I always had a quiet dream of writing a sufficiently-entertaining science fiction story that was able to attract enough fan support and following that it would eventually be made into something audio-visual for the masses to watch, but between a frenetic imagination and short attention span, I have about the same chances of success as a gerbil attempting to scale Mount Everest unassisted.
Thankfully, though, some people have the focus and determination to live that dream:
I am pleased to finally be able to annouce that Monster Hunter International has been optioned by Entertainment One for the possible production of a TV show.
For everything: http://www.entertainmentonegroup.com/ For TV: http://www.eonetv.com/ You may recognize them from such awesome things as the Walking Dead on AMC, Red with Bruce Willis, and even… sigh… Twilight. (hey, might not be my thing, but you can’t fault her for sleeping on gigantic piles of money, but it illustrates that these folks are Big Time)
What does this mean? This does not mean that a TV show is actually being made yet or anything like that. It just means that Entertainment One has bought the option to produce MHI. It is up to them now if they will proceed with a pilot, and which network would be interested in it.
Frickin’ awesome!
If you have no idea what I am talking about, you may correct your egregious shortcomings by snagging your own copy of Monster Hunter International
Bravo Zulu to Larry for an obvious job well-done, and for making it to The Big Times – on screen or not, simply being optioned is light years ahead of anything the vast majority of authors have achieved, especially with his relatively low book count.
Larry is one hell of a storyteller, and it’s awesome to see him so successful. He’s a big inspiration to me, although I’m still at the “trying to get used to writing fiction regularly” stage myself.
Hard Magic was good enough that I read it straight through (a rare thing) but it didn’t grip me the same way MHI and MHV did. I suspect that’s because Pitt is much easier for me to relate to than Sullivan–we even like the same guns–but I might have also been a bit burned out when I read it. I can only go so long in one genre before I need a change of pace, so maybe the story just didn’t come at the right time to nail me like the first time I read MHI.
Been waiting for it to be kindle-ized.
Larry is published by Baen books. Check out their web site http://www.baen.com/. You can purchase e books from them for $6 or less each and usually read the first third of their books for free. Kindle is one of the formats they support. They also have a free library with over 100 books available for download.
@ weambulance: I wrote a few fiction things in the past, realized that I simply do not have the force of will to make myself sit down and improve on what I did, and stepped away for a while. Now, I enjoy reading what other people write more, and between that and the weblog, there is not much other time
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My HM copy has not shown up yet, but it was one of the autographed ones, so it is probably coming by slow boat… definitely looking forward to it, though
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@ Heather: TommyG beat me to it, but Baen does sell books in *.mobi format, which, from experience, should be compatible with Kindle (at least the newest version). No idea if MHI, MHV, or HM have been converted to that yet, though.