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Rick Margolis and Nicole Geiger – 12 x 12 Featured Agents October 2022

GOLD members! We’re not sure how we’ve gotten to October already, but here we are and your October Featured Agent profiles are below. There are only two more submission opportunities left this year, so take a close look and decide who is the best fit for you and your work before you send your submission. […]

Kerry Aradhya – How I Got My Agent

Kerry Aradhya How I Got My Agent

Kindness abounds in today’s How I Got My Agent post from Kerry Aradhya! It would have been easy to get down on herself after spending a significant time with her first agent and not selling any books, but Kerry showed bravery and dedication to her dreams of being published when she parted ways with her […]

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).