Publisher’s Weekly recounts the unlikely journey of novice Bay Area filmmakers and identical twins Logan and Noah Miller:
“In January 2006, Logan and Noah Miller’s father, a homeless alcoholic, died in jail. The twins, aspiring filmmakers with no meaningful experience, had for years wanted to make an autobiographical film about their dad, and on the day [...]
Stories in Deals:
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Notebook: Hugo, Zell, Facebook Hamlet, Orangeless
Hugo awards best novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. Tor books has nice coverage of the awards. [Thx Cory D.] More: hugoawards.com.
Fishbowl LA: Will the Zell Book Sell?
M&M points us to Sarah Schmelling’s acutely cool HAMLET (Facebook News Feed Edition). We pay it forward to you. BTW: Michelle Nicolosi’s smart Google [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
Sold
Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Book deals
From the latest Publisher’s Lunch dispatch:
• Screenwriter and lit blogger Mark Sarvas sells his first novel, Harry Revised (”about a guilt-ridden, down-on-his-luck widower, who tries to reinvent himself following his wife’s untimely death”) to Bloomsbury for publication in winter 2008. Mark shares the backstory here.
• LA writer Hilary De Vries sells her [...]
In other breaking Steinbeck news
From today’s LA Times: “ST. PAUL, MINN. — “The Grapes of Wrath” has become, here in the frozen North, an opera. Many composers over the years have wanted to make the classic American 1939 novel into one, but the John Steinbeck estate and the author’s publisher always said no. The green light was finally [...]
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Notebook: Hugo, Zell, Facebook Hamlet, Orangeless
Hugo awards best novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. Tor books has nice coverage of the awards. [Thx Cory D.] More: hugoawards.com.
Fishbowl LA: Will the Zell Book Sell?
M&M points us to Sarah Schmelling’s acutely cool HAMLET (Facebook News Feed Edition). We pay it forward to you. BTW: Michelle Nicolosi’s smart Google [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
Sold
Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Book deals
From the latest Publisher’s Lunch dispatch:
• Screenwriter and lit blogger Mark Sarvas sells his first novel, Harry Revised (”about a guilt-ridden, down-on-his-luck widower, who tries to reinvent himself following his wife’s untimely death”) to Bloomsbury for publication in winter 2008. Mark shares the backstory here.
• LA writer Hilary De Vries sells her [...]
In other breaking Steinbeck news
From today’s LA Times: “ST. PAUL, MINN. — “The Grapes of Wrath” has become, here in the frozen North, an opera. Many composers over the years have wanted to make the classic American 1939 novel into one, but the John Steinbeck estate and the author’s publisher always said no. The green light was finally [...]
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