I know, I know May 23, 2007
that most books that get optioned for film or television don’t end up being made, but some of these titles made me pause.
From the Creative Artists Agency ad in the April 30, 2007 issue of Publishers Weekly (pages 6-7):
YA-Related:
As Simple As Snow - Gregory Galloway (Alex Award winner)
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Michael Lewis (Alex Award winner)
The Children of the Lamp - P.B. Kerr
I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle (you know, that guy)
Larklight - Philip Reeve
Seeker - William Nicholson
Sold - Patricia McCormick (yeah, this is one that made me say, “Huh?” It’s a good book and *sob* made me cry, but I can’t imagine it as a movie)
Some of the more eyebrow-raising adult titles:
The Lost Painting - Jonathan Harr
Pompeii - Robert Harris
The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra (need to read this when I have time for a 916 page book. I assume they’re going to have to cut a lot from it)
As Simple As Snow is AMAZING.
I try to have people who like Looking For Alaska then read As Simple As Snow, and vice-versa.
Sold is a powerful novel, but unless they have voiceovers of her reading all of the passages, it just won’t feel the same.