Jon James Miller

Jon James Miller has always been passionate about literature and film and pursued a career in the latter at Ithaca College in upstate New York, earning a degree in cinematography. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and worked as a muffin delivery boy to get onto movie studio lots. Jon eventually found work as a researcher and segment producer on cable documentaries for A&E, Lifetime Intimate Portraits and The History Channel. If you look closely, you can see him as a bit player in numerous reenactments from Patty Hearst's boyfriend to young Abraham Lincoln. And, like everyone else in L.A., Jon wrote screenplays in his spare time. In 2008, Jon won Grand Prize of the AAA Screenplay Contest sponsored by Creative Screenwriting Magazine for "Garbo's Last Stand." The World War II set mystery inspired by true events went on to win the 2009 Golden Brad for Drama. But advice Jon received from legendary screenwriter and novelist William Goldman proved most valuable. In 2010, Jon co-wrote Adapting Sideways: How To Turn Your Screenplay Into A Publishable Novel (Komenar Publishing), which chronicled the process he created for adapting his screenplay. Garbo's Last Stand is Jon's first novel. He lives in Oakland, California.