Boneshaker coming to the big screen!

Los Angeles, CA – November 30, 2011 – Brian Oliver, President of Cross Creek Pictures, Simon Oakes, Vice-Chairman of Exclusive Media Group and President & CEO of Hammer Films and Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media Group (“Exclusive”) announced today that Hammer has acquired the rights to the novel “Boneshaker” by Cherie Priest for adaptation to the big screen. Project will be co-produced by Hammer and Cross Creek Pictures and co-financed by Exclusive and Cross Creek Pictures.

John Hilary Shepherd, a 2010 WGA Award nominee for his work on the first season of the Showtime series, “Nurse Jackie,” is writing the screenplay. Tobin Armbrust, Head of Production is overseeing the project’s development for Hammer Films.

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The novel, published in 2009 by Tor Books, is the first in a series set in the same Civil War-period, alternate-world Priest has dubbed “The Clockwork Century.” The series’ second novel “Dreadnought” was published in 2010 and the third novel titled “Ganymede” was recently released online and in bookstores on September 27th.

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This is the latest in a number of projects Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive have teamed on, including George Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” which opened nationwide on October 7th through Sony Pictures, the upcoming “The Woman in Black” starring Daniel Radcliffe, which CBS Films has set to release February 3rd, 2012 and Ron Howard’s Formula 1 film “Rush” starring Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth with production partners Imagine, Revolution Films and Working Title.

(Full press release at deadline.com)

Take a look at Cherie Priest’s blog for more….

new client

A big welcome to new client Jason Heller. He blogged about it earlier today. You can go here if you want to read about it.

Jason is the author of the Taft 2012, coming from Quirk Books in January. Check out Taft for President.

Heller, a contributor to The A.V. Club, makes a stellar debut with his satirical alternate history. The premise is audacious: President William Howard Taft disappears on the day his successor, Woodrow Wilson, is to be inaugurated in 1913, and he inexplicably shows up on the White House lawn almost a century later. After scientists and scholars confirm his identity, he begins the daunting process of understanding a radically different America, which, for all its technological advances, desperately needs direction. This surprisingly poignant novel will find an eager audience in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, but it deserves a longer shelf life. Heller’s numerous historical insights and observations regarding Taft as president, husband, American, and human being will have more than a few readers wishing Taft really could be a third-party candidate in 2012, to be a rational voice in the “din of all this twenty-first century madness.” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

new client

A big welcome to new client Nicky Drayden. She let the cat out of the bag on her blog (now linked in my sidebar) earlier today. You can go here if you want to read about it.

For those who wonder about such things, her initial contact was a query letter, first five pages, and a synopsis for her completed novel.

new query email and book giveaway

* NEWS: I’m transitioning to a new email address for my queries so I can respond more efficiently. I’ve posted this already on my website guidelines, DMLA, and agentquery.com (I can really tell from the queries that mention this who reads the full profile and who does not).

Please spread the word about this new email address:
query.jjackson@maassagency.com

As an aside, Janet Reid posts about ways to find agents and cautions about using verified sources. Without hardly trying I can find dozens of sites where my information is wrong, and entries that list agents who no longer work for our agency.

* WIN A COPY OF NEW MARTHA WELLS BOOK. Giving away two copies of Martha Wells’ THE CLOUD ROADS, which was officially released yesterday. Details here.

moving day and news

Short and sweet…. it’s been in the works for a bit, but this blog has now moved over to a WordPress install at http://arcaedia.wordpress.com/.

The archived entries from livejournal have been imported here, but will be left there with comments turned off for the forseeable future. WordPress also attempted to import comments but it appears a few may have gone missing.

If you link to this blog, please update with the new site.

…some big news in 3… 2… 1…

As mentioned on my twitterfeed earlier this week, I have been promoted to Vice President at the Donald Maass Literary Agency, where I will continue to represent both new and established authors in adult and YA fiction. (!!!)