publisher for his thriller, which Adams describes as a “YA Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets The Bourne Identity, with a dash of Homeland.” (Adams said she got one offer for the book based on nothing more than that description.) Jean Feiwel of Macmillan’s Feiwel and Friends won the book, plus a sequel, in a six-house auction.
(Yes, that Jerry Bruckheimer – Pirates of the Caribbean, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop.)Īnd, now, Bergstrom has a U.S. In late October, Paramount secured the film rights, with Jerry Bruckheimer attached. The buzz that those foreign sales generated ignited interest from Hollywood. “Every morning I wake up to more exciting e-mails,” said his agent, Tracey Adams of Adams Literary.
The manuscript, self-published a year ago, caught fire in October at the Frankfurt Book Fair with sales, so far, into 16 territories. A six-figure deal for North American rights to The Cruelty is the latest in a string of good things that have happened to Scott Bergstrom’s debut novel in just the past month.
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