The rights for Shadow and Bone were originally acquired by Netflix in 2012 and as is common in Hollywood, the executive who brought that story in left and Shadow and Bone kind of languished there for a while.
But, once the rights became available again, we were in a sort of a strange situation.
What they do in Hollywood is they bring you to a lot of meetings and they kind of butter you up and tell you you’re great and give you a tiny bottle of water and then they talk about your books as if they haven’t read them.