Midnight in Peking Being Publicly Pitched at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Posted: July 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I know nothing about the world of film financing but I do know that my forthcoming book Midnight in Peking is being publicly pitched at an event at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Books at MIFF (BaM) aims to foster development between the publishing and production industries. 105 producers and 24 publishing companies/literary agents are registered to take part. Part of BaM is a public pitching session by BaM’s reading panellists of new books with the potential for screen adaptation followed by pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings between both publishers and producers. Interestingly the selected titles are: The Life by Malcolm Knox (Allen & Unwin); What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Curtis Brown);What Makes Us Tick by Hugh Mackay (Hachette); The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne (Text); The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen (Text); Amore & Amaretti by Victoria Cosford (Wakefield) and Midnight in Peking by Paul French (Penguin).
Quite exciting really…and more details here
I am reading a proof copy of your book and thoroughly enjoying it! I will recommend it for our Book Group next year – we have an Asia focus. Last year we read Empire of the Sun so I was interested to read your post about JG Ballard’s homes. If you are ever in Canberra look us up (Asia Bookroom).
Fingers crossed you keep on enjoying it!
BTW: when the web site goes up next month (www.midnightinpeking.com) you’ll find a lot of extra stuff for book groups plus all the photos that I’m afraid aren’t in the proof copy!