12 x 12 Featured Author May 2019 – Sophia Gholz
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 […]
Author Illustrator Roxie Munro – 12 x 12 Featured Author June 2015
Our June featured author, Roxie Munro, is doing some of the most exciting work in children’s books today. She is an author, illustrator, innovator, and tireless advocate of learning through literacy, no matter what form that learning takes. She is equally as passionate about helping fellow authors and creatives in this brave new world of publishing. […]
12 x 12 February Check-in Winner!
It’s time to giveaway our February prize! This month’s winner will get a picture book critique from our own Jodi Moore. And the lucky winner is… JENNIFER GILL FAHRION!! Congrats! Please contact me at JulieFHedlund (at) gmail (dot) com to claim your prize. We are just getting started! Get to work on your March draft and […]
TARA LAZAR – January, 2015 Featured Author
It’s officially 12 x 12 in 2015!! The start of a brand new, shiny year full of blank sheets of paper (and computer screens) for us to fill with our luscious words as we write picture book drafts. Here to kick off our year is none other than Tara Lazar, founder of Picture Book Idea […]
Sue Fliess – 12 x 12 Featured Author July 2014
Our July featured author, Sue Fliess, is one heck of a busy lady! But she took time out of her unbelievably hectic summer to answer some questions I gave her focused on writing picture books for younger children (0-5), which is Sue’s specialty. I’m lucky enough to have met Sue in person several times at SCBWI […]
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 […]
