EXCLUSIVE: Indie publisher Spiegel & Grau has teamed with The Black List to bring its full catalog of frontlist and backlist fiction and nonfiction books to the platform’s material discovery database, enabling industry professionals to identify and explore published books for adaptation.
The partnership is The Black List’s first with an independent publisher.
Spiegel & Grau are best known for award-winning books such as Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black and recent bestsellers Beartooth by Callan Wink, The Fire Agent by David Baerwald and Margaret Renkl’s The Comfort of Crows.
Film and television adaptations currently underway from the Spiegel & Grau catalogue include Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, under development; Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière, under development with producer Lauri Firstenberg/IF Innovation Foundation; Go As A River by Shelley Read, under development with producers Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan at Mazur Kaplan Company (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, All The Bright Places), The Boys by Katie Hafner, under development with producers Ross Katz (In The Bedroom, Lost In Translation) and Jonathan Krauss; among others.
Popular, yet-to-be-adapted Spiegel & Grau catalogue on blcklst.com include Freyja by Margrét Ann Thors; Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian; and Out of the Sky by Matti Friedman.
Using their free Black List industry accounts, professionals in the film, television, theater, and publishing industries can now search and browse titles from the Spiegel & Grau catalogue alongside the existing resources hosted on the platform. The integration expands access to published books (including fiction and nonfiction titles) as potential IP).
Spiegel & Grau books can be found via searching by title, author, genre and other associated book information available on blcklst.com. Metadata provided by Spiegel & Grau includes additional information such as a published book’s imprint, book cover art, book description, and more.
This initiative also makes it easier for Spiegel & Grau authors to list their published books in their Black List profile quickly and efficiently, according to S&G. When Spiegel & Grau authors add titles to their Black List profiles, key project fields will be pre-populated, reducing manual entry and ensuring accurate, consistent information across the platform.
Liza Wachter, Spiegel & Grau President and Director of Film and Television, said, “This partnership opens our catalog to the film and television industry in a new way. We’re proud to be the first independent publisher to partner with The Black List.”
“As a reader, I’ve been a fan of Spiegel & Grau for most of my adult life; it is a dream to be partnering with them on this initiative, The Black List’s second with a trade publisher, our first with an indie publisher. The Spiegel & Grau catalogue will be a great resource for TV/Film industry members searching IP for adaptation,” said Randy Winston, Creative Director of Fiction at The Black List.
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