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June 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. There is so much to celebrate! This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members released in June and a few we missed last month! All other good news was submitted before June […]

12 x 12 May 2019 Check-In Winner

12 X 12 check in winner 2019

It’s time to announce the winner of our May check-in. This month’s winner will win a six submission pass from Rate Your Story and a newsletter subscription through the end of the year from our May Featured Author Sophia Gholz! Thank you, Sophia! And the winner is … SUE TWIGGS! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at […]

12 x 12 Featured Author June 2019 – Lauren Kerstein

Featured Author Lauren Kerstein June 2019

  Please welcome Lauren Kerstein as our June Featured Author. Lauren’s debut picture book ROSIE THE DRAGON AND CHARLIE MAKE WAVES launched last month and we couldn’t more excited for her. For the June check-in prize, Lauren is offering a picture book critique and a copy of her book. So, get those June drafts started […]

12 x 12 May 2019 Check-In

May turned out to be like March most years—wildly unpredictable from day to day. No new draft, but I have started digging deep into my next picture book biography. Baby steps. What about you? Tell us your progress. Did you complete a draft and/or revision in May? Let us know in the Rafflecopter and in […]

Tanusri Prasanna and Jennifer Weltz – 12 x 12 Featured Agents June 2019

June 2019 Agents

It’s almost June! 2019 Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Tanusri Prasanna of Foundry Media will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members June 1-15. Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency […]

May 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. There is so much to celebrate! This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members released in May! All other good news was submitted before May 1st. Be sure to have your good […]

12 x 12 April 2019 Check-In Winner!

12 X 12 check in winner 2019

It’s time to announce the winner of our April check-in. This month’s winner will win a critique from our April Featured Author Wendy Greenley! Thank you, Wendy! And the winner is … IRENE RAWLINGS! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com to claim your prize. We hope your May drafts are blossoming!

12 x 12 Featured Author May 2019 – Sophia Gholz

Featured Author Sophia Gholz May 2019

Revision and Opening Lines Whether you’ve spent months researching a story idea or an intriguing character has just popped into your head, typing the first words on a blank page can be intimidating. Let’s be honest, writing is hard and those first few lines are often the hardest. Thankfully, we don’t have to share our […]

12 x 12 April 2019 Check-In!

Julie is out of town this week, so we will carry on with the April Check-In! Tell us your progress. Did you complete a draft and/or revision in April? Let us know in the Rafflecopter and in the comments. Our April Featured Author, Wendy Greenley, is giving a picture book manuscript critique to one lucky […]

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).