by Warren Adler I am always amused at the game of musical chairs orchestrated by those who run the book publishing industry. The latest is the sudden dismissal of Ann Godoff from the helm of Random House and the appointment of Gina Centrello to head a new combination of Random House and Ballantine Books. Ho […]
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 […]
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The creation of “The Sunset Gang” musical by Warren Adler In the mid 1970’s, I wrote fifteen short stories inspired by my parent’s life in “Century Village,” a community in West Palm Beach Florida that, in those days, catered to retired civil servants, teachers, former shopkeepers and salesman who had lived through the depression and […]
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 […]
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 […]
At the NIST Electronic Book 2001Conference in Washington, DC, November 6, 2001 Last year at this convention, I announced my intention of putting all of my 23 backlist novels on the web. I had concluded that it was the only alternative available for an author like myself with a large backlist of books, translated into […]