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...
[video width="720" height="1280" mp4="https://toscalee.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Untitled-HD.mp4"][/video] My publisher just sent me the last galley of Firstborn, the sequel to The Progeny. That means two things: first, it's going into production and on its way to you! (Yay!) Second...
Your response to The Progeny has been amazing! I appreciate the reviews and personal messages. I can hardly wait to share the sequel, Firstborn, with you in February! Tosca_reviews_thanks from Cindy Conger on Vimeo. Get LIVE shirts HERE Get Amerie's Rain Candles HERE...
When Tosca's not on the farm or busy writing, she'll be crisscrossing the country from Florida to California. You can find her at these upcoming events September 18 - Savannah, GA: Southern Independent Bookstore Association Author Event. Click HERE for tickets. October 20 - Orlanda, FL: Florida Writers...
I want to know you—but not just your name. I want to know something weird about you! So here’s a few bits of trivia about me. Leave a comment with some of yours! I… …hate watermelon. …almost flunked pre-calculus. Twice. …once had a dog that was allergic to my...
I don't always know a book's theme until I start writing. But week after week as I wrote the story of Audra, who had lost her past, and of the young descendants of Elizabeth Bathory living without guarantee of tomorrow, the theme became dazzlingly apparent to...
It’s so easy to look at the lives of others and think they have it all together. I’m always amazed when people think this about me. I’ve been quiet for years about my struggle with OCD. No more. I’m so proud of this beautiful article...
As a kid, I loved making things up. I was very specific. I didn’t have imaginary friends. I had imaginary friends who were firemen. I wasn’t just a princess—I was a Korean princess with a diamond for a third eye (no idea where that came...
Tosca delivered the keynote address the opening evening of the 2016 ICVM Conference in Cincinnati. Her topic: "The Pursuit of Audacity." You can watch her entire keynote at THIS LINK or by clicking the photo below. Now, go out and create audaciously!...