Welcome to our March Good News! Let’s spring into celebrating good news with our 12 x 12 members. We’ve got new books, new agent deals, new book contracts, and shiny new book awards! If you have good news in any of these four categories, be sure to let us know on the Good News form in the Important Announcements section of the 12 x 12 forum.

All of today’s good news was submitted before March 1st. If you submitted news after March 1st, it will be included in our April post. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good News Post.

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Book Birthdays

Congratulations to Sandra Salsbury on the March 1st release of BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD (Peachtree Publishing)! (Click to Tweet)

Congratulations to Rosie Pova on the March 2nd release of SUNDAY RAIN (Lantana Publishing)! (Click to Tweet)

Congratulations to Laura Gehl on the March 2nd release of BASEBALL BABY (Little Simon)! (Click to Tweet)

Congratulations to Rinda Beach on the March 9th release of ZOE’S SCAVENGER HUNT FUN (BiblioKid Publishing)! (Click to Tweet)

Congratulations to Kirsti Call on the March 16th release of COW SAYS MEOW (HMH Books for Young Readers)! (Click to Tweet)

Signed! Look who has an agent!

Eva Wong Nava signed with Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson Literary, TV, and Film Agency! Woohoo!

Jeanne Cherney signed with Mary Cummings of the Betsy Amster Agency! Hooray!

Jessica Stremer signed with Natascha Morris at The Tobias Agency! Way to go!

Juli Beck signed with Hannah VanVels at Belcastro! Awesome!

Rebecca Gardyn Levington signed with Kaitlyn Sanchez at Red Fox Literary! Congrats!

Tanya Konerman signed with Mona Kanin of the Great Dog Literary Agency!  Excellent!

Tina Shepardson signed with Jessica Schmeidler at Golden Wheat Literary! Amazing!

New Book Deals

Congratulations to Angela Kunkel on the sale of MAKE WAY to Ann Kelley at Random House Studios! Claire Keane will illustrate.

Congratulations to Chana Stiefel on the sale of BRAVO, AVOCADO to Tamar Mays at HarperCollins! Anna Suessbauer will illustrate.

Congratulations to Jyoti Rajan Gopal on the sale of AMERICAN DESI to Esther Cajahuaringa at Little, Brown! Supriya Kelkar will illustrate.

Congratulations to Karen Krause (writing as Keka Novales) on the sale of  ¡HOLA LOLA! to Alison Deering at Capstone! Awesome!

Congratulations to Karen Yin on the sale of SO NOT GHOUL to Kayla Tostevin at Page Street Kids! Bonnie Lui will illustrate.

Congratulations to Lisa Frenkel Riddiough on the sale of LETTERS TO LIVE BY to Allison Cohen at Running Press! Asa Gilland will illustrate.  Hooray!

Congratulations to Michelle Cusolito on the sale of DIVING DEEP: USING MACHINES TO EXPLORE THE OCEAN to Karen Boss at Charlesbridge! Nicole Wong will illustrate. Way to go!Congratulations to Rina Singh on the sale of EMPTY to Andrew Wooldridge at Orca! Nathalie Dion will illustrate. Woohoo!Congratulations to Sherry Roberts on the sale of WETLANDS to Young Dragons Press! Hooray!Congratulations to Theresa Kiser on the sale of ARTHUR THE CLUMSY ALTAR SERVER SERVES HIS FIRST MASS (A BOOK ABOUT SERVING GOD) to Our Sunday Visitor! Awesome!Congratulations to Tziporah Cohen on the sale of ON THE CORNER OF CHOCOLATE AVENUE: HOW MILTON HERSHEY BROUGHT MILK CHOCOLATE TO AMERICA to Ann Rider at HMH! Steven Salerno will illustrate. What a delicious deal!

Congratulations to Viviane Elbee on the sale of I WANT MY BOOK BACK to Brett Duquette at Little Bee! Nicole Miles will illustrate. Hooray!

Award Winner!

Congratulations! Anne Appert won a SCBWI Winter Conference Portfolio Showcase Honor! Way to go!

Congratulations! Jeannette Suhr won 6th Place in Susanna Hill’s 6th annual Valentiny Contest! That’s fantastic!

Congratulations! Seven Golden Rings by Rajani LaRocca won the 2021 Mathical Book Prize for Grades 3-5 from The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute! That’s incredible!

Congratulations! Valerie Bolling was a Featured Author on the Brown Bookshelf. Read her article here. Way to go!

Congratulations to all our members on seeing their hard work pay off! We are so proud of you!

All of today’s good news was shared prior to March 1st. 12 x 12 members, if you have good news about a new book release, agent signing, book deal, or writing award, share it with us. Please submit your good news by April 1st to be included in our April Good News post. You can find the Good News form in the Important Announcements section of the forum.

Keep up the great work!