#Imagine Nabs TV Rights to Author Ashley Winstead’s ‘Midnight Is the Darkest Hour’ (Exclusive)

#Imagine Nabs TV Rights to Author Ashley Winstead’s ‘Midnight Is the Darkest Hour’ (Exclusive)

Imagine Entertainment has pre-emptively acquired the television rights for the latest novel from author Ashley Winstead. The Ron Howard- and Brian Grazer-led company has optioned Midnight Is the Darkest Hour, a Southern gothic thriller, ahead of the book’s Oct. 3 publication by Sourcebooks Landmark. “Midnight is the Darkest Hour is evocative and haunting with an empowering…

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#Why this Canadian author wants AI companies to pay up

#Why this Canadian author wants AI companies to pay up

(Photograph by Ellis Parrinder) More than 10,000 members of the Authors Guild, America’s largest organization for writers, recently co-signed an open letter urging AI leaders at tech companies like Open AI (owner of ChatGPT) and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. “Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays and poetry provide ‘food’…

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#‘It Ends With Us’ Author Addresses Controversy Surrounding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Casting in Sony Adaptation

#‘It Ends With Us’ Author Addresses Controversy Surrounding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Casting in Sony Adaptation

It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover opened up about the controversy surrounding the casting of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in Sony’s adaptation of her best-selling novel of the same name. In a conversation with Today‘s Jenna Bush Hager at Hoover’s Book Bananza festival in Texas, the author shared details about the upcoming adaptation,…

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