Buyer Profile
DramaWave
DramaWave is a mobile-first vertical-drama platform building a U.S. literary-rights acquisition operation around commercially proven books, authors and series.
Route Dossier
Route on file
No general public project-submission route verified.
Last buyer verification: 20 JUL 26
Current Apparent Mandate
Building a high-volume U.S. literary-IP acquisition pipeline for vertical drama, targeting romance, New Adult, YA, thrillers, fantasy, BookTok titles, Kindle Unlimited, indie publishing, genre imprints and agency catalogs. The stated model includes option and purchase rights, bundled deals, series deals and multi-title packages. No general project-submission route has been verified.
Supporting evidence:
- 2026-07-20 LinkedIn job posting: Director of Licensing to lead U.S. book-to-vertical-drama acquisitions across romance, New Adult, YA, thrillers, fantasy, BookTok, Kindle Unlimited, indie publishing and agency catalogs.
- The role is tasked with negotiating option and purchase rights, bundled deals, series deals and multi-title packages.
Mandate inferred from public evidence. Not a confirmed commissioning brief.
Deal Board Records (1 record)
Open Questions
- Who currently leads U.S. licensing and reports to this role?
- Does DramaWave accept direct submissions from authors or only agented/represented IP?
- What rights, term lengths, territories and pricing bands does its acquisition model use?