A home on the web for Toi Thomas- a geek-girl, content creator, and reading advocate. She's a WIP-work in progress.
Category:About Toi
Most of these posts are purely biographical in nature, but can shed light on what inspires Toi’s writing and tend to be quite entertaining. As of October 2015, these posts have all been combined under the About Me label.
Today, I’m over at A Small Gang of Authors introducing the 2nd of two new series I’ve started. I’ll have to update you on the other later. For now, please check out some brief, yet, fun animal stories.
“Today in Loki’s Animal Stories, author Toi Thomas recounts a true animal adventure as told from the perspective of Loki, A Small Gang of Authors mascot. So, it’s a fake true story. Enjoy!”…Read more at A Small Gang of Authors.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If you like it let me know and share it with others. See you next time, Toi Thomas. #thetoiboxofwords
I’m finally taking the plunge and am unpublishing the first two books in my Eternal Curse Series. I’ve been struggling to finish book three in the series because of the major differences in skill-level and style that the latest book is clearly displaying over the two previous installments. So now, I’m going back and doing a major rewrite of the first two books with the intentions to release all three for the 10th-anniversary release of the first book (we’ll see what happens with that).
Even though I’ve unpublished these books, I’d still like to make them available to anyone who’s curious about the books I’ve been blogging about for almost ten years. If anyone would like to obtain a digital copy of the last published editions of these stories, they can join my email list.
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The Golden Box Books Publishing online magazine is one of my favorites digital subscriptions, and not just because I’ve been featured a bunch. It has really cool content. This month contest winners are announced and there are some cool character interviews.
Created and hosted by the Ninja himself, Alex J. Cavanaugh, the Insecure Writers Support Group posts the 1st Wednesday of every month. Click the image to learn more or sign up.
Monthly Question: When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing?
I honestly feel like my writing life is always cloudy. It’s kind of like the rest of my life, in that I’m sick all the time. Still, I get stuff done. If I stopped and waited to be healthy to do stuff, I’d never do anything. If I waited for the rain in my writing life to clear up, I’d never write anything.
For me, I think it’s more about being patient and not forcing it. I wish I could be one of those writers who writes 100 or 1000 words every day, but that’s not my reality. I have to work on multiple projects at a time so that whenever the muse strikes, I have plenty of material to work with. I also distract and inspire myself by reading and watching creative content; and again, when the muse strikes, I write (even if it’s 3 a.m.)
And, if and when, I get discouraged or overwhelmed, I look back at the few good reviews I’ve received and the two pieces of fan mail I’ve received to cheer me up. It helps remind me why I write. I write because I enjoy sharing my stories, even if I just share them with a few friends.
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Now on to the personal updates.
I’m on spring break and, oh boy, do I deserve it! Just in time for a full recovery from Strep. I just got back in town to enjoy the rest of my break on staycation. If you follow me on YouTube or Facebook, be on the lookout for some cool pictures and videos.
Illustrating is hard when you are not formally trained. I used my computer’s paint program to draw my first children’s books, but now I’m trying to do some hand drawings for the new stories I’m working on.
I’ve been cleaning up and rewriting a few stories for a short story collection I hope to release later this year. Plus, I have my ongoing project to rewrite my Eternal Curse Series for the 10th-anniversary release. We’ll see what happens with that down the road.
Over at A Small Gang of Authors, we reached 100,000 views. I’m so happy to have found this group of amazing author-bloggers to connect and collaborate with. If you’re up for it, please stop by and congratulate us.
And last, but definitely not least, I completed my Graphic Novel Read-A-Thon and had so much fun. If you’re interested, check out the video wrap-up below. My March wrap-up video will go up this Saturday, April 7th.
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