FRA Welcomes Digance
We are delighted to have signed up Richard Digance to represent his new novel GREED.
His next two novels are well under way.
Political Essays for July release
The collection of political essays under the title GLOBALISATION LAID BARE with contributions from:
- Sir Stuart Rose (Marks & Spencer)
- Peter Jones (BBC's 'Dragons Den')
- Alan Greenspan (Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
- Vince Cable MP
- Muhammad Yunis (Nobel Price winner)
- Peter Mandelson (Business Secretary)
- Jim O'Neill (Goldman Sachs)
- Claire Short MP
- and Alan Duncan MP
... and with introduction by Sir Richard Branson, published by Gibson Square Publishers in July, 2009.
Lindsay sitcom optioned
DLT Entertainment has optioned Keith Lindsay's BAD COMPANY and is now in development with it as a sitcom starring Dennis Waterman (New Tricks-BBC).
KELLY ANN as 'webisodes'
AMC Pictures are currently in development with Liz Rettig's KELLY ANN series of books for internet 'webisodes'.
Baum Book For Musical Stage
Greg Smith co-producer of hit shows "Buddy" and "Jolson" and Martin Baum, author of TO BE OR NOT TO BE, INNIT, are jointly developing Martin's best-selling book as a stage musical.
New Signings
Mandasue Heller: The film rights to all Mandasue's bestselling novels will be handled by FRA.
Industry and Parliament Trust: An exciting new compilation of work by several parliamentarians and industrialists, including MPs Vince Cable, Alan Duncan, Claire Short and the Dragon's Den's Peter Jones will shortly be offered to publishers.
Recently completed contracts with publishers/producers
1. Paul Hendy: Greek TV rights to Diary of a C-List Celeb have been sold to PLD Productions, Athens.
2. Tappy Wright: Tappy, Rod Weinberg (former manager of The Animals) and Jeremy Robson of JR Books signing the publishing contract for Rock Roadie — Tappy's autobiography as a member, and then their Roadie, of The Animals and his times with Elvis Presley and Jimmi Hendrix during Hendrix's last days.
3. David Bret: David's biographies of Joan Crawford, Edith Piaf and Clark Gable are all now published.
4. Neil Nixon: Neil 's screenplay John Lennon is now in development with Jason Ebelthite.
5. Andy Reynolds: The Tour Book has been published by ArtistPro Publishing, USA.
6. Allen Zeleski: RUSSIAN IN FIVE EASY LESSONS is about to move into pre-production with Studio Eight.
7. Christian Piers Betley: Christian's major new work WINGS OF FIRE - a bio-pic of British pre-war Grand Prix driver Dicky Seaman - is a $50 million movie currently in development.
8. Liz Rettig: A second two-book deal with Random House has been signed to include the prequel to the highly successful Kelly Ann books.
9. Max Morgan-Witts and Gordon Thomas: Film rights to GUERNICA have been sold to Maestranza Films.