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12 x 12 April 2018 Check-In!

Folks, I was on FIRE in April! I hope I can keep the writing momentum going because I wrote a draft (first one this year!) and revised three manuscripts – one of them several times. I think I’m trying to squeeze as much in as I can before summer arrives and the kids are underfoot […]

12 x 12 March 2018 Check-In Winner!

It’s time to announce the winner of our March check-in. Special thanks to our March Featured Author Laura Clement!  This month’s winner will receive a copy of Laura’s EGG, and also a Direct Submission opportunity with her publisher, Clear Fork Publishing.  Laura and the winner will spend a little time picking out the right manuscript for submission […]

12 x 12 April 2018 Featured Author – Tara Luebbe

Thank you, Julie and Kelli, for asking me to be the featured author this month. I’m a bit verklempt.  I am currently in “launch season” as I see my first two picture books, I AM FAMOUS and SHARK NATE-O, off into the world.  I have been very lucky in my writing journey in that I […]

Financial Need Scholarship Guidelines

All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2023 – November 30, 2023 at kelli@juliehedlund.com.

Subject line of the email:

  1. 12 x 12 Financial Need Scholarship
 

Please include the following in the body of the email:

  1. An autobiographical statement and career summary in 250 words or fewer.
  2. A short statement describing the nature of the financial need/circumstances in 250 words or fewer.
  3. A sample query letter for the manuscript you are submitting with your application.
  4. Pitches for two additional completed picture books.
 

 Attached to the email:

  1.  The full text of one picture book manuscript, attached as a Word document named as FIN_YourFirstName_YourLastName_Title_of_Manuscript.doc (or docx).