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Who Is Anonymous, The Author Of Hot Book ‘Next To Heaven?’ Deadline Solves The Mystery As TV Rights Deal Closes With Publishing Pact Coming
Deadline Cracks Author Mystery Of Hot Book On Market 'Next To Heaven' By Anonymous; TV Deal Done, Publishing Deal Coming
The rights to turn the book into a TV series were snapped up by former AGBO and Chernin executive Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer for their as yet unnamed production venture. In Next To Heaven, best friends Devon and Belle are the Queen Bees of super-affluent New Bethlehem, Connecticut (a town which suspiciously resembles Frey’s hometown of New Canaan). He read the Jackie Collins novel Hollywood Wives, and the Tom Wolfe novel Bonfire of the Vanities, and it sparked a desire for him to try his hand at a social satire soap opera page turner murder mystery where rich people behave terribly.
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