Summer Short Story Contest Update!
Contest Submission is Now Closed.
The Warren Adler Short Story Contest is fast becoming the most prestigious online shortstory contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of our submissions. We are pleased to announce our next contest. The theme is simply short fiction in all of its varied genres. We are looking for original, imaginative pieces featuring compelling characters and creative plots. Whether you specialize in mainstream fiction, romance, horror, fantasy, science-fiction, satire, mystery, or any of their subcategories, we want to read your work.
The People's Choice winner will be determined by public voting, which starts
on August 17, 2009. Warren
Adler's top choice, along with the People's Choice winner, will be announced on September 1, 2009.
Five cash prizes will be awarded.
- 1st Prize: $1,000
- People's Choice Prize $500
- Remaining finalists receive $150 each
See complete details about this contest.
Funny Boys, Latest Novel by Warren Adler Optioned for Film
 Funny Boys, the latest novel by War of the Roses author Warren Adler about the Borscht Belt and Murder Inc.(circa1937) has been optioned for a film. It is the 12th novel of Mr. Adler’s bought or optioned by Hollywood.
Mr. Adler, whose The War of the Roses novel was adapted as a movie with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, has published 30 novels which have been translated into 25 foreign languages.
Funny Boys is the story of a comedian, or in the Yiddish idiom of the time, a "tumler," in a Catskill mountain resort hotel in 1937 who gets entangled with the mobsters of Murder Inc.
The story authentically reenacts the speech and customs of the era. In the thirties, forties and fifties the area was known as the Borscht Belt and nourished the careers of some of the most famous comedians of the time such as Milton Berle, Red Button, Jerry Lewis, Sam Levinson, Myron Cohen, Sid Caesar and scores of others.
Murder Inc. was one of the most feared and ruthless gangs in New York, a combination of Jewish and Italian mobsters who wreaked havoc in New York before World War II. The novel recreates the atmosphere and environment of one of the most colorful eras in the twentieth century.
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