About The Authors
Lang Buchanan (Diane Lang and Michael Buchanan) began writing together during the University of Iowa’s Writer Workshops in the summer of 2000. Their first novel, Micah’s Child, published in 2006, became a featured Romance novel in Barnes and Noble while receiving a nomination as Georgia Novel of the Year. Their unique voice and lyrical writing attracted the readership, and appearance requests, of many book clubs around the South and Midwest. The partnership has been published in anthologies and a collection of limericks. Before moving to Richmond, Virginia, where she was a columnist for 50Plus magazine, Diane wrote food critic columns for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Michael has been published in several national magazines that focus on history.
Their latest novel, The Fat Boy Chronicles, tells the story of an obese 9th grader struggling to find his way in our thin-obsessed society. Adapted into a screenplay by the team in 2009, the movie began filming this past July and is scheduled for theatres in 2010. Their screenplay, Treasure of the Four Lions, the story of three kids who are helped by Civil War ghosts to find the lost Confederate gold, is in pre-production with Riverwood Studios and Tin Roof Films. A completed but not yet released novel is Cry of the Quetzal, an epic tale set in the deep South that examines the saga of Anna and Jacob, two people caught between the Korean War and their religious convictions.
Both former teachers, Diane and Mike were honored as Teachers of the Year and recognized nationally for their creative interaction with students. As speakers at writers’ conferences and on Celebrity Cruises ,as well as escorting student groups to exotic locations, the writing partners have traveled the world without leaving their Southern charm behind. Lang, educated at the University of Cincinnati, lives in Richmond, and Buchanan, who graduated from Georgia State University, lives in his hometown of Atlanta. Lang and Buchanan are creative development executives for Tin Roof Films, a family entertainment movie company located in Atlanta.