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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. 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 t ...more

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My first holidays after moving to the west coast, I caught the yellow line from Rockridge Bart into the city. It was a cold, mid-December night as I got off at the Embarcadero. In my desire to make new friends, I’d signed up to volunteer for a Christmas-themed charity event. It was at the historic Top of the Mark and I was excited to see all the Christmas lights and decorations. The views of t

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