Valerie Peterson – stories

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Valerie tells stories — made up and true, dramatic and comedic — through a variety of media. She is bookish and TVish, filmish, mysterious, foodish and wine-y.

Here, Valerie opinionates and shares her intrepid daily adventures in NYC and beyond.

(Keep in mind that while you might not count, say, a trip to Trader Joe's Soho as an "intrepid adventure," Valerie spends an awful lot of time in front of the computer.)

Valerie Peterson writer with editors on set of Pretty Dead short film

Co-writing a Short Film: Pretty Awesome

Thanks to San Gennaro (!), in mid-September, I was tapped to co-write a short film as part of the second Women's Weekend Film Challenge (WWFC). ...

A Reading of My TV Pilot at The Drawing Board

So thrilled that the fantastic group of writer and actors, The Drawing Board, read my TV pilot — on my birthday! I forgot to take pictures, but ...

A picture of San Gennaro over Mulberry Street in Manhattan NYC's Little Italy

San Gennaro Smiles on a Writer-Filmmaker

Thursday evening, September 13 at the Annual Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan's Little Italy, the start of the two week-long fest. Attending ...

Just the Funny Parts Nell Scovell book jacket

More than the funny parts…

Just finished reading Just the Funny Parts, a memoir by veteran and very funny TV writer Nell Scovell. Between the book's covers, Scovell ...