“Jim Thomas took the first draft of my first book and led me, with much tact and even more firmness, through all the rewrites required to take it from what I thought was perfect into a manuscript that really was perfect. Without his keen eye and excellent creative judgment, it would not have been nominated in five states as one of the twenty best middle-grade books of the year and turned into a five-book series. Jim knows writing. He knows publishing. Best of all, he is an expert in the care and feeding of authors.”

—Steve Cotler, the Cheesie Mack series