Big news! GEEK GIRL has been shortlisted for a Broadcast Award! Huge congrats to the entire team! The awards will be announced in February, 2025. Watch this space!
Author Archive | Jeff Norton
HBS Skydeck Podcast: The Making Of A Streaming Sensation
I had the great pleasure of speaking with journalist April White for the HBS (Harvard Business School) alumni podcast, “Sky Deck”, about the journey of shepherding GEEK GIRL from book to screen. In the pod, I talk to April about the creative journey but also about the dynamics in the evolving media and content marketplaces. […]
Kidscreen: Mapping Geek Girl’s page-to-screen journey
Huge thanks to Kidscreen Magazine for documenting the long journey of adapting Holly Smale’s GEEK GIRL novels to the screen. I first fell in love with Holly Smale’s first book many years ago, when we were both debut novelists touring our books up and down the UK. A few years later, Holly trusted me enough […]
Zibby time
What a treat to talk books with my friend Zibby Owens! I first met Zibby at the orientation weekend before we both started Harvard Business School back in 2003. We bonded over our creative leanings (amid a sea of bankers) and since graduating, she has gone on to start an incredibly successful (and award-winning) podcast […]
GEEK GIRL goes global
After years of championing Holly Smale’s incredible novels for the screen, I sold GEEK GIRL to netflix and it has finally come to the platform globally (and to StackTV in Canada) and is now delighting audiences around the world. I couldn’t be happier to see our little show resonate around the world. It’s incredibly validating […]
Geek Girl gets a launch date, May 30th, 2024
I’m incredibly proud to share that Geek Girl is making its debut on 30th May, 2024 on Netflix around the world (and StackTV in Canada). This has been a long-gestating passion project, and I can’t wait to share it with you. […]
Kidscreen 2024
I had the great pleasure to join an amazing panel discussion at the Kidscreen Summit, 2024, held for the first time in San Diego. Host Jesse Cleverly delved into issues around the teen / YA demographic and how we can reach and entertain this important audience. The other guests were Sarah Muller from BBC, producer […]
Starting Up Waterside Studios
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Corus Entertainment to launch Waterside Studios, a new, internationally-focused studio business that is part of Corus’ strategy to “own and control content”; one of their strategic pillars to become a “content powerhouse.” Big news…I have just relocated from London to Canada for this opportunity, and am excited to […]
MetaWars at Ten
It’s not every day one creates the future, but ten years ago today, on a muggy August morning, Hachette published my debut novel, METAWARS: FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, and it eerily predicted much of what’s come since. The book was the culmination of years of research to create a fictional world that I believed might […]
Personal Statement about Ukraine
For the past few weeks, I have been shocked and horrified by the events unfolding in Ukraine. I have personal friends and business colleagues in Ukraine, sheltering for the lives and fighting for their very right to exist. At the same time, I’m supposed to be gearing up for the book launch of the second […]