Amazon Studios has optioned the rights to the horror novel Seed by Ania Ahlborn. Testing a book as a movie is a first for Amazon Studios. So far, the company has only optioned movie scripts and episodic series projects.
“Our primary objective at Amazon Studios is to develop great, commercial projects that our customers love,” explained Roy Price, director of Amazon Studios, in a statement. “Ania Ahlborn’s SEED has been a top seller for Amazon Publishing’s 47North so we already have a sense of the mainstream attraction of the story and are excited to keep the project in-house for movie development.”
The book started life as a self-published novel in 2010 which quickly rose up the charts through word-of-mouth popularity. Amazon picked up the book and released it this past July. After success on Amazon’s sci-fi imprint 47North, Amazon is testing various big screen adaptations of the Southern gothic tale.
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Title: Seed
Author: Ania Ahlborn
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
ASIN: B00537SDWM
Reviewed by: A. R. Braun
Like some published authors, I used to think all self-published books suck. Also, like some authors, I didn't do my homework to find out if I knew what I was talking about. More diligent research has proved me wrong, as I was strapped for cash this month and had the choice of a couple of .99 books or nothing. I took the cheap books.
One of them really surprised me.
Enter Seed by Ania Ahlborn, one of the best horror novels I've ever read in my life, which made me really glad I'm about to self-publish, because now I know I'll be in good company at least some of the time. Ania possesses a descriptive prowess few authors share, and she makes you fall hard in love with her characters, which is a skill a lot of writers think they have, when they don't. Don't forget her ability to give you the straight-up creeps, for I've read few books that gave me the willies like this one.
Without giving too much away, Jack Winter is a blue-collar worker who married Aimee, a lady that's out of his league, but she doesn't mind. She just wanted to put her strict Catholic upbringing behind her. They have a couple of adorable daughters: ten-year-old Abigail and six-year-old Charlotte. The latter, nicknamed "Charlie," is the most delightful character in the book. So, of course, she's the one stricken. It seems she's got too much in common with her old man, who has a beastly past he'd put behind him . . . until now.
If you pass this one up because it's self-published, you're only hurting yourself. She's gone to the top of Amazon's horror charts, above Stephen King, and a New York agent has come calling.
Do the math and solve the equation.
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A. R. BRAUN has numerous publication credits, including “NREM Sleep” in the D.O.A. anthology; “Freaks” in Downstate Story; “The Unwanted Visitors” in the Vermin anthology and “Coven” in the Heavy Metal Horror anthology, both through Rymfire eBooks; “Remember Me?” in Horror Bound magazine; and “Shades of Gray (the Symbiosis of Light and Dark)” in Micro Horror magazine.
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