OX DEVERE
ABOUT OX
Ox Devere is a pseudonym for Parker Jamison.
It’s an ode to the most famous pen name of all time.
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ABOUT PARKER
Parker’s first word was ‘book.’ It could have been a sign.
She was born and raised just outside of Boston, MA, the middle of five children. Her father was raised in Egypt, so their house was always filled with artwork, relics, and stories of its ancient culture. As a kid, she lived in the pages of Brian Jacques, Madeleine L’Engle, and Roald Dahl. Her older brothers and cousins introduced her to the world of Indiana Jones and Star Wars, worlds in which imagination and adventure roared.
Though she began college at a small liberal arts place in Vermont, a near-death experience in her freshman year changed the course of her life. She enrolled in film school, graduating with a bachelor’s degree. Production work took her from Boston to Los Angeles, where she partnered with an old classmate, Paul Kimball, and started writing screenplays.
After years of juggling freelance work and struggling with the amount of creative work they wrote that would never see the light of the screen, she decided to return to her storytelling roots. The character of Ridley Samaras was born, and the adventures began.
Today, Parker lives in the Boston area with an excessively smart Border Collie-Lab named Remy. She trains in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, serves with a non-profit foundation in Haiti, and watches soccer fanatically. An avid connoisseur of cookies and cocktails and SIG Sauer firearms, she looks forward to introducing her nieces and nephews to all of them in good time.
PAUL KIMBALL
Producing Partner
When Paul was in kindergarten, he was enrolled in a county-wide creative writing program. His stories were…not good. But as Paul matured, thankfully so did his writing.
Growing up on a family farm in rural Maryland, Paul was always a bit different from his older siblings. With a head firmly in the clouds, he fell in love with stories of action and intrigue watching movies like “The Swiss Family Robinson” (1960) and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). His joy of reading developed with the worlds of C.S. Lewis, characters like Chadwick the Crab and the creations of Roald Dahl. As he grew, his literary taste evolved into writings by Clancy, Crichton, and Gaiman.
While attending community college, Paul studied music theory and composition and was a professional singer, guitarist, and violinist. However, the everpresent allure of storytelling in his heart led him to go to film school, graduate near the top of his class, and move to Los Angeles shortly after.
With a number of years freelancing in film and television under his belt, he and Parker wrote their first screenplay together. Their first script led to another, and a full-time partnership was born.
As Parker branched into writing novels, she and Paul have adapted their collaboration. Their combined creativity sharpens everything they produce.
Paul currently lives in Maryland with his wife and two dogs. He is a student of life, using every opportunity to learn and grow, and he enjoys finding creative inspiration in the everyday occurrences around him and in the world at large.
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