Read from "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece"

Happy release day to modern Hollywood legend Tom Hanks!

His novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is already a bestseller in the literary graphic novel genre on Amazon.

It takes place across decades, beginning with a youngster who reimagines a comic book with his uncle as the hero and ending with the director who decides to turn that revised comic book into, well, a major motion picture masterpiece.

You can read an excerpt from The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece at Literary Hub.

Hanks previously wrote the bestselling collection Uncommon Type: Some Stories; reviews of his novel are mixed but trend closer to praise than panning.

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