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Macario’s Big Island

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Island, Blogging, Hawaii, Macario, Writing on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Macario is publishing a new online magazine and you should have a look. Wow. It’s eye-popping.
His photography is always great, and in this new magazine, called Macario’s Big Island, he combines his photos, interviews and commentary to illuminate some of the Big Island’s most interesting people in the world of arts, food, music and more.
He just [...]

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Caption Fun at Hamakua Springs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Caption, Contests on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Enter the Hamakua Springs caption contest! A nice little prize if you’re local; a pat on the back if you’re not. Mostly just for fun. Are you clever?

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Culinary Mystery Novel “Captain Cooked” by Stephen Grogan

Posted in Books, Editing, Writing, tagged Big Island, Captain Cooked, culinary novel, Hawaii, Hilo Bay Cafe, mysery novel, Stephen Grogan, Vegas Die on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We went to Hilo Bay Cafe for dinner the other night while my mom was here visiting. That is such a great restaurant – inside it’s really got the ambience happening, in spite of its unlikely location in a strip mall adjacent to Wal-Mart, and the food is always so fresh and good.
While there, I [...]

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What Do Andy Bumatai & Imiloa Astronomy Center Have in Common?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Bumatai, Big Island, Contests, Freelance Writer, Freelance Writing, Freelancing, Hawaii, Imiloa, Winners on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We are about to announce the winners at our On The Cheap websites. We had several contests — 14 in all — to celebrate our big launch. Did you enter?
Andy Bumatai is choosing names out of a hat for the Honolulu On The Cheap contests, and he’s doing it live and on the air today. [...]

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FBI Blogs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Island, Blogging on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This blog is now part of a brand-new network of blogs, all from the Big Island and called FBI Blogs — get it? From Big Island?
It’s the brainchild of prolific blogger Damon Tucker, and a terrific idea. I have to say, I learn more about what’s going on this island over at FBI Blogs than [...]

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Last Chance to Win Free Books!

Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Have you had a look at Big Island On The Cheap and Honolulu On The Cheap? These are my new ventures, with my partner and fellow freelance writer Kris Bordessa, and we are really having a lot of fun with them.
We’ve had free giveaways every day for a week, and are just about at the [...]

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Our “On The Cheap” Sites To Launch 3/10

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Island, Freelance Writer, Freelance Writing, Freelancing, Hawaii, Hilo, Hilo Travel, Photography, Self-Employed, Work, Writers, Writing on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Leslie: “Oh, nothing much; what’s new with you?”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS:
Leslie Lang
hawaiionthecheap@gmail.com
808 964-1494
Twitter: @LeslieLang
Kris Bordessa
hawaiionthecheap@gmail.com
530 295-0887
Twitter: @KBordessa
“On The Cheap” Websites Highlight Best Bargains on the Big Island and in Honolulu
Hilo, HI – March 6, 2009 – Tuesday, March 10th is the official launch of two new online sites – Big Island On The Cheap and Honolulu On [...]

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We work together and make sure your potential clients know your story.
When there are two comparable brands of the same product available, which one do people buy? They buy from the company whose name they remember. The company they know something about.
• The one whose products win awards.
• The one whose president builds Habitat for Humanity homes on weekends.
• The one whose product came about because Grandma won a ribbon at the County Fair when she was a girl.
Let’s tell your story – in whatever way makes sense for your particular business. I can help you figure that out.
As a writer and editorial consultant, I help with your written communications.
I work with some clients occasionally, as needed for a specific project, and others on an ongoing basis.
My clients set the pace: Some know exactly what they want. With others, we brainstorm together to find the right mix of keeping their company name out there, showing their products in the best light and catching people’s attention.
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Maybe you want to resurrect or start up a newsletter in order to be in better touch with your clients. I can help with that. Do you need:
• Fresher website copy?
• A letter to go out to your customers/clients?
• A media kit?
• An employee manual?
• A blog?
May I ghostwrite a newspaper or trade magazine article for you and make sure it gets into the right editor’s hands?
• Need help crafting a speech?
• What about a brochure or some other written material?
Because I’ve been doing this for some years now, I have lots of ideas and a good sense of what works and how to do it.
In addition, one of my strengths is taking information and asking the right questions until the details and especially the significance – the importance – are clear to everybody else, too.
It means you may have to answer a lot of questions at first, but I am good at pinpointing the questions that need to be asked and won’t waste your time.
And as I get to know your company better over time, our work together will become even more powerful.
One of my long-time clients hired me as a result of Honolulu magazine assigning me to write about his business. After that article appeared, he called me and said that in all the articles that had been written about his business over the years, no one had ever gotten his story just right like I did.
Yet all I did was listen. I didn’t assume which were the important aspects of his story; I listened to what he told me was important, and I shaped the article around that.
I don’t write about his business for magazines anymore; now I write about his business for him. We’ve been working together now for years.
If you could use help with your business’s written materials – and telling your stories clearly and effectively – I’d be happy to discuss how we might work together.
Please call me at 808 964-1494, or email me at leslie AT leslielang.com.
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Hawaii Freelance Writer

A long-time freelance writer, one of my specialties is writing about Hawaii and its people, places, business, culture and more.
My articles have been about everything from the tiny, endangered wekiu bug atop Mauna Kea to multi-million-dollar custom, luxury homes; from growing kalo and pounding poi to digitizing 19th-century Hawaiian language newspapers.
My Hawaii-related articles have appeared in many newspapers, magazines, books and on blogs. My personal essays about Hawaii have aired on NPR’s All Things Considered and elsewhere.
Coming myself from a part-Hawaiian family on the Big Island, I am tapped in to the people, places and things of these Hawaiian Islands. And even beyond that, I’ve studied Hawaiian cultural anthropology formally, earning a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii in that subject area, which nicely complements my journalism degree.
It’s tremendously satisfying to me that two of my strongest interests, Hawaii and writing, have come together so well.
I am currently accepting assignments for writing on Hawaii and other topics. You can reach me at 808 964-1494 or leslie AT leslielang.com.
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The photo at top is of the volcano Halemaumau on the Big Island of Hawaii, copyright 2008 Macario.

Need photos for your article or project? Macario is an amazing photographer of all things Hawaii. www.macariohawaii.com
macario@macariohawaii.com
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Archive for March, 2009

Writer/Editorial Consultant

Member of FBI (From Big Island) Blogs

Hawaii Freelance Writer

Photography

Recent Blog Posts

Subjects I’ve Blogged About

Archives

What’s She Up To Now?