Works by
Tom Dolby
(Writer)

Fiction

• The Trouble Boy (2004)
  At twenty-two, Toby Griffin wants it all-fame, fortune, an Oscar-winning screenplay and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, what he's got is a freelance writing job at a tanking online magazine, a walk-up sublet in the East Village and "the boys," a young posse of preppy Upper East Siders with a taste for high fashion, top-shelf liquor and other men.
  
  But for Toby, downing vodka cranberries and falling in and out of lust with a series of guys he knows as Subway Boy, Loft Boy and Goth Boy is getting old. So is being pursued by his best friend Jamie while secretly desiring his co-worker, Donovan, a sexual adventurer who seems intent on conducting his own Kinsey report in bedrooms across the city. That all changes when Toby gets the chance of a lifetime-working as a personal assistant to hip, ruthless film mogul, Cameron Cole. Picking up Cameron's steamed veggies and typing up his memos is Toby's entrée to the big time, moving in a dizzying crowd of celebrities and power makers. Suddenly he's swilling champagne with scenemakers like publicist Ariana Richards, Hollywood bombshell Jordan Gardner, and club performer Lola Copacabana. In this decadent, drug-fueled world of VIP lounges, endless networking and relentless hype, Toby discovers that nothing is what is seems and that anything and anyone can be spun into PR gold. Though he's making friends with all the right people. Toby realizes that succeeding in Manhattan isn't as easy as he thought-until the one tragic night that changes his future forever and puts him in a position of power he never could have imagined.
  
  But with Toby's name suddenly becoming Page Six material, his life is coming unglued. And as his professional contacts betray him and his friends reveal troubling secrets, his choices become that much harder-and that much more important. Now, in his first year on his own, Toby Griffin is about to learn the price of getting everything he ever wanted... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

• The Sixth Form (January 2008 release)
  Takes place at a New England boarding school.

Non-fiction

• Citytripping: New York for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishists, Downtown Addicts & the Generally Style-Obsessed (1998) by Tom Dolby and Amy Sohn

• CityTripping Los Angeles: Your Guide to Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping, Culture, Fitness, Hotels (2000), Tom Dolby and Tina Hay, eds.
  With over 600 listings (and a special section on weekend getaways to Las Vegas), CityTripping Los Angeles gives you the skinny on food, nightlife, fashion, art, films, hotels, fitness, and street culture.

• Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007), Melissa de la Cruz and Tom Dolby, eds.
  Thanks to iconic duos such as Sex and the City’s Carrie and Stanford and the title characters of Will & Grace, the love affair between straight women and gay men has moved into the mainstream. Never before, though, has a book looked at these friendships in the real world.
  
  The editors, themselves best friends, have put together this collection of hilarious and poignant never-before-published essays that explore this unique relationship. In addition to stories about single girls and gay guys bonding over shopping sprees and brunch, these stories chronicle love and lust, infatuation and heartbreak, growing up and coming out, and family and children.
  
  Straight women and gay men alike will relate to these tales from a diverse array of contributors, ranging from literary novelists to Emmy Award winners, single girls about town to mothers of four, downtown performance artists to Hollywood scenesters. This definitive anthology, the first of its kind, proves that more durable than diamonds, straight women and gay men are each other’s true best friends.
  
  Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys features stories by Andrew Solomon, Armistead Maupin, Ayelet Waldman, Cindy Chupack, David Ebershoff,  Elizabeth Spires, Gigi Levangie Grazer, K. M. Soehnlein, Michael Musto, Simon Doonan, and others.
  
  A share of the proceeds from this book will benefit The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping gay teens.