by toby | Feb 14, 2011 | The Writing Life
I’m still working on this list and don’t expect to be done until I cock up my toes at age 100 or thereabouts. 1. Taking yourself too seriously. 2. Refusing to listen to feedback. 3. Giving up. 4. Going bathingsuit shopping in the dead of winter in...
by toby | Jan 23, 2011 | The Writing Life
I follow an excellent blog, Guide to Literary Agents, with lots of good articles and such. One of the ongoing articles is “7 things I’ve Learned” and that prompted this blog because, amazingly, everyone’s Things are different. We are all ‘snowflakes’ after all, even...
by toby | Jan 19, 2011 | The Writing Life
It is an exceptionally clear, warm and gorgeous day at the park on the side of Haleakala. The ocean, glowing blue mystery, merges with the sky in the distance and holds the floating green/purple island of Lanai, and the striated majesty of the West Maui Mountains,...
by toby | Dec 13, 2010 | The Writing Life
Eileen Andrews, a wonderful writer, passed this on to me.Thanks so much Eileen! The “rule” is that I have to tell 7 things about myself. Arg. That's all this blog is! Oh well, here goes: 1. I like to paint. Not well, but with enthusiasm. 2. I collect...
by toby | Nov 2, 2010 | The Writing Life
Black Jasmine is my third novel in the Hawaiian mystery series featuring Leilani Texeira, my intrepid multicultural detective. One of the cool ideas I had for the series was for her to travel to the different islands solving crimes. In this latest one set on Maui, I...
by toby | Oct 7, 2010 | The Writing Life
She’s a genius, he thought, as the little girl’s hands whipped over the blocks. She folded them in her lap and he pressed the timer. 31 seconds. Unbelievable. “Very good,” he said. “This next test is called pseudoword decoding.” He handed the test to her. She looked...