Every story here was lived before it was written.
These are not just books—they are markers along my journey.
Stories of freedom and fall, of love and loss, of strength rediscovered and truth reclaimed.
I offer them to you not as answers, but as companions for your own path.
May you find something in these pages that makes you feel seen.
Living with Conviction
The memoir that started it all.
This is the book that began it all. Living with Conviction is not just the story of a woman who helped a man escape from prison—it’s the story of how she escaped from the prison within herself. It’s a memoir about falling apart and finding something beautiful in the wreckage. It’s about learning to tell the truth, even when it breaks your heart open. Through love, loss, and the unlikeliest sisterhood, this book reveals the quiet revolution that happens when shame is shed and grace is embraced. It’s my story—but—maybe, in some way, it’s yours too.
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You are not Your Worst Mistake
Poems from the quiet corners of a prison cell.
These poems were born behind prison walls, pulled straight from the pages of my journals—raw, unedited, unpolished. They are not carefully crafted verses; they are truth in its barest form. Written in real time, in a place where time bends and the soul aches, they hold the fragile beginnings of healing, awakening, and self-acceptance. This collection invites you into the quiet, painful, and often holy moments of reckoning—the ones that slowly led me back to myself. If you’ve ever needed a reminder that your story still matters, this is it.
Caged Echoes
A diary of time. A map of memories.
This is not a polished memoir. It is raw, scattered, human—just like I was in those early days of incarceration. Caged Echoes is a chronology of correctional facilities, a tally of days served, and a record of finding my footing in a world turned upside down. This is the voice of a woman learning to live again.
Beyond Conviction
The story behind the story…
What happens after the headline fades? Beyond Conviction dives into the deeper truths – the quieter, more vulnerable truths I wasn’t yet strong enough to share in the first book. These pages hold reflections that emerged in the stillness after the storm—fragments of insight, tenderness, and transformation. This is not a retelling, but a deepening. A raw and courageous continuation for those ready to see what healing looks like, one truth at a time. This is the next chapter.
Fierce: The Woman, The Wolf and The Way Home
Some truths need more than memory—they need myth.
This modern parable is a sacred retelling, where a woman enters the wilderness to face her past, meet her shadow, and remember her power. Through metaphor and myth, Fierce explores the wild healing that happens when we finally stop running and choose to return to ourselves. A short but soul-deep story for anyone who’s ever lost their way—and is ready to find home within.
Book Testimonials
A sheer adrenaline rush and unabashedly honest, Dorr’s memoir unveils a kaleidoscope of emotions many women hold in the lonely places of their hearts.
~ Christine Caswell, professor of Journalism and Communication, Boston College. Retired Boston television journalist, NBC and ABC
Mistakes of our past can be celebrated as lessons rather than oppressive weights in our future!
Toby Dorr is a beacon of light for all who’ve faced tragedy and attempted redemption and reinvention. She reminds us all that while we may have created prisons of our own making, freedom is real and available to us all!
~ Sara Connell, Author and Founder of Thought Leader Academy
Toby Dorr has an incredible story to share. I was blessed to be her pastor for a transforming time in her life. Her story is one of escape in so many ways. It is filled with twists and turns and irony and spiritual coincidence. It seems that God and the universe have conspired to bring us a story of redemption, second chances and learning to live with conviction.
~ Rev. Dr. Chad McMullin
Toby does an excellent job taking you behind the walls of the broken prison system and bringing humanity to her fellow inmates. She reveals that beneath the reality of her life altering decisions was the innate desire to be loved, have value, worth and significance. A desire every person can relate to even if your decisions don’t result in physical incarceration. Her journey leads to the truth that real freedom comes when we get our love, value and worth in Christ alone.
~ Gina Hanna, Founder and Director, Beauty for Ashes Ministry
Living with Conviction is a true, real-life redemption story. With both humility and courage, Toby Dorr takes full responsibility for the actions that sent her to prison but refuses to let the worst decision of her life determine the rest of her life. Vulnerable, riveting, and deeply inspiring, this is a story of one who transforms her tragic mistake into a personal mission to help other women avoid going down the same disastrous road that she did. The sensational aspects of this ripped-from-the-headlines story may attract us to read this book, but it’s the author’s quiet reflections, her dedication to change, and her wholehearted intention to do good for others that make this a transformational story with nuggets of wisdom for any reader.
~ Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, author of Filling Her Shoes.
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