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12 x 12 July 2022 Good News!

Summer comes bearing gifts of 12 x 12 members’ Good News! Help us celebrate 10 new book releases in July! Plus, we get to announce more agent signings, thirteen(!) more 12 x 12 books under contract, and more award winners! How lucky are we? If you have good news in any of these categories, be […]

12 x 12 June 2022 Good News!

It’s another month full of amazing accomplishments by 12 x 12 members! We have 13 new book releases for June! Plus, we get to announce more agent signings, more 12 x 12 books under contract, and more award winners! What a community we get to be a part of! If you have good news in […]

12 x 12 January 2021 Good News!

Welcome to our Good News series! We have lots to celebrate in 2021: new books by 12 x 12 members, new agent deals, new book contracts, and shiny new awards! For our new members, this is a monthly series. If you have good news in any of these four categories, be sure to let us […]

12 x 12 July 2020 Good News!

It’s time to celebrate! There are four new 12 x 12 member books out this month and a ton of agent signings! All of today’s good news was submitted before July 1st. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good News Post. A […]

12 x 12 July Featured Author – Carrie Finison

Featured Author Carrie Finison July 2020

Thank you so much, Julie and Kelli. It is a privilege to be the 12 x 12 Featured Author this month, and to speak to this community that I’ve been a part of since 2012. When I first began this writing journey a decade ago, I jumped in with both feet and did All. The. […]

12 x 12 Success Celebration Month #5 – Book Deals!

Success Celebration Month continues and today we are celebrating book deals! We’re shining the spotlight on 12 x 12 members who signed book contracts in 2018. What a remarkable achievement! (Today is the last day to enter the “On Your Way” Rafflecopter! Are you sending out those submissions, but not seeing any success just yet? […]

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).