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BOOKS PUBLISHED

Expecting Miracles (Putnam Hardcover)

The book was sold before publication to Paramount Pictures (Burt Sugarman, producer) to star Jill Clayburgh. A screenplay was written by Charlie Peters (screenwriter Paternity) …but the film was never made.

Foreign rights to England (Sphere Books) and France (Pierre Belfond) In France it was published under the title of S’il Te Plait Fais Moi Un Enfant!

It won something called the French Family Book Award which I later found out was a Christian award which means they probably did not read the book as it has a fair amount of sex scenes.

Expecting Miracles is about a young woman who panics when she thinks she is pregnant only to panic even more when she discovers she isn’t pregnant and probably can’t have children. 

Note: There is a personal theme here.

The Money Honey (Putnam Hardcover)

The story of a starving artist who finds himself catapulted into the world of high finance, tax shelters, etc. “. . .a rollicking satire that takes as it target all those things that have come to mean money in the 80s. Although it makes a mockery of something we all hold dear, The Money Honey leaves us richer for the experience.”
Options for film sold to Susan Rose of Estrin Rose Berman Productions.

Susan was the producer of “Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat” She optioned The Money Honey three times but was never able to get financing.

Note: I, on the other hand, had received considerable financing from the film sale of my first novel. That being the inspiration for my second novel.