Films

The Society of AuthorsThe British authors’ organization, with a membership of over 7,000 writers. Membership is open to those who have had a book published, or who have an offer to publish (without subsidy by the author). Offers individual specialist advice and a range of publications to its members. Has also campaigned successfully on behalf of authors in general for improved terms and established a minimum terms agreement with many publishers. Recently campaigned to get the Public Lending Right fund increased from £5 million to £7 million for the year 2002/2003. Regularly uses input from members to produce comparative surveys of publishers’ royalty payment systems. http://www.societyofauthors.org/ (SoA) has renewed its calls for TV companies to pay and credit historians and authors for their research work after a rise in complaints from members.  Read more

Stephen King isn't the only author who's becoming more and more prevalent on the big and small screens. It was just announced that Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novelette Nine Lives is getting a movie adaptation, adding to the growing pile of Le Guin works that are reportedly in the works.

Films based on books take 44% more at the box office in the UK and 53% more worldwide than original screenplays, research from the Publishers Association (PA) has shown.  Read more

No effort at putting Fitzgerald's novel on screen has ever been entirely successful, certainly not in terms of fidelity to his vision.  Read more

After watching Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, self-published author Mark Dawson was inspired to create his own answer to the film's heroine Beatrix "Black Mamba" Kiddo. And now Dawson - and his character government-employed assassin Beatrix Rose - are set to take on Hollywood, with his series on the verge of a major television deal, complete with a "triple A" producer.