mistakes Were Made, Kilometer 99, Dream of Another America, and One Potato. Tyler is a Professor of English at Hawai`i Pacific University and the editor of the Hawai`i Pacific Review.

Speakers

Sara Ackerman

Sara Ackerman is a Hawai'i born author of WWII historical fiction. Her books have been labeled “unforgettable” by Apple Books, “empowering & deliciously visceral” by Book Riot, and New York Times bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Madeline Martin have praised Sara’s novels... Read More →

Gregory Shepherd

Gregory Shepherd spent his early years in New Jersey, London, England, New York City's Lower East Side, and Honolulu. He lived in Japan for four years studying Zen Buddhism at a temple in Kamakura. Sea of Fire is the culmination of travel to South Korea, as well as voluminous research... Read More →

Sunday October 10, 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm HST
Authors

Authors, Fiction, Thrillers

4:00pm HST

Author - Bamboo Ridge #120: Red Dirt - A Novel

A noir take on 1950’s Red Scare in Hawai‘i

Moderator

Roger Jellinek

Roger Jellinek has been Executive Director of HBMF since 2006. He’s been involved in book publishing for over 50 years in New York and Hawai‘i — as a New York Times Book Review editor, as a trade book editor, science newsletter publisher, literary agent, and map publisher. He... Read More →

Speakers

Scott Kikkawa

Scott Kikkawa is a fourth generation Japanese American and native of Hawaii. He is a federal law enforcement officer who writes detective noir fiction set in postwar Honolulu. His debut novel, Kona Winds, was released by Bamboo Ridge Press in November 2019. His follow up novel, Red... Read More →

Sunday October 24, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
Authors

Authors, Fiction

5:30pm HST

Author - Fiction - Angel & Hannah: A Novel in Verse

A reimagining of Romeo and Juliet set in 1990s New York City

Moderator

Lee A. Tonouchi

Lee A. Tonouchi's book Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos won one Skipping Stones Honor Award. His Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son won da Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. An'den his play Three Year Swim Club wuz one Los... Read More →

Speakers

Ishle Yi Park

Ishle Yi Park is an award~winning writer who is the first woman to become Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. She lives in Hawai'i with her two daughters and loves to garden, swim, dance hula, read and write. For more information, please go to www.ishleyipark.com... Read More →

Sunday October 24, 2021 5:30pm - 6:30pm HST
Authors

Authors, Fiction

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