reported by Denise G. Lazar, CyberScreenwriter.com

Writer and producer Zachary Urbina announced that his production company, Pasadena Pictures, has optioned the novel "The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers," written by Joe Babcock. The project will be overseen by Urbina and the screenplay assigned to sixteen year-old wunderkind screenwriter Corrinne Gabaldon for adaptation.

Gabaldon?s previously unpublished writings have drawn comparisons to a young Anne Rice. She is said to derive her writing style from her love of "Gravitation," and Japanese Yaoi-Manga graphic novels. The plot of the book tells the coming-of-age story of teenager Erick Taylor, who, like his heterosexual classmates, struggles with issues of adolescence, peer pressure and sex.

"The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers," Babcock?s debut novel, won the Lambda Literary Foundation?s Best Self-Published Novel Award and the 2002 Writer?s Digest Self-Publishing Awards grand prize. This is Gabaldon's first feature length screenplay.

The option purchase was brokered between Urbina and Babcock?s literary agent Michael Mancilla of Greystone Literary Agency. Details of the option remain undisclosed at this time.

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