Where the Crawdads Sing holds the record for the most weeks at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction!*
I am so grateful to all of you for the success of Where the Crawdads Sing hardcover and am looking forward to the release of the paperback on March 30. Have a great weekend!
*According to the most recent iteration of the list beginning in 2008.
Celebrating 10 million copies of Where the Crawdads Sing sold worldwide. Paperback available soon.
Sending good luck tonight to Golden Globes nominee Daisy Edgar Jones, who will play Kya in the Crawdads movie.
After spending two and a half years only in hardcover, CRAWDADS is getting a paperback edition, available March 30th.
Justin Kroll, 'Where the Crawdads Sing': Taylor John Smith And Harris Dickinson Join Film Adaptation For 3000 Pictures, Hello Sunshine And Sony, DEADLINE, January 25, 2021.
The Duchess of Cornwall Chose 'Crawdads' as the Second Book for Her New Royal Book Club
I’m so thrilled that the second book HRH The Duchess of Cornwall chose for her book club, The Reading Room, is WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING!
“Daisy Edgar-Jones landed the starring role of Kya in the 3000 Pictures and Hello Sunshine film adaptation of Delia Owens’ New York Times bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Set up at Sony, the film is being directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated scribe Lucy Alibar.”
Amanda N'Duka, “‘Where the Crawdads Sing’: ‘Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones Set As Lead In Film Adaptation From 3000 Pictures, Hello Sunshine & Sony,” DEADLINE, October 21, 2020.
Crawdads is celebrating TWO YEARS on the NYT Bestseller List and is Number 1 again. Thank you all so much and have a happy holiday weekend!
“Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild scribe Lucy Alibar has been set to adapt the 3000 Pictures/Hello Sunshine film adaptation of Delia Owens’ New York Times bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing.
”Published by the Penguin Random House imprint G.P. Putnam’s Sons in August 2018., the novel has been a publishing juggernaut, on the bestseller list for 75 weeks with 4.5 million copies sold. Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will produce for Hello Sunshine. ”
Mike Fleming Jr, "Sony, Elizabeth Gabler & Reese Witherspoon Set Scribe For ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’: ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’s Lucy Alibar," Deadline Hollywood, March 11, 2020.
“Olivia Newman, who wrote and directed Netflix feature First Match, will helm Sony Pictures’ feature adaptation of the Delia Owens’ debut novel that has dominated the New York Times best-sellers list since it was published 2019. It was also the most-sold fiction book on Amazon for all of 2019.
”Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are producing via their banner Hello Sunshine for 3000 Pictures, Sony’s lit-minded feature label.”
Borys Kit and Mia Galuppo, “'Where the Crawdads Sing' Movie Adaptation Finds Its Director,” Hollywood Reporter, July 21, 2020.
Today, I'm so thankful to celebrate over 7 million copies sold worldwide, including over 6 million in the US!