Fanboys Screenwriter sells YA Novel for 6-Digits; Geeks Swoon
Like Detroit Rock City meets Spaceballs
Ernie Cline just sold his novel, Ready Player One, to Random House for a few hundred thousand dollars. Cline’s claim to fame is the ultra-geeky 2008 comedy Fanboys, which found a preteen niche amid the overwhelming amount of Apatowean R-comedies that have dominated the comedic schoolyard for nearly a decade. Now, Cline seems to have successfully made the transition from screenwriter to novelist, and the publishing-houses are swooning. The premise of the book seems to be your basic YA “futuristic virtual game has real-life consequences” type plot, but fans of Fanboys are waiting to see what Cline does with the screenplay, which doesn’t seem to be far behind (movie rights are going up on Monday).
If this guy can sell his novel, so can you!
That picture looks like he once watched a video of someone smiling and is now attempting to recreate it.
which is why there’s hope for the rest of us.
Ernie has always been a gracious and humorous person when I’ve encountered him at the National Poetry Slam. He got a start with nerdy spoken word pieces. I’m excited to see what this book is going to be like.
He is pretty nice. I say good for him.
good for him indeed!