LITTLE PINK SLIPS -- OPTIONED FOR A MOVIE
The book, from publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, hit in April and involves all the craziness at a fictional magazine called Lady after it's given over to a big, brash, buxom redhead named Bebe Blake, who creates chaos.
Von Zerneck's past film credits include Scott Turow's "Reversible Errors," starring Tom Selleck and William H. Macy, and Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys," starring Blythe Danner and Beau Bridges.
— New York Post
Little Pink Slips in Chinese!
Little Pink Slips in Dutch!
Little Pink Slips is now out in paperback -- and that's not all. It's gone global. For those of you who read Dutch, you can buy it in Holland under the title Glossy!, because our American idiom "pink slip" gets lost in translation. There's also a Chinese edition and soon, versions in Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan and Thailand, too.
But there's more – Lifetime TV—on a real roll, these days—has optioned the book for a possible movie. The cinematic fate of Magnolia Gold now rests in the talented hands of a Hollywood scriptwriter and producer. Any ideas on who should be cast in the major roles?
Perhaps the most exciting development, for me, is that writing Little Pink Slips has led to a contract with Ballantine/Random House for two more novels. The first of these books (tentatively titled The Late, Lamented Molly Marx) will be released in Spring 2009 and has already been sold in Germany to DVR, a distinguished publisher who will print it as a paperback original for those who sprechen Deutsch. The second novel will appear in 2010 and every day I try to inch it forward, paragraph by paragraph, idea by idea.For all these developments, I am thrilled, grateful for the incredible support I have received from so many and still, quite dazed. Thank you!
