March 08

Dearest Friends,

I have been spending most of the last three months writing a movie for the Hallmark Channel.  Negotiations continue on a series I have sold to Lion's Gate television and I can now see the light at the end of that tunnel and foresee us moving forward with the next step of selling this to HBO, SHOWTIME or FX. More on this as it unfolds.

Over the winter months we had great casting workshops, with Mark Tillman and Romy Stutman.  Coming up this week is Bonita Deneen from April Webster's office. We also had an amazing sensory day long workshop in February. Everyone involved felt they had taken a big leap forward and understood this work at a deeper level and walked away with a greater facility to use it as a tool across the boards.  We will have another for 2 days with both fundamentals and advanced work.   I will be heading east in May to teach in Portland, Maine. I will be spending time in New York to begin work on a new book. 

Valerie