Simple Mystery » Television http://www.simplemystery.com A Writer Talks Shop Mon, 14 May 2012 01:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I Want to Sell My Soul to HBO http://www.simplemystery.com/2009/04/i-want-to-sell-my-soul-to-hbo/ http://www.simplemystery.com/2009/04/i-want-to-sell-my-soul-to-hbo/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:33:00 +0000 jane http://www.simplemystery.com/?p=63 I was in the bookstore yesterday and I noticed there was a new cover for Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Book publishers like to update their covers every once in a while, to keep them looking fresh and modern and on code, so this wasn’t exactly a big surprise. But as I leaned closer, I got one.

Emblazoned across the top were these words: “Now an HBO original series.”

I tell ya, HBO is all about the cozies lately. Less than a year ago they released True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris’ wildly popular Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. Now they’ve fallen in with the traditionally-built ladies of Botswana’s first all-girl detective agency.

Next year? Who knows. But all I’m saying is, if a bright young writer were to come out with something awesome… well, the sky’s the limit.

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