'Drowning' author T.J. Newman went from flight attendant to Hollywood scriptwriter.
is on a journey from flight attendant to Hollywood scriptwriter -- she wrote a book that became a bestseller, and now her second novel is getting turned into a screenplay, creating a bidding war in the process.
T.J. joined us on"TMZ Live" and told us all about her new book,"Drowning," which comes out today ... telling us why her story is so coveted by movie studios and big-shot Hollywood producers.Like her best-selling debut"Falling," T.J.'s new novel takes place on an airplane ... with the jetliner crashing into the ocean after taking off from Hawaii, trapping passengers in a cabin as it sinks beneath the waves.
T.J. says she wanted to write about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances ... and there was a bidding war for the movie rights, pitting
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