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12 x 12 September 2021 Good News!

09-2021 Good News

It’s time to fall in love with new 12 x 12 books! We have 14 new 12 x 12 books to celebrate this month! FOURTEEN! Plus, we have agent signings, book deals, and some amazing awards to celebrate too! Take a moment cheer on your fellow 12 x 12 members! If you have good news […]

12 x 12 April 2021 Check-In!

Hello, my 12 x 12 friends! I am sitting outside in the sun as I write this. Since April began with mountains of snow, that is something to celebrate right there! Also, I did write a new draft this month. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad draft. As many of you probably […]

Rajani LaRocca- 12 x 12 Featured Author April 2021

Rajani LaRocca Featured Author April 2021

Finding the Heart of Your Story So much writing advice has to do with persistence . . . and there’s no doubt that this is important. You can’t get published if you don’t keep writing and submitting, no matter how frequent or painful the rejections. Today, I’m talking about a different kind of persistence: finding […]

AAPI 12 x 12 Books

As the founder of 12 x 12, I am so disheartened by the dramatic rise in Anti-Asian racism in the Western world, and in the U.S. in particular. The tragic deaths of six Asian-American women in an Atlanta mass shooting last week is a grim reminder that we have a great deal of work to […]

12 x 12 October 2020 Good News!

How about a little good news this week? We have lots of October book releases for 12 x 12 members and lots of 12 x 12 books to come judging by all the book deals announced recently! How awesome is that? Remember, all of today’s good news was submitted before October 1st. If you submitted […]

12 x 12 May 2020 Good News!

It’s time for some good news! And who doesn’t need a little good news today? As picture book writers we have so much to celebrate this month because a whole new crop of 12 x 12 member books are out in the world! All of today’s good news was submitted before May 1st. Be sure […]

12 x 12 December 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. We’re excited to celebrate during such a celebratory time! Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. There is so much to celebrate! Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s […]

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).