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genres. Before becoming a published writer, Feeney was a producer and journalist at the

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for fifteen or sixteen years. She started there at age 21 and was a producer for the One O’clock News, and also a reporter and news editor, and producer for arts and entertainment programmes. She started writing her first novel, ''Sometimes I Lie'', when she was 30, writing in her spare time and on the train to work. She took the

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writing course, finishing the book and course at about the same time. In 2019,

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bought the television rights to ''Sometimes I Lie'', and in November 2019 a project for a television series starring Feeney enthusiast Sarah Michelle Gellar was revealed.

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was engaged to adapt the book, and Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman, as well as Gellar and Swicord, were to be executive producers. In 2020,

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, Kristen Campo, and

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acquired the television rights to ''His & Hers''. Her book ''Rock Paper Scissors'' will also be adaptaded into a series on Netflix.

Bibliography

* * * *Feeney, Alice (2021). '' Rock Paper Scissors''. Flatiron. . * *

References

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