Congratulations to author Casey McQuiston whose debut novel, RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE has been optioned for film! From the press release announced at Deadline Hollywood, “In spirited bidding, Amazon Studios won an auction for the Casey McQuiston novel Red White & Royal Blue, an unexpected power couple romance. Ted […]
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Congratulations to Stephanie Perkins! Deadline just announced that Patrick Brice will direct the Netflix adaptation of THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, with filming due to begin in October. If you love scary movies, this one is going to be killer.
It’s official! From Comingsoon.net: Paramount Pictures is set to develop an adaptation of Let it Snow through Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz’s Fake Empire productions, Deadline reports. The book, a collection of three intertwining young adult novellas, was written by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle and released in […]
I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of 2010, I saw 1,297 queries and requested 20 partials, passing on all […]
So, I’ve heard there’s a movie that just came out that’s based on a pretty popular YA novel. Maybe you’ve heard of it? And it got me thinking about book to film adaptations, and how some of them are amazing, some of them pretty so-so, and others… well, let’s just […]
I sobbed. I sat on the plane, arms pinned to my sides by the wall on my left and the man on my right, and tears ran unchecked down my face. If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a remarkable book. Like many books for teens, it’s about a choice, […]
First of all, thanks to everyone for your warm wishes on the occasion of kt literary's first anniversary! I know there's a lot of fantastic information about publishing and agenting out there on the intrawebs, and I'm thrilled so many of you choose to seek that out here, in my humble little corner of the world. But enough about me, let's talk about books -- and that holy grail of book success -- movies!