by toby | Sep 18, 2014 | Life
Handling grief is necessary, and no one gets through life without dealing with this tough emotion. Grief is one of the main reasons clients come to therapy, and in fact many of life’s toughest issues (divorce, aging, abuse recovery) come with an underpinning of grief...
by toby | Sep 10, 2014 | The Writing Life
Writing fast and hard is how I roll. People ask me how I can do so many books in a year—by the end of 2014 I will have written five (not all in print yet.) I tell them this: writing is like a muscle, and the more you use it the stronger it gets. Many people are...
by toby | Aug 12, 2014 | Life
Life lessons one second of video every day is teaching me to notice all the tiny precious seconds, like grains of sand in an hourglass, passing by in my life—never to be experienced, seen or known again in the same way. Let me first back up and tell a little story of...
by toby | Aug 7, 2014 | The Writing Life
I’m writing a great multi-book love story, and it’s not in the romance genre. Writing is an evolution, a gradual reveal of all we will become as authors, and when I first started the Lei Crime Series with Blood Orchids, I knew I wanted to write about a damaged,...
by toby | Jul 31, 2014 | The Writing Life
Emily Kimelman is unleashed! With a bestselling line of distinctively-branded female-sleuth-with-dog books, she's putting her Sidney Rye mystery series on the map. Every now and again, I pick up a book and go,” AHA. This is a book and author my readers will...