
Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle is coming to TV.
It’s been a week of good news for globe-trotting American novelist and travel writer Maggie Shipstead.
On Tuesday, Shipstead’s latest novel, Great Circle, made the star-studded longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize, and Deadline has today reported that the book is also set for a small screen adaptation.
Great Circle—a decades-spanning work of historical fiction about Marian, a pioneering midcentury female pilot who dreams of circumnavigating the globe, and Hadley, the a present-day disgraced actress who cast as Marian in a biopic about her disappearance—received rave reviews upon its release back in May and was a New York Times bestseller.
The production company Picturestart won the rights to Great Circle in a competitive bidding war and is now on the hunt for a writer to adapt the novel for television, so if you’re a Shipstead fan looking to kick-start your screenwriting career, now might be the moment to throw your hat in the ring.

Dan Sheehan
Dan Sheehan is the author of the novel Restless Souls (Ig Publishing) and Editor-in-Chief of Book Marks.