• The University of North Texas reports that The North Texas Daily newspaper edition carrying the review of The Gray Stopgap will, within a month, finally be archived to The Portal of Texas History. In the meantime they have kindly provided an image copy of the review for reference. And it only took 14 years! This amazing review begins, “Unlike Ian Fleming, the creator of 007, Tolleson, to his credit, shows the complicated human side of his spy interacting with the rest of his characters.” And it only gets better from there. Read this literature review entitled, “ Lovesick Agent Makes For Good Story ” in the section, Arts & Entertainment
• You are invited to check out the children’s books The Adventures of Sugarbear: The Journey for a Friend, The Adventures of Sugarbear: Pickles’ Origin Story and The Adventures of Sugarbear: The Lost Pickle. Written and illustrated by Kayli Chetoni, these short, easy to read and fun little books are not published by The Lighthouse Press. But they do have a coincidental, albeit direct connection to author DL Tolleson and you can read about that on the About Tolleson Page.
• Now available is a reference sourcing medical practitioners and scholars documenting high dosages of vitamin C for the treatment and cure of numerous infectious diseases and toxins. The reference is annotated with excerpts, page lengths, data sizes, time duration (for videos) and online links. This reference cites medical cases, treatments, tests, trials and research by physicians and credentialed health care professionals. Included are two video episodes of New Zealand’s version of the news show 60 Minutes and its coverage of dairy farmer Allan Smith being pulled from the brink of death by high dosages of vitamin C. Currently citing ten documents and four videos, the reference is a freely accessible and periodically expanding web page entitled, Vitamin C Index: Publications, Research and Videos or simply, The C-Index.
• 9 months, 1 week and 3 days—that was the gestation necessary in converting the DLTolleson.com website to a new format. Utilizing responsive web design via cascading style sheets this site is now more user friendly on a variety of devices and window/screen sizes (smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers, etc.). Newly introduced is the Compendium, featuring links to the site’s content as well as selected pieces at the author’s social media presence on Facebook.
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• Fortunately the hardcover is only $28.50 at Barnes&Noble.com and Amazon.com.
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• Literature icon, author Piers Anthony, weighs in on The Gray Stopgap with his own review. Look for the second paragraph in his newsletter on the web site of Piers Anthony.
• Which version of The Gray Stopgap do you have? See the novel’s Edition History.
• The Lighthouse Press releases the Kindle e-book edition of The Gray Stopgap (a conversion of the 4
• The Lighthouse Press, issues a security advisory for customers looking to read an e-book version of DL Tolleson’s techno-thriller, The Gray Stopgap. Be advised that offers of a free pdf download are scams. For more info see the Security Advisory.
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• The Lighthouse Press releases the Kindle e-book edition of The Gray Stopgap, a conversion of the 4
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• The release of The Gray Stopgap in hardcover is scheduled for March 1, 2016. See the News Release.
• The DLTolleson.com web site migrated to a sub-domain of The Lighthouse Press, but site visitors can still use the URL, www.DLTolleson.com.
• Also see the new site entry page for the publisher at TheLighthousePress.com.
• And checkout the publisher's social media presence on Facebook.
• News regarding the hard cover release of The Gray Stopgap is coming soon.
• Click the Camera One navigation link atop this page to see the new image portal. Arising out of a 2011 visit to Big Bend National park, the photography and associated narratives are now online. Included are images of the Red Buffalo rock art by Native American Indians.
• Stuart Tower’s Branko received a 2014 1
• Happy New Year. The web site enhancement is complete and new photographic portals will be added soon
• In other news, attention is being garnered by Stuart Tower’s new novel, Branko (cited in news below). Read about the novel and the “Herculean effort” that brought this sweeping historical novel to the marketplace in the publisher's news release about Stuart Tower's Return to Bookstores.
• Please bear with us while the web site is being updated. Minor changes to layout are being made and the Camera One Portal is being enhanced with the option of full screen photos, regardless of your browser’s window size. Check out the progress as site pages are being converted every day.
• In other news, DL Tolleson has been involved in the production of Stuart Tower’s recently published historical novel, Branko. To purchase the novel online, visit Amazon.com.
• DLTolleson.com goes through another re-design, this time incorporating photography.
• Socials, a novella by DL Tolleson, debuted just after Christmas and as a short term product test for publisher, The Lighthouse Press, Inc. Offered exclusively at the web site of The Lighthouse Press, Socials is the first e-book novella for both the publisher and the author. Read the News Release.
• In other news: The North Texas Daily, has moved its online home to a new server and archived stories are not yet available—including the review of The Gray Stopgap. The publication assures us this will be remedied
• The DL Tolleson web site expands and now offers online fiction and non-fiction reading material, an author blog on contemporary issues, news and a few film reviews. Take a look around and let us know what you think.
• $500 for The Gray Stopgap on Amazon.com? Is that amount for real and are we crazy? Get the details by clicking the “About” link atop this page and look for the second question and answer in the Q&A section.
• The college newspaper of DL Tolleson’s alma mater ran a review of The Gray Stopgap some years ago and we only now have stumbled accross it. Headlined as “Lovesick Agent Makes For Good Story,” it make comparisons to Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, while citing “babes, cool toys, horrific scenes and a love story” with “melodrama at its finest.” The novel is, the review sums up, “a thrilling plot” with “intense action” and realism. And that’s just the highlights in The North Texas Daily.
• The Lighthouse Press, Inc. launched an experiment at the end of 2006. The test was whether author DL Tolleson could be linked to five specific target individuals though chains of five intermediary acquaintances. As an incentive to experiment participants, free copies of The Gray Stopgap and Stuart Tower’s The Wayfarers were offered. You can read about the experiment at the publisher’s web page, Six Degrees of Separation.
• DLTolleson.com is redesigned.
• A publication of the University of North Texas gives a nod of recognition to The Gray Stopgap in The North Texan (Archived December 19, 2010).
• The publication is also preserved at The North Texan (Archived August 20, 2004).
• A publication of the Tarrant County College District (in Fort Worth, Texas), runs a feature in which DL Tolleson leads the front page news above the masthead of The Collegian (Archived March 3, 2021). And for the entire article on page five see, The Collegian News Story (Archived March 3, 2021).
• The Gray Stopgap receives yet another staff endorsement at a Barnes & Noble bookstore, this one on University Drive in the TCU area near downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Read the News Release, Barnes & Noble Third Recommendation For DL Tolleson’s The Gray Stopgap.
• A site-wide update, new e-mail links, sequel news, movie news and more from Tolleson are here.
• While admittedly old news, online news releases regarding The Gray Stopgap at Barnes & Noble bookstores recently found their way onto “The Ezine.Net” website for both the 1st Staff Recommendation and 2nd Staff Recommendation. .
• The Lighthouse Press mails promotional memo to independent booksellers that, “Yes, a sequel is in the works!”
• The 2003 Book Expo was held in California at the Los Angeles Convention Center May 29
• The Lighthouse Press, Inc. announces that The Gray Stopgap has doubled its on-line presence from 10 to over 20 bookstores and retailers.
• If you’re in the movie industry The Lighthouse Press, Inc offers a number of fresh, new titles for script adaptation. Contact them via Our Web Site
• The Lighthouse Press targets over 750 independent booksellers with announcements regarding The Gray Stopgap.
• The Lighthouse Press invites you to read and post reviews at the Internet’s premiere bookstore, Amazon.com.
• The Gray Stopgap receives another staff endorsement at a Barnes & Noble bookstore, this one at Third and Commerce in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Read the News Release, Barnes & Noble Second Recommendation For DL Tolleson’s The Gray Stopgap.
• The Gray Stopgap receives a “staff recommendation” at a Barnes & Noble in Richardson, Texas (located on Plano Road). Read the News Release, Barnes & Noble Recommendation For DL Tolleson’s The Gray Stopgap.
• DL Tolleson attends the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in California. 140,000 people visit the 2002 Festival, which is host to numerous well-known authors, including Steve Martin, Mary Higgins Clark, and Ray Bradbury.
• The Gray Stopgap is available internationally with listings on 4 of the overseas Amazon.com stores.
• The Lighthouse Press announces that The Gray Stopgap is available from bookstores and from over 10 on-line retailers.
• The Lighthouse Press publishes The Gray Stopgap, one of their first “techno-thrillers.”
