By Tosca Lee Last night an author friend of mine sent me a message accompanied by an unspoken (but noted by me) sage nod. “I am never more productive with busywork type tasks than when I’m on deadline for a book!” she said. How’d she know I was “writing?” Because I’d just posted a picture of...
GIVEAWAY ALERT: The Long March Home
Win One of 25 Copies of The Long March Home! Enter for a chance to win one of 25 Copies of The Long March Home by bestselling authors Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton! This Giveaway is live until Oct. 09, 2023 for mailing addresses in the US and Canada. Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two...
A TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS
By Tosca Lee Earlier today I peeked at a list of questions sent to me ahead of an upcoming interview. One of them was this: What got you into writing? I’ve shared the story of how my dad made a deal with me to write my first novel during a summer in college. But I’d already been writing (not...
COAUTHORING A NOVEL
An Interview with Coauthors Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton By Tosca Lee It's the question we get asked all the time: How Can Two Authors Write a Novel Together? My coauthor of The Long March Home, Marcus Brotherton, and I discuss. 🙂 Tosca: This is my second time co-authoring, and it’s very...
MY WRITING JOURNEY
The Day My Dad Changed My Life By Tosca Lee Signing the contract for my upcoming novel, The Long March Home. Authors often get asked what they hope readers will take away from their books, what their publishing journey was like and what’s next for them. But my favorite question is this: “How did...
ON NEW BOOK RELEASES
By Tosca Lee So, it’s been a few years. I have friends who put out a book a year. Sometimes two. I have one friend releasing three this year. But it’s been nearly four years since my last book release, and now with the May 2 release date for my upcoming WWII novel with Marcus Brotherton...
FAN MAIL
By Tosca Lee A Single Light, large print edition I got the greatest email from a reader the other day. It was from a gentleman who said he had graduated to the large-print section of the library and had picked out my novel, A Single Light, for the sole reason that it had a helicopter on it. (Note,...
ROGUE FLASH – Tosca Lee’s WWII Novel
It's official! Our very own Tosca Lee has signed on to write her World War II novel, The Long March Home, with Revell—a division of Bakers Publishing Group. This coming-of-age story is set for a May 2023 launch and was co-authored with fellow bestselling author Marcus Brotherton, who recently...
MOM’S STORIES
by Tosca Lee Mom, 1958 I got the gift of a lifetime in the mail a few weeks ago. It was Laura—My Story, a book written by my mother. It isn’t her first book; my mother is a genealogist and has published several volumes already on our family history. But it’s the first that is uniquely hers. Within...
BEHIND THE SCENES: What Writing THE LINE BETWEEN Taught Me
By Tosca Lee The Line Between, my novel about a young woman who escapes a doomsday cult on the American Prairie just as a pandemic is sweeping across the nation (yup, I wrote a pandemic duology that released in 2019), was my tenth published novel. It taught me more lessons than I wanted to learn…...