Jay Asher’s new book, What Light, is currently heating up the film rights market. The YA novel is a follow-up to his highly successful Thirteen Reasons Why, which spent 65 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and is now in the works as a series at Netflix.
Jay Asher
Sierra, a teenage girl whose family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon, develops a relationship with a complicated boy named Caleb while visiting in California.
Netflix continues to fulfill its promise to create original content that appeals to all ages and demographics with its 13 episode straight-to-series order of YA series 13 Reasons Why, executive produced by Selena Gomez.
Logline: Set in 1996, the story follows a young girl who logs on to the internet for the first time, when a strange website turns up — it’s her Facebook profile from 15 years in the future.
Logline: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.
