'Red Riding Hood' will be one of Atom's biggest
releases for the year. Selling at $18.99, the book is a literary adaptation of
the film and is sure to be a huge hit with Twilight fans, fairy tale lovers and
film buffs alike. Hardwicke's film stars Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman amongst
a star-studded cast, and is a darkly suspenseful thriller with an underlying love
triangle that is sure to captivate viewers.
Valerie is in love
with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a handsome, orphaned woodcutter) but is
betrothed to the rich, hot blacksmith in town, Henry. Their town has been terrorized
by a wolf, a wolf that appears only at the full moon, and when Valerie's sister
is brutally murdered the message is clear: she's next. As the death toll rises
with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she
loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection
to the beast - making her both suspect and bait...
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
is twenty-two years old and is a recent cum laude graduate of Barnard College,
the greatest place on earth. She is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Mary Gordon
Fiction Scholarship Award and the 2009-2010 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for
Prose. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles. Despite what the
book may say, she actually prefers wolves to people.
Raised
in Mansfield, Ohio, David Leslie Johnson began writing plays in the second grade
and wrote his first screenplay at age nineteen. A graduate of Ohio State University
in Columbus with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and cinema, Johnson
worked as a production assistant on the Academy Award-nominated film The Shawshank
Redemption, and spent five years as an assistant to the film's director and writer,
Frank Darabont.
'Red Riding Hood' is available now.
