Soon to be a major motion picture!

Corie Skolnick's debut novel, ORFAN, is currently in development to become a full-length feature film by Ron Shelton Pictures/Hermit's Glen Productions in Los Angeles, California.

Skolnick's original story is in turn, irreverent, funny and sorrowful -- a deft fable populated with a comic and tragic raft of colorful characters. In ORFAN everybody gets skewered: religious hypocrites and their greedy institutional masters, the vapid army of the vastly rich and famous with their worshipping minions, and virtually anyone else who shirks their existential duties.

With a sly nod to every orphan story and every writer who wrote them, from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield to John Irving's Garp, ultimately, Skolnick's central truth is self- evident: the artist is society's finest teacher.