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12 x 12 December 2022 Good News!

Today we give you the gift of 12 x 12 Good News! Check out these new books from your fellow 12 x 12 members, plus, an agent signing, new book deals, and awards to celebrate! If you have good news in any of these categories, be sure to let us know by filling out the […]

12 x 12 July 2022 Good News!

Summer comes bearing gifts of 12 x 12 members’ Good News! Help us celebrate 10 new book releases in July! Plus, we get to announce more agent signings, thirteen(!) more 12 x 12 books under contract, and more award winners! How lucky are we? If you have good news in any of these categories, be […]

12 x 12 June 2022 Good News!

It’s another month full of amazing accomplishments by 12 x 12 members! We have 13 new book releases for June! Plus, we get to announce more agent signings, more 12 x 12 books under contract, and more award winners! What a community we get to be a part of! If you have good news in […]

AAPI 12 x 12 Books

As the founder of 12 x 12, I am so disheartened by the dramatic rise in Anti-Asian racism in the Western world, and in the U.S. in particular. The tragic deaths of six Asian-American women in an Atlanta mass shooting last week is a grim reminder that we have a great deal of work to […]

12 x 12 August 2020 Good News!

08-2020 Award-winning 12 x 12 Writers

Friday is a perfect time to celebrate 12 x 12 member successes! All of today’s good news was submitted before August 1st. If you submitted news after August 1st, it will be included in our September post. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that […]

12 x 12 July 2020 Good News!

It’s time to celebrate! There are four new 12 x 12 member books out this month and a ton of agent signings! All of today’s good news was submitted before July 1st. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good News Post. A […]

12 x 12 December 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. We’re excited to celebrate during such a celebratory time! Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. There is so much to celebrate! Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s […]

12 x 12 October 2019 Check-In

BOO! Here we are at the end of another month. I did not write a new draft, but I did a lot of revision on several different “old” drafts. It was fun to dig those back up to see if I could give them new life. I also spent a lot of time generating new […]

12 x 12 Featured Author October 2019 – Katrina Moore

Featured Author Katrina Moore October 2019

WHEN TO OPEN (AND CLOSE) THE DOOR “OPEN THE DOOR . . . ” That’s what I willed myself to do as my hand clasped around the doorknob, rebelling—held down by the weight of a thousand “what ifs” before attending my first writing conference in March 2015. “What if I’m the only one who came […]

12 x 12 Success Celebration Month #5 – Book Deals!

Success Celebration Month continues and today we are celebrating book deals! We’re shining the spotlight on 12 x 12 members who signed book contracts in 2018. What a remarkable achievement! (Today is the last day to enter the “On Your Way” Rafflecopter! Are you sending out those submissions, but not seeing any success just yet? […]

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).