Hollywood vs. The Author

Edited by novelist and former studio development executive Stephen Jay Schwartz, "Hollywood vs. the Author" gathers first-person accounts from Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Tess Gerritsen, Jonathan Kellerman, Naomi Hirahara, T. Jefferson Parker, Gregg Hurwitz, and other working crime novelists about what actually happens when a book heads into film and television development — the deals that worked, the ones that stalled in "development hell," and what authors wish they had known before signing on.

It is a work of nonfiction: reporting and reflection on the publishing and entertainment industries, not fiction set in Hollywood.