And authors do show up in adaptations of their works from time to time. The publishing industry has changed dramatically over the years, authors do order in bulk for events like conventions and book signings. Some is sympathetic, and others not so much. I’ve seen a lot of back and forth in the wake of this article. She also said that plenty of people had bought books at these signings/conventions, and that she’d already locked down the rights for the movie so she could have more control over the five movies (seriously? Five?) based off the series she was writing, and to star in the film. She pointed out that the publishing industry has changed dramatically over the past couple of years, and that she ordered the books for conventions and book signings, going through the bookstores rather than her distributor so that sales counted towards the NYT Bestseller List. Well on Monday the author of that very book, Lani Sarem, wrote an article for the Huffington Post defending herself. All in order to apparently get a movie deal with the author as the main character. Her fate is left in the hands of a mortal who does not believe in a world of real magick, a fortuneteller who knew one day Zade would put herself in danger and a dagger with mystical powers.' -Amazon.Recently I wrote a post on “Handbook for Mortals,” which covered the controversy about a first-time author and former band manager whose YA novel made it to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, and how the Twitter YA community uncovered that the author got there by making bulk orders from bookstores.

Using Chaos magick, which is known for being unpredictable, she tests her abilities as a spellcaster farther than she's ever tried and finds herself at death's door. Zade's secrets and the struggle to choose between Mac or Jackson creates reckless tension during the grand finale of the show. Behind the scenes of this multimillion-dollar production, Zade finds herself caught in a love triangle with Mac, the show's good-looking but rough-around-the-edges technical director and Jackson, the tall, dark, handsome and charming bandleader. After all, when everyone is slightly eccentric, appearing ''normal'' is much less important. Zade fits right in with his troupe of artists and misfits. Zade travels to Las Vegas and uses supernatural powers to become part of a premiere magic show led by the infamous magician Charles Spellman. She leaves her home in Tennessee to break free from her overprotective mother Dela, the local resident spellcaster and fortuneteller. Growing up in a small town and never quite fitting in, Zade is determined to forge her own path. 'Zade Holder has always been a free-spirited young woman, from a long dynasty of tarot-card readers, fortunetellers, and practitioners of magick.

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