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 | Oct 16, 2015 | The Writing Life
How to edit quality pulp speed writing begins with a question: is it even possible to have quality “pulp speed writing” as Dean Wesley Smith so eloquently dubbed it? My previous post was picked up by the writing news aggregator blog, The Passive Voice (if...
by toby | Sep 25, 2014 | The Writing Life
How to get your indie book into Barnes and Noble? It's not for the faint of heart. I’m having my first Barnes and Noble book signing October 12 at the B & N in Lahaina, 3 to 5 pm. Care to hop a plane and join me? I’d be delighted to give you a hug and some book swag!...
by toby | Apr 4, 2014 | The Writing Life
This week was filled with excitement as I signed with Foreword Literary, a dynamic literary agency with offices in San Francisco, New York and Chicago. I had the joy of meeting and getting to know one of the agency founders, Laurie McLean, at the Big Sur Writer’s...
by toby | Jan 6, 2014 | The Writing Life
Secrets of Indie Success Revealed: Indie Authors Naked #IndiesNaked In which I interview writer and editor Loren Kleinman about her new anthology. I've been caught naked. Yep, that interview I did on well-trafficked site IndieReader over a year ago, when my little...