George PetersenGeorge Petersen is the award-winning author of The Summer of Haight, a Dan Poynter Global Ebook Awards Gold Medal Winner for Mystery Fiction 2025, The BookFest - Silver ★★★★★ - Winner for Best Literary: Mystery, Thriller and Suspense 2025, the AuthorShout Book Awards - Top Pick 2025 and the award-winning screenwriter of Scatterbrained, Best Comedy at Creative World Awards 2025, and Surfing Grandpa, Best Family at StoryPros Awards 2025. Petersen holds a M.A. Degree in film and television, emphasis on screenwriting, from San Diego State University. He has been the owner and operator of George Petersen Productions in San Diego for over forty years. He was the original Screenwriting Book Reviewer for Creative Screenwriting Magazine. As a member of the Professional Photographers of America, he studied under the environmental portrait photographer, Arnold Newman. He has studied Motion Picture Production Techniques at the UCLA Film School and taught at UCSD Extension and St. Mary's College of California Extension. His screenplays have won over one hundred finalist awards, consistently ranking among the Top 1% in screenplay competitions. He lives in San Diego.The Summer of Haight is his first novella. Read More Read Less