About Tobin Elliott

I’ve been writing so long there may be graffiti inside my mother’s womb.

Here’s some stuff I do:

• Teach Creative Writing at Durham College in Oshawa since 2000
• Do edit-for-hire work for other writers.  You can learn more about that here.
• Is a proud founding board member of the Writers’ Community of Simcoe County (WCSC)
• Is a regular attendee at its two sister organizations, the Writers’ Community of Durham Region (WCDR) and York Region (WCYR)
• Lurk on Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn and About.me
• Does a real job as a Communications Specialist at a big Canadian company you’ve probably heard of.
• Writes ugly stories about bad people doing horrible things

Here’s some writing stuff I’ve done or I’m working on:

• Vanishing Hope, a novella (54 pages) and my first published work, is now available for order through Burning Effigy Press.  Check out the reviews here.
• I’ve submitted the first draft of Soft Kiss, Hard Death, the third in the Sam Truman Mysteries series, to be published in ebook form by Abattoir Press in late 2012 and as part of the collected mysteries in hard copy in 2013
• I’m currently editing No Hope, the follow up full-length novel and the next story in the saga of the Book, tentatively scheduled to be published by Burning Effigy Press in early 2013
• I’m collecting my #WritingTip tweets into a “how to write” book called Tweet You Write to be (hopefully) epublished later this year
• Still in the plan for the balance of 2012 is to do a rewrite of the pseudo-sequel to No Hope, called Blood Loss
• Working up the currently untitled direct sequel to No Hope for the Muskoka Novel Marathon this coming July.
• I’m also working on several short stories, and at least one novella
• Aside from this blog, I’m going to be contributing a column on a regular basis to Dreadful Tales

Sometimes I sleep.

You can email me at lefttowrite[at]sympatico[dot]ca (link deliberately broken to prevent spam from this site).