It’s real and surreal: A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS and the sequel, A GIRL UNDONE have been optioned for television by Universal Cable Productions and are now in development. I’ve included the press release at the bottom of this post.

This never would have happened if I didn’t have three amazing people on my side: my literary agent, Sarah Davies who sold the book to St. Martin’s Press, my friend, Dana Cioffi who made it her personal mission to find me a film agent/intellectual property manager, and Pete Donaldson who assembled the production team and put together the deal.

I’ve tried very hard not to get too excited. We’ve all heard about Hollywood deals that fall apart, movies that never get made, or television series that disappear after the pilot airs. But the production team’s passion for the project, and the caliber of screenwriting talent they are pursuing absolutely blow me away.

And one thing that really, really excites me, is that with a cable television series, we expand on the books and go beyond the limits of Avie’s first person narrative. We can tell the stories of other characters that readers love like Sparrow or Ms. Alexandra, because we can go beyond what Avie knows. And we can show more of the Paternalists and the world that Avie’s been sheltered from.

So I look forward to the journey, even if it ends too soon, because at the very least it will be fascinating to peek behind the curtains of Hollywood.

Catherine Linka's A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS and A GIRL UNDONE, optioned to Universal Cable Productions for development as a television series, with Pete Donaldson of Donaldson Media & Consulting, Amy Baer of Gidden Media, and R.D. Robb and Brad Luff of Station Three executive-producing, by Pete Donaldson, on behalf of Sarah Davies at the Greenhouse Literary Agency.