Guest Post: Michelle Ray on Falling for Hamlet Adapted as E! TV's "The Royals"

Little Brown, 2011; learn more!By Michelle Ray
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

“Falling for Hamlet is going to be a TV show! They’re calling it 'The Royals,' and it’ll be on E!” my agent emailed me.

It seemed absolutely impossible. Growing up in Los Angeles, I have many friends in “The Business,” and screenplays and novels are optioned all the time. Usually that’s as far as it goes.

But for me, it was really happening.

My mind soon went to the contract. What had I asked for? I recalled a c...