Tom Dolby's Blog

News about my new film, Last Weekend, that I wrote and co-directed with my friend Tom Williams, has been popping up all over.

For your amusement: copious name-checking in the San Francisco Chronicle, Variety, and the Hollywood Reporter.

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, the Sundance Channel show inspired by Tom and Melissa’s book of essays, has been renewed for a second season!

If you live in Nashville or Austin and are gay with a female BFF (or female with a gay BFF), check out this casting call for season two.

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, the Sundance Channel show inspired by Tom and Melissa's book of essays, has been renewed for a second season!
If you live in Nashville or Austin and are gay with a female BFF (or female with a gay BFF), check out this casting call for season two.

Our family business, Electric Type, has just announced its first book!
Meet Electric Type's The Jungle Book: The Story of Mowgli and Shere Khan.
When Electric Type was founded in 2010, our goal was to build a better digital book for the iPad. We wanted our first title to be a well-loved story, so we chose the [...]

An excellent review from Kirkus for The Trust: A Secret Society Novel:
The plot thickens at the Chadwick School. This second installment of the Secret Society novels (Secret Society, 2009) reintroduces Lia, Nick, Thad, Patch and Lauren, five wealthy teenage friends linked by membership in The Society, a clandestine group of New York's most powerful people [...]

As many of you know, Drew and I have two new additions to our family: Julia and Violet, who arrived on October 19. And they said to us�

�Hey, even though we are only two months old, we want Christmas this year, and we want it in a big way!�

Actually, they wrote it on their monogrammed stationery.

We took the request very seriously, and we got to work.

First, we put up a big boxwood wreath on the door, and we wound lights all around the Japanese maple outside.

But they said that wasn�t enough!

We brought home an eight foot tall tree, which was just barely big enough to please them. They said, �By the way, guys, we don�t want Santa Claus and snowmen! We want a tree that�s beautiful and exotic. Why can�t you do a tree that�s more like the fabulous one by Jennifer Boles at The Peak of Chic?� Violet and Julia have a lot of free time during the day, and they spend it reading blogs. Jennifer�s tree upped the ante on us!

We started by collecting a boatload of ornaments, from San Francisco to Sag Harbor. But was that enough for Violet and Julia? No! They wanted pagodas! They wanted lanterns!

They wanted peacocks! (Jennifer had peacocks and pagodas, and so, naturally, Violet and Julia wanted them, too. Kudos to Jennifer for telling the girls where to get those hard-to-find pagodas!)

Because Violet and Julia are beach babies, they wanted whales!

Oh, and they wanted sparkly ginkgo leaves. As they told us, �Come on, Dads, what tree is complete without a few sparkly ginkgo leaves?� They were right.

They agreed that the final result is a jewel of a tree, and it only took about a week to complete!

Now, of course, like us, Violet & Julia felt that no living room fireplace is complete without a proper garland.

The feel that Violet developed for the fireplace was �Wainscott woods meets the ocean,� complete with boats, sea creatures, mushrooms, and wildlife, all wrapped around white pine.

There are birds�

And sailboats�

And an octopus!

Even the stone dogs got boxwood wreaths of their own.

Finally, for the fireplace in the family room, Violet and Julia insisted that it was to feel like the North Pole. Well, Wainscott meets the North Pole, with a bit of the Natural History Museum and the Central Park Zoo thrown in for good measure.

The garland is made of intertwined white pine and boxwood, and has shells and pinecones and more shells and�penguins! Julia loves penguins, and said we must have a few. Well, four, to be exact: one for each of us. �Haven�t you read And Tango Makes Three?� Julia said.

Yes, Julia, we have.

Afterwards, we all ate gingerbread. Well, except for the girls. They had milk.

Julia: �I am extremely concerned, as I see nothing in this blog post about presents.�

Violet: �I like looking at the lights.�

Presents! We forgot about presents! Clearly, it�s going to be a busy week.

As many of you know, Drew and I have two new additions to our family: Julia and Violet, who arrived on October 19. And they said to us…

"Hey, even though we are only two months old, we want Christmas this year, and we want it in a big way!"
Actually, they wrote it on their monogrammed [...]

Today an email blast went out to the members of the Courage Campaign that I wanted to share.

Author Tom Dolby and his husband, Drew Frist, wrote the following message to the Courage Campaign community in the aftermath of the 9th Circuit stay of Judge Walker's historic decision striking down Proposition 8. Tom and Drew have [...:]

I know some of you have been waiting months for this…so here it is, the flap copy for The Trust, coming out February 2011!
Who can you trust when everything is secrets and lies?
It's a new semester at the Chadwick School, and even with the ankh tattoos that brand them, Phoebe, Nick, Lauren, and Patch are [...:]

Yes, I know, I'm about two weeks late in posting this…but if you didn't catch it on Twitter, here's our house in the fabulous June/July issue of Lonny magazine (go to page 164). In case you're wondering, I usually work in the yellow guest room — it's a lot messier in real life than it [...:]