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Melissa Koch – How I Got My Agent

Congratulations to Melissa Koch! Despite receiving rejection after rejection, she stayed the course and landed her perfect agent. If you’re wondering if getting an agent is ever going to happen to you, be encouraged by Melissa’s story.  How long had you been writing before seeking an agent, and what made you decide it was time […]

Laurel Symonds & Alyssa Eisner Henkin – 12 x 12 Featured Agents March 2022

Laurel Symonds and Alyssa Eisner Henkin

Time to march toward a new submission opportunity for our 12 x 12 GOLD members! Be sure to read all the posts in the Submission Station of the forum, before you start submitting. Check out each agent’s guidelines on the forum before you prepare your submission. Little GOLDen Book members will be able to choose […]

James McGowan and Laurel Symonds – 12 x 12 Featured Agents May 2021

May 2021 Agents

GOLD members! It’s time to talk May submissions! Our 2021 Little GOLDen Book members will be able to choose one of these two agents to submit their manuscript to in May. (If you are a SILVER member, you may use this info for research. Check out our How to Use 12 x 12 Featured Agent […]

Alexandra Weiss & Laurel Symonds – 12 x 12 Featured Agents July 2020

July 2020 Agents

It’s a new month and time for two more agents to accept submissions from our 12 x 12 GOLD members in July. Our 2020 Little GOLDen Book members will be able to choose one of these two agents to submit their manuscript to this month. Alexandra Weiss of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency will be […]

Susan Hawk & Eve Porinchak – 12 x 12 Featured Agents March 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. Susan Hawk of The Bent Agency will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 Gold members March 1-15. Eve Porinchak of the Jill Corcoran Literary Agency will be accepting picture book submissions from […]

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).