Comments on: True Author Gossip

By: karmelrio

karmelrio — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:21:38 +0000

I certainly hope this one was made up for people’s so-called entertainment.

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:33:40 +0000

Mia — if she went through all the rigamarole of having a book optioned and a script written and then the film was never made (and you’re right that this isn’t at all unusual) that might be the “bad experience” mentioned in the piece.

Angie

By: mia madwyn

mia madwyn — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:26:26 +0000

Not Janet Evanovich. There was even a script written for One for the Money; she definitely sold those rights already. I don’t know why the movie didn’t get made, but it’s not unusual in Hollyweird.

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:39:45 +0000

Jackie Collins has more than a few movies made from her books. The Bitch stared her sissy. And Lucky series has had I think three made from it. The World is Full of Married Men and a few others IIRC.

By: DS

DS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:56 +0000

This frankly sounds like a lot of BS. All future rights? What were the casinos going to do? Knee-cap her? Break her typing fingers?

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0000

I have no clue who this writer is, but I hope the whole thing is a hoax. If it’s true, it’s just too heartbreaking.

By: Mora

Mora — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:47:15 +0000

I’m pretty sure the Oh No They Didn’t community debunked a couple of the CDAN blind items a few years ago. In any case, I can’t take anything seriously that comes from a website with a disclaimer that reads: “In addition to accurately reported information, certain situations, characters and events portrayed in the Blog are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.”

By: cecilia

cecilia — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:38:03 +0000

Shannon, I interpreted those two statements to mean that the friend is going to be selling the TV rights, when the author previously wouldn’t.

By: Shannon Stacey

Shannon Stacey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:57:14 +0000

If you scan the comments on the other sites, Jackie Collins and Anne Rice were popular guesses, with JC edging out AR because of AR’s sudden religious bent and JC’s love of casinos.

I hope that guy really IS a fraud, though, because how utterly heartbreaking.

But:

…but in return got our author to sign over any and all future rights from her books.

and

I would predict a flood of made for tv type fare over the next few years all based on her books.

kind of contradict each other, so hopefully he made it up.

By: MCHalliday

MCHalliday — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:56:43 +0000

This author has always been reluctant to have her books appear as films because of some bad previous experiences, but now, she really has no choice because she gave up all the rights.

Sony Pictures signed a deal with Patricia Cornwell in 2000 for the rights to 11 thrillers featuring her character Dr Kay Scarpetta. So in view to past proported reluctance…I’d have to voice a tremulous, ‘no’, to the gossip. My hope is it not be so.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:50:24 +0000

I was thinking Janet Evanovich as well.

Although this does seem more Patricia Cornwell-ish, now that you mention her….

By: Mora

Mora — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:44:32 +0000

Hasn’t the guy from Crazy Days and Nights been proven as a fraud? Or am I thinking of some other blind-item website?

By: Chantal

Chantal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:28:38 +0000

I have no idea. Gambling addiction can and does ruin your life, and I feel terrible for the author who was so down that she had to sell the rights of her books. I feel great sadness for her.

With any luck this type of press will be her rock bottom, and she can get the help she needs to get her life back together.

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:11:23 +0000

I was going to say Patricia Cornwell also. or perhaps Janet Evanovich?

By: Cinde

Cinde — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:56:01 +0000

I am going Patricia Cornwell, I mean have you read her wikipedia entry? woo! Sorry Patricia! :)