Creative Management Partners (CMP) agent Alan Morell has reached a milestone 277th book and feature film sale of CMP authors' works to publishers, with many titles also being developed for television and film and optioned to video streamers, networks, studios, and audiobook producers. The announcement, distributed via NEWMEDIAWIRE, underscores the expanding role of literary intellectual property as source material for a wide range of entertainment platforms.
The milestone matters because it reflects a sustained appetite among publishers and screen-based media for books that can travel across formats. CMP authors' works have been placed with major publishers including Macmillan, HarperCollins, William Morrow, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Skyhorse, BenBella Books, and Brick Tower Press, among others. Many of these titles are positioned for option rights for TV docu-series and feature films, as well as development adaptation of original content across scripted, unscripted, documentary, docudrama, and legitimate theatre formats. Streaming and broadcast outlets named in the announcement include Netflix, Amazon Prime, DisneyABC, Hulu, PBS, BBC, and Focus Features.
Several titles illustrate the range of the slate. "Lies I Taught In Medical School" by Dr. Robert Lufkin, with a foreword by Jason Fung, MD, was published by BenBella Books, distributed by Random House, and released in multilingual editions. Former Supreme Allied NATO Commander Four Star General Wesley K. Clark's "Advocacy for Peace" went to iBooks, while "Before the Knife," a regenerative approach to chronic pain, arthritis, and injury by Dr. Adam Brockman, host of Health Talk America, was placed with Blackstone Publishing. The Health Talk America connection is detailed in a separate announcement about the radio show's commercial rights representation, available here.
The slate also includes a book series on heads of state by Dr. Frederic Teboul and Thierry Pastor, sold to iBooks, with titles on President Donald J. Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentina's president, President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. That series was previously announced in a separate release, accessible at this link. Another title, "Unmasked" by Dr. Lee Newcomer, is under negotiation with a publisher, according to the announcement, which also references a prior release on the author's signing with CMP, found here.
Television and film adaptations are central to the milestone. Washington Square Entertainment and NTD Canada are developing a conspiracy thriller drama series based on John Moody's bestselling Hui trilogy, "Of Course They Knew, Of Course They...," as outlined in a separate release. The Grant Brace Story, "True American Tragedy," by the Brace Family with Didi Gluck, went to J. Boylston & Company Publishers, with coverage available via finance.yahoo.com.
The breadth of the 277-sale milestone signals that agents and publishers are increasingly treating books as multipurpose assets, with print, audiobook, and screen rights negotiated in tandem. For authors, that can mean expanded reach across multilingual editions and international markets; for streamers and networks, it offers a pipeline of pre-validated stories with built-in audiences. CMP's own cost-reduction initiatives for manuscript and screenwriting proposals, detailed in a prior announcement here, suggest the agency is also positioning itself to move projects from manuscript to screen more efficiently as competition for adaptable literary content intensifies.
