Karmen
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Laura Nowlin:
Your book If You Had Been With Me is absolutely beautiful and I've read it twice already. I'm not very emotional so I don't cry very often but I cried SO much after reading the book (happy and sad tears lol). This book will haunt me for years to come and I will read it over and over again. I love it SOOO much! Anyway, my question is would you ever turn the book into a movie, why or why not?
Laura Nowlin
Hi Karmen,
Thanks so much for your question. I'm thrilled that you loved the book so much. The idea of turning IHHBWM into a movie brings up a lot of mixed emotions for me. I hate seeing a movie that doesn't depict the book correctly. I can't imagine what it would feel like to experience that not with a book I loved, but a with a book I wrote. However, if the movie was done right, it would be amazing to experience my story in a new medium.
In the end, if someone wanted to buy film rights to IHHBWM, odds are I would let them. It would be an opportunity to gain new readers, and I'm a starving artist. It would be very, very hard to turn down that kind of money considering that my husband and I share a car and live in a small apartment with very little money in our saving account.
Let's both hope that someday someone comes along who wants to make this movie- the RIGHT way.
Thanks so much for your question. I'm thrilled that you loved the book so much. The idea of turning IHHBWM into a movie brings up a lot of mixed emotions for me. I hate seeing a movie that doesn't depict the book correctly. I can't imagine what it would feel like to experience that not with a book I loved, but a with a book I wrote. However, if the movie was done right, it would be amazing to experience my story in a new medium.
In the end, if someone wanted to buy film rights to IHHBWM, odds are I would let them. It would be an opportunity to gain new readers, and I'm a starving artist. It would be very, very hard to turn down that kind of money considering that my husband and I share a car and live in a small apartment with very little money in our saving account.
Let's both hope that someday someone comes along who wants to make this movie- the RIGHT way.
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