Frank Touby

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Frank Touby has been a career journalist in the U.S. and Canada and has worked in all media on both sides of the border. Born in Jacksonville, Fla. and reared and educated in Miami, he was schooled at Miami Senior High School, University of Miami and Florida Atlantic University. His journalism career started in Miami at WITV-TV as a news cameraman and reporter, he did talk-show radio in Palm Beach (WQXT) and was the editorial page writer at the Palm Beach Post. He moved to Toronto to work for The Telegram as a feature writer in 1971, but that paper was sold just before he started work and he became an editor for the Oakville Daily Journal Record and later municipal affairs columnist for the Mississauga Times, both part of Toronto Star’s chain of suburban newspapers. He became a magazine writer in a number of Canadian journals including Maclean’s, Weekend, Canadian and others. He also did a six-month gig in public relations with the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Toronto. He returned to television with CFTO, the CTV affiliate station in Toronto as an on-air reporter. Later he was business section copy editor for the Toronto Sun. Then he spent a decade as producer and commentator of The Financial Post radio syndicated programs. When the division he headed was closed, he talked his way into being taken on as a trainee oilfield firefighter in order to write “Burning Sands.” Later he went to Edmonton for a few months to understudy as deputy managing editor of Alberta Report newsmagazine, but decided to return to Toronto, where he continued writing in magazines. In 1996 he and his wife Paulette started Community Bulletin Newspaper Group on the dining table of their Downtown Toronto townhouse. Today the main paper, The Bulletin, has a readership of over 140,000. Frank continues to write a fiery column in The Bulletin where he supports some progressive causes and opposes police-state measures, fluoridation of water supplies, attempts to impose a one-world government and the corporatist takeover of North American governments.

Smashwords Interview

How do you approach cover design?
I tried to picture Darkheart as described in the novel. My visual imagination and competence at Photoshop don't mesh.
My imagination is stunning, but I'm no artist and though I have spent over a decade using Photoshop almost daily, it was really Illustrator I should have used for the cover.
Sadly, I have no competence in Illustrator. Soon I'll find an artist who can render Darkheart as near to my imagination and the cover will metamorphose.
The writing is completely done. The book continues to be a work in progress with only the images pending.
What do you read for pleasure?
Newspapers, magazines, opinion journals. I'm a journalist. I can't help myself. I like adventure fiction.
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Where to find Frank Touby online

Sweet Olive Tree
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 79,440. Language: English. Published: October 12, 2014 by Frank Touby. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Adult, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
A historical bodice-ripper framed in present-day New Orleans with side-views of Miami, Voodoo culture and human frailty. Charlene Touby spins a series of stirring yarns and weaves situations of sexual misdeeds, murder and betrayal with the creativity 76 years of astute observations provides.
Great Architecture and The Grand Hotels
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 21,140. Language: English. Published: November 11, 2010 by Frank Touby. Categories: Nonfiction » History » American
Master Storyteller Bruce Bell captures the glories and downfalls, tragedies and comedies, as a bawdy city carved by slaves, freemen and women from thick hardwood forest on Lake Ontario emerges to become the most multicultural city on earth. This first in a series of 5 History of Toronto books is inspired by his acclaimed columns in The Bulletin, Toronto's famed Downtown community newspaper.
Amazing Tales of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood in Old Town Toronto
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 42,910. Language: English. Published: September 16, 2010 by Frank Touby. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Reference
Children were hanged, women without husbands had little choice but to prostitute themselves, clergy and ruling families cruelly dominated a lusty, oftentimes unruly population. The seamy and the sacred united to form one of the world’s great cities: Toronto. Telling its tales is famed local historian Bruce Bell, a uniquely skilled and deeply emotional storyteller.

Books

Burning Sands
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 76,220. Language: English. Published: August 12, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Environmental politics, Nonfiction » History » War
(5.00 from 1 review)
Before the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico all earth was threatened by the oil disaster in the Persian Gulf — over 700 oil wells were set on fire by Saddam Hussein. It was predicted it would take decades to extinguish them. This is the true story of the heroic men who set a world record in killing those wild wells in just five months and saved the earth from toxic fallout

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