Toby Speed

I'm the author of numerous children’s books and one murder mystery for adults, and I'm also a content creator on YouTube!

I’m very excited to be back publishing some new works and republishing old ones. First up will be DEATH OVER EASY, a murder mystery I’m republishing in its original version with a new introduction.

BRAVE POTATOES was on The New York Times and Publishers Weekly children’s bestseller lists, and TWO COOL COWS was an American Bookseller Pick of the List and won an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice award.

My poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Rotary Dial, Light, Lighten Up Online, Highlights for Children, Silver Birch Press, and The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly. My short story “At the Corner of Night and Nowhere” appears in the anthology Moon Shot: Murder and Mayhem on the Edge of Space.

My day job for many years was writing student recruitment materials for a large university. I'm now retired and live on Long Island with my sweet cat Willow, and I continue to write whatever I like. You can also find me on YouTube at “Simply Retired, with Tobi.” Glad to have you here!

Connect with Toby:

📺 YouTube: Simply Retired (@simplyretiredtobi)

✉️ Substack: In My Republishing Era (search Toby Speed on Substack)