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EXCLUSIVE: The novel Next to Heaven hit the market this week. Written by Anonymous, it’s a social satire that is being shopped by WME simultaneously for both a publishing deal and a TV deal. The TV deal has just closed, and the publishing deal will be next. The rights to turn the book into a TV…

Based on Julia Quinn's Romancing Mister Bridgerton Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland's Bridgerton watches the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) bloom. While their book comes fourth in the series after Benedict's love story, the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Television has acquired the rights to Jana Monroe's memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, And My Life As a Woman In The FBI to develop into a series. Winner filmmaker Susanna Fogel and Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead) will…

EXCLUSIVE: T. J. Newman, the flight attendant who hung up her wings to become the bestselling author of the movie-bound action thriller novels Falling and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421, is catching her next flight with Little Brown. Related Stories …

UPDATE 8 AM PT: Studiocanal has now unveiled Sara Reese Geffroy as SVP of its nascent Studiocanal Stories label and TV series development. She will run the French major’s new literary adaptations division, which was unveiled earlier today, while also supervising the development of Studiocanal TV…

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem admitted to killing her dog in a new memoir. By confessing, she may also have killed her chance at national office. Backlash has been fierce to the revelations in her new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward…

New, full-cast audio productions of all seven original Harry Potter books will be released on Audible beginning late next year, offering for the first time the full range of character voices, real-world sounds and musical scoring for the recorded stories. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: ACE Entertainment has optioned TV rights to New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young’s In Nightfall, a young adult horror novel that was sought after by a number of production companies, sources tell Deadline. SVP, Television Paul Kim and VP of Television Kendyll Boucher will serve…

Prominent literary organization PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony, which was due to be held next week, after 28 authors chose to withdraw their books from consideration. The group has faced increasing backlash over its response to the Israel-Hamas War. Among those dropping out was debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has optioned the novel Transcendent Kingdom written by Yaa Gyasi to be developed by producer Yvonne Orji under her first-look deal. The second novel by the Ghanaian-American author is told from the perspective of Gifty, a neuroscientist in training studying the…

EXCLUSIVE: Physician turned #1 NYT bestselling author Robin Cook is partnering with Euro Gang Entertainment, the entertainment company of Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horsman, on a pair of new projects for film and TV. The first, Bellevue, will be a feature based on Cook’s forthcoming novel of the same…

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus is going to have a busy year. The second season of his TWD spinoff series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol looks set to debut this summer. Then, early next year, Reedus' bigbaldhead productions and Blackstone Publishing's imprint will be putting out the first…