Mike Farris is a literary agent with Farris Literary Agency and an entertainment attorney with the Dallas, Texas, law firm of Tipton Jones. As an agent, he has placed several award-winning novels for publication, including “Balaam Gimble’s Gumption” by Mike Nichols, winner of the 2004 Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award, and “Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush” by Sheldon Russell, winner of the 2006 Langum Prize for Excellence in American Historical Fiction. Mike represents various university presses and has successfully placed subsidiary rights to their published books, including negotiating the sale of movie rights to producers and Hollywood studios. Most recently, he closed a three-book deal with Berkley Publishing for his client Sharon Pape’s upcoming “A Portrait of Crime” mystery series and sold the rights for a potential television series to a major Hollywood studio.
As a writer, Mike collaborated with television journalist Murphy Martin in 2003 to write Martin’s memoir, “Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades that Reshaped America,” for Eakin Press. In 2009, he collaborated with rodeo cowboy turned actor/director/producer Robert Hinkle to write Hinkle’s memoir, “Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood,” for the University of Oklahoma Press. Mike’s novel “Kanaka Blues,” a Hawaiian thriller, is set for a 2010 release.
Mike is also an award-winning screenwriter. His screenplay “Live From the Boneyard” is currently being cast by Sweet Revenge Entertainment of Beverly Hills, with Adam Sandler protégé Nicholaus Goossen (Grandma’s Boy, The Shortcut) attached to direct. His inspirational family screenplay “Reaching Jordan,” based on a true story, is in development with Sabbatical Pictures (The Beacon, Exit Speed) for production in 2010, and his adaptation of the award-winning novel “Balaam Gimble’s Gumption” is in post-production with Blue Logic Productions.
Mike Farris is a literary agent with Farris Literary Agency and an entertainment attorney with the Dallas, Texas, law firm of Tipton Jones. As an agent, he has placed several award-winning novels for publication, including “Balaam Gimble’s Gumption” by Mike Nichols, winner of the 2004 Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award, and “Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush” by Sheldon Russell, winner of the 2006 Langum Prize for Excellence in American Historical Fiction. Mike represents various university presses and has successfully placed subsidiary rights to their published books, including negotiating the sale of movie rights to producers and Hollywood studios. Most recently, he closed a three-book deal with Berkley Publishing for his client Sharon Pape’s upcoming “A Portrait of Crime” mystery series and sold the rights for a potential television series to a major Hollywood studio.
As a writer, Mike collaborated with television journalist Murphy Martin in 2003 to write Martin’s memoir, “Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades that Reshaped America,” for Eakin Press. In 2009, he collaborated with rodeo cowboy turned actor/director/producer Robert Hinkle to write Hinkle’s memoir, “Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood,” for the University of Oklahoma Press. Mike’s novel “Kanaka Blues,” a Hawaiian thriller, is set for a 2010 release.
Mike is also an award-winning screenwriter. His screenplay “Live From the Boneyard” is currently being cast by Sweet Revenge Entertainment of Beverly Hills, with Adam Sandler protégé Nicholaus Goossen (Grandma’s Boy, The Shortcut) attached to direct. His inspirational family screenplay “Reaching Jordan,” based on a true story, is in development with Sabbatical Pictures (The Beacon, Exit Speed) for production in 2010, and his adaptation of the award-winning novel “Balaam Gimble’s Gumption” is in post-production with Blue Logic Productions.