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Little, Brown Acquires JJ Abrams-Hatched Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: JJ Abrams, Little Brown
Mike Fleming

Little, Brown has acquired North American rights to a novel hatched with a concept from Super 8 director JJ Abrams, written by Doug Dorst. The untitled novel will be a lead title in the 2012 list for Mulholland Books. The publisher was mum on the title or the subject matter, but when word  circulated that Abrams was involved in a book, it certainly got the film rights crowd hot and bothered when the book got shopped to publishers recently. Hard to get a handle on what the book’s about, but I’ve heard that will be done in a style similar to Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine series, which was about the relationship between a postcard designer and an illustrator of stamps, and which told a story that was loaded with graphics and required readers to follow the correspondence by reading postcards and letters stuffed in envelopes pasted in the book. Word is Abrams is up to similar cleverness.

Dorst wrote Alive in Necropolis.

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20th Century Fox, Little Brown Spend Big For First Novel ‘The Five Hundred’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 7, 2011 @ 8:49am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Emma Watts, Justin Manask, Little Brown
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Days after Little Brown closed a million dollar publishing deal on it last week, 20th Century Fox acquired screen rights to Matthew Quirk’s first novel The Five Hundred.  The movie deal was worth low-to-mid six figures against low seven … Read More »

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‘Saw’ Scribes Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan Set Novel ‘Blacklight’ At Little Brown

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 9:24am PSTTags: APA, Book Publishing, Book Publishing Deals, Little Brown, Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, Underground
Mike Fleming

Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, whose credits include the fourth through seven Saw installments as well as the upcoming Hellraiser remake and the sequel Piranha 3 Double D, are moving into publishing with a Little Brown deal for their first novel, Blacklight. The book is the story of a ghost … Read More »

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