Tara Duncan and the Spellbinders (53 page)

Sophie is the niece of author and director Francis Veber, who wrote the screenplay for the movies
Dinner for Schmucks
and
Three Fugitives
. She is also the granddaughter of Pierre Gilles Veber, who wrote the script of the original 1952 film
Fanfan, la Tulipe
, which was remade in 2003 with Penelope Cruz.

Tara Duncan
has been adapted for television by Moonscoop– Taffy Entertainment (
Casper, the Friendly Ghost; The Fantastic Four
) in co-production with the Walt Disney corporation. Sophie says that a musical comedy to be called
The Tara Duncan Show
, with magic and special effects, is being developed by TF1, France's premier television channel, with a budget of $12 million. When not writing, Sophie divides her time between her husband, her two daughters, and the medical organization Douleurs sans Frontières.

William Rodarmor
is a journalist, editor, and French literary translator. In addition to
Tara Duncan
, his young adult translations include
The Book of Time
trilogy by Guillaume Prévost (Scholastic, 2007–09),
The Old Man Mad About Drawing
by François Place (Godine, 2003),
Catherine Certitude
by Patrick Modiano and Jean-Jacques Sempé (Godine, 2001),
Ultimate Game
by Christian Lehmann (Godine, 2000), and
The Last Giants
by François Place (Godine, 1993). His translation of
Tamata and the Alliance
, by famed sailor Bernard Moitessier, won the 1996 Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association.

William has traveled all over the world but has a special fondness for France, about which he edited and translated two anthologies in Whereabouts Press's
A Traveler's Literary Companion
series:
French Feast
(2011) and
France
(2008). He is especially of two things: sailing solo from Tahiti to Hawaii in 1971 and winning the cartoon caption contest in
The New Yorker
in 2010. William lives in Berkeley, California, and often travels to New York City.