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The Huffington Post tells the story of how fans of the book helped propel Something Like Summer to bestseller status and literary awards, and on its way to the movie screen.
The article, “A Book and Its Film Version — Made Possible by Readers and Viewers,” features interviews by HuffPo writer Nicholas Kralev with the novel’s author Jay Bell, director J.T. Tepnapa and screenwriter Carlos Pedraza.
The post describes how both the book and the upcoming film didn’t depend on traditional publishers or studios to bring the story to life. Here’s an excerpt:
It was one of Bell’s readers who urged him to pursue a screen adaptation. … He resisted for months, until he saw Judas Kiss, which he had “followed through fundraising and development” from a distance. He decided that those filmmakers were the team he could trust to turn his book into a movie.
Director J.T. Tepnapa and screenwriter Carlos Pedraza didn’t need much convincing. “I read Something Like Summer and fell in love with the characters,” Tepnapa said. “Jay’s novel spoke to me so personally. I was a gay kid in a small town where it wasn’t always safe to be gay. Like so many of us, my first stabs at love were clumsy and left me feeling lonely.”
Kralev, who liked the book enough to write about it on HuffPo, is the author of the books “America’s Other Army” and “Decoding Air Travel.” He is a former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent and appears on CNN as a foreign affairs expert.
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HUFFINGTON POST writer Nicholas Kralev blogs about 'Something Like Summer'. Click the image to read the article on the HuffPo website.
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