![]() ![]() The venture has investors, there are six employees besides the principals, and a “handful of consultants and a network of freelancers,” that includes editors, designers and production staff. “I’m a filmmaker, we’ve got executive experience, we’ve brought together a variety of skills,” he said. Adaptive Studios may be a startup, Lewy said, but the principals have 40-50 years of combined experience in the entertainment business. Barrack, and head of business development Marc Joubert. All books will get a “significant marketing spend” and AB has an in-house digital marketing team in addition to an outside PR firm.Īdaptive Studios has three other founding partners in addition to Lewy: CEO Perrin Chiles, COO and president T.J. Adaptive Books are available through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and other wholesalers and Lewy expects to sign a distribution deal when more titles are ready for release. All books will be released eventually in digital and print. Myers and Shadow of a Doubt, a middle-grade novel by Skylar James.Īdaptive Books plans to release its books digital-first (as e-books) to be followed by a “supplemental print run,” Lewy said. In the fall, Adaptive Books will release two more titles: Silence of Six, a YA thriller by E.C. The series, called The Adventures of Black Dog, will use original characters to tell seafaring adventure stories for kids starring the eponymous black dog and a cast of talking animals, along with a captain and two teenage crew members who manage the ship. The Black Dog picture books will be the next titles released by Adaptive Books. Coin Heist was adapted from a script called "The Hole with the Mint" by William Osborne.Īdaptive Books is also partnering with the Black Dog Tavern, the iconic Martha’s Vineyard restaurant, to produce a series of picture books by Tiffany Schmidt, illustrated by Andrew Theophilopoulos. The book came out of a deal with Miramax in which Adaptive bought the rights to a number of unproduced scripts. Earlier this month, Adaptive Books released Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig, a YA thriller about four Philadelphia prep school teens-a nerd, a slacker, a perfect student and an athlete-who team up to rob the U.S. ![]()
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