Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic: Crystal Allen

Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic

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Showing posts with label Crystal Allen. Show all posts

Saturday, January 13, 2018

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2018 Golden Kite Award and Sid Fleishman Humor Award

SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS TO PRESENT 2018 GOLDEN KITE AWARDS AND SID FLEISCHMAN HUMOR AWARD AT 1...

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Critique with Agent Jen Rofe of Andrea Brown Literary Agency #KidLitForHaiti

KID LIT FOR HAITI : Jen is offering a critique of the first five pages of a manuscript (PB, MG or YA). Jennifer Rofé i...

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Diversity in YA Fiction

" Diversity in YA Fiction is a website and book tour founded by two young adult authors, Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon, to celebrate divers...

Saturday, April 30, 2011

How Lamar's Bad Prank won the NEWBERY a book review by Kim Tomsic

Middle schooler, Lamar, is an Indiana boy trying to convince the Hoosier-cult community that bowling is better than basketball. But he'...

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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 group. 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 internationally published and named to more than nine state reading lists! Comic artist, Mark Parisi and I co-wrote The Truth About 5th Grade (HarperCollins). It's on shelves now.

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