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\n\tA literary scouting subscription service is launching out of the UK today.<\/p>\n
\n\tBo-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.<\/p>\n
\n\tSpecifically, Bo-sco will deliver subscribers a monthly intelligence report on \u201coverlooked, optionable literary IP.\u201d These will not include recaps material that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe app is bering geared at producers and development execs primarily, but will also target agents, managers and writers. <\/p>\n
\n\tReiche created the service on the belief that that an \u201cenormous body of screen-ready material\u201d 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. <\/p>\n
\n\tPricing is around the \u00a339.99\/\u00a3429.99 ($54\/$582) mark per month, with Bo-sco claiming a retained literary scout \u201ccosts considerably more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cScreen development teams are, in my experience, genuinely hungry for story; they\u2019re just time-poor and the tools available to them have never quite kept pace with the full scope of what\u2019s optionable,\u201d said Reiche. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBo-sco is built on the idea that the most exciting IP is rarely the most visible \u2013 that the pipeline between a remarkable book and a remarkable screen adaptation can be shorter, smarter, and more editorially \u2018alive\u2019 than it currently is.\u201d<\/p>\n