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A2: Patience, experience, PB know-how. I'm strong on scansion and rhyme, story heart and logic. I love adding shine to stories so they are submission-ready.

A1: Someone passionate, accomplished — and a bit stuck!I want to feel I can add value to your texts! I love lyrical, funny, poignant, anarchic… I have a wide range in tastes— as long as a story makes me FEEL something, so that I can connect with it and with the author! 📚

A3: Ava and the Acorn by Lu Fraser and Paddy Donnelly; Trick or Treat? by Catherine Emmett and Laura Brenlla; Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles by Rachel Emily and Paul Delaney 📚

A4 It feels right to give back to the writing community and help someone on their journey.  I hope we both gain an enduring friendship, but also that my mentee gains confidence— and a  boost— to take their nexts steps.

A5: Friendly, flexible and thorough! With the emphasis on friendly ;)

COVER REVEAL! So excited to reveal the cover of The Laughing Book. Written by me, illustrated by Daniel Wiseman, and published by Quarto Kids. It’s a book all about one of my favourite things: laughing. Publishing June 24th in North America and June 26th in the UK.

Congratulations Tamsin! 🎉🥳👏Tamsin Mori @publishinguclan

Applications for this FREE mentoring programme open April 7 and close April 11th! I’m looking for a fab PICTURE BOOK writer to work with this summer! 📝Details on WriteMentor website. #PictureBooks #kidlit #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #Writing

And we are OPEN! Written a dystopian, sci-fi, or fantasy novel for YA readers and up? Fancy a FREE summer of writing mentoring, followed by an agent showcase? Want a mentor with experience mentoring over 100 mentees, many now with agent representation and publishing deals? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Looking for a FREE children’s writing mentor this summer? The WriteMentor Summer Mentoring Programme is open for applications! Mentors available for #picturebooks right up to #YA 📖 #KidLit #AmWriting #SpringFlingKidLit #ChildrensBooks

New #review: Do Not Say These Words by Frances Tosdevin @frances_tosdevin @rhian_wright_illustration #bookreview #bookblogger #bookshine #picturebook #childrensbook #Minishine #Babybows #words #giggles #funny #humour #DoNotSayTheseWords bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/do-…

I'm in this week's Words & Pictures! Celebrations April 25 🥳

It’s my birthday, and I’m going to give away one of the four copies I currently have of The Woman Who Met Herself. Want to read it a month early? Follow, retweet and comment on this post. UK only. Closes on Friday (25th).

✨️ WriteMentor Summer Programme 2025 Picture Book Mentor/Mentee Pairings ✨️ 🎉 Congratulations to the following writers who have been selected by our mentors. 🧡 Thank you to everyone who applied and shared their writing with us Read the full list: shorturl.at/Zs08C

This week's #StaffPicks feature books about family and friends of all kinds, for all ages. Browse the selection now: l8r.it/bTQd Rocket Bird Books Andersen Press Barrington Stoke Guppy Books Hachette Children's Group Abrams & Chronicle Books 📚 Quarto Kids Little Island Books

This Dementia Action Week, author Frances Tosdevin shares the story behind her moving picture book Grandad's Star. Click to read more about how this touching story evolved: l8r.it/GZio

The news is out! After 400 years of skulking around I can now share the cover of Mandy is Still a Banana, my debut picture book, illustrated by Amy Evans! It’s an offbeat and heartwarming story about celebrating who you are! It comes out with Hachette Children's Group in September.

And the winner is.... Witch Cat by Lucy Rowland , illustrated by Laura Hughes Bloomsbury Books UK Best Picture Book 2025 #SKBookAwards25

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