by toby | Mar 16, 2016 | The Writing Life
Debuting the brand new Sydney Rye Kindle World with Rough Road, a Blood Orchids prequel novella starring Lei and Sydney Rye, together for the first time! Rough Road is a prequel to the first book in my long-running Lei Crime Series, Blood Orchids, and falls right...
by toby | Mar 9, 2016 | The Writing Life
I have the most gloriously overqualified assistant ever. Two years ago, another author friend, Christine Nolfi, heard I was looking for someone to help me manage the increasingly overwhelming demands of my self-publishing career. She gave me her sister's name. Tricia...
by toby | Feb 3, 2016 | The Writing Life
Going analog to beat writer’s block is a desperate measure, something I never thought I’d have to do. I don’t know how long I’ll be analog. It may be permanent. “What are you saying?” You may well ask. “Didn’t you just write a cyber mystery about a woman who’s always...
by toby | Jan 29, 2016 | The Writing Life
Wired In, Paradise Crime novel with Sophie Ang, is here at last! My MMA-fighting FBI tech agent with a dark secret finally has her own series, set in Honolulu. Sophie first appeared in Book 4 of the Lei Crime series, Broken Ferns. She was so compelling that I gave her...
by toby | Dec 26, 2015 | The Writing Life
Red Rain, Lei Crime Series 11, is live today! I worked hard to resolve the cliffhanger ending of Bone Hook related to what happened to Stevens in record time, and I'm proud of this book! What a suspenseful tale. Red Rain was just amazing to write, the first Lei Crime...
by toby | Nov 22, 2015 | The Writing Life
Staying fresh while writing more than ten books in a series has been an organic evolution for me. There have been two points when I thought I was done with Lei Crime Series. The first one was right after book 5, Twisted Vine, when I’d wrapped up all the subplots and...