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James Frey Lands Publisher (or vice versa)
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
The press rarely reports on book deals in the making, so the amount of blow-by-blow coverage of James Frey shopping a six-book YA series is amazing. But then, this wasn’t a run-of-the mill book deal. The film rights to the first book in the sold for a “high six figures” to Transformers director Michael Bay. MTV, based on the synopsis alone, has already declared ...
James Frey targets a million little readers | Alison Flood
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk —
... The New York Times outed Frey as the author, and yesterday reported that HarperCollins Children's Books had acquired North American rights in the first four books in what is being billed as a series, starting with I Am Number Four. ...
HarperCollins Buys YA Novel Co-Written by James Frey
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
HarperCollins will publish a YA science fiction novel entitled, "I Am Number Four"--the first in what is conceived as a six book series co-written by James Frey and Columbia University creative writing graduate Jobie Hughes.
According to the NY Times, William Morris Endeavor agent Eric Simonoff sealed the deal. Dreamworks has already purchased rights to the space alien story, and Michael Bay is interested in producing. After his bestselling memoir was revealed to be ...
HCC News: The Friday Catch-Up Edition
The Savvy Reader —
We've survived two Mondays (well a Monday and a Thursday, the second just felt like a Monday because we were all off enjoying Canada Day) and are about to head into a weekend that contains loads of fresh air and a visit to the London Book Fair. Booksellers: we look forward to sharing a pint or two on Sunday evening for our pub night. And now, on to bookish links for this Friday afternoon: Our beloved James Frey hits the virtual newswaves this week for his latest project, a series of YA novels whose film rights have already been sold to Dreamworks. Yet another beloved, Let the Great World Spin, arrived ...
Author James Frey’s New Target is Teens
avidbookreader —
Apparently, author, James Frey, is still selling well after he publicly admitted that his memoir, “A Million Little Pieces” was actually in part, fabricated.
According to this article, Frey and his collaborator, Jobie Hughes, new YA series was being pimped anonymously until their covers were blown by the media last week. Frey is looking to sell books to young adults now. Also, the film rights for the first book, “I Am Number Four” has already been sold to Dreamworks. Talk about fast.
This is suppose to be a six book series, too. Plot sounds completely unoriginal to me. ...
YA Movie News
GreenBeanTeenQueen —
Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare recently visited with fans in Bryant Park. She mentioned that the film rights for the series have been sold and a movie is in the works. Not related to a movie, but she's also working on a fourth book in the series, City of Fallen Angels, this time told from Simon's point of view. The book will be out March 2011. First James Frey and a co-writer sell a young adult series to Harper Collins. Now that un-published series has a movie in the works with screenwriters attached ...
