Submit your full manuscript (90k words maximum) and receive an in-depth, one-hour feedback call with a publishing professional of your choice. You’ll receive specific suggestions about how to get your book marketplace ready.
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Take risks.
Elevated Hybrid & Non-Fiction Feature Films, POV storytelling
True Stories
Prestige Biographical & Historical Dramas
Character-Driven Dark Comedies & Satires
Half-Hour Episodic Comedies & Premium TV Pilots
High-Concept Short Films & Episodic Proof-of-Concepts
Meta-Narrative & Self-Reflexive Avant-Garde Scripts
Independent Film Packaging & International Circuit Strategy
Satire
Rom-Coms
Original Stories
Raw, voice-driven memoirs exploring trauma and addiction
Prestige biographical non-fiction and historical manuscripts
Darkly comedic, satirical, and contemporary fiction novels
High-concept narrative non-fiction with strong book-to-screen potential
Experimental, meta-textual, and genre-bending prose
Biographical properties primed for strategic packaging
Horror.
Janaé Rachel Ballot is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and development strategist specializing in project packaging, cross-genre structure, and marketplace viability. Raised in an industry family with deep Hollywood roots, she brings an insider understanding of studio dynamics, network expectations, and auteur brand building to her consultation work. Janaé provides writers with actionable, executive-level notes. She equips creators with the exact structural tools and competitive leverage needed to break through the noise.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow about 8-10 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec. If you haven't heard from your mentor by the 8-10 week mark about scheduling, please email terra@roadmapwriters.com so we know to check in with them on your behalf about their proposed dates/ETA for you.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.