Paul Hosch’s latest illustrated e-book memoir, The Fingernail King, goes behind the scenes of beautiful Waikiki Beach to take a close look at the clever con artists and predatory scammers who feed on the island’s vulnerable tourist industry, day after day, year after year…

After several years of working as an unpaid volunteer for a yoga organization, a penniless thirty-year-old is offered a part-time job and two months free rent in Honolulu. He jumps at the offer and lands in Hawaii with nothing but a tattered suitcase, an old guitar, and barely enough money to stay alive. The year is 1976.

Longing for a career as an artist, he answers a help-wanted ad in the local paper and is hired to decorate inexpensive shell jewelry in a famous Waikiki Beach shopping center. This leads to a gig painting Hawaiian scenes on fingernails which quickly goes viral as he becomes an established tourist attraction.

During his twenty years as the Fingernail King, the young man also stumbles into many strange and exotic romantic entanglements. While he struggles to balance his meditation and yoga practice with the overwhelming allure of Waikiki, he finds it impossible to avoid the many worldly pleasures vying for his attention.

The Fingernail King is the humorous and sometimes poignant story of youthful indulgence, occasional overindulgence, and eventual redemption. 

A must-read before YOUR next tropical vacation. After meeting THE FINGERNAIL KING, you’ll never see paradise the same way again!