Don Roff, who contributes so many great blogs and beat sheets to this site—don’t miss his Chinatown breakdown, coming soon!—has a new novel, Clare at Eighteen, out today.

Clare at Eighteen is the third book (out of four) in Don’s Clare Bleecker series. According to the book’s blurb, you can follow Clare to Hollywood, where she lands the starring role in a murder investigation. And as if that’s not enough to fill the script… a blood-thirsty cult has Clare on their radar. Will she break through the accusations and killers to come out on top?

Speaking of the Clare series, the movie adaptation of the first book, Saint Clare, had its world premiere this past Saturday at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. The movie stars Bella Thorne (Blended) as Clare and a knock-out cast of Ryan Phillippe (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Rebecca De Mornay (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), and Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), directed by Mitzi Peirone and co-written by Peirone and Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). Check out the interview with Peirone and De Mornay in Deadline!

Way to go, Don! We know this is just the beginning of more great news.