Connecticut author Toni Leland has written both fiction & non-fiction for over 20 years. She is the author of nine equestrian mysteries, a paranormal romance, two juvenile chapter books, and a young adult novel; some of her short stories have appeared in Arabella Romance Magazine, True Story, Bylines Writer’s Calendar, From the Heart anthologies (OVRWA), and Horse Tales for the Soul.

As a freelancer, Toni writes feature articles for Grit magazine, Over the Back Fence and Ohio magazine, Country Living, Romance Writers Report (RWA), Connecticut Lifestyles, Pathfinders, Connecticut Horse, Sound & Country, Connecticut Family, and Daybreak (The New London Day). She has written monthly articles for international gardening site, Dave’s Garden and, as a spokesman for the Ohio State University Master Gardener program in Muskingum County in 2010-2011, Leland produced the monthly newsletter, Connections and wrote a biweekly newspaper column on gardening.