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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed nan authorities to Liz Tomforde’s bestselling Windy City book series, pinch an oculus toward improvement of a TV series.
Alison McDonald is connected committee to constitute and exec produce, pinch Premeditated Productions group to nutrient nether its first-look woody pinch nan studio. Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark from Premeditated will EP, pinch SVP of Television Julie Jarmon connected arsenic co-EP and pointing nan task for Premeditated. Tomforde will exec produce, arsenic well.
Kicking disconnected pinch 2022’s Mile High, Windy City is simply a five-book interconnected sports romance bid that follows a close-knit group of 5 master athletes arsenic they each navigate falling for nan strong, analyzable women who unexpectedly participate their lives and situation them successful each nan correct ways. The bid has sold millions of copies worldwide, received complete a cardinal page sounds connected Kindle, sold successful 30 countries, and been translated into 21 languages.
A New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling sports romance author, Tomforde precocious published In Her Own League, a Windy City bid spinoff pursuing awesome convention baseball’s first female squad proprietor and Chicago’s favourite coach, besides announcing a four-book bid titled Wilder Woods, centered connected Northern California athletics.
She told us, “I started penning Mile High while moving arsenic a formation attendant for a master lucky team. What started arsenic a individual passion task has turned into a profession that I genuinely ne'er thought was possible. And now, acknowledgment to Premeditated Productions and Amazon Studios, it’s becoming thing bigger than I ever dreamed. Soon readers who fell successful emotion pinch my characters will get to watch their stories measurement disconnected nan page and unfold connected screen.”
An Emmy, BAFTA, NAACP Image, and WGA Award-nominated writer, McDonald’s credits see nan Netflix acheronian drama Russian Doll, Showtime’s Your Honor and Nurse Jackie, nan critically acclaimed remake of Roots, and nan long-running animated bid American Dad. She besides created, directed, and executive produced nan lauded Amazon typical American Girl Story: Summer Camp and co-created nan Netflix children’s animated bid Karma’s World. She has besides received nan prestigious Humanitas Prize for her activity and is repped by TFC Management.
Premeditated’s TV slate besides includes Fourth Wing, Stormbreaker, and Lux astatine Amazon MGM and Assistant to nan Villain astatine Legendary, complementing characteristic projects Shield of Sparrows, A Stage Set for Villains, Dragon Cursed, and Repeat After Me — each group up astatine Amazon MGM — and The Marriage Bargain astatine 20th Century Studios. The institution announced an hold of its first-look woody astatine Amazon successful March. They are repped by IAG and Caitlin DiMotta astatine TroyGould PC.
