 After—believe
it or not!--24 months of negotiation, AEI has finalized its deal
to franchise Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not! as
a series of major motion pictures, on the model of “Indiana
Jones,” to be produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong with Alphaville’s
Jim Jacks and Sean Daniels (“The Mummy”) for Paramount Pictures.
The deal was made with Sherry Lansing, Donald DeLine, and Tom Jacobson
of Paramount, and Norm Deska of Ripley Entertainment. |
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| Ken Atchity will be speaking at Author 101 University's
seminar "Tools and Techniques to Get Your Book Published and
Double or Triple Your Income as an Author or Publisher" on
May 29 in Los Angeles. Are you curious about what publishers like Adams Media, Harper Collins, Wiley, Random House,and Simon & Schuster are looking for? What is the best way to get your manuscript read when you're an unpublished author? Want to know the biggest mistakes to avoid when writing book proposals? Click here for more info. |
| AEI Hopes to Serve Movie You'll
Love Chi-Li Wong reports that AEI will be signing (after the collegiate tennis season is over) Sheila Johnson who at 60, is the oldest tennis player in the collegiate ranks and first-year GCU coach Greg Prudhomme who was faced with the daunting task of turning around an ailing tennis program. Enter Johnson, who had been taking private lessons from Prudhomme. Coincidentally Sheila had last played collegiately for Arizona State in the mid-1960's and still had one year of eligibility remaining. With only three weeks to put together a team and one player short Greg thought outside the box and recruited Sheila who has since helped the Antelopes turn a 1-10 program into an 8-8 regional qualifier. They went to Hawaii to compete in the nationals... from Honolulu Star-Bulletin: At 60, Sheila Pearl Johnson is the oldest tennis player in the collegiate ranks...Her first trip to Hawaii is the culmination of what she calls "the perfect storm"...First-year GCU coach Greg Prudhomme had an open roster spot.... "I knew how good she was," Prudhomme said. "She's ranked No. 3 in her age-group nationally, has a ton of experience. I had one scholarship left and I offered it to her." Johnson has been featured on the CBS Evening News and National Public Radio, and in Sports Illustrated and USA Today. Her inspirational story has a potential book deal in the offing as well as a movie. Atchity Entertainment International is tossing a film deal her way - after the season is done because of NCAA rules -- with Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Kathy Bates being suggested to play Johnson...Since AEI has made films that have starred Angelina Jolie, Prudhomme thought it a no-brainer that Jolie's husband - Brad Pitt - should play him... Full Story |
| So
Help Me God author Larry Thompson was a featured speaker
at a recent meeting of the Lecture Luncheon Club of Oak Cliff...
From the Dallas Morning News: Mr. Thompson's legal background includes 20 years defending doctors and a 90 percent success rate in more than 300 lawsuits... Levy Entertainment will work with book buyers to stock Larry Thompson's books in airports, military stores, grocery stores, discount and drugstores and just about anywhere a buyer would expect to find books... Full Story |
| From comingsoon.net: Still Hope for Steve Alten's Meg? Source: Los Angeles Times ...a new financier has stepped forward with plans to finally bring "Meg" to the big screen. Apelles Publishing Inc. of Abington, Va., has optioned the rights from Alten with veteran Hollywood producers Lawrence Gordon ("Die Hard") and Lloyd Levin ("Boogie Nights"), along with Virginia-based film financing consultant Belle Avery, set to produce. Gordon and Levin have a track record of taking projects put in turnaround at one studio and successfully setting them up at another... more |
| Coming Soon: Joe Cervasio’s inspiring Now or Never: the 11 Secrets of Arimathea. Check out this slide show about the book! |
| Royce Buckingham has closed a deal with Putnam (John Rudolph) for his third novel (after Demonkeeper and Goblins), Scary Monsters. Via Baror International, Random House/Germany has made a deal for a sequel to Demonkeeper. |
| Abramovitch to adapt Diehl's spy novel Breaking Ball Films' Scott Abramovitch and Lonny Dubrofsky have acquired feature rights to William F. Diehl's pre-WWII spy novel 27, with Abramovitch adapting. Story, originally called "The Hunt," centers on a wealthy American ex-bootlegger who attempts to thwart a Nazi agent who plans to kidnap a group of VIPs and hold them hostage in exchange for President Roosevelt's promise that the U.S. will stay out of the war. Diehl, who died in 2006, was best known for thrillers "Sharky's Machine" and "Primal Fear," both made into features. The rights deal is the first made by Atchity Entertainment Intl. for Diehl's estate, controlled by his widow Virginia Gunn Diehl. by Dave Mcnary for Variety Click here for press release. |
| Alvin Schwartz’s An Unlikely Prophet has been sold to Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag (Germany), for publication in October. |
| Jane Tara's Forecast
received a 4-Heart review from The Romance Reader's Shirley Lyons:
"This book made me laugh. There is no greater compliment I can give...characters jump off the pages"... more... |
| From Ken's Blog: It’s gratifying to see that Larry Thompson’s So Help Me God is about to appear from Tom Doherty Books, as a lead title in April. Take a look at the ad that will start showing up throughout the country and click through to amazon.com to buy the book. It’s been a long road for Larry, to whom I was introduced by my Houston director Fred Griffin, and he deserves the kind of advance orders his book is enjoying - especially from Levy Distributors. I knew his brother Tommy (Blood and Money, Serpentine) years ago in Los Angeles P.E.N. Larry, a trial lawyer, is every bit as talented as a writer and I know this book is the first of many ideological thrillers we’ll see from him. His second, Insanity, is already penned and in the hands of the publisher. Click here to see the book trailer! Texas Lawyer says: "John Grisham and Scott Turow have a new competitor..." |
| Royce Buckingham's Demonkeeper has been named to the Kansas State Reading Circle 2008 Recommended Reading List: Junior High/Middle School Level, the New York Public Library’s Best Books for the Teen Age 2008, a 2008 IRA/CBC Children’s Choice title, and will be among the first titles that will go live on Audible.com Kids’ site launch! |
| AEI client writer-director-actor
Kerry Valderrama's debut film, Garrison, was screened at the Hollywood
DV/HD Film Festival. Garrison World Premiered on Jan 21st at the Park City Film Music Festival and received the Silver Medal Award in Artistic Excellence for Best Impact of Music in a Feature Film and a Gold Remi Award at the 40th annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. "Impressive Military thriller Garrison is one of the most riveting truly indie efforts your likely to see for a while." San Antonio Current |
| Michael Radford's "Taj,"
with screenplay by Krishna Shah, was featured on the front page
of The Times of India! From Reuters: "The makers of a new film about the Taj Mahal hope to have an edge over previous attempts with an epic romance that appeals to both Indian and Western audiences....Scriptwriter Krishna Shah's narrative caught the fancy of Hollywood filmmakers who said it reminded them of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"....more |
| Tracy Price-Thompson’s Gather Together in My Name has been chosen as an alternate by Black Expressions Book Club. |
| From Ken's Blog: I was privileged to be invited again this year by my friend Rick Frishman to Mark Victor Hansen's MEGA BOOK MARKETING UNIVERSITY at the LAX Westin Hotel. I served on the Story Panel, was introduced by MVH to say a few words to the VIP luncheon, and listened to one on one pitches from prospective writers who want to tell their the world - one novel, one young adult novel, and one nonfiction book. More than anything I - and the others who attended - came away with a sense of energy and re-determination for being able to take part in a story marketplace where the world's desire for stories results in careers being made before our eyes. I'm already looking forward to the next one, where story merchants like myself get a chance to assist writers-en-route-to-their-audiences with advice and an attentive ear. Click here for pics! |
| Rosemary Serluca-Foster was interviewed on KRUU's Sleepytime with Grandpa D show, and gave a reading from her children`s picture book Genevieve`s Gift: A Child`s Joyful Tale of Connecting with her Intuitive Heart. |
| Serdar Ozkan's The Missing Rose has been sold to Publicacoes Europa-America (Portugal & Brazil), bringing to 26 the number of countries that have bought rights to his powerful mystical novel. |
| Alaya Johnson's Racing The Dark was covered in a recent issue of Curve Magazine. Click here for tearsheet! |
| AEI client Jennifer Minar edits the fantastic website WritersBreak Monthly, and this month she describes her own experience finding AEI as her literary managers and working with us to develop her novel Never Smile at Strangers. And check out this issue's featured article - Ken's "12 Hints for Rekindling your Creative Spark!" |
| Dr Dre was a guest on a recent episode of Mancow's Morning Show. |
| Royce Buckingham’s Goblins (forthcoming from Putnam in April) has been sold to Random House/Germany. DK will be the lead book in a new imprint, with the sequel following 12 months later. |
| Michael Radford is set to direct "Taj," the love story between 17th century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, the queen for whom he built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum. Click here for reprint of Variety article |
| Noire’s first film, "Hitting the Bricks," based on her forthcoming novel from Ballantine by the same name is now in postproduction. To learn more about it - and to see photos of the cast - Click here to download pdf file and check out Es Musica's cool feature! |
| Ken Atchity's Inside Hollywood: The Reel Path to Success in the Motion Picture Industry, (with Richard Warren Rappaport and Emilia Patricia Graham) appeared as the lead article in Entertainment and Media Law Contract Strategies. |
| From the feature article by Marcia C. Dibble in the
Winter 2007-2008 issue of Continuum: April Christofferson seeks to inspire readers to action even as she keeps them glued to their seats.... The issues around which Christofferson is now working to make a difference include the West's biggest areas of conflict - wildlife and public lands management, tribal rights, and development. Currently wrapping up her seventh novel, Christofferson has filled many a page in her efforts to educate as well as entertain, and she's found numerous willing readers along the way... more |
| Former AEI client Suzi Parker appeared on Dr. Phil 1/25, and mentioned her book Sex in the South, which AEI is producing at Lifetime. Beth Henley ("Crimes of the Heart") will commence the script when the WGA strike ends. |
| Drew Mayer-Oakes, Film Commissioner of San Antonio
Texas and A.W.O.L Studios Inc. announces an upcoming screening for
the feature film Garrison,
directed by Kerry Valderrama, at NewFilmmakers NY, a year-round
film series dedicated to first and second time filmmakers. Time and place: 32 Second Ave, NYC, Feb 12, 8 PM. A military mystery, Garrison revolves around an A.W.O.L soldier who is being searched for by his fellow troops. Garrison was inspired by the Fort Bragg killings of 2002. The film Premiered at the Park City Film Music Festival, and was been entered in competition for Best Music in a Feature Film. For more information, visit NewFilmakers.com |
| Noire, "the queen of urban erotica," who's been called the Henry Miller and Charles Dickens of street lit, has signed a significant 3-book deal with Ballantine (Melody Guy, Jane von Mehren, Gina Centrello) for her next two novels (Hitting the Bricks and a presently untitled one) + the first volume in her erotic quickie series, From the Streets to the Sheets: Urban Erotic Quickies. Noire's bestselling urban erotic tales include G-Spot, Candy Licker, and Thug-A-Licious (all from Ballantine). Her lit manager/producer Ken Atchity of AEI confirms that the film based on Bricks, directed by Brian T. Jaynes and starring Texas Battle, Ness Bautista, and Alexandra Merejo is "in the can," and in submission to festivals. Noire's last two novels, Hood and Thong on Fire, were published by Atria. |
| rwcactivist.com
on Bill and Cindy Paul's Shadow
of an Indian Star: "...more than a story about the Indian Territory or the Wild West...a beautiful picture of what happens in the wilderness...tramples the Hollywood stereotype of life in the John Wayne West..." more |
| Royce Buckingham's Demonkeeper has been nominated for the American Library Association's Quick Picks List for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. |
| Kristina McMorris' website
has won 2nd place in the Silver
Rose Contest for Web Site Excellence Kristina will read an excerpt from my manuscript "Between the Lines," a WWII love story and winner of the 2007 Kay Snow Literary Award, at Barnes & Noble in Clackamas, Oregon, on Sunday, December 9th at 1PM, in an event for the Books for Kids program. Her second novel, Flaherty's Crossing, was awarded 1st place in the Mainstream Category of the 2007 Gateway to the Best Contest and 2007 Golden Acorn Contest and 1st place in the Cleveland Rocks National Writing Contest. "Flaherty's Crossing immediately engages the reader with lyrical prose, a plot equally moving and suspenseful, and real, compelling characters. The writing is as fresh as it is evocative. From heartwrenching to heartwarming, inducing laughter and tears, this virtual roller coaster of a tale won't let the reader go until reaching the final turn of the ride. A superb novel bearing a message not easily forgotten." Angela Fox, Clackamas Review/Oregon City News |
| More reviews of Jane Tara's Forecast!
"...fun contemporary...well-detailed, realistic...delightful romance... A great book to curl up with..." says New And Used Books. And from Huntress Book Reviews: "...Quirky humor highlights this breezy, easy to read...very imaginative..." Roundtable Reviews found Forecast "...full of humor, romance, and enjoyable characters...extremely charming..." Click here for more reviews! |
| From the Library Journal review of Alaya Johnson's
Racing
The Dark Like the other women dwelling on their seismically active island, Lana plans to become a diver for the jewels within the fish of the freshwater seas. Her first dive, however, turns up a rare jewel that marks her as a woman of power and causes her to flee her island home with her family in search of a teacher who can prepare her for the danger that lies ahead. Johnson's first novel presents a coming-of-age story with a strong female protagonist and an unusual and exotic setting. For most collections. (Johnson, just 25, is currently at work on the sequel volume to this planned trilogy). Time Out Chicago called it: "a highly imaginative tale that embeds the story with enough action to appeal to the young-adult crowd, and enough ideas for their parents" ...more |
| Click here for David Lockard's exclusive photos on the Fox Studios’ set of Noire’s "Hitting the Bricks" |
| Deadpit.com, horror online's leading radio station, conducted an interview with AEI client writer/producer/director Michael A. Simpson about the cult classic horror films Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers & Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland. The interview is available for free download or streaming at www.deadpit.com. |
| Atchity Entertainment International, Inc.'s new development deal with Spark Digital Media has optioned John Burke (aka Richard O'Connor)'s Duet in Diamonds (Putnam), a nonfiction character study of Diamond Jim Brady and his long romantic relationship with Lillian Russell for an "Aviator-style" feature film - from McIntosh & Otis (Evva Pryor and Ian Polonsky). Atchity will produce along with partner Chi-Li Wong and Spark's Mark K. Sullivan. |
| From The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, LA: ...heart-wrenching story by best-selling author Tracy Price-Thompson titled Other People's Skin...anchors the book. A winner of the 2002 Hurston/Wright Award for short fiction, it delivers a scorching testament to the prejudices that occur on both sides of the paper bag test... more |
| Noire's Thong on Fire won #1 Erotic Fiction Award at the Annual African-American Literary Fiction Awards, and her first film, "Hitting the Bricks," directed by Brian Jaynes, started shooting October 30 at Lacy Studios in Los Angeles. |
| Peter Bielagus' Kwik Kash for Kids has been sold to Sterling Publishers (Meredith Hale) |
| Cover art for Royce Buckingham's second novel Click here for larger version |
| With our client Doctor Dre, AEI is testing the waters of merchandising and licensing. Here's his interview with PUMA |
| Once Upon a Romance on Jane Tara's Forecast "...a feel good story where you want the two would be lovers together. The ending is sweet and exactly as it should be. True romantics will not be disappointed..." more and from Contemporary Romance Writers: "...Suspense, romance and a few ghosts add up to an enthralling story. Do not miss it!..." more Romantic Times gives Forecast 4 1/2 stars: "A breezy, lighthearted romance by an author who knows her New Age and alternative philosophies, this one will put a smile on your face. Tara makes the paranormal normal and the happily-ever-afters seem like destiny. Wonderful characters and a well-crafted story arc make this a recipe for a beautiful weekend." Click here for scan of review, and here for scan of Jane's article in Romantic Times! Check out the Forecast Bookmercial on youtube! |
| Noire, the Queen of Urban Erotica and #1 Essence bestselling author of G-Spot, Candy Licker, Thug-A-Licious, Baby Brother (with 50 Cent), Thong on Fire, and Hood, has joined forces with New York Times Bestselling author Mary B. Morrison, author of Sweeter Than Honey, When Somebody Loves You Back, Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, and He's Just A Friend, to collaborate on an anthology of erotic proportions for Kensington Publishing. "Writing with an erotica virtuoso like Mary is going to be the literary experience of a lifetime," says Noire. "Between the two of us we should generate enough heat to melt the cover off this book!" |
| From School Library Journal's review of Alaya Johnson's
Racing
The Dark ...rich details of setting and character motivation....lyrical and metaphorical...Click here for reprint The Chicago Tribune has selected Racing the Dark as one of its "Best Reads for Fall." |
Royce Buckingham's Demonkeeper
was featured on Seattle's KOMO Radio. Click
here to listen! |
| Alan Roth's "Hang Time" has made it to the semifinals of The Nicholls Fellowship. |
| Noire's Thong On Fire is #2 on the Essence Bestseller list for September. |
| AEI client Robert G. Lee has optioned his spec script DO OVERS to Virgo Films (exec Roderick Davis). He’s also recently completed the screenplay adaptation of Melanie Lynn Hauser’s novel Confessions Of A Supermom under option to AEI’s DayStar Entertainment division (exec Greg F. Dix). |
| David
Angsten’s Dark
Gold hits the Berkeley bookstore. From Bookgasm: ...many things all rolled into one: a tale of high adventure, a brush with horror, and a white-knuckle thriller tinged with supernatural mystery...the pop-savvy pool read that JAWS was, albeit with better sex. And I do mean better!...delivers the goods and then some with a multi-page romp that’s one of the hottest things I’ve ever read – graphic without being too overtly pornographic....For escapist, jumbled-recipe fare in this sweltering season, it’s tough to beat...marks an awfully polished debut, making Angsten an instant author... Click here for more Blurbs and Reviews! |
| Racing The Dark by AEI client Alaya Johnson has been chosen as a Featured Alternate in the Science Fiction Book Club's Late Holiday catalog! |
| Wet Paint on Royce Buckingham's Demonkeeper: Oh to have a sequel of this one come out. I'd snatch it up in a heart beat....What a fun read, great humour and action... more |
| Crystal Reviews on Jane Tara's Forecast: Forecast is a lovely read! The characters are funny, strange in an enchanting way, and exciting enough that you want to keep reading and see how it all evolves....I foresee that anyone who enjoys an unpredictable, romantic story is going to love this novel! more... |
| Kristina McMorris' Between the Lines won first place in the Kay Snow Contest! |
| AEI’s sister company, The Louisiana Wave Studio, LLC was mentioned in a recent article in Variety. |
| Ken Atchity gave a very well-received keynote address at the recent Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. Click here for text. |
| Glen Pitre's Willie Francis Must Die Again is one of only three documentaries selected for the Santa Monica Film Festival. |
| Alan Roth's Hang Time has made it to the quarterfinal round of the Nicholl Screenplay Competition. |
| Publishers Weekly gave Noire’s Hood a great review, ending with: "Noire is Dickens for the age of dojah, donuts and dawgs." |
| Spokane's Spokesman Review chose April Christofferson's Buffalo Medicine as their July pick! |
| AEI has provided financing to complete "Gospel Hill," starring Danny Glover, Samuel Jackson, Angela Bassett, and Julia Stiles, and directed by Giancarlo Esposito. The movie wraps in South Carolina July 25. AEI’s Ken Atchity, L. A. Young, and Mark K. Sullivan are exec producers. |
| As part of its Yo! MTV Raps Artists line, Super Rad Toys will create a limited edition collectable figure of AEI client Doctor Dre. The 12"-14" rotocast vinyl likeness of Doctor Dre will be fully posable, and come with separate clothing and accessories. Doctor Dre has also signed a deal with Puma, to lend his likeness to a Yo! MTV Raps-inspired line of sneakers and apparel. |
 AEI
clients who won Independent
Publisher's top Gold IPPY awards include Allan Kahane's Fire
With Fire in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category, and
Bill and Cindy Paul's Shadow
of an Indian Star in the category of Best Regional Fiction
in the Midwest! |
| AEI client Kristina McMorris announcs the lanuch of her website, KristinaMcMorris.com. Check it out! |
| Noire's Thong On Fire is #1 on The Black Issues Book Review paperback fiction list for May/June 2007. |
| Deadpit.com, horror online's leading radio station, conducted an interview with AEI client writer/producer/director Michael A. Simpson about the cult classic horror films Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers & Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland. The interview is available for free download or streaming at www.deadpit.com. |
| AEI/Baror deal: Serdar Ozkan’s The Missing Rose has been sold to House of Books ( Holland ), Hena ( Croatia ), R.A.O. ( Romania ), Mladinska Knjiga ( Slovenia ), Okean (Serbia), and Maeva ( Spain ). |
| Royce Buckingham's Demonkeeper
was reiewed by curled
up with a good kid's book: Written with a unique blend of funny and fearsome, this novel stomps, slithers and soars with a creative cast of characters...The author’s wit, both wacky and wonderful, causes the pages to jiggle with giggles... more |
| From Variety: Ernest Dickerson will direct "The Un-Dead," a new chapter to the canon of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" that has been endorsed by the author's family... The picture is a co-production between Ken Atchity's AEI and Jan De Bont's Blue Tulip Prods... Atchity said plans are afoot to re-publish the original Stoker work in its original form. Half the book was edited out in the original publication, and some of the excised plot was incorporated into the sequel book and will be used as plot in the new film. New characters include Jack the Ripper and the infamous Madame Bathory. Click here for more |
| KJA...I always say there's a big blackboard in
the sky with a list of all the no's you're going to get on a given
project - and the final yes. The only problem is that the blackboard
is invisible. Since that's the case, obviously the only way to stay
sane is to get through all those no's as quickly as you can - never
wasting time trying to change a no to a yes. A yes from the wrong
person is much worse than a no... From the WritersBreak Interview with Ken Atchity by Jennifer Minar-Jaynes - Click here for full text! |
| Alvin Schwartz's two novelized memoirs dealing with the origins of Clark Kent and Superman, An Unlikely Prophet and A Gathering of Selves, both forthcoming from Inner Traditions, have been optioned by the cinematic arm of Global Intelligence Press ("What the Bleep do We know?") for Betsy Chasse to produce and direct. |
| Rick Frishman's Bestselling Book Proposals is now available on Amazon! |
| Noire's Thong On Fire, just out from Atria, was #1 on Amazon's "Hot New Releases," her Thug-a-Licious is #1 and Candy Licker is #4 on the Knowledge Bookstore Best Selling Fiction List, and her G-Spot was chosen as a Black Expressions 2006 Book of the Year Winner. |
| Universal Pictures has acquired the Nick Redfern novel "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men." Click here for reprint from Hollywood Reporter, click here for reprint from Variety |
| Baby Brother by Noire and 50 Cent has been nominated for the 2008 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers List. YALSA is the Young Adult Library Services Association. |
| Demonkeeper
by Royce Buckingham was featured in Richie's
Picks: ...an alternately sweet, funny, and occasionally deadly story of a lonely boy, a lonely girl, a house full of demons, a vengeful apprentice gone bad, a pair of skater dudes, and The Beast... |
| AEI has closed a deal with Universal on behalf of Paraview (Sandra Martin) for her author Nick Redfern's nonfiction book, Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men by Nick Redfern, about his experiences driving cross country in an RV to investigate monster sightings. AEI will produce with the Heder Bros’ Greasy Productions. |
| Debut novel by Aussie Jane Tara Forecast, about a psychic weatherwoman in Manhattan who lives with her other-worldly mom and grandmom and falls in love with the very down to earth weatherman she's replacing to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester (North American only), for publication beginning in November 2007, by producer-manager Ken Atchity for AEI. |
| The controversial Alibi Network has signed for representation and development with management/production company Atchity Entertainment International (AEI)... more |
| Ken Atchity's TeleSeminar, Success in Hollywood, is available for download in MP3 format (zipped). |
| Italian rights to international entrepreneur Allan Kahane's Fire With Fire have been obtained by Newton and Compton Italia, by Cristina Ringetti at Asni, Ranghetti & Rotundo Literary Agency, on behalf of Atchity Entertainment International. |
| Kristina McMorris' Between the Lines was a finalist in the "Duel on the Delta" romance writing contest and placed first in the mainstream category of the Golden Palm Contest. |
| Noire's Candy Licker is #1 on the Essence Bestseller List, and her Thong On Fire is scheduled for review in the 1/8/07 issue of Publishers Weekly! Thug-a-Licious also made the Essence List. |
| Tim Burton and Jim Carrey were supposed to do a flick based on RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, but for reasons unknown it was shelved. Probably schedule conflicts. Now Paramount has brought in Steve Oedekerk to write the newest draft of the script, effectively breathing new life into the project. Both Burton and Carrey are still attached....more |
| For a while there it seemed "Meg", the film adaptation
of Steve
Alten's fictional tale about a giant shark, had washed away. Nevertheless things seem to be getting underway with a Spring shoot leading through to a Summer 2008 release at the earliest. Helmer Jan De Bont ("Speed", "Twister") remains attached to the project and tells Variety he has "no doubt Meg will swim"... more |
| The Sanford Herald called Allan Kahane's Fire With Fire "a thought-provoking scenario for a world on the brink." |
| Author of Dark Gold David Angsten's second novel, Night of the Furies, has been sold to Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press. |
| Author of Demonkeeper Royce Buckingham's second novel, Goblins, has been sold to Putnam's. |
| Noire's Thug-a-Licious debuted as #1 on the Karibu Bestseller List, her Candy Licker on the same list as #7. |
| Peter Bielagus'
Guide to Personal Finance, a 70-min. audio CD, has been
published by The Freeway Guide. Freeway Guide is looking for authors! If your subject fits, please contact Brenna Lui at AEI (323-932-0407 |
| Watch for New York Times Bestselling author Noire's next novel, Baby Brother, forthcoming in January 2007, from G-Unit & Pocket Books. |
 Allan
Kahane's Fire
With Fire, from Story Merchant affiliate Pyro Publishing,
is now in stores and has already made the Ingram's Bestseller list!
Click here to view the AEI Book Video. Based on the script by AEI client Ian Holt, Kahane is producing the film with AEI. |