Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or you haven’t been to an airport bookstore in the past three years, you’ve probably heard of literary wunderkind T.J. Newman. A former flight attendant, Newman started scribbling down ideas for thriller novels on cocktail napkins, dreaming of becoming a real writer of books. After forty-one rejections from literary agents, she eventually sold her first novel, Falling, which debuted at number two on the New York Times Best Sellers list in 2021. Multimillion-dollar movie deals soon came along, and now, just a few years later, that cocktail napkin’s worth of ideas has taken her far. Falling was quickly optioned for a film deal, with Newman herself writing the screenplay. Her next book, Drowning, swiftly followed in 2023. Although it wasn’t a true sequel, it dealt with an even more complex airplane disaster than her first book did.
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