Jennifer Lawrence

For Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook — the novel that became the Academy Award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro — success as a fiction writer came slowly, then gradually and then all at once.

Quick (who, in the interest of full disclosure, is a friend and was a college roommate at La Salle University in the early 1990s) took some time in March to talk to Book Business about his whirlwind life since his book hit the silver screen.

So just how hungry are fans for The Hunger Games? Ravenous, it seems. Suzanne Collins' popular YA book trilogy, which spawned the juggernaut $680 million–grossing Jennifer Lawrence blockbuster, has now passed a major publishing milestone, putting in track to become one of the top—if not the top—best sellers of 2012. So just how many books has it sold? According to its publisher, Scholastic, the trilogy has now sold over 50 million copies in both print and digital formats. To put that in perspective, the books have more than doubled in sales since the beginning of 2012 when there were