Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas Novel “Climbing in Heels” Gets TV Adaptation by “Sex and the City” Creator Darren Star

Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas is climbing to the top with her new novel!

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, Universal Television announced that it has preemptively purchased the rights to Thomas’ upcoming debut novel Climbing in Heels for a drama series by Emily in Paris and Sex and the City creator Darren Star.

According to a press release shared with PEOPLE, Star will co-write and executive produce the work alongside Goldsmith-Thomas.

"I am thrilled to be partnering with Darren Star and Universal Television to bring life to these complicated, colorful women who refused to be sidelined or silenced," Goldsmith-Thomas said in a statement.

Goldsmith-Thomas is a talent agent and producer who has worked with big-name stars, including Julia Roberts, Spike Lee, Nicolas Cage and Madonna, among others. The author currently works as a producing partner with Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Production. She and Lopez, 55, have previously collaborated on the hit works Maid in Manhattan, Hustlers and The Mother.

Goldsmith-Thomas also worked as an executive producer on Lopez’ musical film This Is Me... Now and is set to work on her upcoming musical movie Kiss of the Spider Woman.

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Star, who struck a multi-year deal with Universal Television in March, added in a statement, "I’m excited to team up with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to bring Climbing in Heels – her addictive fictional account of Hollywood in the 1980s through a female lens — to the screen." He went on to describe the book as "the ballsy and bawdy love child of Mad Men and Sex and the City."

Star continued, "I can’t wait for audiences everywhere to meet this indomitable ensemble of female characters who broke all the rules to make their own."

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The TV creator won an Emmy Award in 2001 for Sex and the City. Most recently, he has helmed the And Just Like That…, Uncoupled and Younger.

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Set to hit the shelves in 2025, Climbing in Heels follows the rise of five ambitious secretaries in 1980s Hollywood. "It’s a juicy story of friendship, betrayal, survival and ambition," the synopsis teases. "It’s also a cautionary tale about how some of those women became very much like the monsters they worked for."

Lopez hails the fictional novel as "smart, sexy and entertaining."

Climbing in Heels will release on April 29, 2025 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.

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