Related Clues:

• It's followed by moviegoers
• Novelist's need
• Novel creation
• Connive
• Cabal's plans
• It sometimes thickens
• 'The ___ thickens'
• Novelist's concern
• Paranoiac's worry
• Picture book?
• Part of a pitch
• Novelist's thread
• Novel idea
• Screenwriter's writing
• Mark on a graph