THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS (a YA novel published by Simon & Schuster)

THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS (a YA novel published by Simon & Schuster)

Book/Manuscript · Adventure · 275 pages
Time-traveling teens-- Alexei Romanov, the hemophiliac son of the Tsar, and a brilliant American girl he meets in present-day New York-- travel back to the Russian Revolution on an urgent mission to rescue his kidnapped family before they can be murdered by the Bolsheviks, with Alexei's old enemy, the terrifying"Mad Monk", Rasputin, hot on their tr...
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Written by Staton Rabin
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Staton Rabin
Mount Vernon, NY
I get hired by film /TV producers to adapt IP or true stories, biopix, history. "Saving Mark Twain", original spec feature script: PAGE Awards Bronze Prize. Now adapting best-selling author Louis Sachar's THE CARDTURNER into a script for Afterglow. Sachar's previous novel, HOLES, was also a hit movie. "The Girl From Krakow" a WWII drama/LGBTQ Roma...
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I'm primarily a screenwriter who adapts IP on assignment for film and TV producers, and who also writes award-winning YA novels for Simon & Schuster. A previous novel of mine for Simon & Schuster, BETSY AND THE EMPEROR, is published in 15 languages globally. Reviews of THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS by Staton Rabin (A YA novel pub. by Simon & Schuster): Hollywood columnist Liz Smith writes in “The New York Post”: "PEOPLE ARE talking about 'The Curse of the Romanovs.' Simon & Schuster is hot about this book. They are claiming it has more jaw-dropping surprises than 'The Da Vinci Code.'. This is a time-travel fantasy with a twist on the death of Czar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra and their five children who died before a Bolshevik firing squad in the Ural mountains ...(or did they?). The mad monk Rasputin had been an adviser to the tragic empress. What a movie role…” In an article about THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS, “The New York Times” suggests: “Harry Pottered out? Try Alexei Romanov.” "Publisher's Weekly" calls THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS "a great trip for lovers of historical fiction", “Children’s Literature” says: “This fascinating novel of time travel between the Russian Revolution and modern day New York City is gripping from start to finish”, and teensreadtoo.com's review says it is "an absolutely spellbinding story of Alexei Romanov and the Russian Revolution". Best-selling author Peter Kurth (ANASTASIA: THE RIDDLE OF ANNA ANDERSON and TSAR: THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA) writes: "Staton Rabin's Curse of the Romanovs is a beautifully written and brilliantly imagined retelling of a familiar tale. I know the story of the Romanovs backwards and forwards, and this book took me completely by surprise. Highly recommended."