“This is a safe place where you can meet other writers and illustrators and learn from writers, agents and editors.” 💛

Sheri Radovich on the #12x12PB community — a space to connect, learn, and grow. 📚

Please join me at the Gold Coast Book Fair on Sunday May 17th at 10:30 am at the Storytime Stage in downtown Oyster Bay, Long Island, as I share my debut #picturebook, Freedom at Dawn.
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⏳ What makes a #picturebook feel good to read aloud?

It’s rhythm. It’s flow. It’s poetry.
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Upcoming #12x12PB members-only webinar!

Join us on April 21 at 3pm ET/12pm PT for “How to Set Up and Sustain a Successful Agent/Author Relationship” with Rachel Orr, @tashahilderman.bsky.social, and @suzylevinson.bsky.social.

Replay available for members!

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🎉 Congratulations to #12x12PB member, Rina Singh for her book birthday! 🎉

📚 LET'S EAT by illustrated by Flo Leung, published by Orca Book Publishers is out now.

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🎉 Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member, @sjohnstontaylor.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 IF PETS WROTE POEMS illustrated by Sandie Sonke, published by Gnome Road Publishing is now available.

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Behind every published book is a story you don’t always see. 📚

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Author & poet Renee LaTulippe shares why she's passionate about #poetry and how that shows up no matter what she's writing. Discover insight from the #picturebook community's favorite lyrical teacher on the 12 x 12 Picture Book #Podcast!
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FREE Book Chat on April 23 at 8pm ET/5pm PT!

Join #12x12PB author Penny Parker Klostermann as she shares how her #picturebook 📚 THE SPIDER LADY: NAN SONGER AND HER ARACHNID WORLD WAR II ARMY went from idea to bookshelf.

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12x12 celebrates National Poetry Month! ✨

📚 IF PETS WROTE POEMS by S.J. Johnston Taylor
📚 UP, UP HIGH by @lydialukidis.bsky.social
📚 CLIMBING THE VOLCANO illustrated by Jennifer K. Mann

Celebrating poetry in picture books. 💛

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🎉 Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member, @ariadelsole.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 AT THE COOKOUT illustrated by the author, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin is available now.

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🎉 Yay! We're celebrating #12x12PB member, @artbyann.bsky.social for her book birthday! 🎉

📚 BLAZING HUMOR: MEL BROOKS IS SERIOUSLY FUNNY illustrated by Jason Kirschner, published by Intergalactic Afikoman is available now.

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🎉 Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member, @juliegonzalez.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 DON'T SPLASH GRANDPA! illustrated by @srinidhidraws.bsky.social, published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky is officially out now!

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🎉 Congrats to @yashikamwriting.bsky.social on signing with her agent, @karlydizon.bsky.social of @fuseliterary.bsky.social!

Her advice:
“My best advice would be to put yourself out there and find different ways to get your work in front of the agents.”

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⏳ Can poetry bring your #picturebook to life? ✍️

Learn how rhythm and poetic devices elevate storytelling with Margarita Engle.

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12x12 celebrates National Humor Month! 😂

📚 EMBARRASSED FERRET by Lisa Riddiough
📚 WHIRBY by @mollyharris.bsky.social
📚 DON'T SPLASH GRANDPA! by Julie Gonzalez

Here’s to stories that make us laugh! 🤣

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Meet this month’s #12x12PB Featured Agents, Mary Cummings of Great River Literary and Julie Romeis Sanders of @steelworksliterary.bsky.social!

Head to the blog to learn more about what they’re looking for in #picturebooks:
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!
I’m a queer AuDHD illustrator and writer focused on kindness, imagination, and social justice. I’d love to connect with you!
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This month’s featured author, @brandiauyemura.bsky.social, reminds us:

✍️ “It was when I changed [my story] to first person, however, that I understood the story I was trying to tell.”

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12x12 celebrates April Fools’ Day! 🎭📚

From silly twists to surprise endings, humor plays a big role in #picturebooks.

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Happy Book Birthday to @mcusolito.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 ROOTED IN WONDER: CELEBRATING THE WORLD'S NATIONAL TREES illustrated by Marya Wright and published by Moon + Bird is officially out now!

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🎉 Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member, @katieleereinert.bsky.social! 🎉

📚 SLOTHS AND THEIR MOTHS, illustrated by Gabi Moraes, published by @tielmourpress.bsky.social is out now.

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LAST DAY OF THE SPRING WEBINAR! SALE! Get 25% off these newly-released webinars. Whether you're writing, revising, or promoting, this sale has something for you.

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Want to study mentor texts like a pro? 📚✨

In Mentor Text Your Way to Picture Books that POP!, Marzieh Abbas breaks down picture book structures and shows you how to use them to strengthen your own stories.

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DON'T MISS THE #12X12PB SPRING SALE! Get 25% off your choice of these newly-released webinars! Whether you're writing, revising, or promoting, this sale has you covered!

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#12x12PB member Heather Stigall shares:

“12 x 12 helped both directly and indirectly in my agent search and in the development of my craft… It’s been a source of many of the ‘ingredients’ I needed to get to this point.”

Community makes a difference. 💛

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Check out this #podcast episode! Bookseller (and author-illustrator) Julie Rowan-Zoch stops by to share what #bookstores want book creators to know about in-store events & preorder campaigns.

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SPRING SALE! Get 25% off our newly released webinars! It’s a great time to snag lifetime access to these stellar webinars to build your #picturebook writing skills.

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What’s one piece of advice you’d give a brand-new picture book writer?

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MOWMT 26: Diving into the Details with Lisa Rogers It’s All in the Details by Lisa RogersPrecision in writing can be hard-won. As writers, we can get carried away by our words, without making sure that each one communicates what we intend. Sometimes, ...

500 words. That's all children's authors have to surprise, delight, inspire, inform. These mentor texts exemplify precision in creating resonance & meaning.
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