Film rights to Michele McPhee’s book on the Craigslist killer, optioned to Sony TV, to be produced by Judith Verno, by Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

Film rights to David Cristofano’s THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE, about a woman who after 20 years in witness protection decides to trust the son of the mobster who she’s been running from since she was a little girl, to Mark Johnson’s Gran Via Productions (THE NOTEBOOK, MY SISTER’S...

Film rights to Kevin Emerson’s OLIVER NOCTURNE books, about a vampire boy in Seattle whose supernatural destiny is to liberate the vampires from earth, a feat that will destroy the world in the process, along with the human friends he holds dear; to Overbrook Entertainment (HANCOCK, I AM LEGEND),...

Film rights to artist Chris Gall’s DINOTRUX, an illustrated children’s book about bionic part truck-part dinosaurs similar to Transformers, who roamed the earth and battled each other millions of years ago, to DreamWorks Animation for a 3-D feature film, by Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf...

Film rights to Clete Smith’s GRANDMA’S INTERGALACTIC BED & BREAKFAST, about a boy who goes to visit his hippie grandmother for the first time and discovers that her inn is a portal for comical aliens from all over the universe — a secret that, until now, she has been able to keep...

Film rights to Edgar Award winner John Hart’s DOWN RIVER, about a man whose world disintegrates when he returns to his home town five years after being arrested for a murder charge, to Gil Adler (VALKYRIE, SUPERMAN RETURNS) and Articulus Entertainment, by Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of...

Film rights to Josh Goldfaden’s LOOKING AT ANIMALS short story, from his collection HUMAN RESOURCES, about a retired nature photographer who now observes the behavior of his suburban neighbors, to Big Beach Films (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) for a short film, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates,...

Film rights to New Yorker writer and This American Life correspondent Shalom Auslander’s FORESKIN’S LAMENT, a memoir describing his Orthodox Jewish upbringing like a sardonic Portnoy, imagining worst-case scenarios that would be “so God,” to writer/director Ric Cantor (Da Ali...

Television rights to I Know What You Did Last Summer author Lois Duncan’s STRANGER WITH MY FACE, about a perfect high school student whose malevolent identical twin inhabits her through astral projection and wreaks havoc on her life, to Lifetime with Jaffe/Braunstein Films (The Memory Keeper’s...

Television rights to Kate Brennan’s IN HIS SIGHTS, the true story of a smart, successful writer who has been stalked by the same man for 13 years (and continues to live in hiding today), to Sony Pictures Television, by Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff &...