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12 x 12 May 2015 Check-In!

Ah, May. The time for sun and flowers. Unless you live in Colorado, in which case you’ve been soaked in rain ALL month! I’m NOT going to blame the weather for the fact that I did not write a new draft, no matter how badly I wanted to. No, it’s because my head and heart […]

12 x 12 Featured Agents June 2015 – Janine Le & Jennie Dunham

12 x 12 Featured Agents - June 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. Janine Le of the Sheldon Fogelman Agency will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 Gold members June 1-15. Jennie Dunham of Dunham Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from […]

Tuesday 12 x 12 – Peter Dargatz

Tuesday 12 x 12 - Peter Dargatz

Today’s Tuesday 12 x 12 post comes to us from Peter Dargatz. Reading Peter’s post reminded me of the main reason I started 12 x 12. The desire to increase my output of writing.  Many of you have had that moment that gives meaning to your passion for writing, as Peter talks about below, but sometimes […]

Tuesday 12 x 12 – Kellie Johnston

Tuesday 12 x 12 - Kellie Johnston

For some of us, major life changes happen and we sit what it means. Today, Kellie Johnston shows us what wonderful things can happen when we embrace the change and are open to the seemingly small opportunities all around us. Kellie’s spirit is as warm as that sunny picture of hers, and she reminds us […]

Tuesday 12 x 12 – Lisa Connors

I’m not quite sure how it got to be MAY before hosting our first Tuesday 12 x 12 author of 2015, but better late than never. Tuesday 12 x 12 is a series where we celebrate and learn from the dedicated, talented, pre-published authors working toward achieving their dreams. Lisa Connors exemplifies the hard-working 12 […]

12 x 12 April 2015 Winner!

It’s time to giveaway our amazing April prize! This month, one VERY lucky 12 x 12 member will win a picture book critique from Caldecott-honor winning author/illustrator John Rocco! And the lucky winner is… SANDY JONES!! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com to claim your prize. Four months down, 8 to go! […]

Stacy McAnulty – 12 x 12 Featured Author May 2015

Stacy McAnulty Featured Image

True story of how this post came to be: I knew Stacy McAnulty, of course, since she is in her 3rd year of 12 x 12 AND we own Dear Santasaurus. But over the past couple of months, she had been making so many motivational and “spot-on” comments on the 12 x 12 Facebook Group […]

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).