I’d like to welcome Tosca Lee back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.

Favorite thing to do when you have free time: Eat stuff like biscuits and gravy. Travel if I can, or watch TV and movies if I can’t. Wait… I feel like I should say “read a book.” But given a night at home, I’m eating buttered popcorn and watching Cobra Kai with my handsome hubby. :D

The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: Taxes. Submitting health insurance receipts. Going to the dentist. Washing my hair. For real—people with long hair know washing, drying, and styling your hair is an hour of your life you’ll never get back.

Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Snacks. Many, please. Mostly salty or buttery or greasy. Buttered popcorn will do. Fritos are great. Bacon is best. But bad for keyboards.

Things that distract you from writing: TV. My kids. My handsome hubby. My cuticles. Anything outside the window. Okay, anything.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing
Easiest thing about being a writer: Loving on my fans.

Something you’re really good at: Somehow along the way I became a decent cook of a few, select dishes.
Something you’re really bad at: Drawing. My fans sometimes ask me to draw pictures of specific things or people (Wonder Woman, my dogs…) when I sign books. They’re all stick figures. Everyone laughs.

Last best thing you ate: A double cheeseburger.

Last thing you regret eating: Haha, I regret nothing when it comes to eating.

Favorite things to do: Got to the movies. Wake up beside my husband. Hug my readers.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Getting a tooth pulled. Eating bugs.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Marring my husband.
Biggest mistake: Dating anyone else.

Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Buttered popcorn (okay, the movie theater, not the store)

Things you never put on your shopping list: Quinoa.

About Tosca:

Tosca Lee is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels including The Line Between, A Single Light, The Progeny, The Legend of Sheba, Iscariot, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and optioned for TV and film. She is best known for her meticulous research, masterful prose, unexpected points of view, and high-octane thrillers.

Lee is the recipient of numerous awards including two International Book Awards, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion in Science Fiction (beating one of her own books for the win), Literary Titan gold, Top Shelf Magazine Editor’s Choice Award, and the ELCA Book of the Year in Fiction for her portrayal of the infamous betrayer of Christ in Iscariot, which Publisher’s Weekly calls “impeccable and masterful.” The Legend of Sheba was a finalist for the same award the following year. In addition to the New York Times, her books have appeared on the IndieBound, Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and Christian bestseller lists, Library Journal’s Best Of lists, and as part of Target Stores’ “Target Recommends” program.

She has been called the “queen of psychological twists,” and “in a league of her own,” her work praised by Publisher’s Weekly, The Historical Novel Society, Kirkus, Booklist, Woman’s World, Romantic Times, BookReporter, BookRiot, The San Francisco Book Review, The Dallas Morning News, and The Midwest Book Review as “deeply human…” “powerful…” and “mind-bending.” She can currently be heard on American Airlines’ in-flight entertainment system on the Beautiful Writers podcast alongside writing luminaries Lee Child, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Dean Koontz.

Lee is best known among fans, however, for her personal connection with and devotion to her readers, with whom she regularly shares home life from the family farm live, featuring her giant German Shepherd Timber and rotund Black Labrador, Charlie—the true stars of Story Time with Tosca.

Lee lives with her husband and three of four step-children still at home in Nebraska and posts her adventures as an author, city-girl-turned-farmer’s-wife, and insta-mom of four—on social media. To learn more about Tosca, please visit: www.toscalee.com.

Let’s Be Social:

Facebook: @AuthorToscaLee

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/tosca-lee

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/427839.Tosca_Lee

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tosca-Lee/e/B001JPCC42/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

I’d like to welcome author Tosca Lee to the blog and congratulate her on all her recent award nominations!

A few of your favorite things: Movie buttered popcorn, bacon, watching people who are excellent at what they do, movies, and traveling!

Things you need to throw out: Anything I possibly can. I’m pretty much the opposite of a hoarder.

Things you need for your writing sessions: Beverage and silence.

Things that hamper your writing: Noise.

Things you love about writing: Rewriting and editing.

Things you hate about writing: First drafts.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Hugging readers.

Hardest thing about being a writer during a pandemic: Not being able to hug readers.

Something you’re really good at: Organizing closets and drawers.

Something you’re really bad at: Drawing.

Last best thing you ate: French fries dipped in honey mustard.

Last thing you regret eating: I regret eating nothing.

The last thing you ordered online: A book.

The last thing you regret buying: Every single thing I’ve had to cart off to a UPS Store to return.

Things you’d walk a mile for: Movie buttered popcorn, to spend time with my family and friends.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Talking on the phone.

Things to say to an author: “Your stories sound fascinating. Here, take my money.”

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I’d write a book if I had enough free time.”

Favorite places you’ve been: Anywhere with my hubby.

Places you never want to go to again: The hospital.

Favorite things to do: Travel, watch TV, laugh with my kids, sleep in.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Writing a synopsis.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Entered a beauty pageant.

Something you chickened out from doing: Riding the Hulk roller coaster at Universal Studios.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “This book changed my life.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “I know you don’t know me, but we’re supposed to be together.”

About Tosca:

Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels including A SINGLE LIGHT, THE LINE BETWEEN, THE PROGENY, THE LEGEND OF SHEBA, ISCARIOT, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and been optioned for TV and film. A notorious night-owl, she loves movies, playing football with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband.

You can find Tosca on social media or hanging around the snack table. To learn more, please visit toscalee.com.