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12 x 12 Monthly Check-In Winner

12 x 12 August 2024 Check-In Winner!

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Did you win the August 2024 check-in? Check here to see if you won a signed book from August Featured Author Bridgitte Rodguez.

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09/2024 Featured Author Margaret Chiu Greanias

Margaret Chiu Greanias – 12 x 12 Featured Author September 2024

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Featured Author Margaret Chiu Greanias reveals the process behind deciding whether to use animals, humans, or something else as her picture book characters.

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12 x 12 August 2024 Check-In!

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What did YOU accomplish in August? Tell us and you could win a signed book from August Featured Author Bridgitte Rodguez!

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Susan Johnston Taylor How I got my Agent

Susan Johnston Taylor – How I Got My Agent

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After receiving over 400 rejections, Susan Johnston Taylor found the perfect fit in agent Mara Cobb at Martin Literary Management.

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Karly Dizon & Emily S. Keyes – 12 x 12 Featured Agents September 2024

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Find out what September Featured Agents are Karly Dizon of Fuse Literary and Emily S. Keyes of Keyes Agency are looking in picture books.

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Johanna Peyton How I got my Agent

Johanna Peyton – How I Got My Agent

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112 x 12 member Johanna Peyton reveals how good it feels to find someone who gets her writing—Taylor Martindale Kean of Full Circle Literary.

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12 x 12 Monthly Check-In Winner

12 x 12 July 2024 Check-In Winner!

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Are you the winner of our July 2024 check-in? Our prize this month comes from June Featured Author Kari Lavelle.

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Bridgitte Rodguez – 12 x 12 Featured Author August 2024

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Featured Author Bridgitte Rodguez (A WALK THROUGH THE REDWOODS) tells us to focus on curiosities, not passions, for picture book success.

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Financial Need Scholarship Guidelines

All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024 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).
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