Spiegel & Grau, The Black List Partner to Open Book Catalog to Adaptations

Spiegel & Grau has partnered with The Black List to add its full frontlist and backlist fiction and nonfiction catalog to the platform's material discovery database, the two announced. It is The Black List's first partnership with an independent publisher, according to Deadline.

Industry professionals can search and browse Spiegel & Grau titles on blcklst.com through free Black List industry accounts. Metadata provided for each book includes the imprint, cover art and description.

Spiegel & Grau authors who add titles to their Black List profiles will also have key project fields pre-populated.

Existing development activity

Several Spiegel & Grau titles are already in development for adaptation: Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière with producer Lauri Firstenberg/IF Innovation Foundation, Go As A River by Shelley Read with producers Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan at Mazur Kaplan Company, and The Boys by Katie Hafner with producers Ross Katz and Jonathan Krauss.

The publisher is known for award-winning books including Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Piper Kerman's Orange is the New Black. Recent bestsellers include Beartooth by Callan Wink, The Fire Agent by David Baerwald and Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows. Popular yet-to-be-adapted titles on blcklst.com include Freyja by Margrét Ann Thors, Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian and Out of the Sky by Matti Friedman.