About Schmidt

By Warren Adler I note with interest fellow writer Louis Begley’s article in the New York Times on the movieAbout Schmidt adapted, allegedly, from his novel. It reminds me in some way my own piece in the New York Times about the badly flawed adaptation of my novel Random Hearts which starred Harrison Ford. I […]

Literary Fiction

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Blazing a New Trail

Taking the next step in author empowerment by Warren Adler Over the past several months, I have received numerous requests from readers of our E-sheets, as well as from other interested parties in and out of the publishing world, to provide some assessment of our progress. After all, we are blazing a trail into the […]

Selling Books to the Movies and Television: The Fiona Fiasco!

I get a lot of emails each week from authors asking questions about optioning, selling or adapting their work for the movies or TV. While I always try to answer as best I can, nothing comes close to hearing about the actual process in action. My latest Hollywood war story concerns the licensing of my […]

Peachtree City Library launching online book dialogues in August

From The Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 9, 2001 By  ABBY G. BRUNKS The Peachtree City Library will soon be offering more than the usual literary selections. Starting Aug. 16, Author Access online book discussions will debut with author Warren Adler as the first guest. Adler, who has written 23 novels, is one of the few, […]

WarrenAdler.com, Digital D.I.Y.

From Publisher’s Weekly, June 4, 2001 By using digital books and print-on-demand technology, authors who own the rights to their work can now make their stories available directly to readers, on the author’s own terms. One of the first authors to fully exploit this opportunity is Warren Adler, author of 24 novels, including War of […]

Power to the Author

Speech Delivered by Warren Adler at the NIST Convention in Washington D.C., September, 2000 A paper delivered by author Warren Adler, September 27th, 2000 at the Third Annual Electronic Book Conference and Show, Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. In nearly three decades I have published twenty five fictional works, including twenty three […]