Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn Discusses New Imprint and New Book
Gillian Flynn, author of three best-selling novels including Gone Girl, recently sat down with TODAY.com to discuss her new imprint and her long-awaited next book. Flynn said she started her new imprint, Gillian Flynn Books, as a way to “really champion books that don’t necessarily fit into one specific shape, that are as quirky and big-voiced and unique as I want.” Flynn’s first book under her imprint is Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. As for her own writing, Flynn says that she’s still interested in writing psychological novels, although they do not necessarily have to be thrillers. “That’s how I started writing thrillers — it was not to necessarily write a thriller, but to be able to say something and attach it to a freight train of a thriller,” she says. “I found that a very useful way, personally for me as a storyteller, to write about larger things like gender within marriage and power struggle within marriage.” So will her next novel be a different genre? No details have been announced, but Flynn says it would be a fun test for her.
Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers Acquired by Warner Bros. TV
Warner Bros. TV has acquired the book rights to Jesse Q. Sutanto’s novel Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. Mindy Kaling’s Kaling International is attached to produce alongside Harpo Films. This is part of Kaling’s six-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV, in which she develops, writes, and produces new projects for all broadcast, cable, and streaming.
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Open for Nominations
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Prize for fiction is currently open for nominations! Anyone can nominate work that fits the following criteria: reflects the concepts central to Ursula K. Le Guin’s own work, including “hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world”; a book-length work of fiction; published in the U.S. in English or translated to English; published between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023. The nominations form is open until midnight (Pacific time) on April 30, 2023.
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