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More Than Rice to Hit the Big Screen & Help End Human Trafficking
I’ve just signed a movie contract with a producer/director from Vancouver Canada. 8/25/11
More Than Rice to be Made into Movie
Production has begun! They are already writing the beginning of a movie script. Its quite a process to get to this place!
Aaron Au of Title Card Pictures and Quadrant 2 Productions has already produced a short film on human trafficking, and knew he wanted to find a great story that would be strong enough to make a successful movie. Its fairly difficult to transform a book to film. More than rice is about 225 pages. A movie script is about 90! Showing the story as well as speaking the story is totally different than reading it from a book.
When Aaron started his search he discovered there were books about human trafficking but, none that he felt was a strong enough story to do an entire movie on. In his search on the Internet he came across MTR and downloaded it immediately from amazon then spent the nite reading it. He fell in love with my Gabriela and knew her story was the one he had been looking for. Nothing happens over nite in movieland but if all goes well we should be seeing a full feature movie within two years!
Its truly a fairytale come true for me! MoreThanRice.com came out in Oct 2010, and I signed a movie contract July 2011. That’s definitely a miracle!
Thanks so much to all my friends, fans and followers who have bought and shared More Than Rice as a gift, written on my Facebook Fan page, Re-Tweeted me or shared a YouTube video. You have helped make it possible. Aaron Au found me and More Than Rice on Twitter so thanks to all my loyal Twitter fans who helped make that happen! Stay tuned to my Twitter account @PamalaChestnut for the latest. Marketing by M3NewMedia.net
More Than Rice Novel Headed to the Silver Screen
Role of Women in Other Cultures & Human Trafficking
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Pamala Kennedy Chestnut’s More Than Rice exposes the shocking treatment of women in many Asian cultures through the evocative fictional portrayal of three women in a Malaysian brothel.
5/8/11
Gabriela Mendoza is only seventeen years old when she is captured in the Philippines and taken to Malaysia, where she is forced to work in a brothel. It is not only through the story of Gabriela and the other girls while they are in the brothel that is shocking to readers, but also the narratives of each of the girls who Gabriela meets, whose treatment and conditions before coming to the brothel represent lives of tragedy, all based in real cultural norms of other societies.
Perhaps the most heart-rending of all of the tales is that of Maylin, a Chinese girl whose arranged marriage results in disastrous consequences. Her sad tale begins before her birth, when her mother refused to have a sonogram, as many Chinese women of her era did—In hopes that the one child they were permitted would be a male. Although her mother accepts her as a daughter, her father remains bitter that she is female and Maylin is a great disappointment. Maylin’s family arranges a “very appropriate” marriage for her just before her seventeenth birthday, which will ostensibly restore honor to the family, as her parents hope for a grandson from an honorable family.
More Than Rice is a shocking expose’ both of human trafficking and the low regard in which women are held in many cultures. Through the abuses and injustices that her fictional characters endure, Chestnut raises awareness for the many women who are relegated to similar lives throughout the world, victims of their culture, providing readers with a thought-provoking social commentary.
Stay tuned for More on Twitter @More_Than_Rice
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Pamala Speaking at National Freedom From Slavery Day Tulsa, OK
Pamala is honored to be asked to speak at the National Freedom From Slavery Day in Tulsa on February 1 hosted by OATH Coalition
Posted: Tulsa, OK 1/30/11
OATH Coalition
Bloggers Who Write Book Review Will Receive Copy of “More Than Rice” Novel
Book Review Requests Coming In
Selling books to the end consumer has gotten easier thanks to the internet. By taking bookstores out of the equation.
It is becoming easier to sell books online because the barrier to sale ie: The bookstore has been removed. Twitter is just one Social Media tool that allows direct connection with targeted followers and can generate tremendous in a niched topic. A book with a narrow focus and niched following. Last year for example there were over 1 million new book titles, yet there were more best sellers than ever before. How is this possible? The internet: ie book blogs, book review sites, independent book reviewers and book titles on Twitter have made it easier to locate, connect with and market to the end consumer of a book in any genre.
More Than Rice, is no exception. The More Than Rice Twitter page began September 1, 2010 and as of this writing 11/27/10 has 1,645 followers, sent 982 tweets (that is approximately 10 tweets per day during the daylight hours broadcasting from the CST-as of this writing there is no app for tweeting a book-all of the tweets have been scheduled manually through @HootSuite from the text of the Novel and here is the big thing: been listed 53 times. The list is the real value with people listing the Novel on Twitter this means they have “bookmarked” the Twitter page and want to go back to it and learn more. As you can see from the chart in the photo that book sales at Barnes & Nobles and Borders have decreased in recent years while online book sales at Amazon and direct book blogs and websites have increased. Expect this trend to continue.
Because we love our blogging friends, book reviewers and online bookstores. We are sending a Free copy of More Than Rice, A Journey Through the Underwold of Human Trafficking by author Pamala Kennedy Chestnut to any book reviewer/blogger who intends to publish an online book review by January 15th 2011. In addition to sending you a free copy of More Than Rice we will feature your book at M3NewMedia.net in multiple blog posts and through Twitter @WriteYourBook @TweetYourBook @M3Publishing and @MichaelButlerSR and on Facebook Write Your Book Group 
Please send request for reviews to: Michael@M3NewMedia.net (Publisher) of “More Than Rice” “Book Review Request” in Subject line along with: 1) Email address for E-Book or mailing address for physical book copy 2) URL of your book review site. 3.) Once you verify your email address and the projected date of review you will be sent More Than Rice.
Thank you and Happy 2011! See this YouTube video interview of Pamala at a recent Barnes & Nobles location.