The Brouzils Seminars
The Brouzils Mentorships
Personalized
support for individual writers and publishers.
The Brouzils Mentorships. Extensive online or in-residence guidance for writers
engaged in project conception, proposal presentation and manuscript completion and
who require the collaboration of an active editorial mentor.
The need for this kind of support
is obvious. Book publishing is undergoing tremendous changes; trade publishers,
struggling for the last half-century in a difficult market, face increased
competition from new technologies and new methods of production and distribution.
Print-on-demand and other models suitable for promotion to dynamic niche markets have forced
conventional publishers to be far more conservative with their acquisition
budgets. Agents require clearly conceived, neatly prepared proposals for
projects with an identifiable market that can be sold relatively quickly. Publishers
seek cleanly executed projects that appeal to a broad but definable market. More
than ever, manuscript preparation must be done in a timely manner to take
maximum advantage of a publisher’s limited abilities to promote and market a
book. All of these factors are important, yet all of them are in a constant
state of flux. For screenwriters, the environment is even more fragile and complex. Today, a writer needs all the help he or she can get.
Mentorship services. Although
they are a natural extension of the creative workshops and retreats offered by The Brouzils Seminars,
the Mentorships are not academic programs. They are designed for professional
writers who wish a collegial relationship with one or more senior professional
colleagues in order to create, organize, propose and complete a major writing
assignment. Collaboration may take place entirely online, in residence at the
Seminars’ premises for consultative purposes, or a combination of the two. The
Mentorships cover a very wide range of authors’ services, from preparation and
extensive revision of manuscripts at various stages of completion to highly
confidential ghostwriting from the original material you supply. If you decide
your book would be best published on a POD basis, we will help you with the
necessary arrangements.
Brouzils mentors are all professionals with extensive experience in screenwriting and trade
publishing on two continents. We would never tell you the writers we’ve helped, but our work and the work of others we have
helped conceive, market and execute has been acquired and published by Simon
and Schuster, Doubleday, New Line Cinema, Viking, Pocket Books, Time-Warner, Harper Collins,
Putnam Perigee, Ballantine, Planet Dexter, Scholastic, Three Rivers, Globe
Pequot, Encounter, Random House and other important publishers and film companies.
To determine the best way to approach your project, please provide
details in a confidential memorandum addressed to info at brouzils.org. Deposits,
fees, schedules, availability of services are all determined on a project-by-project
basis. There is no schedule of prices. The rights to all work remain in your
hands once all obligations have been met.
What to do next? It’s simple: send a brief query outlining your project to info at brouzils.org. Please do not send manuscripts. Allow five business
days for a reply. And if you think you can help mentor others, and you have a substantial body of published or produced work, we’d like to hear from you, too. Everything you send us remains confidential, no matter what.
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