In my trip to Seattle I picked up DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER, which is now the HBO (or Showtime, can’t remember which) series. I haven’t watched it before, which is probably obvious. But I can’t wait to read the book.

Toni, interesting comment about TV. I think I’d love to see Jenny’s book on television!

P.J. Parrish’s AN UNQUIET GRAVE. I would love to see that one! Joseph Finder’s KILLER INSTINCT.

The videos: http://www.tonimcgeecausey.com/video/

I’m lucky in that there’s some interest going on. I can’t say any more than that, mostly because everything in this business takes forever, and there’s about to be a writer’s strike, which will in all likelihood affect book options greatly. (One theory I’ve heard, though, is that without scripts to develop and bid on, the studios may be turning to look at more books for the next couple of months.)

FEAR NO EVIL by Allison screamed movie to me. When she first told me the premise, I got that tingly, “damnit, I wish I’d have thought of that” sensation, followed immediately by, “that’s a movie.” The book reinforces that, in every good page-turning way.

Books are so different, though, it’s very hard to translate one form into the other. (I do agree that novellas are easier.) There’s usually so much internal stuff going on in books, and there’s not a lot of ways to show that introspection, unless there’ a voice-over, and those often don’t work.

Karin, if yours were made into movies? The surge of lust coming out of the theaters would probably kill most mortal men. Woman, you write *hot.*

(Now here’s a different thing–I think several books from this group would make excellent TV series, which is actually very lucrative in the long run, if a pilot gets on the air. TV can play with form and has longer to build to information, which can offset that whole ‘introspective’ issue that movies have to combat.)

And kim, I’m not familiar with that one.

I hope The Blade Itself gets made into a movie–a dark, gritty, movie filmed with the director who did Mystic River.

Oh great, Jen. Two MORE books I need to read!

I didn’t watch the Da Vinci Code movie. I found the plot premise interesting, but the writing pedantic, and I just didn’t SEE it as a movie.

I would like to go see GONE BABY GONE, which is based on the book by Dennis Lehane, one of my very favorite mystery writers.