Adeyemi releases new novel The Siren with her portrait on cover as statement of ownership
1 Sep 27 7:00 AM · 1d ago · 4 articles · 1 post · 10 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Adeyemi's new standalone novel follows Emery, a Black student at Dartmouth College. She places her photograph on the cover—a highly unusual choice—as a deliberate statement of ownership after the film experience. She describes the decision as stemming from needing "people to see me in this one."
“It was an intense choice, and I think it's because I needed people to see me in this one. I've had so much success, but it was also done in a way where so many people's interpretations were put on to who I was.”
Tomi AdeyemiTomi Adeyemi Author of Children of Blood and BoneGina Prince-Bythewood Director of Children of Blood and Bone filmAmandla Stenberg Lead actor in Children of Blood and Bone film
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4 outlets Tomi Adeyemi on the film of her hit novel Children of Blood and Bone: ‘I don’t plan to watch it’
first by Guardian Culture, 1d ago · also AV Club, Guardian Books, The Guardian
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Unless she has some crazy revelations coming, I think is a case of an author getting wrapped up in the excitement of an adaptation. One that she was allowed to be heavily involved in, only for her to discover what a miserable, maddening process making a film is. A book is written alone, with routine input from an agent and editor. A movie…
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Basically any movie/TV production from a studio is going to come with an NDA of some sort. It could be as simple as reigning in potential spoilers (big one for Marvel, for example), protecting the reputation of the movie before release (so even if production was a disaster, the studio doesn’t want that becoming the dominant conversation in the…
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Stephen King notoriously doesn’t like The Shining. It’s a great book and a great film. Artists can be wrong. Problem is King said something in a print interview after the film was released. No social media. No public hungry for clicks or someone to cancel. It was a different time. (And Kubrick’s behavior on that set needed to be scrutinized but…
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I would imagine she’s still under an NDA. What’s funny is that her efforts to undermine the movie would probably be more effective if she just chilled and slow ghosted the project. Speaking of Zendaya, she was one of the producers and starred in Euphoria - said basically nothing of the final season, did the barest minimum promo, collected her…
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I know, I just think when people talk 'monster success' they mean a single book that just seems to be talked about everywhere. Overall, Nora is of course a writing behemoth haha, I just could see Tomi making this mistake to start. And as I said, take a minute, "there's obviously no reason for Nora to do something like this, let me reach out to her…
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Every time I’ve heard someone being insistent yet cagey about how they were treated, it’s because they weren’t given enough power. My guess is she thought she was going to be running the movie and discovered that directors run movies, not screenwriters, and even they have to negotiate with producers. Ten bucks says this woman thinks negotiation is…
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Then the line will be “Looking back, this process was so hard, but it was so worth it. Giving away something you’ve worked so hard on can be… it’s almost grieving. My mental health really suffered during that time, and I apologize sincerely to anyone I might have hurt. ❤️ “ If the film is successful, I bet $20 this is what happens.
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It's not impossible for a popular or successful person to plagiarize someone. But if you're going to make an accusation, you should definitely make sure you've got something more substantial than "they used a common phrase I did not invent and was not the first person to use as the title of a book as the title of their book."
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Authors should know, and imo expect, that movie/tv show adapatations will change many things and if they are not ok with that, they should make sure it's in the contract that they have the last say for everything or not sell the rights for their book at all. I'm so tired about authors bitching about adaptations.
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It's not really the authors fault and it's not so people on bookshelfs know what it is as a glance. The website those stories started on don't allow a synopsis, so the title had to be coopted for that purpose. It makes it very easy to tell what started as a web novel and what didn't.
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Wait, wait, wait…. Just the name? That’s all? That’s all this accusation of plagiarism is over? This unbelievably generic name that I see a million of in the bookstore and instantly know to ignore all of them? Please tell me that’s a typo, or a mistake.
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She’s got a very successful series of books with a high-profile film adaptation. She can afford lawyers, especially if what she says is true. She doesn’t want justice, she wants drama.
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Tbf I'm not positive that one's true but a lot of people in the publishing industry have sworn they know it is, it's been going around since her 2nd book.
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I'm not saying that's what I think, I'm saying that's what Tomi might have thought as someone with a sudden breakout book.
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She definitely does but i feel like her actions are going to make more people want to watch the movie.
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Sounds like someone opted for a money up front deal and doesn't have any stake in the back end.
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The fact that she accused NORA ROBERTS of all people of plagiarism was certainly a choice...
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I enjoyed the first, was luke warm about the second, and didn't care about the third
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