$1.8 million worth of WORMWOOD

Film rights to new novel make SHADOWMANCER author a rich(er) man

By Den Shewman     June 25, 2004
Source: Variety

G.P. Taylor just sold the film rights to his latest novel WORMWOOD for $1.8 million against $6.5 million (if the movie gets made). A great sequel to his previous success: selling the rights to his first novel, SHADOWMANCER, for $1 million. A novel he had to self-publish to get on the shelves in the first place. And did I mention that when he's not writing novels, Taylor is an Episcopalian vicar in the U.K.?

WORMWOOD, the new book, follows a young maid in 18th-century London who must steal and decipher an ancient book to stop Wormwood (a mythical comet) from smashing into Earth. This is the second in what Taylor thinks of as a thematic trilogy, and he's hard at work on the third book now.

Meanwhile, Fortitude Films -- the start-up production company whose first purchase was SHADOWMANCER and who just added WORMWOOD to their collection -- is in talks with an unnamed studio to bring SHADOWMANCER to the screen. Not a bad track record for the new guys on the block.


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