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Deborah Suzanne Jones has been garnering attention for her writing since she was young. In high school she won a city-wide writing competition, winning cash, publication, and a free trip to a writing workshop at Ohio's Case Western Reserve. In college, she studied creative writing and comparative literature at Kalamazoo College, a highly reputed private school in Michigan with visiting lecturers like Joyce Carol Oates and Galway Kinnell. During her junior year, she earned the Dieuxieme Degree de Francais from the Universite de Strasbourg, France where all her classes were taught in French and she was immersed in European culture. She was awarded the Dwight and Leola Stocker Prize for Fiction and was Senior Editor of the school's literary magazine. While still an undergraduate, she had poetry and fiction professionally published and was a winner of Mademoiselle Magazine's College Fiction Competition. After receiving a degree in the humanities, Suzanne studied communications at the University of California, Davis and specialized in film. While in graduate school, she honed her writing and editing skills by writing professionally for newspapers, magazines, and television. She was Features Editor of the California Aggie Newspaper for three years, and hosted her own classical music show on KDVS. She worked part-time as a science writer for the university, and one of her stories was excerpted in Omni Magazine. Suzanne went on to work in the technical communications field, and has her own writing business, All the Write Stuff. She has worked for some of the biggest names in the computer industry. She specializes in scripting, animating, and creating voiceovers for multimedia-animated films using her own voice. She owns the Applause Screenwriting Competition, an international screenwriting contest which is professionally judged by screenwriting industry greats including Lew Hunter. It is a valuable avenue for screenwriters to gain exposure and further their careers. For three years Suzanne was Communications Manager for the Northern California Writers and Filmmakers, where she helped select and arrange guest speakers, interviewed them, and wrote the monthly newsletter. Suzanne has training and experience in grant writing and since 2004 has obtained more than half a million dollars in grant monies for philanthropic causes which interest her. She is director of the Solar Hill Historic District in Bristol, Virginia where she owns a home built in 1871. In her spare time she enjoys singing with her church choir and English horseback riding. In 2007 Suzanne's short script Capital Women was selected for film production as part of the Access Sacramento 'A Place Called Sacramento' contest. The film will be shown on Access Sacramento Public Television and in the 'A Place Called Sacramento' Film Festival at the Crest Theater October 7, 2007 at 1 PM. It will then be entered into film competitions across the country. Suzanne's plans for the future include documentary film making, the perfect marriage of her interest in writing, film, history and technology. Stay tuned. Capital Women, copyright 2007, all rights reserved
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