Stars Collective Takes Film/TV Rights To Shawn M. Warner’s YA Bestseller ‘Leigh Howard And The Ghosts Of Simmons-Pierce Manor’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: USA Today bestselling author Shawn M. Warner‘s Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor has been optioned by Stars Collective, which will explore film and TV adaptations of the bestselling YA novel.
Described as R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps meets Nancy Drew, Leigh Howard is the tale of a teenage girl who teams up with a ghost with multiple personalities to solve the mystery of her parents’ murder.
The book was published by Black Rose Writing in November 2022. A former Army paratrooper-turned-author, Warner was thrust into the spotlight last year when a single TikTok video, depicting him signing copies of the book outside a Fort Worth, Texas grocery store and explaining its premise, went viral, garnering over 25 million views plus over 3 million likes and sending sales skyrocketing.
In July 2023, the novel was the #1 Bestseller on Amazon Books, and the story was being covered in the national media by the likes of The Today Show.
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