Abandoned a promising Mixed Martial Arts career to become a writer at the insistence of novelist Cormac McCarthy.
When writing the movie "21," learned to stack poker chips from professional Vegas chip stacking legend Salty Rains.
Speaks limited Spanish.
Has won two regional pie baking competitions and placed top three in an astonishing seventeen others. Credits his success to a Kugel pie recipe his bubbe bequeathed him in her will.
Married to writer/producer DeShawn Schneider.
Goes by the nickname "Gator", which he earned in Hawaii.
Peter's first paid writing gig was as a teen, when a neighbor who knew Chuck Woolery gave him $3 per joke (a princely sum at the time) to come up with "adlibs" for Woolery's Love Connection hosting gig.
Decided to choose a career in show business when the man who provided the original voice of the animated owl from the Tootsie Roll commercials gave a speech at his elementary school.
Is a distant relative of Sally Hemmings, whom he has cited as being an influence upon his writing.