Los Angeles Producer Acquires Film Rights For Adventure Novel

Hey all, 

I wanted to pass on the official news that a major Hollywood producer has acquired the rights to my book, The Samson Effect. The way the producer and I came together is a script that even Hollywood couldn't have written. Here is the text to the release that just hit today:

Los Angeles Producer Acquires Film Rights For Adventure Novel

DALLAS, TX (May 12, 2008)-- Producer Tony Eldridge has acquired the
film right to The Samson Effect, the first in a series of action
adventure novels by.......Tony Eldridge. No, that's not a typo just an
amazing coincidence and fortuitous turn of events. 

"I started getting emails congratulating me on my soon to be published
first novel, interesting only because I hadn't written one," said Los
Angeles based film producer Tony Eldridge. By doing some research,
he discovered there was a Texas based writer also named Tony Eldridge.
The premise of his upcoming book and some pre-publication reviews (one
by best-selling author Clive Cussler) sounded interesting so the
producer contact the author and requested a copy .

He was amazed by how good the story was. "I couldn't put it down,
read it cover to cover in one evening and the next morning made a deal
for the film rights. Finding great material is what it's all about.
It's like panning for gold, you just never know when you're going to
get lucky or where that nugget is going to come from." 

How close did these two Tony Eldridges come to passing each other as
two ships in the night? Author Tony Eldridge said, "When the time came
to put my name on the book, I had it narrowed to three: Tony Eldridge,
Robert Eldridge {Robert is his first name}, or the pen name of
Benjamin Rytin."

Had the author chosen to go with Benjamin Rytin or Robert Eldridge
instead of Tony Eldridge, it is unlikely that the producer Tony
Eldridge would have ever come across The Samson Effect.

This isn't the first time that producer Eldridge has hit the Mother
Load. He is currently producing the feature films, The Equalizer,
with Mace Neufled, Harvey Weinstein and Michael Sloan, Patient Number
One with Zucker Productions for HBO Pictures as well as The War
Magician, Just Desserts and Old Dicks for his Lonetree Entertainment
shingle. 

Tony Eldridge, author, grew up in Westfield, IN and now lives in
Forney, TX. The Samson Effect is currently available on Amazon.com,
BarnesandNoble.com, or at any bookstore.

Contact for Tony Eldridge Author or Tony Eldridge Producer
media@samsoneffect.com

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