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Penny Walker Veraar

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in Memphis, The United States

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Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology

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Penny Walker Veraar was born in Memphis, lived in: Wisconsin where she obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology; Dallas, where she worked as a medical social worker; and Cincinnati where she now resides with her husband. She started her novel Owl in the Oak Tree before social media was a thing. Writers wrote and left promotion to others. That was after she began working in a treatment program for chemically dependent adolescents, which definitely was a thing, even back then. She wanted to showcase that unique program but as she gained life experience her interest expanded to family life with a disabled child. She patterned her novel as Women’s Fiction but professional reviewers most often labeled it a thriller. No matter, she ...more

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Lizzie’s Diagnosis

I’d always been interested in people—what makes them alike, what makes them different—what makes them tick. So I studied psychology. I could have taken any one of a number of career paths after finishing my master’s, and it just so happened that a nonprofit treatment program for chemically dependent adolescents in my area was looking for someone and I was looking for a job. So, the course was set. Read more of this blog post »

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