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Mary Cummings and Maria Vicente – 12 x 12 Featured Agents April 2019

April 2019 Agents - Mary Cumming and Maria Vicente

It’s almost April! 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. Mary Cummings of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members April 1-15. Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary will […]

Maria Vicente and Jordan Hamessley – 12 x 12 Featured Agents August 2018

Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members August 1 -15. Jordan Hamessley of New Leaf Literary will be accepting picture book […]

Maria Vicente & Erica Rand Silverman – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 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. Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 Gold members February 1-15. Erica Rand Silverman of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x […]

Sean McCarthy & Maria Vicente – 12 x 12 Featured Agent July 2015

12 x 12 Featured Agent July 2015

Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Sean McCarthy of the McCarthy Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 Gold members July 1-15. Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary 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).