Still looks to me like a rip off of Clown Girl, which Kristen Wiig held the rights to when she worked with Krisel and Galafianakas…That's how I came to meet Krisel on the set of Portlandia (when I was meeting Wiig there to talk about turning my novel into a movie.) I wouldn't harp on this, but these are some of the…

I don't know that it is being made into a movie now. It's up for option again, available. Kristen Wiig held the option for a number of years. She works with Jon Krisel and Z. Galifianakas, who have developed Baskets. I don't know what happened to my work in there, which seems to have been in the room, in the next…

I wish this show would exist—the one optioned by Kristen Wiig, colleague of these guys (my book!) up until two months before Baskets:

http://hawthornebooks.com/c…

http://www.amazon.com/Clown…

You might enjoy Clown Girl, the novel…my novel, my tiny, vulnerable indie novel, optioned for film by Kristen Wiig, colleague of these guys who made Baskets. Clown Girl is the sad/comic story of a young woman who views clowning not just as a job, but as a calling and a high art! She is an artiste! I used the metaphor…

Thank you! It's an indie novel, tiny press. I spent ten years writing it, and was thrilled when the film option was picked up.

I hope you might check out Clown Girl, the novel, see what you think…as an artist. Because it is the same assertion, but handled perhaps differently. I wrote it as an illustration of my struggles as a writer (and former clown) with clowning as the central metaphor. It was optioned for film by Kristen Wiig for years,…

"From its very conception, Baskets explores the delusions artists need to tell themselves in order to pursue their dreams, but exaggerates them to epic proportions." That's exactly how I'd describe my novel, Clown Girl, which was optioned by Kristen Wiig up until two months before Baskets was announced, when Wiig…

Check out the book optioned by Kristen Wiig for film right up *until* Baskets, when it was abruptly dropped…sad, sexy clown, high art and low life…http://www.amazon.com/Clown-Girl-N…