54 years ago, a 19-year-old young woman gave birth to a baby girl. She only held her once as she was advised not to bond with her before she gave the baby up for adoption under an assumed name. That 19-year-old was my mother. Mom told me...
If you follow my blog, or have seen the video (below) you know about my history with Raggedy Ann. So I’m visiting my sister this week in Boston, pull back the sheets of the guest bed and find this: Revenge, four decades in the making. [video width="400" height="400"...
And now, a note on fear. This summer I had a writing question from an aspiring author struggling with a long-term project. Here’s what I had to say: Let me tell you, I have unfinished, or unperfected manuscripts in my cabinet, too. It sounds like a...
This is another TBT blog post from Tosca. This was orginally written in September 2014, just as The Legend of Sheba was released. I'm thumbing through my first copy of Legend of Sheba---it just arrived on my step an hour ago. This is always a surreal...
It's time for another TBT blog. Tosca orginally posted this blog in August 2015. Let it serve as inspiration for those of you starting NaNoWriMo. My sister’s bulldog has a penchant for eating stuff he shouldn’t: bits of Frisbee, sponge animals from my niece’s bathtub, the...
This is a TBT post. Tosca originally wrote this for her newsletter in the Fall of 2014, right before the release of The Legend of Sheba. There's a surreal gap in time before a manuscript's last pass and the book's launch. That amnesiac space between forgetting...