Toohey is also the author of eight books: four novels - Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters, Melody Madson - May It Please the Court?, Taming the Twisted, and Taming the Twisted 2 Reconstructing Rain; three poetry collections - Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls, The Other Side of Crazy, and Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and East
Iowa State Parks; and one non-fiction book - Book Marketing Basics: The 5 Ps.