Jeanne V. Bowerman

A midlife crisis led Jeanne from a 15-year ownership of a motel and restaurant to becoming an insecure writer. She was working on a novel until a fellow Cornell graduate convinced her to try screenwriting. Together, they wrote several scripts and have pitched their work to some of the biggest production companies in Hollywood. Currently, Jeanne is adapting the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winning book for nonfiction, Slavery by Another Name with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. Jeanne is an active blogger (http://www.jeannevb.com) and launched her freelance career with an upcoming article in Writer’s Digest Magazine on the value of Twitter for writers. Together with Rachel Langer, she started a blog dedicated to social media and writers (http://www.SMwriters.com). After a six-year hiatus, her novel is back in progress.

Jeanne has written an article for Status Hat, which appears in the "Dialogue" issue, April 2010.