Mature Preneurs Talk With Diana Todd-banks

Beverly Gandara says adapting a screenplay into a book is not an easy task for anyone and what is intriguing, is to hear her describe the experience along with her achievements which are extremely inspiring and motivating. Inspired by her husband, Armand’s experience Concrete Wings is about Julian, a naive teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to retrieve smuggled family jewels.  He comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution as he earns his political and economic freedom.  By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his freedom when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American Society. Originally written as a screenplay, two Hollywood producers suggested to Beverly Gandara she adapt the screenplay into a novel, which she was told would be easier to sell as a motion picture either for television or theatrical release. Learning to adapt a screenplay into a book is not an easy task and for those who have never done that it’s complex. Beverly Gandara h