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12 x 12 August 2022 Good News!

August is a banner month for 12 x 12! It’s too hot to be outside, so stay inside and read one of these 12 x 12 member books. This month we have two new series launching and 17 other books to celebrate! Plus, we have agent signings, new book deals, and awards. No summer slump […]

12 x 12 April 2022 Good News!

Let’s spring into celebrating 12 x 12 Good News! Our April Good News post is full of 12 x 12 members who have new book releases, members who have recently signed with an agent, members with new books under contract, and members who have won awards! If you have good news in any of these […]

12 x 12 Featured Author May 2019 – Sophia Gholz

Featured Author Sophia Gholz May 2019

Revision and Opening Lines Whether you’ve spent months researching a story idea or an intriguing character has just popped into your head, typing the first words on a blank page can be intimidating. Let’s be honest, writing is hard and those first few lines are often the hardest. Thankfully, we don’t have to share our […]

March 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members released in March (and one from February we just received!). All other good news was submitted before March 1st. Be sure to have your […]

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).