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THE LONG MARCH HOME COVER REVEAL AND PRE-ORDER OFFER

I am so excited to share the cover of The Long March Home with you. To celebrate, we have a special offer just for you: preorder The Long March Home in print or ebook and you will also receive:

The full audiobook
The Epilogue (not included in the book)
See full details and claim your gifts HERE.

Also, order from Baker Book House and receive 40% off and free shipping.

Please be sure to share this offer with your friends, book club members, and book-reading buddies! 

Wait, why isn't the Epilogue in the book? Because the story ends just right just where we left off. BUT… if you're like me--often wanting to linger in the story world a little bit longer to know just a little bit more about what happened after “The End…” this extra bonus is for you. :) 

About the book:

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.

Life in the Philippines seems like paradise–until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as Japanese warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.

What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: the Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive.

Inspired by true stories, The Long March Homeis a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope from two New York Times bestselling authors.

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Another Holiday Giveaway!!

Another Holiday GIVEAWAY!



This one is from my friend and co-author of our upcoming release, The Long March Home, Marcus Brotherton. Don't miss out on this one!

This gift is valued at $150 and includes:
-3 *autographed* books by Marcus: Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers, Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient, and A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption.
-A super soft 50″ x 60″ EOKO-TEX Project 62 throw
-2 tins of indulgent Harney & Sons fine tea
-2 Hearth & Hand stoneware mugs
-Warm LED rattan star lights from Wondershop

To enter, go to https://bit.ly/MarcusBrothertonGiveaway And please be sure to share this giveaway with your avid reader friends!


The contest runs from December 1 through 11:59 p.m. December 11, 2022. The winner will be notified by December 13, 2022. Due to shipping costs, this contest is U.S. only. (So sorry, favorite fans from Canada, Europe, and elsewhere around the world! We love you and feel your pain.)

Cozy Comforts Giveaway!

Each holiday season, I love to create a special prize package to thank readers. This year, I’ve curated a collection of comforts to create the perfect night in with your favorite book!



Enter to win the prize package valued at $150 that includes:

-A super soft 50″ x 60″ DNKY throw
-Fuzzy Easy-Spirit slippers with a surprise inside
-Copper Moon Carmel vanilla coffee cups from Copper Moon
-Taylors green tea with lemon
-Chocolate orange tea from Maison Taillefer
-House of Dorchester Chocolate Truffles
-Hamlet assorted Belgian Chocolates
-Oliva dark chocolate pralines with cappuccino cream
-Christma Choco vanilla pralines
-Duncan’s of Deeside orange shortbread

It’s easy to enter. Just go to: https://bit.ly/CozyComfortsGiveaway to follow me on social media and book sites, and join my mailing list, or confirm that you already have! Bonus points for sharing the giveaway and requesting my books from the library.

The contest runs from December 1 through 11:59 p.m. December 11, 2022. Winners will be notified by December 13, 2022.

Enter here: https://bit.ly/CozyComfortsGiveaway

Make Them Feel

I so enjoyed this interview with entrepreneur and "Thirty Minute Mentor" podcast creator Adam Mendler! What’s my best advice for storytellers, leaders, and anyone wanting to make an impact on the lives of others?

Here's a sneak peek:

Adam: Thanks again for taking the time to share your advice. First things first, though, I am sure readers would love to learn more about you. How did you get here? What experiences, failures, setbacks, or challenges have been most instrumental to your growth? 

Tosca: I got here through a decades-long winding road with a lot of detours. Now, I can see how each and every one of those experiences—while not writing-related—has contributed to my career today as a bestselling author. 

As a kid, I used to make up stories and even win writing contests. But I never envisioned writing as something I wanted to do when I grew up because I had my sights set on becoming a professional ballerina. I devoted my early life to the pursuit of this goal and thankfully had parents willing to support and haul me all over for lessons and auditions, but things changed for me when I was injured as a teenager. Recovery set me back nearly a year and it was time to consider that life as a professional dancer might not be in the cards.

So I went off to college with the idea of going into business or broadcasting. That first year I went home for spring break and had a conversation with my dad—a business management professor—that would change the course of my life. I was telling him about one of my all-time favorite books and how a great novel is a lot like a roller coaster with its twists and turns and loops. And I blurted out: “I think I’d like to write a book.”

I was supposed to spend that summer working as a bank teller for the second summer in a row—a job I wasn’t very good at. But that day, my dad issued me a challenge. He told me he would pay me what I would have made working at the bank if I wrote my first novel that summer, working on it full-time, eight hours a day just like a job. 

Never mind that I was supposed to go to Oxford to study economics for the first month of the summer or the fact that no one had told me two months wasn’t enough time to research and write a sweeping epic historical novel about the Neolithic people of Stonehenge.

So I did it.

Granted, I was clueless. I remember sitting down to write it thinking, “I have no idea what I’m doing.”

(Between you and me, I still feel that way a lot. Every novel, in fact.)

Read our entire conversation here: https://www.adammendler.com/blog/tosc...

I Talk About YOU in Voyage LA!

Voyage LA interviewed me—and I talked about you.
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Thank you, Voyage LA for this wonderful interview!

Read it here: http://voyagela.com/interview/rising-...

Swag Give Away!

Did you enjoy The Line Between and/or A Single Light? I’ve got five swag bags of goodies related to the book waiting to give away right now!

To enter, write a review of The Line Between and/or A Single Light (or both for an extra entry) online at Amazon, BookBub, Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and/or Google Play, and then send a link to your review to Cindy at cindy@toscalee.com. Send her as many links to these reviews for as many entries as you like. Note: the reviews don’t have to be good—just honest. One or two sentences will do! Already wrote one? Just link to that. Easy peasy!

Opal Writers Magazine

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Thank you, Opal Writers Magazine, for this cover and feature! Check out this month's issue of Opal Magazine here

GIVEAWAY Alert!!

GIVEAWAY alert!! Win this AMAZING-smelling candle and my bestselling book that inspired it—The Progeny! (But hurry, this one ends Friday, January 7!)

Go to @bookscents on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bookscents/ and follow the simple directions to enter this set of prizes!

(These candles, signed books, and other fun things are also for sale right here on my website: https://toscalee.com/store/)

About the book:
Emily Jacobs is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she’s become the hunted.

She’s on a quest that will take her to the secret underground of Europe and the inner circles of three ancient orders—one determined to kill her, one devoted to keeping her alive, and one she must ultimately save.

Filled with adrenaline, romance, and reversals, The Progeny is the present-day saga of a 400-year-old war between the uncanny descendants of “Blood Countess” Elizabeth Bathory, the most prolific female serial killer of all time, and a secret society dedicated to erasing every one of her descendants. It is a story about the search for self filled with centuries-old intrigues against the backdrop of atrocity and hope.

“An intricately woven tale that is intriguing and romantic, I literally couldn’t put it down.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout # 1 New York Times bestselling author

Books & Buzz

Thank you, Books & Buzz, for this awesome cover feature and interview!
Read it online here.

Omaha Magazine

Thank you, Omaha Magazine, for this wonderful interview and article! Wow, it was fun to get out and shoot some pics on the prairie and talk all things books and writing. Read the article online here