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Sat, Mar 09
Dark Roux Signing
San Antonio
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Mar 09, 2024, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
San Antonio, 306 Pearl Pkwy, San Antonio, TX 78215, USA
I'll be at the Twig in San Antonio signing copies of Dark Roux! There will be a farmer's market happening at the same time. Get your fixins for a gumbo and come pass a visit!
Sat, Aug 31
Lone Star Writer's Roundup
New Braunfels
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Aug 31, 2024, 9:00 AM – Sep 01, 2024, 5:00 AM
New Braunfels, 375 S Castell Ave, New Braunfels, TX 78130, USA
More details to come! Likely will have nearly 50 Texas authors to chat with!
Sat, Oct 28
Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge
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Oct 28, 2023, 9:00 AM – Oct 29, 2023, 4:00 PM
Baton Rouge, 701 N 4th St, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA
Hundreds of authors! Thousands of books! Millions of thoughts, memories, and stories!

Choices are always goodbye to something.

Addison, p. 156 Dark Roux

Contests and Publications

Kallisto Gaia Press, Joshua Tree Novel Prize~Finalist

Dark Roux, Unsolicited Press, 2022

Hidden River Arts, Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection ~ Longlisted

Faulkner Wisdom-Words Competition ~ Finalist

Black Lawrence Press, The Hudson Prize ~ Semi-Finalist

Texas Review Press, George Garrett Fiction Prize ~ Finalist

Leapfrog Press, Fiction Prize ~ Longlisted

The Writing District, Monthly Winner

Barrelhouse Magazine, Special Villains Issue

Deep South Magazine

Coffin Bell Journal, Issue 1.3

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Toby

Aug 31, 2022
1 min

If Cane Could Talk

Check out my recent review of If Cane Could Talk on Goodreads. It is a solid companion to Dark Roux, giving much more of the political...

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Toby

Aug 8, 2022
0 min

A little Pre Pub Date action

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Toby

Jul 29, 2022
2 min

Ownership bankruptcy

The above is an excerpt from Barry Lopez’s Horizon. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book which felt as if it were speaking from...

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Toby

Jul 18, 2022
3 min

Avengers, Assemble!

I know I've been posting a lot about whiteness. As I'm approaching the pub date for Dark Roux, I'm thinking more and more about scenes in...

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Toby

Jul 6, 2022
2 min

Into Nothing

"Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our...

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Toby

Jun 28, 2022
1 min

It's sooner than you think

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Vacationing shook loose the writing juice

Toby

Jun 21, 2022
1 min

Vacationing shook loose the writing juice

We (the fam) drove to Maine and back over the past 3 weeks. I knew I needed to get away, I didn't know how much. The day I got back I my...

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Toby

May 25, 2022
3 min

Re-invention or extinction

"Rather than social forces, Locke believed that the Great Migration occurred because of an act of consciousness, a willingness on the...

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Toby

May 2, 2022
1 min

Check out the Menu!

Available for Pre-Order! Out 8/9/2022

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Toby

Apr 21, 2022
2 min

Reading is good work

I'm embarrassed to admit I couldn't find the author who wrote this, or the exact quote, but it goes something like this: "You need time...

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Toby

Apr 11, 2022
1 min

Ain't boiled for a crowd since '19

Cute aren't they? They're Texas bugs. Which means they don't have that deep, earthy taste Louisiana ones do. But they did the trick. All...

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Toby

Apr 5, 2022
1 min

No more virgins

That's it. I'm not going to be using "virginal wilderness" any longer. I've been schooled. First, it is slut shaming, suggesting...

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Toby

Mar 14, 2022
1 min

Richlin's Arguments with Silence

Over the weekend I finished Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence. My wife took a class of hers in college and said it was life changing....

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Toby

Jan 4, 2022
1 min

The Road Always Travelled

I recently read Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. I am now reading Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde. The first people of...

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Toby

Sep 15, 2021
1 min

Hidden River Arts

Thanks Hidden River Arts and Hawk Mountain for giving Soaked some love: https://hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com/news-celebrations-and-publi...

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Toby

Aug 24, 2021
1 min

Reluctant Hero(ine) for President!

I, like many of us, am a sucker for the reluctant hero(ine). Gimme Frodo. Love me some Meg Murry. Until this week I thought it was...

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Toby

Jun 10, 2021
1 min

Morbidly Timely

This connects to the selling of feelings in my last post. Fear, grief, disillusionment: are these what we go into debt from? Or is this...

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Toby

Jun 3, 2021
1 min

Selling Feelings

As I perused Atlantic articles and Lit Hub articles and CNN articles I watched as my emotions changed. Each peddled a different feeling:...

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Toby

Apr 23, 2021
1 min

Some good South

"The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is...

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Toby

Apr 22, 2021
1 min

Into the Mystic

My first (self-published) novel was full of mysticism. My Catholic upbringing made sure I remained aware of powerful forces beyond my...

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