Book Ad of the Week: VICTIM: THE OTHER SIDE OF MURDER (1982)

October 10, 1982

Victim: The Other Side of Murder

by Gary Kinder

Delacorte, 1982

This book was eventually produced as the CBS made-for-TV movie AFTERMATH: A TEST OF LOVE (1991), starring Richard Chamberlain and Michael Learned.

"Paperback Sales Precede 1979 'Nightwing' Release"

Nightwing
by Martin Cruz Smith
Jove, 1979
Movie tie-in edition

Nightwing
 by Steve Shagan, Bud Shrake
and Martin Cruz Smith
 Fotonovel, 1979

Thanks to William Wilson of Video Junkie Strikes Back from Beyond the Grave for submitting this one.

Book Ad of the Week: WITH A VENGEANCE (1977)

March 11, 1977

With a Vengeance

by Gerald DiPego

McGraw-Hill, 1977

The film adaptation was never made.

Pressbook Promotion: BORN AGAIN (1978)

Book Ad of the Week: THE LOOTERS (1968)

June 6th, 1968

The Looters
by John Reese
Random House, 1968

This novel became the Don Siegel film CHARLEY VARRICK (1973), starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, and John Vernon.

Pressbook Promotion: 99 AND 44/100% DEAD (1974)

"Fanfare Talent Search" for the 49th Prophet

Hollywood – Joe Solomon’s Fanfare Film Productions is launching a nation-wide talent hunt for an unknown teenaged actor to portray the title role of a “hippie demagogue” in the forthcoming screen version of Elizabeth Willet’s novel “The 49th Prophet.”
                                  -- Motion Picture Daily, July 30, 1968, p.4

Not only was THE 49TH PROPHET never produced as a movie, we've found no evidence that it was ever published as a novel. Ms. Willett (with two t's) couldn't have been pleased to see her name mishandled so many different ways in the various press releases Solomon sent to the trades touting this aborted project.  Earlier the same year, her story/co-writer credits on PSYCH-OUT appeared as "E. Hunter Willett" in the opening credits, but "Betty Tusher" on the posters and ad mats!