{"id":314,"date":"2011-05-03T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:20:25","slug":"an-interesting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/an-interesting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s been an interesting day, and it certainly got this new site off to a flying start.<\/p>\n

\"School's<\/a>I was first told that School’s Out<\/a><\/em> was about to be optioned over two years ago. Needless to say I was pretty excited.<\/p>\n

Quick as a flash, nothing at all happened. The recession hit, companies retrenched, silence fell, and Stronghold<\/a> <\/em>beat School’s Out<\/em> to the punch as Abaddon Books<\/a>‘\u00a0first optioned book.<\/p>\n

Last month\u00a0I attended the London Book Fair<\/a> where the estimable Jason Kingsley<\/a>, head honcho of Rebellion<\/a>, told me that another company was about to option the book. Once bitten, twice shy – I allowed myself a soup\u00e7on of excitement but adopted a firm ‘believe it when I see it’ philosophy.<\/p>\n

So when the press release<\/a> arrived and I found out that the deal had gone through, I had to pinch myself. Lucky I set up a new blog yesterday, but it was more lucky accident rather than cunning plan.<\/p>\n

Having spent the day being deluged with congratulations from lovely people, I’m still beaming.<\/p>\n

I can’t, however, answer all your questions at this time. Mostly this is because I honestly don’t know the answers yet. And don’t expect a constant trickle of news, either – the movie business does not move quickly.<\/p>\n

The one question I can <\/strong>answer right now is: “Are you going to be rich?”<\/p>\n

To which I am free to reply: “Hahahahahahahahahahaha! No.”<\/p>\n

But I’m still smiling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Read other posts tagged School’s Out<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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