Listen to me and Graeme Simsion on Radio National’s The Drawing Room.
Why Screenwriters Make Good Novelists
Graeme Simsion spent years working on a screenplay, a romantic comedy about professor of genetics Don Tillman and bartender Rosie Jarman.
Only when he turned it into the novel The Rosie Project did it find a publisher and an audience—and now it’s in the process of being transformed back into a film.
It’s a story similar to Anna Snoekstra’s—her film writing background set her up to write Only Daughter, which is now being turned into a Hollywood film.
But how does an Australia novelist navigate the film industry? And is the best way to get a film made to turn it into a novel first?
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