Author of Doc, which Ron Howard will be filming for HBO. On Ron Howard’s HBO Project:Here’s a little Hollywood wisdom I’ve learned: it’s not a movie until the cinematographer is on the set eating a breakfast burrito. Or, in religious terms, many are optioned, but few are filmed. When my first novel (The Sparrow) was optioned by Universal Studios and Antonio Banderas, I actually shopped for a dress to wear to the premier. That was 15 years ago. When the same book was optioned fiv

March 2012