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"Everybody Says Hello" -- A Movie?
Happy to report that my film agent is currently shopping the film rights to "Everybody Says Hello." Good responses so far. Fingers crossed.
Let me know who you think should play Sid. Or Heather. Or Heather.
Let me know who you think should play Sid. Or Heather. Or Heather.
May 11, 2012
May 7, 2012
"Everybody Says Hello" has been released!
I love Everybody Says Hello.
Or, more accurately, I should say that I loved every moment of writing and editing Everybody Says Hello. Not for a moment did it feel like work. To the contrary, I had a big, stupid grin on my mug the entire time I was writing it, and I hope readers will have the same expresion on their faces as they read the letters, emails and postcards of Sid Straw as he relocates from Baltimore to Los Anglese for a new job.
Sid Straw is not an everyman. Instead, I think of him as someone we have all known at some point in our lives. A good person, a decent person, but a person for whom things always take a wrong turn. Someone who inches close to making the right decision before making the wrong one. Someone who tries just a little too hard, says just a little more than he should, and it's that extra effort of those extra few words that are his undoing. He has a sense of humor. He can be charming. He's certainly smart and unquestionably interesting. And if he could just get out of his own way, his life could be wonderful.
I understand that Sid Straw is frustrating and perhaps unlikeable at times. He was built that way on purpose. The book wouldn't work otherwise. But I hope readers will ultimately find themselves rooting for him the same way they root for their own, equally imperfect friends.
Or, more accurately, I should say that I loved every moment of writing and editing Everybody Says Hello. Not for a moment did it feel like work. To the contrary, I had a big, stupid grin on my mug the entire time I was writing it, and I hope readers will have the same expresion on their faces as they read the letters, emails and postcards of Sid Straw as he relocates from Baltimore to Los Anglese for a new job.
Sid Straw is not an everyman. Instead, I think of him as someone we have all known at some point in our lives. A good person, a decent person, but a person for whom things always take a wrong turn. Someone who inches close to making the right decision before making the wrong one. Someone who tries just a little too hard, says just a little more than he should, and it's that extra effort of those extra few words that are his undoing. He has a sense of humor. He can be charming. He's certainly smart and unquestionably interesting. And if he could just get out of his own way, his life could be wonderful.
I understand that Sid Straw is frustrating and perhaps unlikeable at times. He was built that way on purpose. The book wouldn't work otherwise. But I hope readers will ultimately find themselves rooting for him the same way they root for their own, equally imperfect friends.
