Name: Barbara Santos
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Barbara Santos

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Most Recent Book Title

Practice Aloha

Book Description

Barbara and writing partner, Mark Ellman, are the co-authors/editors of Practice Aloha, a book featuring 150 stories and 16 recipes from people who want to share what it means to live life with aloha. The book contributors include celebrity chefs, Hawaiian leaders and musicians, rock legends including Alice Cooper, Todd Rundgren and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood, politicians (Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie shared his mom's Potato Chip Cookie recipe!) and there is an introduction written by Maui resident Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Additional Book Titles

Maui Onion Cookbook (Celestial Arts/Random House) and Maui Tacos Cookbook (Pendulum Publishing).

Website #1

San Francisco Writers Conference

Location (city/state/country)

Oakley, California

Author bio

Barbara knows about writing, publishing and book marketing. She has worked with top New York and West Coast publishers for over 20 years as co-creator of the Maui Writers Conference and marketing director of the San Francisco Writers Conference and San Francisco Writing for Change. She is an author and writer of feature articles, and was a newspaper columnist and food critic in Hawaii. All of her books have Hawaiian themes. (She lived on Maui for 15 years.)

Professional Speaker Topics

Her popular talk, Independent Publishing: A Recipe for Success, draws on her experiences in both traditional publishing (Celestial Arts, Ten Speed Press/Random House); with a small publishing house (Mutual Publishing based in Honolulu) and her own self-publishing imprint (Pendulum Publishing) she started in 2002 with long-time friend Sue Dyer.