Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic

Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic

A Tribute to Richard Peck

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

3 Things You MUST Do When You Write a Story in Rhyme

Rhyme, Scansion, and Metric feet : I admire authors who successfully write in rhyme. It's not easy! If you love writing in rhyme, make...

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Top 15 Tips for Your Path to Publication

Congratulations on pursuing your writing and publishing dreams. Let’s go! 1. READ READ READ ! Read A LOT of books in t...

Thursday, March 13, 2025

3 Parts of a Query Letter and 5 Parts of the Hook Paragraph - Your Guide to Connect with a Literary Agent

Agents receive hundreds of queries per month. Want to be noticed? Present a clean, easy-to-read letter that follows the agent's guide...

Saturday, November 9, 2024

3 Quick and Easy Examples of "Suspension of Disbelief"

Suspension of Disbelief is a term to describe the fact the readers and viewing audiences are willing to set aside critical thinking to enjoy...

Saturday, October 26, 2024

53 Sure-Fire Ways to Make Your Picture Book Manuscript Ready for Submission: The Ultimate Editing and Revising Checklist!

53 Tricks to Make Sure Your Picture Book is Submission Ready: Kim's Editing and Revising Checklist ™ By Kim Tomsic Huzzah! You've wr...

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About Me

Kim Tomsic: I’m a reader, writer, dreamer, believer, and lover of peanut M-n-Ms. My publishing heroes including Richard Peck, Bryan Collier, Ingrid Law, Meg Medina, Kate DiCamillo, Rebecca Stead, Nicola Yoon, Laurie Halse Anderson, Christina Soontornvat, Eliot Schrefer, Dianne White, and others! How my publishing career unfolded It started with a love of reading. Next, I wrote a manuscript, joined the SCBWI, and a critique groups. I read blogs, craft books (on plot, character, and structure). I attended conferences, hosted writer gatherings, subscribed to Writers Digest (and won a contest!). I wrote articles and studied craft. Five years later, I landed my first book deal!—dreams do come true! My debut book, The 11:11 Wish released in 2018 with HarperCollins. My debut nonfiction picture book, GUITAR GENIUS (illustrated by Brett Helquist), released in 2019 with Chronicle Books. The 12th Candle came next (HarperCollins). The Elephants Come Home hit bookshelves in 2021 (illustrated by Hadley Hooper) and has been named to more than nine state reading lists! Comic artist, Mark Parisi and I co-wrote The Truth About 5th Grade (HarperCollins) on shelves July 2024.

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