Candice Carty-Williams won't write COVID-19 into her novel's screenplay

Candice Carty-Williams is working on adapting her novel Queenie into a screenplay.

And in the meantime, as she watches other shows and movies, she finds herself repeatedly thinking “that couldn’t happen in the time of COVID.”

Yet, Carty-Williams wrote recently, she doesn’t plan on adding social distancing or supply hoarding to the screen version of her book.

See why she feels that way about her own work, despite her reaction to others’, in the Guardian.

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