![]() ![]() ![]() “I decided I could sell this to a network or I could sell it as a book,” Chapman says. He shaped those rough outlines into the character of Garrett Reilly, and the more he imagined the story he wanted to tell, the more Chapman felt Reilly belonged on the pages of a book than in the flickering lights of your television screen. ![]() I didn’t want him to be a likable character.” “And I wanted the main character to be a little bit of (a jerk). “I really wanted to write something kind of subversive and a little political,” says Chapman, one of nearly 50 authors booked for today’s Literary Orange festival of books and reading in Irvine. A few years back, as screenwriter Andrew Chapman kicked around ideas to pitch to the television network with which he had a contract, a character and a story started to emerge from the mists of imagination. ![]()
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