The Brouzils Seminars
The Brouzils Mentorships
Personalized
support for individual writers and trade and private publishers.
The Brouzils Mentorships. Extensive, sustained online or in-residence guidance
for writers engaged in project conception, proposal or treatment creation and
manuscript completion and who require the collaboration of professional
editorial mentors.
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.
It�s no
secret that writing is a lonely business. But more and more writers are finding
their best work comes out in a collaborative process, one that matches the
passion for telling the story with the objective, critical skills necessary to
make sure the story�s told well. No wonder that even the most accomplished and
successful writers seek the discreet help, advice, and support of reliable
professional colleagues.
Mentorship services. Although
they are a natural extension of the creative workshops and retreats offered by
The Brouzils Institute, the Mentorships are not academic programs. They are
designed for writers who wish a collegial relationship with one or more senior
professional colleagues in order to create, organize, propose and complete a
major 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. Above all, mentorships are selective. If we don�t think
we can help you, we�ll say so immediately.
Brouzils mentors are all professionals with extensive experience in
screenwriting and trade publishing on two continents. Click here
to see our current faculty list. We would never tell you the writers we�ve
helped, but our work and the work of others with whom we have worked has been
acquired and published by Simon and Schuster, Doubleday, New Line Cinema,
Disney, Columbia, Viking, Pocket Books, Time-Warner, Harper Collins, Putnam
Perigee, Ballantine, Planet Dexter, Scholastic, Three Rivers, Globe Pequot,
Encounter Books, Random House, Knopf and other important publishers and film
companies.
How Brouzils mentorships work: The Brouzils mentorships
are unique, highly structured, extremely individualized collaborations with
professional writers, journalists, screenwriters, novelists and poets. They are
natural extensions of our very small residential sessions, but they are not
typical writers workshops. They are designed to reach a specific goal: the
completion of creative work�a novel, memoir, play, film, non-fiction book�in a
timely manner and at a professional level.
Participants work collegially in Les Brouzils or online with the Seminars
director and, when necessary, with additional Brouzils faculty to fulfill the
requirements of constructing a proposal, chapter outline, character list, and a
sequence of chapters written under agreed-upon deadlines over a specified
period of time. The mentorships are structured to reward performance and the
successful meeting of deadlines.
At least, that�s how it generally works. However, every creative project
is by definition unique. To determine the best way to approach your project,
please provide details in a confidential memorandum. Deposits, fees, schedules,
availability of services, access to accommodations are all determined on a
project-by-project basis. There is no schedule of prices, since the duration of
mentorships varies. The tuition and fees for a two-week residency session start
at $2650.00, including instruction, accommodation, breakfast and light lunches.
Creative retreats. Participants who have
completed at least one full residential instructional session and are engaged
in active mentorships are welcome to apply for accommodation and partial-board
at the chateau on a space-available basis. Reduced accommodation rates apply.
Fellowships in the form of partial fee waivers are
available on a merit basis and according to demonstrated need. Conditions
apply. Deadline for fellowship applications is the first Monday in December,
annually. Brouzils Fellows are named February 1.
Corporate, financial and business
books. Many businesses, consultancies and personal careers
are built on the unique ideas of a creative thinker contained in a well-crafted
book. For entrepreneurial leaders, executives, seminar leaders, meeting
facilitators, consultants, HR experts and others, a book is a vital tool in
establishing credibility and authority. The Seminars provides access to the
editorial and marketing facilities of Advantage Media Group's Talk
Your Book� program, in which a client, working with an editor and a
production team, can create a professional book for business purposes in just a
few weeks. For details, contact
us.
What to do next? It�s simple: click here and send a brief query outlining your project. Please
do not send manuscripts. Allow five business days for a reply.
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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