Emma Walton Hamilton: January 12 x 12 Featured Author

What do you get when you mix a shiny new year, the beginning of another round of the 12 x 12 picture book writing challenge, and an amazingly talented and generous NYT-bestselling author kicking us off with the first featured author post? You get phenomenal writing tips to start your year AND unprecedented opportunities to get even […]
Peter Brown: September 12 x 12 Featured Author

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Caldecott Honor-winning author/illustrator Peter Brown to our 12 x 12 featured author series. I have been a HUGE fan of Peter’s work for years so, needless to say, I was excited to learn that I would get to meet him at the NJ-SCBWI conference where we were both on faculty this past June. […]
Deb Lund: June 12 x 12 Featured Author

I am more than a little tickled to announce that our June 12 x 12 featured author, Deb Lund, is not only one of my kids’ favorite picture book authors, but also a two-time 12 x 12 member herself! And not JUST a member, but a 2012 winner too! You can see her in the video on the Winner’s […]
Tara Lazar: January 12 x 12 Featured Author

We have a featured author repeat. The gracious, bodacious Tara Lazaris back and for good reason. Many of you know her as the mama of PiBoIdMo, but in a way, she is also the mama of 12 x 12. Were it not for her and all the great ideas I racked up in 2010 and 2011 (that I failed […]