Having just celebrated the 30th anniversary of the publication of her first novel –  the local writing identity is working on her first screenplay for a movie.

The international bestseller, known as the ‘queen of romance’, is writing an original romantic suspense screenplay at the request of Sydney producer, Richard Bradley.

This is the first of three projects she is contracted to write.

And she has every intention of ensuring Young benefits from the project.

“I want to do some filming in Young and the producer is totally on side with it – I want the key part filmed in Young,” she said.

“We need a city location and we need a rural location - Young has beautiful old buildings and there are plenty of options here, like the Chinese Gardens is definitely a place I’m looking at,” Valerie explained.

“I’d really like to see it happen.”

While the film is still in pre-pre-production, Valerie is enjoying the process.

This comes hot on the heels of the release of her latest title, an e-book called Birthright.

This too is a first for Valerie who says she is reinventing herself.

She’s decided to combine her two passions – science fiction and romance – to create this revenge story of a man no one believed saw aliens, who lives to prove them wrong.

The character is reclaiming his birthright in a country Valerie created, and uses in most of her books.

“And then there’s the birthright of the aliens,” she added.

Of course it wouldn’t be a Valerie Parv story without the romance which occurs between the two main characters who are perfectly matched and don’t know it.

“Birthright is my first digital copy – it’s very exciting,” she said.

“Everything is totally new – I went way out on a limb with this one with the science genre,” Valerie said.

“The amount of research has done my head in – in the story they highjack a space shuttle, you can’t do that without a certain amount of research,” she laughed.

The book is also one of Valerie’s longest at 100,000 words, instead of the 60,000 to 70,000 words she has stuck to in the past.

“It’s the longest, most ambitious book I’ve written yet,” she said.

Valerie said it all started with a “what if?” and emerged while she was completing her Masters Degree in Creative Writing three years ago.

She has plans for what she calls follow-on stories – instead of a series so people can read any book first – and has already started working on book number two called Earth Bound.