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12 x 12 September 2019 Featured Author – Lynne Marie

Featured Author Lynne Marie September 2019

I’m excited and honored to be a guest on the 12 x 12 blog. I was a 12 x 12 Member in the beginning before I got thrown off my path due to a divorce and relocation and have been a Member for many years since I got back on the path. It’s been a […]

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 […]

Deborah Warren & Linda Epstein – 12 x 12 Featured Agents September 2016

Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Deborah Warren of East/West Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 Gold members September 1-15. Linda Epstein of Emerald City Literary Agency will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x […]

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).