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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 Summer Celebration #3 -More Book Releases

Welcome back to our 12 x 12 Summer Celebration! We are continuing our launch of our newest 12 x 12 feature—Good News! Every month we will showcase 12 x 12 member book releases, agent signing news, book deals, and award winners! To launch this fun new feature, every week in the month of July, we […]

12 x 12 June 2018 Featured Author – Michelle Cusolito

Thank you Julie and Kelli for welcoming me to the blog today. I’m a longtime 12 x 12 member who’s been reading these featured author posts for years. I’m honored to be this month’s author. I’m sure many of you have read my interviews on KidLit 411 and on other blogs hosted by friends and […]

Bullet Journaling for Writers

HUGE thanks to 12 x 12 member extraordinaire Michelle Cusolito for sharing her inside tips and resources for keeping a bullet journal. Michelle was my inspiration for keeping one in 2016. It made such a big difference, not so much in terms of how much I got done (I don’t think…), but in terms of […]

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).