WILLIAM DIEHL’S LAST BOOK, FINISHED BY KEN ATCHITY IS NOW AVAILABLE ON NOOK BOOK!

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When William Diehl died in 2006 he was working on another thriller, entitled SEVEN WAYS TO DIE based on a coroner’s handbook given him by Illinois Medical Examiner Brett Bartlett, then a client of Atchity Entertainment International. At the time, Diehl left behind over 400 manuscript pages of a novel-in-progress, along with detailed notes and treatment, as well as unfinished chapters, for the rest of the book. His literary executor, Michael A. Simpson of Informant Media Entertainment (“Crazy Heart,” “Hysteria,” “Expatriate”) passed the materials along to Ken Atchity, who was partnered with Simpson and Informant’s Judy Cairo on other projects. Atchity’s AEI partner Chi-Li Wong had worked with Diehl and Simpson on television pitches and screenplays. Atchity, an experienced editor and writer as producer and literary manager, found there was more than enough “evidence,” between Bill’s chapter files, outline, and conversations with screen collaborator Simpson, to finish the book.

“It’s time that Bill’s loyal fans get to read his last, and most exciting, story,” Atchity commented. Seven Ways to Die will first launch exclusively with Barnes and Nobel E-Books. “It was a great honor to finish this novel, inspired by our love for Bill’s great imagination and attention to detail—and our belief that this story, like Primal Fear and Sharky’s Machine, will make a great motion picture.” Story Merchant represents the Diehl estate and Bill’s widow former journalist Virginia Gunn Diehl.