Mormon MomTok, Gingrich/Clinton + 6 Picks
A newsletter about available IP; I do the reading for you
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I can’t believe it has been 10 years since the publication of Gone Girl. I was just starting out at The Hollywood Reporter and I still remember what a sensation the book created. The early 2010s was an era of big books that feels gone now — besides Gone Girl, there was the Fifty Shades phenomena, Twilight, Hunger Games. But as this Ringer article argues, Gone Girl has had the most long-reaching impact on the publishing industry and by extension the page-to-screen pipeline. It is worth a read to consider what happened, how the business has changed and to think about what the next big trend could be.
Now on to this week’s picks which includes a Fiddler on the Roof-inspired story about three sisters with a singing act, a look at one of the driving parties behind the modern-day January 6th-friendly Republican Party, a fun historical mystery, and the crazy, crazy scandal engulfing TikTok’s biggest Mormon momfluencers.