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WATCHDOG Release Day - And Big News!
Today, my book WATCHDOG is being released by Penguin Random House, and I'm excited to finally be able to announce that it is being developed for an animated TV series! The creative team behind Dreamworks' HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON TV series, Art Brown and Douglas Sloan, are overseeing the project. Sonar Entertainment, the production company currently adapting Stephen King's MR. MERCEDES for Television, has optioned the novel and is backing the project.
The final hurdle is for a TV network to sign on! I can't even imagine what it would feel like to sit down with my 8 year-old twins to watch a TV show based on something I wrote. Wish me luck!
WATCHDOG is about orphaned 13 year-old twins Tara and Vick, who are trying to survive in a near-future world where robots are common. Sometimes people use robot parts to create custom-made Watchdogs -- animal-shaped robots designed for protection, and often intimidation. When a local crime boss, Ms. Alba, discovers that Tara, who is on the autism spectrum, is a brilliant watchdog designer, she tries to force the twins to work in her sweatshop. Their only defense is for Tara to build their own watchdog to protect them. She builds Daisy, who turns out to be better able to defend them than even Tara ever could have imagined.
Recommended for readers age 8 to 79.
By the way, I'm happy to make Skype appearances for classrooms, libraries, etcetera, to talk about Watchdog, or my YA book Burning Midnight, free of charge.
The final hurdle is for a TV network to sign on! I can't even imagine what it would feel like to sit down with my 8 year-old twins to watch a TV show based on something I wrote. Wish me luck!
WATCHDOG is about orphaned 13 year-old twins Tara and Vick, who are trying to survive in a near-future world where robots are common. Sometimes people use robot parts to create custom-made Watchdogs -- animal-shaped robots designed for protection, and often intimidation. When a local crime boss, Ms. Alba, discovers that Tara, who is on the autism spectrum, is a brilliant watchdog designer, she tries to force the twins to work in her sweatshop. Their only defense is for Tara to build their own watchdog to protect them. She builds Daisy, who turns out to be better able to defend them than even Tara ever could have imagined.
Recommended for readers age 8 to 79.
By the way, I'm happy to make Skype appearances for classrooms, libraries, etcetera, to talk about Watchdog, or my YA book Burning Midnight, free of charge.
