Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin's Graphic Novel Option for TV
Read Megan's essay on The Lonely Doll in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' latest issue of Fatale
Read Megan's issue of Marvel's The Punisher comic
Megan Abbott Selected as 2013-2014 John Grisham Writer-in-Residence
Dare Me chosen as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2012!
Megan writes an issue of Marvel's The Punisher. For interviews about the issue, visit here and here.
Dare Me is headed for the silver screen: Fox 2000 options novel for feature film.
Fox 2000 has optioned Megan Abbott's Dare Me on behalf of producer Karen Rosenfelt (The Devil Wears Prada, Twilight), who is currently developing feature adaptations of Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief and Daniel Handler's Why We Broke Up. Abbott is attached to pen the script.
Read Megan's article "Looking Past the Smile and the Sheen" in the New York Times
Dare Me has been short listed for the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller
"Girls on Top": A Profile of Megan in Publisher's Weekly (paywall)
Kirkus: Dare Me: Top 10 Not-to-Miss Fiction
Read Megan's interview with legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard.
Read Megan's discussion of James Sallis's Driven with noir editor Boris Drayluk in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Megan's book Dare Me will be released 10 May in the UK, and July 31 in the US. Learn more, and read an excerpt.
Read Megan's recent New York Times article here.
Named one of the Boston Globe's 10 Best Crime Books of the Year.
Named on Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2011 list
One of January Magazine's Best Crime Fiction of 2011
One of Washington Examiner's Best Books of 2011: "Menacing and poignant, Abbott's novel fuses Judy Blume's keen understanding of budding girls with the sustained tension of Tana French."
Richard & Judy's Lead Fall Book Club Pick at WHSmith Bookseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
The End of Everything was chosen as Richard & Judy's Lead Fall Book Club Pick at WHSmith Booksellers! For Richard & Judy's reviews, a free sample chapter, a Q&A and more, click here.
Megan has a new dark tale, "The Girl," featured in the new LA Noire anthology from Mulholland Books to accompany the blockbuster new videogame from RockStar Games.
Read an excerpt here, and read about the project's incarnation on Megan's blog here.
Read Megan's review of Robert Crais's novel The Sentry in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
"...Crais unfurls all the classic hardboiled tropes -- false friends, false identities, and a woman as damaged and mysterious as one of Ross Macdonald's haunted beauties."
Read Megan's article on crime fiction's complicated new heroines in the Los Angeles Times Magazine:
Originally victims and femme fatales, the female leads in today's mystery fiction are now as damaged and complex as their male counterparts.
Megan appeared at the prestigious Quais du Polar International Festival of Crime Literature and Film in Lyon, France in March.
Read a new interview for the Spanish publication of Queenpin.
Visit Megan's new blog with the magnificent Sara Gran (author of Come Closer, Dope and Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead).
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