With the positive audience reception to the adaptation of her book Addicted, author Zane has discussed her own personal experiences and what makes this book so true.

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Speaking with Belief Net last week, Zane talked about her favorite character in the book and what drew her to the character.

"It would have to be the main character, Zoe, because everything centers around her. She owns a art business. She's very successful at what she does. She has two children, a husband who's an architect, she's very close to her mother (her mother actually lives with them in the film), and she always had a very good upbringing and everything but it's one of those situations where she did something that she has not addressed that she needed to address," she said.

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"Some people have marriages where one person may think the marriage is wonderful, they have great communication, they have everything anyone could want, and the other person sees the marriage totally differently."

She also talked about the process of making her book into a feature film and how it was to push the book into a shorter version for the screenplay.

"Addicted was totally from the perspective of Zoe. What we had to do is take a 95,000-word book and cut it down to a screenplay that was about a fifth of that," she said.

"We did have to lose some things from the book, but at the same time what we did effectively is we kept the overall message, the saying, which was what was most important to me."

She also remarked that she was very involved in the project and had a direct line to the director at all times to make sure it was exactly as she wanted.

"The director called me all the time. Unfortunately, I was not able to be on set for this particular movie, I was on set for my TV shows all day every day though, but the filming on this got pushed back from the original date until it fell into a time when I was on a 28-city 35-day book tour," she said.

Addicted is currently in theaters.

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