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A new book, “Deliberate Cruelty,” by Roseanne Montillo, adds to the fat stack of Trumania — biographies, oral histories, novelizations, movies — but won’t topple it.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022

Jon Land, a former board member of the International Thriller Writers and the author of several of the recent "Murder, She Wrote" novelizations, credits the show with the emergence of cozy mysteries as a genre.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2022

Writers and artists who created novelizations of some of Disney’s most important franchises say the entertainment giant has stiffed them of royalties.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

Last year, Disney bought 20th Century Fox, acquiring the rights to some other novelizations by Foster: Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3.

From The Verge • Nov. 19, 2020

Is it not odd that most adaptations of successful stories and most novelizations of successful plays are failures?

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce