Stories from Oceania
Surprise! I released my new book early. Because I really really wish all my favorite authors and favorite shows would take pity on me and release their next books/seasons early! đ (Hello Im looking at you Yellowstone, Bridgerton, Ilona Andrews, Patricia BriggsâŚ) Is anyone else weary sad from pandemic plagues and wars and lockdowns and… Continue reading My New Book is Here
The coastal village of Matala prided itself on being a community that worked together. United to carry out village projects. Their village had won first place in the Teuila Festival National Dance competition, for the last five years running. Their cricket team was unbeatable in Upolu. And they were awarded certificates every year in the… Continue reading Warriors from Weavers
She couldnât sleep. So when the cry came, she heard it immediately. âHelp me! Please.â A manâs voice. Calling from the road. âAuoi, ou te fia ola.â The Samoanâs universal cry for survival. I want to live. Iva leapt up with her torch, raced down the stairs and peered out the window beside the front… Continue reading Auoi, ou te fia ola
It's 2am and I'm hot. No, not as in HOT to get busy with that man who sleeps in the same bed as me. (Even though he is rather delicious.) And not HOT as in supermodel strutting down a catwalk HOT DAAAYUUM GIRL YOU ARE ON FIRE WITH YOUR SEXILICIOUS SELF hot either. I'm not… Continue reading I’m a Hot Woman of the Night.
A message for the Single Ladies from Samoa. (But not the skinny ones.) I got in to New Orleans at 1am and went straight to the hotel which is in the French Quarter. Couldnt sleep because I'm on Samoa time and at 7.30am I was up and out for a walk, doing the tourist thing… Continue reading You Is Beautiful
As a writer who writes too many different things all the time â I am often asked: âWhere do you find the time and the drive to write? How do you overcome writerâs âblockâ?â Such questions are a puzzle to me and so my answer is 105km and 14 hrs long⌠A few years ago,… Continue reading How to Become a Writer.
Today was a good day. We (finally) left the house and took the Fab5 to the city to try ice skating and look at the city. Which transported them into paroxysms of delight because these poor woebegotten creatures hardly ever get to go anywhere and the sight of bright lights, shop windows and an endless… Continue reading Kick-Butt Awesomeness AND a Giveaway
Lani Wendt Young 