This summer, I read ALL of Jennifer Weiner’s books. I read Certain Girls and then became obsessed and picked up every book of hers I could get my hands on.
She is a local Philly girl and writes about my beautiful city in all of her novels. She is also completely real and writes about women who aren’t stick skinny models.
I am signed up for Jennifer Weiner’s newsletter through her Web site and today I got an e-mail that said:
Over the past year, I’ve been working on (drumroll please!) a TV show. It’s called “Jane and Dick,” and it’s about a funny, smart, sensitive, slightly insecure lady lawyer, the all-female law firm she’s created, and what happens when her teenage crush and her big sister’s ex-boyfriend comes to work in her feminist Utopia. It takes elements of all the shows I loved (Ally McBeal! Moonlighting!
ABC is in the process of picking up shows for next fall, and “Jane and Dick” is still in the running. If you’d like to see it on the air, you can sign a petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/
Or you can write to the network and say, “I want more Weiner on TV” at http://abc.go.com/site/
Please note: even if the TV show happens, I will not stop writing novels. My newest book, FLY AWAY HOME, tells the story of a politician’s wife and his two adult daughters rebuilding their lives in the wake of the kind of scandal that’s become all too familiar these days, and it hits shelves this July.
Thanks in advance for your support
How exciting is this? I love her writing and I can’t imagine how hilarious a TV show written by Weiner would be.
Head over to the petition and vote!
Ahh I love her!! Yes yes yes!
Oooh, how exciting! I love her books and really hope this will work out.
So excited!! I love Jen Weiner. This pilot sounds great 🙂
That's awesome! I'm excited!