by toby | Jun 30, 2023 | BOOKS, Hawaii, Paradise Crime Cozy Mystery, The Writing Life
In need of a lighter, brighter mood post-COVID, I set out to expand the Paradise Crime World in a new direction with a deep dive into a side character from the Paradise Crime Thrillers, Kat Smith, a Secret Service agent who guarded Sophie's dad, Ambassador Frank...
by toby | Jan 7, 2019 | Hawaii, The Writing Life
Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, my story of growing up on Kauai, debuted on December 30. It's been unlike any other book launch. People who know about the book have been emailing and messaging me to tell them how the book affected them, to share their...
by toby | Nov 25, 2017 | The Writing Life
Wired Dawn, Paradise Crime #5, is coming soon on December 8! I sent the copyedited manuscript of the latest in Sophie's adventures off to the Typo Hunters for a final polish before we format and go to press! It's a great feeling, and I think you will love this next in...
by toby | Nov 10, 2017 | The Writing Life
Early last year I launched the Paradise Crime Series, starring Sophie Ang, an MMA-fighting FBI tech agent with a dark secret. Sophie first appeared in Book 4 of the Lei Crime series, Broken Ferns. She was so compelling that I gave her a point of view in the next book,...
by toby | Aug 19, 2017 | Author Coaching
Happiness is an inside job, even when your home is a tropical island paradise. Extreme beauty can actually distort perspective. Every other place is then seen through rainbow-tinted spectacles. I’ve been fortunate by design, spending the majority of my life in...