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12 x 12 February 2021 Good News!

Good News February 2021

Welcome to our February Good News! It’s the season of love and we LOVE celebrating with our members. Today we celebrate new books by 12 x 12 authors, new agent deals, new book contracts, and a one very shiny book award! For our new members, this is a monthly series. If you have good news […]

12 x 12 December 2020 Check-In!

Well, my 12xers, we made it to the end of 2020. I hope you all take a few minutes today to be proud of yourselves for surviving an unprecedented year. No matter how much writing you did or didn’t do, you are a WINNER. Why? You are still here, reading this post, and moving forward […]

12 x 12 December 2020 Good News!

Happy Holidays! We have a lot to celebrate this month with new 12 x 12 picture book deals and 12 x 12 members who are now agented. Read on and celebrate with us! Remember, all of today’s good news was submitted before December 1st. If you submitted news after December 1st, it will be included […]

12 x 12 December Featured Author – Keila Dawson

December signals the end of a year is near. For most of us, memories of 2020 will remain bittersweet. We may recall the joy of accomplishment, the frustration of uncertainty, and or perhaps the pain of loss. Like a story, the calendar year has an ending, but it also had a beginning. So have our […]

12 x 12 October 2020 Good News!

How about a little good news this week? We have lots of October book releases for 12 x 12 members and lots of 12 x 12 books to come judging by all the book deals announced recently! How awesome is that? Remember, all of today’s good news was submitted before October 1st. If you submitted […]

12 x 12 February 2020 Good News

Award-winning 12 x 12 Feb 2020

It’s a good thing we have an extra day this month to get in all the Good News for our 12 x 12 members! 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 […]

December 2018 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members that were previously released but were just added to the Good News form in the last six weeks. All other good news was submitted […]

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).