A literary scouting subscription service is launching out of the UK today.
Bo-sco is the brainchild of novelist and media researcher Arianna Reiche, and debuts with the mantra of curating information on IP available for option for producers and development execs.
Specifically, Bo-sco will deliver subscribers a monthly intelligence report on “overlooked, optionable literary IP.” These will not include recaps material that’s already gaining heat, but seven titles that have not yet reached development execs. It has a team of researchers working with Reiche, including regional affiliates in Europe, Latin America and Cantonese-speaking territories.
The app is bering geared at producers and development execs primarily, but will also target agents, managers and writers.
Reiche created the service on the belief that that an “enormous body of screen-ready material” such as short fiction, small-press fiction, backlist and estate catalogs, material from emerging talent in international literary scenes without established scouting infrastructure, early-stage manuscripts and digital IP.
Pricing is around the £39.99/£429.99 ($54/$582) mark per month, with Bo-sco claiming a retained literary scout “costs considerably more.”
“Screen development teams are, in my experience, genuinely hungry for story; they’re just time-poor and the tools available to them have never quite kept pace with the full scope of what’s optionable,” said Reiche.
“Bo-sco is built on the idea that the most exciting IP is rarely the most visible – that the pipeline between a remarkable book and a remarkable screen adaptation can be shorter, smarter, and more editorially ‘alive’ than it currently is.”
Reiche is the author of Warden / Star and At the End of Every Day with a background in screen development and media research. She has worked with Netflix on development projects
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