Really exciting news!

INKUBATE has attracted the interest of one of the top six U.S. publishing houses and we'll be meeting with them again in late Sept. - early Oct.! They have expressed interest in our Children's, Y.A. & Adult manuscript categories.

So, please sign on and post your work! They’ll be looking very closely at these submissions over the course of the next several months, as part of our ongoing development and BETA testing. During the BETA test period, we will assist editors by making direct introductions to writers. We hope that this will maximize the value of INKUBATE to our early adopting writers, while we continue to build out the final INKUBATE structure.

Though INKUBATE will be acting as an intermediary to facilitate these introductions, we want to remind participants that INKUBATE charges no fees or commissions.

Stacy Clark and Jay Gale are looking forward to connecting with friends next week at the New Hampshire Media Makers Gala Event in Manchester, N.H. For information, contact the host of the event, John Herman at john.c.herman@gmail.com.

As we’ve received so many kind comments about Jay’s recent interview with Seacoast Business Connection Host, Mark Miller (Portsmouth Community Radio), we’re reposting the podcast link here.

http://www.inkubate.com/Content/audio/WSCA_07-11-2011_JayGale.mp3

Mark Miller can be reached at localart@comcast.net.

Stay tuned to Mark’s weekly broadcast (Mondays at noon) and check out our blog for regular updates.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, we’re here and happy to assist!

Stacy Clark: stacy@inkubate.com 

Jay Gale: jdgale@inkubate.com

Portsmouth, NH

On Monday, July 11^th, Jay Gale, Co-Founder & Partner at INKUBATE, was the featured guest on Portsmouth Community Radio’s (WSCA 106.1 FM) Seacoast Business Connection, an hour-long talk show hosted by Mark Miller, a local business commentator dedicated to finding and reporting on the most interesting entrepreneurial businesses homegrown in NH.

Mark heard about INKUBATE through the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, an organization headed by John Herman that has been very supportive of INKUBATE’S mission. Prior to contacting Jay, Mark himself became a writer member of INKUBATE. In the process, our business model so intrigued Mark that he kindly invited Jay to discuss it in detail.

Mark and Jay’s conversation covered a broad range of issues, with an emphasis on how INKUBATE’S search tools will provide the efficiencies that publishers and agents have said will help them remain competitive, despite the rapidly evolving market challenges presented by self-publishing and direct publishing models. Amazon is one such challenger that has, in fact, become a full-fledged publisher in its own right.

“What we are doing is turning the ‘Discovery’ process into a proactive experience, so that publishers and agents are now able to find exactly what they are looking for,” Jay explained. “The term slush-pile has regularly been used pejoratively to describe a richly textured body of writers’ works simply because it’s difficult to manage. What we understood when we set out to streamline the Discovery process is that there’s nothing wrong, intrinsically, with that body of work, though, what has been lacking, up until now, are the tools powerful enough to efficiently manage this rich library of intellectual output. INKUBATE’S tools enable publishers and editors to mine exactly what they are looking for from this valuable raw resource. Yesterday’s so-called slush-pile is now revealing itself to be a deep reserve of new and valuable intellectual property. INKUBATE makes this possible.”

The hour long discussion can be heard by following this link:

http://www.inkubate.com/Content/audio/WSCA_07-11-2011_JayGale.mp3

Anyone concerned with these issues should take a listen and, of course, we’re always delighted for you to respond with questions or feedback that you may have on this or other blog posts.

Below: Jay Gale (foreground) and Seacoast Business Connection Host, Mark Miller at WSCA's Portsmouth, NH radio station