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Wednesday Jun 06, 2007

From the Glossies to the Big Screen

erin_torneo.jpgWe know you're all stars, but not all of us are going to be in pictures.

Instructor and former Cosmopolitan editor Erin Torneo has just inked a movie deal for a feature film adaptation of the book she co-authored, The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years.

Good news, right? Even better, the optioner is Likely Story, Anthony Bregman's new company. Bregman produced Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Reviews of The Bridal Wave have been glowing. It's like "chatting with a good friend; one that's not married. The writing style is conversational, witty and often more than a little bitchy." Unlike chatting with us, which is not so witty and often more than a little bitchy, and may be why we don't have movie deals.

Erin is currently working on Picking Cotton, the true and fascinating story of an unlikely friendship between Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, the man Cannino incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for eleven years, to be published by St. Martin's Press. We're betting this book gets optioned, too.

Erin taught a one-night mediabistro.com seminar on turning short service pieces into self-help books, and now she's teaching an online class on writing pitch letters.

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