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Beth_Stockdale_Sadlek

Beth Stockdale Sadlek

Beth Stockdale Sadlek is a professional Pittsburgh, PA nanny and has three little granddaughters. Children bring her much inspiration! She enjoys reading books and singing songs to her littles, it makes her heart full! She writes fiction and informational fiction picture books. Beth writes songs for children and also enjoys illustrating. She is an elf moderator on the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge forum and engages in all Picture Book Summit has to offer—the summit, their videos, and podcasts—and is a member of SCBWI.

Beth wrote a story called: A Nanny’s Love is Everlasting published in the 2024 winter edition of nannymag.com. She wrote and composed two songs you can stream on most music services. One is titled The Big Blue Whale Song, and she wrote a nonfiction whale of a story that goes with the song. Her second song is My Beautiful Little Bella.

Her other interests: she loves the beach and the sand between her toes. She loves to cook and eat! She is a chocoholic. She loves coffee, wine, and lemon desserts, but her favorite is creme brûlée. Beth’s favorite color is red because red is powerful! And also blue because she adores a blue sky and fluffy white clouds and also the big blue sea! Beth loves animals and cares very deeply about conservation efforts. One day Beth hopes to go whale watching and look straight into a blue whale’s eye and say, “Hi-de-ho, blue whalie-o.”

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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).