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Hello, everyone! I’m excited because for once I have good news to report. I wrote a new manuscript and working on revisions for FOUR others! After being in a multi-month slump, it feels great to

GOLD members! September submission opportunities are coming your way! Check out our September Featured Agent profiles below and decide who is the best fit for you and your work. Then read the guidelines on the

Let’s celebrate with Deirdre Prischmann! Her enthusiasm for learning and changing directly impacted the end of her successful agent search. Authors should always be learning and Deirdre is a perfect example. Congrats, Deirdre! We look

For those of you who have spent years querying, this one’s for you. Angela De Groot has been working toward this goal for five years! Hers is a story of tenacity and celebrating milestones along

We’re thrilled to bring you today’s GOLD Member success story! Kamalani Hurley signed with our May Featured Agent (and 12 x 12 Webinar Speaker) James McGowan! We know this formidable team will put some amazing

August is a banner month for 12 x 12! It’s too hot to be outside, so stay inside and read one of these 12 x 12 member books. This month we have two new series

It’s time to announce the winner of our July check-in. July Featured Author Lisa Tolin is offering a picture book manuscript critique (non-rhyming) to our July check-in winner. And the winner is… DIANE MCBEE! Congrats!

Research, research, research is the name of the game when you’re looking for the perfect agent. Becca McMurdie threw herself into tracking projects by agents and reading posts like this to find agents who could

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).