{"id":1784,"date":"2009-07-10T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/from-crack-houses-to-evil-aliens\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:57:23","slug":"from-crack-houses-to-evil-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/10\/from-crack-houses-to-evil-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"From Crack Houses To Evil Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian’s Books Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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James Frey targets a million little readers<\/h1>\n

Controversial writer James Frey has been outed as the co-author of a hot new children’s book, as yet unpublished. But why all the mystery?<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u00a0\"James<\/span><\/p>\n

From crack houses to evil aliens \u2026 James Frey. Photograph: Ulf Andersen\/Getty<\/p>\n

Not content with\u00a0penning the third book of the Bible<\/a>,\u00a0James Frey<\/a>, who wrote of his struggle with drug addiction in a controversial memoir, is turning to children’s books.<\/p>\n

As ever with Frey, who was found to have\u00a0fabricated parts of his autobiography, A Million Little Pieces, there are layers within layers to this latest book deal. Last week it emerged in\u00a0the New York Times\u00a0<\/a>that a young adult novel was being hawked to publishers as a collaboration between a bestselling writer and an emerging new author. The book, called I Am Number Four, is about a group of alien teenagers who take refuge on Earth when their planet is attacked.<\/p>\n

The New York Times outed Frey as the author, and yesterday reported that\u00a0HarperCollins Children’s Books had acquired North American rights<\/a>in the first four books in what is being billed as a series, starting with I Am Number Four.<\/p>\n

Film rights have also been acquired by Dreamworks for a high six-figure sum,\u00a0added the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, with Michael Bay (director of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) lined up to produce and possibly direct.<\/p>\n

As yet Frey himself has not commented on the deal, telling website\u00a0Gawker<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 where he interned for a day \u2013 that he could “neither confirm nor deny that I had anything to do with that book”. However, he has posted a link to the New York Times piece revealing him as the author on his\u00a0official website<\/a>, also linking to a story revealing more of the plot details. The evil aliens are from the planet Mogadore, who destroyed the planet Lorien in order to take its natural resources; they follow the planet’s teenagers, who develop special powers aged 15, to Earth to complete the job.<\/p>\n

[ click to read at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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