Anita Yasuda – 12 x 12 Featured Author January 2025
12 x 12 member Anita Yasuda suggests exploring the relationship between documenting joyful moments and creativity. Try this daily practice!
12 x 12 member Anita Yasuda suggests exploring the relationship between documenting joyful moments and creativity. Try this daily practice!
Backmatter in fictional picture books? You bet! 12 x 12 member Annette Clayton shares the surprising ways to use backmatter in fiction.
What’s a writer to do when creative blocks arise? Namita Moolani Mehra shares how to overcome these obstacles and get back to writing!
Flip the script! That mantra brings Featured Author Carrie Kruck success in writing, revising, subbing, and closing picture book deals.
Featured Author Margaret Chiu Greanias reveals the process behind deciding whether to use animals, humans, or something else as her picture book characters.
Featured Author Bridgitte Rodguez (A WALK THROUGH THE REDWOODS) tells us to focus on curiosities, not passions, for picture book success.
Featured Author Kari Lavelle shares what she learned creating BUTT OR FACE? and ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE.
For Featured Author Tasha Hilderman, learning about her Indigenous ancestry wasn’t easy so she wrote MÉTIS LIKE ME for kids today.
Featured Author Thelia Hutchinson tells how believing in herself—and entering a pitch contest—helped get MORE THAN YOU IMAGINE published.
Featured Author Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson shares how, despite challenges, she was motivated to write by love, magic, and family.
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