icSeftonandWestLancs reports that a “supermarket manager has fulfilled the dream of aspiring writers everywhere – not only publishing his first book, but selling it to Disney for one million dollars”. Clive Woodall’s debut novel, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, is being released today. The new book and soon to be animated film is a “classic fairy story for all ages”, “which is set in Birddom, a place in which a lone robin is given the seemingly impossible task of saving the world from the evil magpies”. The book cover describes it as “an epic tale in the tradition of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings”. Amazon’s synopsis says, “Welcome to Birddom – a land where Magpies rule. Dark forces are at work. An evil intelligence is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dominance has been achieved by systematic genocide and slaughter. In Birddom, blackbird and sparrow have been exterminated. The magpie has replaced the pigeon in the city and the starling in the garden. For small birds throughout the land, survival is everything. Birddom needs a hero. A bird to fight in the darkness, and bring light back to the land. But what can one bird do in the face of such evil?”