Jeffrey Stepakoff spent more than a decade in Hollywood as a television writer, working on series including Dawson's Creek, The Wonder Years, and Sisters. Those years in writers' rooms, pitch meetings, and network television helped shape his memoir Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing, a behind-the-scenes look at life as a screenwriter during a booming era for scripted television. In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, Don Noble speaks with Jeffrey Stepakoff at the annual literary conference On the Brink at Jacksonville State University. Their conversation explores Stepakoff's Hollywood career, the craft of writing for television, and his move into fiction with his debut novel Fireworks Over Toccoa. Set in Toccoa, Georgia, in the final days of World War II, Fireworks Over Toccoa is a love story about memory, longing, and the choices that shape a life. Stepakoff, who was raised in Atlanta and trained in journalism and playwriting, brings a screenwriter's sense of scene, pacing, and emotion to his fiction. Bookmark with Don Noble features conversations with writers whose work has shaped Alabama, the South, and American literature.