Dete Meserve is a film and television producer and novelist. Meserve is a partner of Wind Dancer Films and is producing animation TV and film projects through her company, Silver Creek Falls Entertainment.

Producing career

Meserve's list of credits span award-winning television series such as ''

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'' and ''

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'' with

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(Executive Producer) as well as movies ''

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'', the comedy '' Bernie'' (Producer), ''

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'', and '' Where the Heart Is''. She was an executive producer on ''

What Men Want ''What Men Want'' is a 2019 American romantic comedy film directed by Adam Shankman and starring Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener, Erykah Badu, Richard Roundtree and Tracy Morgan. The film is a loose remake of the 2000 film ''What Wome ...

.'' Meserve raised the funding for and executive produced 64 episodes of the animated children’s television series '' Ready Jet Go'', which received the

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Selection seal, and airs on PBS in the US and in 120 countries around the world. She has also overseen development and production of ''Ready Jet Go'' games, merchandise, and apps including Space Explorer and Space Scouts. Meserve was the Executive Producer for the TV specials ''One Small Step'' (for the 50th anniversary of the

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) and ''Ready Jet Go: Back to Bortron 7.'' Meserve produces animation TV projects through her company, Silver Creek Falls Entertainment, where she is producer on the film ''Ready Jet Go! Space Camp'' for

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, to be released in July 2023. She is currently in production on an animated TV series based on an award-winning children's book for one of the major streamers (to be announced).

Writing career

Meserve is the author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel ''Good Sam'', about the search for an anonymous

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leaving $100,000 on Los Angeles doorsteps. The novel was adapted for a

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, which received the

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seal in 2019, and stars

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as Kate Bradley.

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calls ''Good Sam'', "a solid, feel-good romance sparked with mystery." Accolades for ''Good Sam'' include the National Indie Excellence Award, the Independent Author Network Outstanding Romance Novel Award, the Gold Medal (Fiction) from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Awards, and the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award (Women's Fiction). ''Good Sam'''s sequels ''Perfectly Good Crime'' (2016) and ''The Good Stranger'' (2020) each won the Living Now Book Awards for "books that change the world." Her third novel, ''The Space Between'', was published by Lake Union Publishing in July 2018 and was a Once Upon A Book Club August Selection. Her non-fiction book ''Random Acts of Kindness was'' a colloboration with journalist Rachel Greco. The true, inspiring tales in Random Acts of Kindness spotlight ordinary people from age nine to one hundred who have found unique ways to show compassion and make a difference. The film adaptation of Random Acts of Kindness is in development with Meserve writing the screenplay. Inspired by Meserve's novel ''Good Sam'',

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has awarded the Good Sam Award since 2021, given each year for "bold and inspiring leadership in advancing human kindness, understanding, and compassion." Meserve was the inaugural recipient; subsequent honorees include

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Memberships

Meserve is a member of the

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, the

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, the Television Academy, and the

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Speaking engagements

Meserve's speaking engagements include events with the

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, the Romance Writers of America, the Palm Springs Writers Guild, the Bentonville Film Festival, Innovate Beverly Hills, City Club of Los Angeles, Women in Entertainment, and Kidscreen. She is an instructor for

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's Creative Writing MFA program.

Personal life

Originally a native of

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, Meserve lives in

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with her husband and three children.

Bibliography

Fiction

* ''Good Sam'' (Kate Bradley Mystery #1, 2014) * ''Perfectly Good Crime'' (Kate Bradley Mystery #2, 2016) * ''The Space Between'' (2018) * ''The Good Stranger'' (Kate Bradley Mystery #3, 2020)

Non-Fiction

* ''Random Acts of Kindness'' (with Rachel Greco, 2019)

Filmography

Films

* '' Where the Heart Is'' (2000) - Producer * ''

'' (2000) - Producer * ''

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'' (2006) - Producer * '' Bernie'' (2011) - Producer * ''As Cool As I Am'' (2013) - Producer * ''

'' (2014) - Producer * ''

'' (2019) - Executive Producer * '' Good Sam'' (2019) - Producer, Writer, Author

Television

* ''

'' (1991-1999) - Producer * ''Wildest Africa'' (2006) - Executive Producer * ''

'' (2014) - Executive Producer * '' Ready Jet Go:'' (2016) - Executive Producer * ''Ready Jet Go: Back to Bortron 7'' (2017) - Executive Producer * ''Ready Jet Go: One Small Step'' (2019) - Executive Producer * '' Ready Jet Go: Space Camp'' (2023) - Producer

References

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