BIG BLEND RADIO: D. Eric Maikranz discusses his thrilling novel, “The Reincarnationist Papers.” Listen here in the YouTube player or download the podcast on PodBean or SoundCloud.
With one simple idea, debut novelist D. Eric Maikranz started a string of events half a world away that took his novel “The Reincarnationist Papers” to the big screen.
Described as “Cloud Atlas” meets “The Da Vinci Code” in a Neil Gaiman dark fantasy world, “The Reincarnationist Papers” is a lead title for Blackstone Publishing in 2021. The novel is part of a series where a handful of people recall their past life memories and reincarnate over and over again. These 28 people created a secret society called the Cognomina centuries ago so that they could associate with each other from one lifetime to another. They are, in effect, near immortals — compiling experiences and skills over diverse lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they have used to drive human history toward their own agenda on a longer timeline. The novel has now been adapted into INFINITE, one of Paramount’s tent pole movies of 2021, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Maikranz, a long-time IT professional, started his novel’s journey to Hollywood with a simple Silicon Valley idea, called crowdsourcing, to get Hollywood’s attention. He incentivized readers to introduce his book to a film producer by offering them an agent’s commission if that introduction led to a movie deal. This reward, outlined on the first page of an early self-published version, garnered a few leads from early readers. The real breakthrough came when Rafi Crohn, an assistant to a Hollywood director, found a copy of “The Reincarnationist Papers” in a hostel in Nepal. Envisioning the book as a blockbuster, Crohn began pitching it to studios, and Maikranz paid the reward when Paramount started shooting INFINITE, scheduled to release on September 24, 2021.
With elements of a thriller, mystery, fantasy, crime and historical fiction novel, this puzzle-box book will captivate fans of multiple genres as they race through the pages to discover the secrets behind the Cognomina in a book that O – The Oprah Magazine listed as a book to read before it’s one of 2021’s most popular movies.
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