Did Tana Scrabble Adapt Any Novels Into Screenplays?

I've dug around this topic before and the short, practical version is: there’s no widely known screenwriter or adapter named Tana Scrabble credited with turning novels into screenplays. That name doesn’t show up in major film and TV credit lists or literary adaptation notes that I follow, so my instinct is that it’s either a misspelling or a mix-up with somebody else who has a similar-sounding name. I’m a sucker for following who adapts what, so I often cross-reference publisher notes, IMDb, and industry press—none of those sources lists a Tana Scrabble as the person behind any high-profile novel-to-screen adaptations. If you’re hunting for adaptations, the usual trail leads to authors whose works were optioned or to dedicated screenwriters and showrunners who handled the scripts, rather than an adapter by that exact name.

If you meant Tana French — which is a pretty common mix-up — then the situation is clearer: her novels have been adapted for television, most notably combined into the series 'Dublin Murders', which drew on books like 'In the Woods' and 'the likeness'. What’s important to note is that while her novels were the source material, she didn’t famously serve as the primary screenwriter for those adaptations. TV adaptations tend to be shepherded by experienced TV writers who restructure and script the material, while authors sometimes act as consultants or producers but rarely write the finished teleplays unless they have a separate screenwriting career. French’s talent as a novelist has certainly attracted TV attention, but the actual screen adaptations were handled by TV professionals rather than by an adapter named Tana Scrabble.

If you’re asking about smaller, indie projects or local theater adaptations, there’s always the chance someone with a similar name worked on something low-profile that isn’t in the databases I follow, but for mainstream film and TV credits there’s no record of a Tana Scrabble adapting novels into screenplays. Personally, I love tracing these threads—seeing how a book’s inner monologue gets turned into dialogue and visuals—so if the name came up in a conversation, I’d bet on a typo or an author-name slip. Either way, the trail to the actual adapters is a fun rabbit hole, and I always end up rewatching an adaptation and rereading the book to see what changed.

No — I don’t know of anyone called Tana Scrabble who has adapted novels into screenplays. In all the credit listings and adaptation histories I follow, that exact name doesn’t appear. It’s possible the name got mixed up with another author or adapter; the closer, more familiar match would be Tana French, whose novels were turned into the TV series 'Dublin Murders', though she wasn’t the main screenwriter. In general, novelists aren’t always the ones who write the screenplay versions of their books: TV and film projects usually bring in specialist screenwriters to reshape the story for the screen, and authors might be credited as consultants or producers instead.

If your interest is in whether a particular writer adapted their own novels, that distinction matters — some novelists do cross over and write their own scripts, but many do not. From my reading of industry credits, Tana Scrabble isn’t a name attached to such adaptations; if you’re following adaptations, resources like publisher press releases, production company announcements, and credit listings on film databases are where those adaptations are documented. Personally, when I spot a mix-up like this I get curious and follow the adaptation trail from book to screen — it’s always surprising to see what changes and who gets the scripting credit.