Exciting REST STOP News!

I know a place where you can come for magic, to laugh, to cry, to care . . .

My siblings in arts things:

Just a quick’n, because I simply had to share. (Alternate opening: REST STOP the presses! We’ve got big news!)

Hot off the e-wires, the good folks at Deadline have announced a li’l exclusive we’ve been looking forward to sharing for some time: Gary Dauberman’s company, Coin Operated, has optioned REST STOP for feature development!

I’m, of course, beyond thrilled. Gary and Mia Maniscalco are brilliant, insightful, wickedly talented and, I’ve been most delighted to discover, huge believers in collaboration and making sure source material is treated with respect. That’s so rare and so amazing and I have zero doubts whatsoever that this nasty novella is in the best hands imaginable. (And if you ultimately don’t like the end results, well, you can always blame the screenwriter . . . who is also me.)

Having been through the development trenches on other projects, I can attest that there’s a looooong way to go before your eyes are met with a screen full of unblinking googleys, but this is a huge step, and I’m so very grateful to everyone involved for taking it with me.

In the meantime, of course, if you’d like to make a REST STOP movie in your mind, well, I KNOW A PLACE where you can go . . .

(The bookstore. Where you can buy a copy of I KNOW A PLACE: REST STOP AND OTHER DARK DETOURS. Perhaps you’ve heard of it already?)

(Let’s give this category a workout over the next few years, yeah?)

Okay, that’s all for now! See, I told you I’d keep it short! That’s screenwriter precision right there, you dig?

Love and rattlesnake budget spreadsheets,

Nat