Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic: publishing tips

Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic

A Tribute to Richard Peck

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Showing posts with label publishing tips. Show all posts

Showing posts with label publishing tips. Show all posts

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...

Monday, September 14, 2015

Fast Five Interview with Agent Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency

Fast Five with Agent Deborah Warren, East/West Literary Deborah Warren is an agent and the founder of East/West Literary Agency. She...

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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 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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