Announcing the first WRITE THE WORLD EVENT IN BRAZIL IN BELO HORIZONTE OCT. 21-24, 2010
(website under construction) To see last June event in USA go to www.Write-the-World.com

Visionaries to Light

is a globally oriented literary management service for writers
providing writing/publishing/editorial consulting
and producing events, seminars and retreats

dedicated to

bringing visionaries and visionary ideas to light
to facilitate personal and global transformation.

Mardeene assists pioneering forward-thinkers with various stages of book development from initial concept and developmental editing and organization, through the writing and editing processes, sometimes helping with marketing materials and finding a publisher or agent. She is especially skilled at

* bringing out and expressing the essence of the writer and the message/themes
* interviewing experts and mainstreaming intellectual, academic or esoteric material
* co-authoring on a selective basis
* nonfiction, narrative nonfiction
* writing/editing book proposals
* query letters
* pitching
* coaching writers
* speaking, teaching
* project management and getting the right people together to create synergistic results

Latin American Connections
She is inviting interested individuals and companies to contact her who want to explore potential possibilities with Brazilian and South American writers and markets.

Mardeene has teamed up with Anglo-Brazilian literary consultant James McSill in the UK and Brazil, who is a consultant to publishing companies, a career manager, and a book doctor with a special love for fiction. He specializes in coaching/mentoring Brazilian and Portuguese writers and works with the top literary agencies in Brazil. He looks forward to working with writers in the U.S. and Mardeene is gearing up to do what she can to help Latin writers get published and produced in the North American market. Each will continue to enjoy working with their writers on their respective continents and simultaneously work to help authors, publishers and producers join forces cross-culturally.

Please visit our websites for international events and upcoming joint writers’ seminars and retreats in the U.S. and Brazil in 2010 and 2011.
WRITE IN BELO HORIZONTE is our first joint event in Brazil, October 21-24, 2010!

James McSill
www.mcsill.com
435-572-4215 (a U.S.A. number)
james@mcsill.com

BR *55-51-32515857
UK *44-7810581694

www.twitter.com/jamesmcsill

James coaches and mentors Brazilian and Portuguese writers as well as offers consultancy services for publishing companies. All of the fiction writers he has been working with to date have sold their fiction, some selling very well, some awarded prizes.

For the past year, he has been the executive consult for Steps2 (www.steps2.net) in a Portuguese project. Portugal and Brazil are working towards an ambitious long-term project of language unification, which aims to publish Portuguese-speaking authors across both sides of the Atlantic.

James, very popular with Latin speakers all over the world, is much in demand as a speaker and coach for writers at seminars and retreats. This year alone he has been to Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Holland and Ireland. His Write in Rio event for November of 2009, an instructional retreat for major Brazilian authors, was sold out, as are his 2010 retreats in Brasilia and Florianopolis. Join us at Write in Belo Horizonte Oct. 21-24, 2010! In the planning stages are McSill & Mitchell's joint 2nd Annual Write the World in Atlanta for June of 2011. www.write-the-world.com

MITCHELL

Dr. Karl Maret, M.D. and Lesley Carmack, M.S., innovators in the new paradigm fields of Energy Medicine, Mind-Body Health and Distant Healing. Dr. Maret and L. Carmack are known internationally for their synthetic approach to Eastern and Western medicine. A definitive book on the heart in progress.

Dr. Warren Woodruff, Ph.D., a YA fantasy first novel/movie in progress

Barack Levin, author of the self-published The Diaper Chronicles, being followed now by a new memoir in progress

Love Hudson, a multi-cultural romantic comedy first novel in progress

Louis Gibbs, a first novel in progress

Mitchell

In the market: How to Never Get Old BRAZILIAN Style! Hot Secrets for Living the Carnival of Our Lives at Any Age! by the Brazilian Life Coach Lygya Maya with Mardeene Mitchell

A series of transformational how-to books on soul work with Portuguese South African intuitive Vanda Teixeira Saitowitz, in progress

McSill

Most of James' authors prefer to keep his mentoring/ coaching as a private arrangement between contractor and contractee, as he has proudly done, winning their trust, for over 20 years.

Mitchell

Hidden Faces of the Soul:10 Secrets for Mind/Body Healing from the Lost Tree of Life, collaborative writer for Dr. Sheldon Z. Kramer, Ph.D., endorsed by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (2000, Adams Media)

Beacon on the Hill, a first novel about an unsung African American hero, by Linda Kenney Miller, Winner of the USA Book News Best Book for Historical Fiction, 2008, and also Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for African American Fiction.

Infidelity on the Internet: Virtual Relationships and Real Betrayal, book proposal for Dr. Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. sold Dr. Maheu's book to SourceBooks, Inc.(2001).

The Gift of Taking: Honor Yourself First...All Else Will Follow (2001)collaborative writer for Dr. Jill Kahn's self-published book.

(2003), collaborative writer for Jean Adrienne's self-published book

McSill

James works with Ruy Camara, who has written The Last Song of Autumn. His book has been granted the Jabuti Award, a prestigious Brazilian award for best book of the year. He has also been published in Spain, with distribution to more than 25 countries, and in Romania has been awarded two prizes, one for best translation as recently as October this year. (2009)

He also works with self-development best-selling author Eliana Barbosa. Her books have been reissued this year and she might sell by Christmas well over ¼ million copies. He has been directly involved with the re-working of her books, and next year (2010) they will have their first project to hit the international market, with a second project in the offing.

Mitchell

Former Associate Literary Manager in Atlanta for
Atchity Entertainment International, Inc. (AEI),
Beverly Hills & NY

Mitchell and Atchity enjoy a working liaison on various projects

AEI is a literary management and film production company that is particularly interested in books that can be made into movies for theatrical release or television and in producing film projects that come with financing already in place. . Query Mitchell first by email about your project that is complete, polished, and ready to be seen in the correct format by an agent or publishers or producers. mardeene@visionariestolight.com. Learn more about AEI at www.aeionline.com.

Formerly Executive Director of Writers Connection, a San Francisco Bay Area organization serving writers, Mardeene helped founders Steve and Meera Lester for 11 years manage a membership of over 1500, plan a year-round seminar program, and publish a 16-page monthly newsletter. She oversaw the bookstore, job shop, Writers Referral Network, consulting service, and helped with the publishing division. She helped coordinate and direct major writing conferences, including the highly successful Selling to Hollywood screenwriting conference for which she recruited and introduced panelists/speakers in the film industry, including agents, writers, producers/studio execs from Star Trek, Disney, Miramax, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and NBC, among others. Her original dance romance, These Boots Were Made for Dancing, was a finalist in The Best in the West Screenplay Competition, was optioned by a producer, and is currently back on the market. She served for three years on the Board of Directors of Women in Film/Atlanta. She wrote, edited and critiqued feature articles, short stories, books, screenplays and proposals, and pitched and marketed projects on both coasts.

She studied English and German language and literature, French and Fine Art, Secondary Education and taught high school English and German in New York and California. She is a dynamic speaker and has presented seminars on writing, collaboration, and brainstorming your writing projects privately, for Writers Connection, Mercer University Language and Linguistics Faculty in Atlanta, Georgia Writers, Gainesville State College, and at various writers conferences.

McSill

James has been involved with consulting and book doctoring for over 20 years. He comes from an educational background with a degree as a teacher of English, Portuguese and Latin (Language and Literature), a Masters Degree in applied Linguistics, a diploma in Materials Design and Production (How to structure stuff for publication if you want to really sell it), and courses on educational marketing.

He pioneered TBL--task-based language teaching--hence his involvement as a Collins CoBuild, later acquired by Harper, consultancy. He travelled extensively as a specialist in “how languages work”, “how languages can be used for effect”, etc, and worked alongside top professionals like Gwyneth Fox (Editor of Collins English Dictionary), Jane and David Willis as they wrote ESL, EFL books.

At Birmingham University he became acquainted with computational language analysis, the first to take the idea to Latin America, the first to apply its principles to, then develop what we call ‘plain English’. The first “clients” he had were teachers trying to use the findings of computational analysis (concordances) to write stories or to adapt best-sellers to non-English speakers.