Category Archives: Koethi Zan

Koethi Zan’s international best-seller The Never List – a fast-paced novel about four kidnapped girls – will be adapted for television by CBS. Author-screenwriter AM Holmes (The End of Alice, The L Word) will pen the script, with Koethi Zan herself on board as a supervising producer. Koethi Zan, a former senior VP and deputy general counsel at MTV, found the inspiration for the book in the stories of captivity survivors: “These women have suffered through the absolute worst thing I can imagine and every one of them has demonstrated incredible strength in the wake of such trauma.”

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“What surprised you the most during the writing process?” Koethi Zan was asked in a recent interview with CBS News. “I couldn’t believe it when the characters I’d created wouldn’t do what I wanted them to do,” said Koethi. Indeed, the characters in The Never List are constantly breaking the rules, taking risks, and winding up in surprising situations. Inspired by the strength and courage of women who have survived abduction and long-term captivity, Koethi Zan’s The Never List isn’t about the powerlessness of women, but rather one of empowerment and resilience.

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