Dorothy Koomson has announced that her 2010 novel is to be adapted by Left Bank Pictures for a three-part TV series. The story is about Serena (Lorraine Burroughs) and Poppy (Jodhi May) who witnessed a tragic event as teenagers. On her website, Koomson admits the scriptwriters will change the story somewhat. "I do know they've changed the ending. No, I have no say in that but I'm sure it'll be fabulous," she said. Shooting begins late August and the series is expected to air on ITV in Britain in 2013.

Sarah Strohmeyer's 2006 novel is being made into a TV movie for the US Lifetime channel. It has been renamed Lying to be Perfect and stars Australian actress Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace). It's about Nola Devlin and her friends who make a pact to transform themselves following the weight-loss tips offered by Sass magazine's advice columnist Belinda Apple. But Nola, an editor on the magazine, knows the tips are not the answer - because she has a secret identity as the trendy and thin British advice columnist and made them all up herself. It's due to air in January 2010.

English author Phillipa Ashley's 2006 novel is being adapted for a Lifetime TV movie, renamed Twelve Men of Christmas. Scheduled to be screened in the US in December 2009, it stars Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies) and tells the story of a down-on-her-luck New York public relations executive, E.J., who gets a Montana search-and-rescue crew to shoot a naked fundraising calendar. Josh Hopkins (Ally McBeal, Private Practice) plays the love interest Will. The movie is set in the Rocky Mountains, while the novel was originally set in the UK's Lake District.

A glamorous Hollywood social climber finally meets her match in Maneater, a miniseries based on Gigi Levangie Grazer's book. Clarissa Alpert (Sarah Chalke) is a shallow socialite who is in a panic because she is heading towards her 32nd birthday and is still single. But Clarissa always gets what she wants - even if he's Aaron Mason, the hottest new producer in town. With the help of her family and friends, Clarissa sets into motion an elaborate plan to snare him. Grazer's The Starter Wife was also a TV series. Maneater aired on the Lifetime channel in the US in May 2009.

This American TV series, adapted from the 2005 novel by Candace Bushnell (of Sex and the City fame), premiered in the US in February 2008. It looks at the lives of three high-powered friends - magazine editor-in-chief Nico (Kim Raver), movie executive Wendy (Brooke Shields) and fashion designer Victory (Lindsay Price) - as they experience the challenges of being at the top of their game. And NBC promoted the 13-episode show to a Sex and the City audience with: 'These women aren't looking for Mr Big. They are Mr Big.' Another actor involved in the production was ex-Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy (St Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Weekend at Bernie's - and the topic of Jenny Colgan's 2001 novel Looking for Andrew McCarthy).

The TV adaptation of Jane Porter's novel Flirting with Forty, which is based on her own romance with her surfer boyfriend, aired on the US' Lifetime Channel in December 2008. Jackie (Heather Locklear) is a divorced mother of two on the brink of her 40th birthday. When her kids go to stay with her ex for the holidays, Jackie heads to Hawaii where she falls for a much younger man, Kyle (Robert Buckley from Lipstick Jungle).

Zoey Dean's novel about a Yale graduate who becomes tutor to heiress twins in Palm Beach is being adapted for TV. Privileged stars JoAnna Garcia as Megan Smith who takes on the fabulous but spoilt Baker twins Rose (Lucy Hale) and Sage (Ashley Newbrough). It aired in the US from September 2008.

Based on Kate Long's The Bad Mother's Handbook, this drama tells the story of one year in the lives of three women - Karen (Catherine Tate), her teenage daughter Charlotte (Holly Grainger) and Karen's mother, Nan (Anne Reid). Karen gave birth to Charlie when she was a teenager and can't help feeling that accidental motherhood has meant she's missed out on life. Then she discovers a secret that shatters her identity. It aired on Britain's ITV in February 2007 and also featured Robert Pattinson.

The Starter Wife, based on Gigi Levangie Grazer's 2005 novel, began as a six-part mini-series in 2007 but then evolved into a weekly TV series in 2008. The series has since been canned. Starring Debra Messing as the spurned Molly Kagan (Gracie Pollock in the book), it chronicled the events of one woman's life following her divorce from a film studio executive. It was filmed on Australia's Gold Coast in late 2006, with the Queensland beaches standing in for the Malibu, California, setting. Australians in the cast included Judy Davis, who won an Emmy as best supporting actress, Miranda Otto and Aden Young while former Australian Idol judge Mark Holden also scored a role.

Did you know? Gigi Levangie wrote the 1998 movie Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

Melissa Senate's debut novel about a woman who has to find a man to fill her imaginary boyfriend's shoes for a family wedding was made into a TV movie starring Charisma Carpenter as Jane and David Lipper as Ethan.

Anna Pasternak's book, based on her weekly Daily Mail column about a nearly 40-year-old divorcee, has been optioned for American TV. A pilot show, produced by Ashton Kutcher's company Katalyst, is currently in production for ABC.

Sex and the City creator Darren Star is involved in a TV series for HBO based on Tracy Quan's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl. It will be an ensemble show that will look at 'how power, sex and money collide through the eyes of a group of highly paid escorts'. Star had initially developed it as a feature film, with the original Pretty Woman Julia Roberts reportedly attached at one stage.

The 2008 novel by Candace Bushnell based on the lives of residents living in an apartment at the prestigious Manhattan address has been optioned by ABC television in the US for an hour-long drama series called One Fifth.

A TV show is in the works based on Nicole Richie's thinly veiled 2005 novel about Chloe Parker, the adopted daughter of a rock star, and the scraps she gets into with her socialite friends. Richie intends to produce and appear in the show.