Creative Management Partners (CMP) agent Alan Morell has reached a milestone 277th book and feature film sale of CMP authors' works to publishers, according to an announcement distributed via NEWMEDIAWIRE. The milestone encompasses sales to major publishers, many with multilingual international editions and series, as well as books developed for TV and film that have been optioned to video streamers, networks, studios, and audiobook producers. The scale of the achievement matters because it illustrates how literary representation increasingly functions as a pipeline into screen and audio adaptation, rather than a standalone book business.
The roster of publishers involved reads as a cross-section of the traditional trade industry: Macmillan, HarperCollins, William Morrow, Penguin Random House, Random House, Rodale, Blackstone, iBooks, Hay House Publishers, Crown, Harmony, Brick Tower Press, J. Boylston & Company, St. Martins Press, Skyhorse, Simon & Schuster, Grand Central, BenBella Books, and Alcove, among others. Those placements are positioned for option rights spanning TV docu-series and feature films, television networks and cable, digital platforms, development adaptation of original content, unscripted and scripted programming, documentary and docudrama, and legitimate theatre, with buyers including Netflix, Amazon Prime, DisneyABC, Hulu, PBS/BBC, Focus Features, and Broadway. The implication is that a single agency's catalogue is now being marketed simultaneously across publishing, streaming, broadcast, and stage, which broadens both revenue and audience reach for authors.
Among the highlighted titles is "Lies I Taught In Medical School" by Dr. Robert Lufkin, with a foreword by Jason Fung MD, sold to BenBella Books and distributed by Random House in multilingual editions, described as a New York Times bestseller. Other deals include former Supreme Allied NATO Commander Four Star General Wesley K. Clark's "ADVOCACY FOR PEACE" to iBooks; "Before the Knife," a regenerative approach to chronic pain, arthritis, and injury by Dr. Adam Brockman, host of Health Talk America, to Blackstone Publishing; "The Art of Chaos" by Dr. Nicole Dolan to WhoopLNK; and "THE WORK OF A NATION (Immigration, Identity, and America's Future)" by Al Cardenas with Rod Thorn to WhoopLNK. The breadth of subject matter, from medicine and military affairs to immigration and politics, underscores how health, policy, and personal-story genres are all attracting adaptation interest.
Several projects show the screen-side momentum directly. A Heads of State book series by Dr. Frederic Teboul and Thierry Pastor went to iBooks, with individual volumes on President Donald J. Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentina's president, President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as detailed in the Heads of State series announcement. Meanwhile, Washington Square Entertainment and NTD Canada are developing a conspiracy thriller drama series based on John Moody's bestselling Hui trilogy, a project outlined in the WSE and NTD Canada series announcement. The Grant Brace Story, a true American tragedy by the Brace family with Didi Gluck, went to J. Boylston & Company Publishers, a project also covered in finance.yahoo.com coverage. For authors and publishers, the pattern suggests that a book's value is increasingly assessed through its adaptability to screen and audio formats from the outset.
The milestone also reflects CMP's broader commercial-rights strategy. Dr. Adam Brockman, co-host of Health Talk America, signed with CMP for commercial rights, sponsorships, advertisers, and talent bookings, according to the Health Talk America signing announcement, and the radio program later rebranded as Health Talk America, as noted in the rebrand announcement. CMP has also promoted cost-cutting manuscript and screenwriting proposal services, covered in its Chaingmai service announcement. Dr. Lee Newcomer, author of "UNMASKED," signed with CMP as well, per the Dr. Lee Newcomer signing announcement. The cumulative effect is a model in which agenting, commercial rights, and adaptation packaging reinforce one another, giving authors more routes to market and giving studios and streamers a deeper bench of pre-vetted intellectual property.
