Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Zeltserman's Pariah

From: jean-pierre jacquet (jacquet@optonline.net)
Date: 10 Feb 2009

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    Bravo, Dave! Jean-Pierre Jacquet On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:37 AM, davezeltserman wrote:

    > Mark,
    >
    > The book is out now in the UK. It's not scheduled for the US until
    > October, but amazon seems to be leaking copies now through other
    > sellers. Unfortunately (drat!) no London paper reviews yet, but here's
    > one of the early web reviews for it:
    >
    > http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php/
    > Pariah_by_Dave_Zeltserman
    >
    > I am very excited about this book, and don't think anyone is going to
    > be comparing this one to Jim Thompson, or to anyone else. I'm more
    > than extremely grateful to Serpent's Tail for publishing it. No NY
    > house would ever have had the guts to touch it (an opinion also shared
    > to me by a couple of NY editors who I've become friendly with, and who
    > want me to write something mainstream for them).
    >
    > I hit a major milestone today--sold my first movie option. This is for
    > an unpublished book, and has been in the works for over 3 years with
    > many false starts and different players along the way. Final players
    > ended up being Impact Pictures and Constantin Film Development with
    > John Tomko (Ocean's 11, Falling Down) and Jeremy Bolt (Resident Evil,
    > Death Race) to produce. This basically kept me going during my low
    > points when I couldn't sell Small Crimes to anyone, and probably
    > would've quit writing if I didn't get a call from my agent at the time
    > about the film interest for this.
    >
    > --Dave
    >
    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Sullivan" <DJ-Anonyme@...>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > > Hey Dave,
    > >
    > > Your new book just came up in my Amazon Recommendations. I thought
    > it wasn't due out in the states for months. I'm guessing this is a
    > Brit copy, since it says 2 to 3 weeks to ship, but it's at domestic
    > prices. $11-something.
    > >
    > > Mark
    > >
    > >
    > >
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    > >
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