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12 x 12 March 2021 Good News!

Welcome to our March Good News! Let’s spring into celebrating good news with our 12 x 12 members. We’ve got new books, new agent deals, new book contracts, and shiny new book awards! If you have good news in any of these four categories, be sure to let us know on the Good News form […]

12 x 12 February 2021 Good News!

Good News February 2021

Welcome to our February Good News! It’s the season of love and we LOVE celebrating with our members. Today we celebrate new books by 12 x 12 authors, new agent deals, new book contracts, and a one very shiny book award! For our new members, this is a monthly series. If you have good news […]

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 March 2017 Featured Author – Rosie J. Pova

12 x 12 Featured Author Rosie Pova 2017

We’re excited to have 12 x 12 member Rosie J. Pova as our Featured Author this month. Rosie has two books coming out this Spring! Not bad considering just over a year ago she was ready to hang up her pencils and let it all go. If you’ve ever felt like that, read Rosie’s story […]

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).