“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. 📚
Watch #12x12PB members share their real journeys — from first drafts to book deals:
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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?
Let’s fill the comments with wisdom. 💛
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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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