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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? Enter here. It’s open until midnight ET tonight, July 23rd. Special thanks to Darshana Khiani!)

New Book Deals

These 12 x 12 members recently announced new book contracts. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Lindsay Leslie on the sale of Wanted: Dusk Raiders! This sounds like quite the adventure!

Congratulations to Katrina Moore on the sale of One Hug to Harper Collins/Tegen! We’re feelin’ the love already!

Congratulations to Katherine Pryor on the sale of Bea’s Bees! Buzz! Buzz!

Congratulations to Carrie Finison on the sale of Dozens of Doughnuts! Yum!

Congratulations to Julie Rowan-Zoch on illustrating Louis for Tom Lichtenheld! Wow.

Congratulations to Sophia Gholz on the sale of The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng. Incredible!

 

Congratulations to Jamie L.B. Deenihan on the sale of When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree! Now I’m craving some fresh squeezed lemonade…

Congrats again to Lindsay, Katrina, Katherine, Carrie, Julie, Sophia, and Jamie! We can’t wait to read your books!

 

12 x 12 members, if you have good news about a new book, agent signings, book deal, or writing award, share it with us. You’ll find the link to the Good News form in the forum under Important Announcements.

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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.
 

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  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).