Toby's stories have been praised by Midwest Book Review, Library Journal and Cemetery Dance as well as by New York Times bestselling authorsSteve Berry, Douglas Preston, Jonathan Maberry and Steve Alten. He hasbeen featured in The Big Thrill magazine and on Internet radio, blogsand newspapers.Inexplicably drawn to all things dark andmacabre, at about the age of twelve he began penning short stories andpublishing his own movie monster magazine.An Air Force brat whonever lived in one place more than two years, after high school Toby did an eight-year stint in the U.S. Navy and ended up on the east coast. He has since worked as a cab driver, a pizza delivery man, a phonesolicitor, a shipyard technician, a government contractor, a retailmusic salesman, a bookseller, a cell phone salesman and a recordingstudio engineer.Toby later earned a B.A. in English and became a full-time graphic designer and newspaper reporter, publishing hundredsof stories with the Associated Press and his local paper. He has sincebeen published in The Pedestal Magazine, Voluted Tales magazine, FamousMonsters of Filmland, Scary Monsters Magazine, and websites likeeHow.com.Owing to the inspiration of Edgar Rice Burroughs, RayBradbury and Stephen King, Toby became an author of what he likes tocall "high-octane sci-fi, fantasy and horror" and has published severalbooks.Toby is also a songwriter and musician and lives with his family near the Great Dismal Swamp in northeastern North Carolina.