{"id":13311,"date":"2024-06-10T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2024-06-20T23:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:27:35","slug":"next-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/10\/next-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Next To Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Is Anonymous, The Author Of Hot Book \u2018Next To Heaven?\u2019 Deadline Solves The Mystery As TV Rights Deal Closes With Publishing Pact Coming<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Mike Fleming Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The novel\u00a0Next to Heaven<\/em>\u00a0hit the market this week. Written by\u00a0Anonymous<\/a>, it\u2019s a social satire that is being shopped by WME simultaneously for both a publishing deal and a TV deal. The TV deal has just closed, and the publishing deal will be next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rights to turn the book into a TV series were snapped up by former AGBO and Chernin executive\u00a0Mike Larocca<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Schaefer<\/a>\u00a0for their as yet-unnamed production venture. They will produce with Entertainment 360\u2019s Guymon Casady (Game of Thrones<\/em>). Schaefer\u00a0most recently ran New Regency<\/a>\u00a0and produced\u00a0The Martian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, who is Anonymous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deadline sniffed out that it is James Frey<\/a>, known for A Million Little Pieces<\/em> and many other literary works. Actually, this was not like cracking the case of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. Lit scouts who read the novel quickly deciphered the mystery. Frey has a way with grammar and sentence structure that makes his works move at 60 mph, and those trademark flourishes were there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0Next to Heaven<\/em>, best friends Devon and Belle are the Queen Bees of super-affluent New Bethlehem, Connecticut (a town that suspiciously resembles Frey\u2019s hometown of New Canaan). They are very beautiful, very rich and very bored, their marriages mostly business arrangements at this point. And so they decide to host a carefully curated, invitation-only swingers party. But later, when one of the invitees ends up dead, the stakes in their game turn out to be much higher than any of the guests could have anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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