George Petersen

George Petersen is the award-winning author of The Summer of Haight, 1st Place Winner of the Chanticleer International Book Awards for the SHELLEY BOOK AWARD - Paranormal Fiction 2025, a Dan Poynter Global Ebook Awards GOLD MEDAL WINNER for Mystery Fiction 2025, The BookFest - Silver Award Winner for BEST LITERARY: MYSTERY, THRILLER and SUSPENSE 2025, the Author Shout 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 was the original Screenwriting Book Reviewer for Creative Screenwriting Magazine. 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.