The word "novelise" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb, which means to make a novel out of something. Example sentence: She novelised her most recent experience of living abroad.
Ed Victor, the literary agent representing the Douglas Adams estate, said: "The BBC have been asking us for years [to allow a novelisation of Shada] and the estate finally said: 'Why not?'" Having Roberts novelise the Adams script was "like having a sketch on a canvas by Rubens, and now the studio of Rubens is completing it," he added.
In 2000 he made the odd decision to novelise The Last Days of Disco (the resultant work won an award for nightlife literature).
Paul Brickhill, author of the book on which the latter film was based, was a real-life POW in Stalag Luft III, although he admitted himself that he had slightly "novelised" the story.
Which does not mean I have novelised autobiography..
This was not, she insists, "novelised autobiography", but an attempt "to recapture the spirit" of the 1960s, in particular her own experience as a "housemother", opening her home to waifs and strays.
It's what we would now call "novelised true crime": an account of a 1877 murder, the Penge mystery, where a young woman with learning difficulties was locked away by relatives in the bedroom of a country house and starved to death.
The task of novelising The Woman in Black's return has befallen actor and hard-boiled crime writer Martyn Waites.
Surprisingly, given his talent for dialogue, he wrote few movie scripts: among the more notable were The Moonshine War, for Richard Quine in 1970 (he later "novelised" his own screenplay), and John Sturges's Joe Kidd, in 1972.
Gaiman is already steeped in TV – he wrote the original screenplay of Neverwhere for the BBC in 1996, which he later novelised, and which is rumoured to be heading for a remake by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence – and has also written for Doctor Who.
This paranoid fantasy, novelised most recently by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, who was featured on the cover of Charlie Hebdo days before the attack, has found many German believers, who in recent weeks have held massive protests in Dresden against the "Islamisation of the west".
I've often wondered if this isn't an indulgence on my part, and whether I should train myself to cope with more human interaction − but I fear Auden's characterisation of poetry ("The social act of the solitary man") applies still better to novelising, which requires its practitioner to listen very intently so as to hear the voices and thoughts of wholly inexistent beings.
