by toby | Apr 21, 2013 | The Writing Life
Tips for readers and authors on effective reviews. Reviews are readers’ gifts to authors. In this marketplace of clamor, where even free books glut our email inboxes, how do readers decide what to choose? Word of mouth, and reviews. And reviews are written form of...
by toby | Apr 11, 2013 | The Writing Life
Stolen in Paradise, a Lei Crime Companion novel, will knock your heels off! One betta fish, two dead biologists, three trysts, four suspects and thirty-five pairs of shoes add up to complicated days in paradise for Special Agent Marcella Scott. Marcella gets into sand...
by toby | Apr 7, 2013 | The Writing Life
Women and the new entrepreneurship. I’ve finally, truly wrapped my head around the fact that I’m an entrepreneur. A business owner. (It’s April 7, and the ink is drying on the checks I just wrote that prove it, made out to U.S. Treasury and Hawaii State Tax Collector,...
by toby | Mar 24, 2013 | The Writing Life
The beauty of a good read. The Red: First Light, by Linda Nagata–review and interview! The Red: First Light, by Linda Nagata, is a fast-paced, gritty, near-future militaristic sci-fi tale that combines all of my favorite things: a broken hero, hopeless love, a...
by toby | Mar 14, 2013 | The Writing Life
Stolen in Paradise cover reveal will knock your heels off! Stolen in Paradise, A Lei Crime Companion Novel, is on track for an April release. The pieces are coming together, starting with the cover! So, I had this idea for a different sort of “feel” to...
by toby | Feb 28, 2013 | The Writing Life
Harvest ideas through creative daydreaming. Generating ideas through daydreaming: we all do it. Happens in a nanosecond, probably happened when you clicked on the link opening this blog. Daydreaming has many functions to it: mental rehearsing, storing information in...