by toby | Apr 24, 2015 | The Writing Life
RIP TIDES: Lei Crime Series #9 Surfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent and… murder. Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and...
by toby | Apr 17, 2015 | Life
It’s lessons from life drawing class again. Three hours in the middle of a Thursday when I check out of “normal” life and enter a secret, sunlit world in the jungle in Haiku, Maui, and study, and attempt to draw, naked people. The location is convoluted to get to, so...
by toby | Apr 10, 2015 | Life
I’ve paid good money to look at a naked woman, and all I can think is that I should have worn orthopedic shoes. I hold my pencil in the awkward grip of someone who hasn’t come to the page in years as I gaze at the model on the stage. My lower back aches from standing...
by toby | Mar 23, 2015 | The Writing Life
Cheryl Strayed hiked 1100 miles alone. And she didn’t just do that, she wrote about it in a gut-wrenching, unflattering, brutally-honest memoir called Wild that deeply affected me and influenced the writing in my literary suspense hike novel, Unsound. Some of you know...
by toby | Mar 10, 2015 | The Writing Life
These six ways to sell a ton of books have been the cornerstone of my success with the Lei Crime Series. As the launch date of the Lei Crime Kindle World approaches (April 7) the excitement is increasing—and also the questions. How did I do it? What makes the Lei...