Brascoe Publishing, a new independent press in Adelaide, is offering writer development services to SA Writers Centre members at a discounted rate until the end of July.
The Brascoe ethos is based on a solid foundation of creative and professional writer development. The discount to SA Writers Centre members acknowledges the role that the SAWC plays in developing and assisting writers throughout South Australia.
The types of services that Brascoe Publishing offer are manuscript development (assessment and mentoring), offered as a combined package.
Manuscript assessment, until a manuscript appraisal, provides a writer with the opportunity to have his or her manuscript assessed by a professional editorial team, with appropriate feedback. It provides for a mentoring-style relationship for the duration of the assessment, and it also provides time for meetings and discussions about how the manuscript could be adapted, improved, or polished.
Unlike manuscript appraisals, the Brascoe manuscript assessment does not assess the publishability of a manuscript. It is a purely developmental tool, and it fills a gap left behind by major presses that can no longer establish good professional development relationships with their writers.
It is for this reason that the Brascoe assessment can be applied to any type of manuscript, from notes or first drafts to polished works.
'We like to think about our manuscript and writer development service as being like a miniature Mentoring Retreat that is not competitive, and that is available all year round,’ commented Brascoe Publishing Partner Leticia Supple.
'We offer the sort of manuscript workshopping that writers only ever get access to through defined education activities, or through highly competitive awards programs. We believe that writers need continual access to a cost-effective, useful development service, and so we offer it to them. So far we’ve had excellent feedback from writers near and far.’
For more information about the Brascoe Publishing manuscript development service, please visit their website, at .
To take advantage of this offer, please contact either Leticia (0421 925 382) or Foss (0402 585 675), or email the publishers at .
