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Toby Ball

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Toby Ball has worked at a magazine, taught high school, worked at several non-profits, done community organizing, and now works at a university research center. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.

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I haven’t posted to my blog in a very long time. I’ve been in a kind of limbo, waiting to see what would happen with Invisible Streets, the final book in the City Series and also working on an as-yet untitled manuscript. Since Scorch City was released, I’ve been in a strange (to me) situation where I’ve been writing without a contract and experiencing the doubt/anxiety of wondering if Invisible St

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The Vaults
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