May 8, 2012Got my signed option contracts and check for BANDIDOS!It's legal and official!****************April 27, 2012I signed an option contract for BANDIDOS! This is a career changing day. I will forever be known as an Optioned Screenwriter!Feels good. **********************April 18, 2012Another Producer requested my screenplay, BANDIDOS, today. That makes four producers reading my script with one offer on the table. Whew! I'm floored by the response. Thank You Hal and Cheryl Croasman.  If it weren't for ScreenwritingU, I would not have gotten the script where it needs to be for these folks in Hollywood.Right now,I'm reading, digesting and learning what the contracts, agreements and legal paperwork mean. **************March 26-30, 2012I'm heading for the big Producer Event where I'll meet 20 Producers during four days of meetings in Hollywood. It's sure to be a fruitful time!**********************February 2012I completed the ProSeries ScreenwritingU.com course and have a first draft of BANDIDOS. It's about the Mexican drug cartels. (See Loglines)I'm currently enrolled in a Marketing My Scripts module.***************January 2012Hooray! MARS BONFIRE advanced to Semi-Finalist in the 2011 American Screenwriting Competition. This means the script made it into the top 2% of all entries. This is the second time MARS BONFIRE advanced to the Semi-Final rounds. The first was in the 2010 Final Draft, Big Break Contest. ****************************Oct. 2011My business relationship with Gidget Worldwide Inc., took an giant step forward when the COO, Kevin Powell, signed a Letter of Agreement for my screenwriting work with him and the company to date. Thanks Kevin for having faith in my abilities.*************Whoo-hoo!I learned on Feb. 15, 2011 that I won 2nd Place in the 2010 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Contest in their one-hour existing dramatic series category for my episode, HOUSE MD-THE PERFECT STORM. It's based on my experience battling leukemia. I was shocked and thrilled because this was my first attempt at TV writing. I wrote the story as a form of therapy to aid in my recovery. *****************Works-To-DateScreenplays include:BANDIDOSMARS BONFIREGIDGETTV Writing includes:HOUSE MD - THE PERFECT STORMA FEMININE MANIFESTOGIDGETNovels and Short Stories:PALIMPSESTTRAVELS WITH RAYWHITE ROOTSREFLECTIONS: A COLLECTION OF POEMS***********   Mars Bonfire is based on the extrodinary life of my second husband, Craig George Michael Evers, aka Mars
Bonfire. Mars first worked as a San Diego police officer but "resigned" after being accused of smoking marijuana. Mars then organized several protests against the Vietnam War and helped form The Cloud Family, a group of free-wheeling counterculture, hippies who distributed marijuana, hash and hash oil internationally.  While living in Nepal, he studied with yogis, sahdus, gurus and other holy men.The Cloud Family story happened 20 years before I met Mars.We were married by Buddhist monks on Koh Samui Island, Thailand on June 12, 1990. I worked as a Journalist at the time and thought I knew a little about the world. However, in retrospect, I now realize I learned more about the world from him than I could have imagined. Mars introduced me to Eastern philosophies, mystical practices and religious teachings. He took me on incredible trips through Southeast Asia, Central America and Europe, where I experienced many magical adventures that should be made into a movie or adventure novels.After our separation in 1998, he returned to Southeast Asia and continued his lifelong study of mysticism until his death on Sept. 29, 2009. Doctors in San Diego said he died from a rare subtropical disease.He was a compassionate, generous and good man. I rewrote the story as a tribute to him and submitted it to writing contests mostly to honor and chronicle his extraordinary life.  I thank all the judges for liking his story.******* Travels with Ray and Adventures with Zorro are based on the true events with our dogs, Ray and Zorro. No two could be more opposite. Ray is old. Zorro is young. Ray is fat. Zorro is lean. Ray is light. Zorro is dark. Ray is small. Zorro is large. Ray is surly. Zorro is sweet. I I outlined 10 episodes of A Feminine Manifesto, short stories about about my sex life as told to my husband, Tom. He said I should write them down. I have 33 vignettes in total.  Oct 2009 - Present I was commissioned to write a 21st-century version of the 1960s Teen Surf movies, GIDGET. 

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My near-death experience
  This back-only photo was taken in March 2009 while recovering from a near-death experience with leukemia.In 2009, my oncologist said my eosinophils were in a "tolerable" range. 

Doctors predicted it would take two to three years before my body returns to normal. I also could go into remission.

 

I used Acupuncture, Herbs and other forms of Alternative Medicine to strengthen my immune system.

 

I am lucky to be alive and grateful to my husband, Tom, who helped me during the horrible medical ordeal. He saved my life giving me a second chance.

 

I thank God and the Holy Spirit everyday for this second chance. 

 

Tom not only saved my life but he also saved my life's work from the garbage dump and encouraged me to follow my dreams. I owe him my life.

 

To all the doctors, family, friends and colleagues who prayed for me during that horrible time,THANK YOU. Your prayers worked.

 

May 21, 2012

Destiny has spoken again.

Got a job offer this week from a local newspaper to be their Editor-in-Chief. Hum...what to do?

I need some time to decide if it's workable with my two already existing screenwriting gigs.

Journalism just doesn't want to let me go! Wow, when things heat up they really get hot.

Press Release

 March 21, 2012

Jackie Devereaux Writing Scripts for Gidget Worldwide

Screenwriter Jackie Devereaux, a graduate of the ProSeries, has entered into an Agreement with Gidget Worldwide, Inc., (GWI) to help the Gidget development teams write various scripts, screenplays, etc.

Led by their development team, the company is looking to introduce a new series of Gidget-based entertainment properties.

During the past two and a half years, GWI has been busy securing financing and building licensing and merchandise relationships around the globe. 

"It has been a real pleasure working with Jackie. She’s been very enthusiastic and professional at every step along the way. Jackie grew up a Gidget girl, and brings lots of personal experience to the project," said Kevin Powell, COO of Gidget Worldwide Inc.

Jackie has already completed a feature screenplay for the company and is currently working on ideas for a TV pilot.

Congrats to Jackie.  Best to Gidget Worldwide.

NEWS - International Screenwriter's Association Announces

2nd Place Screenplay Contest Winner 2011.11.20 21:24
Jackie Devereaux won Second Place in the 2010 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Contest for her one-hour  existing dramatic epiosde House M.D. - The Perfect Storm, her first attempt at writing for TV!  

What I'm Doing... 

March 2012

Getting ready for the March Producer's Event where I meet 20 Hollywood Producers, hear what they're looking for, and pitch a couple of my scripts.

I'm ready.

February 2012

Moved at the end of February to another condo in the desert. Our move to Hollywood will have to wait for a while longer.

LATE JANUARY 2012

Back in the desert working on BANDIDOS. Finished the first draft and sent it to three writers for feedback. My wrists are sore and my back hurts. I'm taking a brake from the computer to recup.

January 2012

We're on another trip into Baja California and have made some wonderful contacts for my script, BANDIDOS.

We also visited with some old friends, went to the dentist, took our dog to the vet and got the truck tuned up. It's been quite an event-filled trip but I'm ready to head home and get back to work on BANDIDOS.

November 2011

Trip to Cancun and Chichen Itza.  Took a few photos.

October 2011

Just returned from a week long camping trip in Southern California. Saw a few friends and had an important business meeting with Gidget Worldwide Inc.

Later, we camped at San Elijo State Beach in Encinitas. Ah...I love the sound of the ocean.

September 2011

I made two amazing road trips through Baja California Norte where I met leaders of the Kumeeya Indian tribe. My husband, Tom, and I were invited to take part in a Temesal ceremony or sweat lodge on sacred Indian lands in Rumorosa, Mexico.  

Jesse, the spiritual leader of the Kumeeya tribe performed a rare Passing of the Pipe ceremony. We were allowed to smoke from the holy 250 year old peace pipe before it was handed over to Arturo Fisher, a well known Yaqui Indian Shamam from Sonora.

Jesse and Arturo then shared duties during the overnight Ayahuasca Healing ceremony.

There's a movie here.

August 2011

Flew back east to attend my husband's family reunion at Camp Dearborn in Michigan.

Later, this month two friends from Mexico visited us in Desert Hot Springs, California. We took them to the hot mineral spring spas everyday.

July 2011

I'm enrolled in the ProSeries screenwriting course with Hal and Cheryl Croasman. It's an intensive, on-line class.

PHOTO CREDITS:

ELIZABETH SARON MILNER took the photo of me holding flowers minutes before my wedding.

TOM DEVEREAUX took the photo of me typing.

I took all other photos unless specifically noted.