SINGAPORE - Two months after she sold her third novel, Singaporean author Kirstin Chen locked down a screen option for the book.
The San Francisco-based writer was stunned by the swift interest in her novel, Counterfeit - about a strait-laced Chinese-American lawyer who becomes embroiled in her old college roommate's scheme to import fake luxury handbags.
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