IP Picks🔎: Space Heroines and Horror Hunters
âž• cons galore, from a Ghanaian Swiss bank swindler to an ersatz Sherlock
Welcome to the Optionist. Thanks for reading. We’re going to jump right into this week’s picks, but first I want to remind everyone that we’re wrapping up our sale this week. We’re offering 30 percent off a subscription. In addition to each week’s fresh picks, paid subscribers have access to our archive, which is useful because…
We’ll be upgrading the archive over the next few weeks so that it is arranged by genre as well as by date, i.e., all the rom-coms, or thrillers, etc. will be grouped together. It’s just a way to quickly see what’s been recently featured and to get a sense of trends by seeing similar things side-by-side. It was a smart suggestion from a couple of subscribers. Thanks for the feedback! The Optionist is a tool to help you be more effective in your hunt for available IP. We’re constantly looking for ways like this to improve the experience and help you find that next big hit. And always remember, paid subscribers can reach out to me to help steer you to the right project in the vault.
On to this week’s picks, which include two very different con stories that both get at how grifters play on people’s desire to want to believe. The rundown:
An action thriller set in Yosemite National Park centered on a badass female Search and Rescue ranger with a complicated past.
A con tale featuring a Ghanian running a Swiss banking grift in one of the most enduring scams of all time.
A grift story about a fraudster who passed himself off as the world’s greatest criminal profiler and how he kept getting away with the lie, even after being exposed.
A historical drama about a group of female astronauts.
A horror thriller about a cult film with supernatural special effects that may just prove to be real.
BOOKS I LIKE (current)
History/Drama