The executive producer said
she asked Larry McMurtry what he was working on lately and he sent her galley proofs of the novel before it was published and she loved it and the rest is history. Here's that smart woman, Suzanne de Passe: https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/ffxIF14kBrZtbpw00agwEw--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NDQwO3E9OTU7dz0zNTA-/http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/92/10/3b/92103be2b92223ffca1372e5cb28197b.jpg