Dystel & Goderich Literary Management

After industrial waste causes the spread of cancer in a New Jersey city, a group of townspeople team up to bring those responsible to justice.

Brian Duffield will adapt the upcoming YA novel Spontaneous for Awesomeness Films. The novel, which will be published by Dutton in August, comes from author Aaron Starmer.

Follows a girl during her senior year at Covington High in suburban New Jersey where everything is going as normally as could be expected, until the day a fellow senior explodes during third period pre-calc.

Follows a girl during her senior year at Covington High in suburban New Jersey where everything is going as normally as could be expected, until the day a fellow senior explodes during third period pre-calc.

Ridley Scott is set to produce the feature adaptation of My Lady Jane through his Scott Free Productions banner. Co-authored by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows, the book is a one-of-a-kind fantasy that bends historical fact to hilarious effect.

Centers around Lady Jane Grey, who is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin of his throne – the least of the sixteen year-old’s problems, really, given that she’s about to become Queen of England.

Examines the case of Adnan Syed, convicted of killing his High School girlfriend and serving a life sentence, despite mountains of evidence pointing towards his innocence and uncertainty surrounding the case. The story was featured in first season of international podcast phenomenon Serial.

Pitched as in the vein of The Princess Bride, tells the story of Lady Jane Grey in an alternate 16th century England where the warring Protestants and Catholics are instead Shape-Shifters and Those that despise them.

YA novel My Lady Jane is hot on the market, with sources confirming that Holly Frederick of Curtis Brown Ltd is out to three interested producers, with the potential of going wide.

Logline: In order to claim her trust fund, a spoiled party girl is forced to work at a different low-paying job every week for a year, as mandated by her absent mogul father.

Logline: After an eighteen year-old’s best friend takes her own life, she sets out on a dangerous quest across the country to understand her friend’s death.