I've wondered more than once what happened to Allison Pearson's follow-up to the massively successful, I Don't Know How She Does It.
In July 2006, I wrote that the book - I Think I Love You, it was called - was to be released in September of that year and would be a "coming-of-age novel, set in the '70s and the present day, about teen obsession, rites of passage and one girl's infatuation with David Cassidy". But it never materialised.
Today, on The Bookseller, I read this:
Miramax Film has sued British writer and Daily Mail columnist Allison Pearson for breach of contract for failing to deliver a promised novel.
The film studio accuses Pearson of accepting $700,000 five years ago in return for the rights for an unpublished book titled I Think I Love You.
The suit, filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, said although Pearson accepted the money in August 2003 under a two-year contract she failed to deliver the novel and ignored requests by Miramax since 2006 about the book's whereabouts.
Yikes. And $700,000? No news on the movie version of I Don't Know How She Does It, but since it was being produced by Miramax, you have to assume this will have some impact...
