EXCLUSIVE: T. J. Newman, the flight attendant who hung up her wings to turn into the bestselling writer of the movie-bound motion thriller novels Falling and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421, is catching her subsequent flight with Little Brown.
In a publishing business shocker, Newman has left Simon & Schuster and signed a brand new deal multi-million mega take care of Little Brown. Newman’s first novel for Little Brown known as Worst Case State of affairs and it debuts August 13. Display screen rights shall be auctioned earlier than the novel will get an enormous push from her new writer. Newman stays in her wheelhouse – all of it begins with a industrial flight – however the e book veers into tent pole territory which may draw comparisons to Independence Day or Warfare of the Worlds meets Chernobyl. The motion surrounds mankind stopping an extinction-level catastrophe.
When a pilot suffers a widow-maker coronary heart assault at 35,000 toes, a industrial airliner crashes right into a nuclear energy plant. Solely the efforts of the residents of a small mid-west city will forestall the more serious case situation.
Newman’s first two novels, Falling and Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 had week lengthy display rights auctions that had been fiercely aggressive earlier than promoting to Common and Warner Brothers in main seven determine offers.
Now well-known for scribbling her work on napkins between flight attendant duties, Newman went from making $35,000 a 12 months to signing 5 7-figure offers up to now two years for books which were printed in 40 nations and made the Amazon Finest Books of the 12 months charts.
Falling landed a seven-figure movie take care of Common and Working Title, and the script is being written by Newman and Shane Salerno, latter of whom is producing with Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan.
Newman’s followup, Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 was purchased by Warner Brothers in a $3 million+ deal. United 93‘s Paul Greengrass will direct and Steve Kloves (Harry Potter) is writing the screenplay. Greengrass is producing with Salerno and Greg Goodman, with Newman and Amy Lord serving as govt producers.
Little Brown provides Newman to a secure of thriller writers that features James Patterson, Michael Connelly and David Baldacci. Patterson has championed each of Newman’s books. Newman’s new deal was made by Shane Salerno at The Story Manufacturing unit, who took on the aspiring writer when her first e book submission was rejected by 41 brokers.