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12 x 12 May 2021 Good News!

It’s our favorite time of the month! Time for some May Good News! We have new books, new agent deals, and new book contracts to celebrate! If you have good news in any of these categories, be sure to let us know by filling out the Good News form in the Important Announcements section of […]

Katherine Pryor – How I Got My Agent

How I Got My Agent Katherine Pryor

This week we get to celebrate with Katherine Pryor! Katherine didn’t let not having an agent stop her from getting published and that tenacity paid off as she built relationships throughout the industry that led her to find her perfect agent match with Adria Goetz. This post is also a two-fer: We get to celebrate […]

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).