My Kind of Town Beginning Monday in this space, the Star-Bulletin will revive an age-old newspaper story-telling form that dates back to the days of Charles Dickens.
Something different
By Don Chapman
Star-BulletinDon Chapman, a veteran of more than 21 years in Hawaii journalism, will write a serialized novel under the title "My Kind of Town."
It will appear chapter by chapter, Mondays through Saturdays, with a synopsis in the Sunday Star-Bulletin, once the paper begins Sunday publication in April.
"It's an exciting project for me, and I think readers of the new, independent Star-Bulletin will find many characters with whom they identify and may recognize," Chapman says.
The story will feature both real and fictional characters in Hawaii settings.
Don Chapman:
"I think readers ... will find many
characters with whom they identify."
Chapman will remain as editor of MidWeek, a job he has held for more than six years.A product of the University of Oregon school of journalism, Chapman served as sports editor of the East-Oregonian in Pendleton and as a sports columnist with the San Jose Mercury News before coming to Hawaii in 1979.
His experience includes 13 years as a daily columnist for The Honolulu Advertiser.
As a freelance writer he has been published in a number of periodicals, including Men's Health, Reader's Digest New Choices, Islands, Hawaii Magazine, Tour & Travel News, Runner's World, the Seattle Times, The Oregonian, Island Home and the New York Times.
His interest in golf is reflected in contributions to Travel & Leisure Golf, Golf Illustrated, Golf Week, Senior Golfer, Links and Arizona Golf Quarterly.
Book-wise, Chapman is the author of "Boys of Winter -- The Story of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League" (1995) and the editor of a book of philosophical sayings by poet-chef Shiro Matsuo, "Common Sense And Realistic Thinking" (1999).
He contributed a chapter on ghosts on golf courses to the compilation "Chickenskin" (1996) and a chapter of personal remembrances to "Pre," a biography of the late Olympic distance runner Steve Prefontaine (1975).
Chapman's screenplay, "Goddess Save the King," made it to the round of 25 at Robert Redford's Sundance Festival screenwriting competition, out of 600 entries.
>>Tomorrow: The story behind "My Kind of Town." Star-Bulletin staff
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