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12 x 12 Summer Celebration #4 – Agent Signings!

All we can say is WOW.  We asked you for good news and it’s pouring in. It’s more than we can get into two more weekly posts, so look for bi-weekly posts through the end of July. You are all working hard and it’s great to see that hard work paying off! Congratulations to everyone […]

12 x 12 Summer Celebration #3 -More Book Releases

Welcome back to our 12 x 12 Summer Celebration! We are continuing our launch of our newest 12 x 12 feature—Good News! Every month we will showcase 12 x 12 member book releases, agent signing news, book deals, and award winners! To launch this fun new feature, every week in the month of July, we […]

On Your Way Raffle

On Your Way Raffle

We’ve had a great time celebrating successes this month. And, there’s more to come, but we all know success begins with a whole lotta work! Today, 12 x 12 member Darshana Khiani is sponsoring a giveaway to celebrate all of you who are putting in the work and submitting your manuscripts, but you haven’t seen […]

12 x 12 Summer Celebration #2 – Book Releases

Welcome back to our 12 x 12 Summer Celebration! We are continuing our launch of our newest 12 x 12 feature—Good News! Every month we will showcase 12 x 12 member book releases, agent signing news, book deals, and award winners! To launch this fun new feature, every week in the month of July, we […]

12 x 12 June 2018 Check-In Winner!

Happy 4th of July to our U.S. members! It’s time to announce the winner of our June check-in. Special thanks to our June Featured Author Michelle Cusolito! Our lucky winner this month will receive a shrunken Styrofoam cup that went to the seafloor on the outside of Alvin. It went down 4400 meters (roughly 2 […]

12 x 12 Summer Celebration #1 – Book Releases

Welcome to our 12 x 12 Summer Celebration! We are launching a new 12 x 12 Good News feature. Every month we will showcase 12 x 12 member book releases, agent signing news, book deals, and award winners! To launch this fun new feature, every week in the month of July, we will post 12 […]

12 x 12 July 2018 Featured Author – Jami Gigot

Hello lovely picture book writers and illustrators! What an honor it is to be your guest blogger this month. You’ve done it! You’re over the halfway mark! I hope all of you have had a productive year so far. As summer rolls in, and the days get very busy, I hope you still manage to […]

12 x 12 June 2018 Check-In!

It’s official! We are halfway through 12 x 12 in 2019. Time to take stock, see where you are and make any adjustments you might want to make as we head into the second half of the year. As for me, I’ve only written one new draft this year (gah!), BUT overall I am happy […]

Mary Cummings & Hannah Mann – 12 x 12 Featured Agents July 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. Mary Cummings of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members July 1 -15. Hannah Mann of Writers House will be accepting picture […]

12 x 12 May 2018 Check-In Winner!

It’s time to announce the winner of our May check-in. Special thanks to our May Featured Author Casey W. Robinson! Our lucky winner this month will receive an autographed copy of Casey’s debut picture book, Iver & Ellsworth! And the winner is …   SHERRI RIVERS! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) […]

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).