Kirby Howell
Jessica
“Kirby” Alexander & Dana “Howell” Melton
Authors
of The Autumn Series: an apocalyptic
YA romance with a sci-fi twist
This began their work on The
Autumn Series, an apocalyptic adventure romance for teens with a sci-fi
twist. In 2010, they signed with a
literary agent, and in 2011, they signed with a publisher. After an unhappy ten months (where nothing
was accomplished except a seriously hideous cover), they broke ties to publish
the books themselves. In April 2013, Autumn In the City of Angels and Autumn in the Dark Meadows were released
on Amazon where they immediately began collecting positive reviews (by people other than their mothers) and caught the
attention of Outlier, a company owned by Mark Morgan, who is known for
acquiring the rights to Twilight and
producing all five movies. He’s also
known for adapting and producing the Percy
Jackson books for the big screen.
They’re hoping to do the same with The
Autumn Series. 
Dana and
Jessica both live in Los Angeles with their husbands. (Jessica met her husband through Dana, which
is a great story involving breakfast burritos, a golf cart, and a
concussion.) They’re currently working
on the third installment in the series, Autumn
in the City of Lights, which is scheduled to be released later this
year. They can be found (wearing
stretchy pants) at any location that boasts a decent wifi signal, serves tasty
coffee, and whose chairs are generously cushioned.
Kirby Howell
Jessica
“Kirby” Alexander & Dana “Howell” Melton
Authors
of The Autumn Series: an apocalyptic
YA adventure romance with a sci-fi twist
Dana Melton and Jessica Alexander, who write under the name Kirby
Howell, have been writing together since 2000 when they met as freshman in
their first scriptwriting class at the University of Alabama. Dana, a
native Southerner, quickly introduced Jessica to the joys of living below the
Mason Dixon Line. Having lived in nearly every other part of the country,
it didn’t take Jessica long to acclimate to sweet tea, grits, and football.
They graduated in 2003, each with a film degree, and headed for the west
coast, Hollywood, and their future careers in television.
Dana immediately got to
work after winning an internship from the Television Academy and was placed on
CBS’s The District where she started
as a production assistant and quickly moved up to be a researcher for the
writing staff. When the show was
canceled the following year, she went to work assisting the writers for ABC’s Desperate Housewives for three seasons,
then on CBS’s CSI:NY for another
three seasons. She’s now a producer of
docudramas for Discovery and in the midst of pitching her own docudramas to
multiple production companies. Jessica
landed a job as an accounting clerk for a production company that made
commercials and music videos, then moved over to NBC’s The Biggest Loser, where she worked for three seasons in both
accounting and casting. After a move to
Shine America (MasterChef, The Bridge,
Gracepoint), she settled into a (so far) seven year accounting gig handling
their TV projects in development.
During their ten years
in Los Angeles, Dana and Jessica worked on their ‘library’ of scripts,
including original pilots, short films, and specs (a script for a current show
containing original story ideas – a type of fan fiction – which helps
illustrate a TV writer’s talents and capabilities to potential agents and
producers). The last script Dana and
Jessica wrote together was an original pilot about a turn-of-the-last-century
American circus family trying to get back in the game after a devastating
fire. Dana and Jessica never managed to
shop it around town because Jessica (who is handicapped by an overactive
imagination) had a terrifying dream about living underground after an
apocalypse, hiding from gangs roaming the surface, and a strange doctor-type
(handsome) guy who seemed to have all of the answers.
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