Marjory Kaptanoglu is a produced screenwriter and novelist. The indie films based on her scripts have screened at major international film festivals, including Santa Barbara, Woodstock, San Diego, Nashville, and Cinequest. Her screenplays have won First Place awards at the Slamdance Film Festival, Table Read My Screenplay, the International Horror & Sci-fi Film Festival, and the Harlem International Film Festival, and have been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. She co-wrote SLANDER, a political thriller adapted from Christopher Bram's novel, GOSSIP. Marjory's debut novel, DREADMARROW THIEF, was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel-in-Progress category, under its previous title, FELLSTONE. The screenplay version of the novel won the Grand Prize in the Cynosure Screenwriting Awards. Before turning to writing, Marjory worked as a software engineer at Apple Computer, where she designed the text-editing software for early versions of the Macintosh. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in English. You can find out more about Marjory, sign up for her newsletter, and follow her blog at her website, www.marjorykaptanoglu.com.
