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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 […]

June 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. There is so much to celebrate! This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members released in June and a few we missed last month! All other good news was submitted before June […]

12 x 12 May 2015 Winner!

It’s time to giveaway our wonderful May prizes! This month, two happy 12 x 12 members will win a picture book critiques from Stacy McAnulty! And the lucky winners are… SHERI RAD! MARIA OKA! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com to claim your prize. We had a hitch in our giddy-up with our […]

12 x 12 May 2015 Check-In!

Ah, May. The time for sun and flowers. Unless you live in Colorado, in which case you’ve been soaked in rain ALL month! I’m NOT going to blame the weather for the fact that I did not write a new draft, no matter how badly I wanted to. No, it’s because my head and heart […]

Stacy McAnulty – 12 x 12 Featured Author May 2015

Stacy McAnulty Featured Image

True story of how this post came to be: I knew Stacy McAnulty, of course, since she is in her 3rd year of 12 x 12 AND we own Dear Santasaurus. But over the past couple of months, she had been making so many motivational and “spot-on” comments on the 12 x 12 Facebook Group […]

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).