There's more where The Housemaid came from

McFadden, a former medical intern, is one of that recent crop of online authors who threw what wound up being pretty huge amounts of spaghetti at the Goodreads and Kindle walls before one strand ultimately stuck: The Housemaid was her 15th novel (of the 30 she’s written over the last 14 years), and the first to massively take off, spending more than a year on the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists. That not only led to the movie deal, but new interest in her older catalogue; many of her previous self-published books are now being re-released through the traditional publishing world.

The Divorce, meanwhile, is a genuine new one, getting its first publication later this month. From the description, it sounds like it works in the darker vein that McFadden found so much sudden success with with The Housemaid, centered on a woman whose happy home life suddenly descends into possibly murderous obsession when her husband kicks her out in favor of a 20-something woman. (Twists, presumably, abound; it feels very telling that The Housemaid got a certain “have its cake and eat it” thrill out of depicting women tearing each other down for a while before ultimately revealing the real cause of all the trouble.) No word yet on when the book—apparently acquired in a “competitive” bidding situation—will make its way to the screen, but the next Housemaid movie is set to land in theaters some time next year.