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The Langdon Prep Series is being re-released in 2020
The Langdon Prep series has been out of print for a few years, but the three original novels will return in 2020 along with a new(ish) prequel novella. Why newish? If you've read the series before, you may recall there were a few flashback scenes in the first book, My Own Worst Frenemy. I have since learned a lot of people don't like flashbacks, so I pulled those scenes out and wrote a whole novella around them as a real-time story. This will be the new series order:
NO PLACE SAFE is in development for FX Television
Two-time Emmy winner Regina King has joined Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley, producer Michael McDonald, and ABC Signature Studios to develop a limited-run TV series based on Kim Reid's memoir, No Place Safe, for FX Television. Update 2019: This project is no longer happening.
Perfect Liars Named a Best Teen Book of 2016
Kirkus Reviews has named Perfect Liars one of the Best Teen Books of 2016.
Latest book deal
#Prettyboy Must Die, pitched as KINGSMEN: THE SECRET SERVICE meets DIE HARD, in which a young, African-American CIA prodigy accidentally becomes an internet sensation (a la #Alexfromtarget and #DamnDaniel) thereby blowing his cover to old and new enemies, to Bess Coby at Tor Teen, for publication Spring 2018, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (World rights). --Publisher's Marketplace, March 2016
Starred Kirkus Review for PERFECT LIARS
"Reid presents an introspective, morally complex protagonist in Drea as well as an effortlessly diverse supporting cast. Gripping, suspenseful, and refreshingly diverse."
Latest rights deal
Kim Reid's memoir NO PLACE SAFE, a look at how her childhood was shaped by the search for a serial killer and her cop mother's involvement in the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children Investigation (which captured the nation's attention and ended with the 1982 conviction of Wayne Williams), to Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years A Slave) and Michael McDonald for ABC Signature Studios, by Kristin Nelson of Nelson Literary Agency with Wayne Alexander of Alexander, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz. --Publisher's Marketplace, August 2015