Les studios Paramount adapteront RAZORBLADE TEARS de S. A. Cosby pour le grand écran

Paramount Players vient de remporter aux enchères les droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle de RAZORBLADE TEARS de S. A. Cosby. Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Pirates des Caraïbes, Armageddon…) et Chad Oman produiront le film, dont le réalisateur et la date de sortie n’ont pas encore été annoncés. Le scénario sera adapté du roman par Virgil Williams, co-scénariste du film Mudbound sorti en 2017.

RAZORBLADE TEARS se déroule dans le sud des États-Unis et raconte l’histoire de deux hommes qui s’associent dans leur quête rédemptrice de vengeance après les meurtres de leurs fils respectifs, victimes de l’homophobie et des préjugés des états ruraux du Sud. Le livre paraîtra chez Flatiron Books en juillet 2021.

Le précédent roman de l’auteur, Blacktop Wasteland paru en juillet 2020 aux États-Unis, a rencontré un grand succès critique. Numéro un des ventes Amazon et sélectionné comme « Amazon’s Editor Pick – Best Book of the Year » dans la catégorie mysteries/thrillers aux USA, il a reçu, entre autres, la distinction « New York Times Notable Book of the Year ». Il paraîtra prochainement aux éditions Sonatine.

Les romans YA de Jenna Evans Welch bientôt adaptés par Netflix

Netflix vient d’acquérir les droits audiovisuels des trois romans de Jenna Evans Welch publiés chez Simon Pulse aux États-Unis : LOVE & GELATO, LOVE & LUCK et LOVE & OLIVES, tous les trois des New York Times Bestsellers. C’est le scénariste et producteur Brandon Camp (Coup de foudre à Seattle, 2009 ; Benji, 2018) qui écrira, réalisera et produira les trois adaptations. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant.

Le dernier roman de l’autrice, LOVE & OLIVES, paru en novembre 2020, est un standalone inspiré de la comédie musicale Mamma Mia ! dans lequel une jeune Américaine d’origine grecque, Liv Varanakis, va retrouver à Santorin son père absent qu’elle n’a pas vu depuis des années pour l’aider dans ses recherches sur la cité disparue d’Atlantis. C’est là-bas, dans la librairie de son père, qu’elle fait la rencontre de son assistant Theo…

Jenna Evans Welch publiera prochainement d’autres titres YA chez Simon Pulse.

Les droits de LOVE & OLIVES sont toujours disponibles.

BREATHLESS by Amy McCulloch

Mise à jour du 10/3/2021 : droits cédés à Michel Lafon Publishing

The debut adult thriller from bestselling children’s author Amy McCulloch, BREATHLESS follows a journalist covering an attempt to summit Manaslu, who quickly starts to suspect that someone on the expedition is out to sabotage it. A claustrophobic setting and page-turning suspense.

BREATHLESS
by Amy McCulloch
Michael Joseph/Penguin UK, Early 2022

After a near-death experience in Snowdonia, journalist Cecily Wong swore she’d never go to the mountains again. But when she’s offered the career opportunity of a lifetime – to interview world famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh as he completes his record-breaking mission in Nepal – she has no choice but to take it. There’s just one caveat: she has to summit the mountain first. It’s a mammoth task that Cecily fears she cannot handle, especially when disaster strikes before they’ve even left for base camp in the form of an earthquake that seriously injures one of the team, and an anonymous note left pinned to her tent, warning her there’s a murderer on the mountain.
Charles inspires them to carry on. Except isolated on the mountain, with only intermittent contact with the outside world, not only does Cecily have to contend with the perils of high altitude life – the lack of oxygen, deep yawning crevasses in the ice and terrifying avalanches – but with a series of mishaps that make her suspect someone on the mountain is trying to harm her – and that some of her darkest secrets might not be so secret, after all.
As the body count steadily rises, Cecily faces up to the terrifying truth: there’s a murderer on the mountain, and he’s hunting them one by one. After all, where better for a serial killer to thrive than a place already known as the ‘Death Zone’?

Amy McCulloch is an internationally bestselling Chinese-White author, born in the UK and raised in Ottawa, Canada, now based in London, UK. She has written eight novels for children and young adults, including the #1 bestselling YA novel The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow with Zoe Sugg, and has been translated into over ten different languages. BREATHLESS is her adult fiction debut. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was editorial director for a leading children’s publisher in London and was named one of The Bookseller‘s Rising Stars. In addition to writing, she loves adventure, travel and mountaineering. In September 2019, she became the youngest Canadian woman to climb Mt Manaslu in Nepal – the world’s eighth highest mountain at 8,163m (26,781ft). She also summited the highest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, in -45C and 90mph winds, and has visited all seven continents.

WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED dans la selection « 2020 Notable Children’s Books » de la New York Times Book Review

En plus de nombreuses distinctions, WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED a récemment été choisi par la Book Review du New York Times pour leur sélection des 25 meilleurs livres jeunesse de 2020 (voir la liste complète). Dans cette bande-dessinée middle-grade, publiée par Dial Books for Young Readers en avril 2020, Victoria Jamieson, autrice-illustratrice du best-seller Roller Girl, a recueilli et donné vie au témoignage du Somalien Omar Mohamed sur son enfance dans un camp de réfugiés.

Omar et son jeune frère Hassan ont passé la plus grande partie de leur vie à Dadaab, un camp de réfugiés au Kenya. La vie y est dure : jamais assez de nourriture, rien à faire, et pas d’accès aux soins médicaux dont Hassan a besoin. Quand une occasion d’être scolarisé se présente, Omar sait que cela pourrait être une chance de changer leur avenir à tous les deux… mais aller à l’école signifierait aussi quitter chaque jour son frère, le seul membre de sa famille qui lui reste.

 

• National Book Award Finalist
• Amazon Best Children’s Book of 2020
• School Library Journal Best Book of 2020
• Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2020
• NYPL Best Book for Kids
• NPR’s Book Concierge Pick…

“Through Omar’s journey, and those of his friends and family members, readers get a close, powerful view of the trauma and uncertainty that attend life as a refugee as well as the faith, love, and support from unexpected quarters that get people through it. . . This engaging, heartwarming story does everything one can ask of a book, and then some.” —Kirkus, starred review

“Mohamed’s experience is unfortunately not unique, but it is told with grace, humility, and forgiveness. This beautiful memoir is not to be missed.” —Booklist, starred review

“Jamieson and Mohamed together craft a cohesive, winding story that balances daily life and boredom, past traumas, and unforeseen outcomes alongside camp denizens’ ingenuity and community . . . colorist Iman Geddy’s deep purple skies drive home the title. The result of this team effort is a personal and poignant entry point for young readers trying to understand an unfair world.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Over the next fifteen years chronicled in this moving, slightly fictionalized graphic novel, the boys grow to manhood in an overcrowded tent city . . . Jamieson’s artwork, affectionately depicting resilient kids who manage to carve out lives in a community with few solid prospects, reprises the inviting ebullience readers will recognize from Roller Girl and All’s Faire. ”  —BCCB

Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

THE BETRAYAL de Robert Mazur

The follow-up to Mazur’s New York Times bestselling memoir The Infiltrator, of which the movie version came out in 2016 starring Bryan Cranston as Mazur.

THE BETRAYAL:
My Undercover Struggle With Deceit, Corruption & Death
by Robert Mazur
Amazon Publishing, Summer 2022

After the events of The Infiltrator, the story’s main character still wants more adrenaline. He’s come to realize the chase is like a drug for him when he’s recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be the lead undercover agent in another dangerous two-year covert operation. The offer to Special Agent Robert Mazur is to infiltrate the corrupt financial networks of Panama and Colombia in order to become embedded as a money launderer within Colombia’s notorious Cali Drug Cartel. He couldn’t say “No” because this was likely his last chance to resume his obsession—an addicted desire to expose more international banks and businesses laundering money and power into the heart of the underworld.

Robert Mazur was a federal agent for 27 years. During 5 years of his law enforcement career he was a long-term undercover agent, operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level money launderer for senior members of Colombian drug cartels. He not only dealt directly with cartel leaders, but also functioned as their counduit to corrupt international bankers around the world. He is court-certified in both the U.S. and Canada as an expert in money laundering. Mr. Mazur has been a significant contributor to news and media outlets, including the New York Times, PBS, ABC and NBC. His first book, The Infiltrator (also available) was made into a feature film starring Bryan Cranston.