Creative Management Partners (CMP) agent Alan Morell has reached a milestone 277th book and feature film sale of his clients’ works to publishers, the Beverly Hills-based firm announced. The milestone spans book deals with major publishing houses as well as the development of titles for television and film, with option rights positioned toward video streamers, networks, studios and audiobook producers.
The announcement, carried by NEWMEDIAWIRE, places the milestone in the context of a roster that includes many multilingual international country editions and series. Publishers named in the release include Macmillan, HarperCollins, William Morrow, Penguin Random House, Random House, Rodale, Blackstone, iBooks, Hay House, Crown, Harmony, Brick Tower Press, J. Boylston & Company, St. Martins Press, Skyhorse, Simon & Schuster, Grand Central and BenBella Books. Option rights are positioned for docuseries and feature films, television network and cable, digital development, unscripted and scripted content, documentary and docudrama, and legitimate theatre, with buyers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, DisneyABC, Hulu, PBS/BBC and Focus Features cited.
The significance lies in the breadth of the placement activity: the release identifies titles across health, politics, memoir, business and cookery that have found publishing homes, several of them with adaptation pipelines attached. Among the highlighted deals are “Lies I Taught In Medical School” by Dr. Robert Lufkin, with a foreword by Jason Fung MD, to BenBella Books, distributed by Random House; former Supreme Allied NATO Commander General Wesley K. Clark’s “Advocacy for Peace” to iBooks; and “Before the Knife,” a regenerative approach to chronic pain by Dr. Adam Brockman, host of Health Talk America, to Blackstone Publishing.
A book series on heads of state by Dr. Frederic Teboul and Thierry Pastor is also part of the slate, covering figures including President Donald J. Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the President of Argentina, President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Earlier announcements tied to the agency include the heads-of-state series sale to Brick Tower Press, detailed in the newmediawire report on the series, and the signing of Dr. Adam Brockman for commercial rights, sponsorships, advertisers and talent bookings, covered in the Health Talk America announcement.
Adaptation activity extends beyond books. Washington Square Entertainment and NTD Canada are developing a conspiracy thriller drama series based on John Moody’s bestselling Hui trilogy, a project described in the WSE and NTD announcement. Dr. Lee Newcomer, author of “Unmasked,” has signed with CMP, according to the signing announcement. The release also cites the Grant Brace story project, a true American tragedy developed with the Brace family and Didi Gluck for J. Boylston & Company, referenced in the Yahoo Finance coverage.
For authors, the milestone points to a model in which literary representation is increasingly bundled with screen, audio and commercial-rights strategy. CMP describes Morell as having over 40 years of global experience managing more than 3,700 campaigns, with advisory work for executives in the health and wellness sector and management of 277 doctors. His clients have won Grammy, Tony, Oscar, Emmy, ESPY, Telly, Clio and Gemini awards and include New York Times bestselling authors. Additional details on the agency’s cost-cutting manuscript and screen-writing proposal service appear in the CMP proposals announcement.
