Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

About Me

Jeanne is the Editor and Online Community Manager of ScriptMag.com, with a weekly column entitled Balls of Steel. There she chronicles her fearless journey as a screenwriter as well as shares stories of other writers in the trenches. A graduate of Cornell University, she's written several spec scripts, including an Expo Screenplay Competition Finalist script -- the adaption of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. Jeanne launched her freelance career with an article in Writer's Digest Magazine on her own wild Twitter Pimp Angel ride, Confessions of a Tweetaholic. She's a regular contributor for Script Magazine and Write On Online, and together with Rachel Langer, she started a blog dedicated to social media and writers, SMwriters.com. Beyond writing, Jeanne is one of the founders of ScriptChat, a Twitter screenwriting chat, where screenwriters come together to learn... with no ego. She's the USA moderator, blog mistress, and pimp of all that is #scriptchat. Self-described "writer of things," Jeanne writes anything from blog posts, articles, novels, short stories, screenplays and beyond. Visit the Published Clips tab on her site www.jeannevb.com for more of her work, and the Interviews/Appearances tab for her podcast and radio spots. If it's something that can move you, she'll find a way to write it. Follow her on Twitter for her full crazy stream of insecurity - @jeannevb.

Goal

My primary goal is to see our adaptation produced. Our script is a dramatic adaptation of the central episode described in the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II. The book--an exposé of how slavery didn't end with the Civil War but was resurrected by white supremacists, businessmen and plantation owners and preserved for seven decades after the Emancipation Proclamation--has already dramatically revised conventional American history. It was a New York Times Best Seller, and has been reprinted more than a dozen times. A documentary based on the book aired on PBS February 13, 2012. The book's author, Douglas A. Blackmon, and I co-wrote the script. Doug is the former Senior National Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. More information can be found on my website www.jeannevb.com