Octavia Spencer Writing Children's Book

The Oscar winner expands her talents elsewhere

Octavia Spencer is writing a children's book. Having already won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “The Help,” Spencer will pen a two-part series for middle-schoolers to be published by Simon & Schuster. The first book, “Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit," is scheduled to come out next year, and tells the story of a 12-year-old “Brooklyn vigilante with a Tae Kwon Do black belt” who moves to Tennessee with her dad after her mother dies, then gets sucked into a mystery involving the town’s missing time capsule. Spencer cites Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown as major influences on her work. (Washington Post)

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