Saralee Perel
Saralee Perel
Award-winning Author and Nationally Syndicated Columnist
New News! May 18, 2012
My book of columns:
Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys:
Stories From a Life Out of Balance
Available now from the publisher: Please click here.
Available next week: I'll be putting Amazon links on this page as well as an order form for anyone who would like a signed copy, personalized to you or your friends/family, with the message
you'd like me to add.
Questions? Please e-mail me at sperel@saraleeperel.com
JUST IN, Spring 2012:
My columns won in both categories (humor and human interest) in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual competition. The NSNC is the largest columnist organization in the US. This is, amazingly, my 4th win since 2005.
From one of the judges, John Carlson:
"Saralee Perel's columns are personal
and she clearly tells it all.
A beautiful job of story-telling with just the right amount of emotion."
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For the past 15 years, my column has been running regularly in the "New England Newspaper of the Year"* The Cape Cod Times. If you'd like to read my current column, please click here.
"The genius you have for writing in your authentic voice always knocks my socks off."
Dr. Jack L. Berezov, College of Saint Elizabeth, NJ
"The most beautiful writing you'll ever read. I'm not sure how she does it. Her stories put a tear in your eye and give you that sixth sense chill down your spine at the same time!"
Rob Gerth, Director of Online Communications, The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
"I believe your words bring hope, understanding, tolerance, and laughter to all who read them. I thank you!"
Nancy Grenda, Pocasset, MA
I'm a multiple contributor to Family Circle Magazine, Dallas News, The Pet Gazette, OCEAN'S Magazine, Woman's World Magazine and published nationally and internationally in many other publications.
I love Chicken Soup! Within the past few years, I've been fortunate to have 33 stories published in 20 of the bestselling "Chicken Soup For The Soul" books, with many more stories soon to be published in their upcoming books.
I am honored to be a regular essayist for:
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
I'm proud to be a contributor to America's insanely popular Funny Times Magazine.
To date, my monthly column appears in
forty-four newspapers nationwide.
If you'd like to have my monthly column run in your local newspaper, please give the editor or publisher this website address and my e-mail: sperel@saraleeperel.com
To editors/publishers: If you'd like to have my column appear in your newspaper, please click here
for more information.
In 2005, 2008 and again in 2012, my columns won a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award. The NSNC is the largest organization for columnists in the United States.
In December of 2007 and 2012, I received First Place for "Personal Essay" in the North American Mature Publishers Association's (NAMPA) annual contest. The recent winning column:
"Gracie's Nemesis: The Cat With Chutzpah."
My columns have twice won in the annual competition of the New England Associated Press News Executives Association.
My first published novel Raw Nerves-A Cape Cod Comedic Thriller, was selected by the American Booksellers Association for BookSense. Out of 10,000 novels submitted monthly, only 30 are selected.
The humor column, "Cards, Candy and Coupling" was selected to appear in the best-selling book:
Nancy Grenda, Pocasset, MA
I'm a multiple contributor to Family Circle Magazine, Dallas News, The Pet Gazette, OCEAN'S Magazine, Woman's World Magazine and published nationally and internationally in many other publications.
I love Chicken Soup! Within the past few years, I've been fortunate to have 33 stories published in 20 of the bestselling "Chicken Soup For The Soul" books, with many more stories soon to be published in their upcoming books.
I am honored to be a regular essayist for:
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
I'm proud to be a contributor to America's insanely popular Funny Times Magazine.
To date, my monthly column appears in
forty-four newspapers nationwide.
If you'd like to have my monthly column run in your local newspaper, please give the editor or publisher this website address and my e-mail: sperel@saraleeperel.com
To editors/publishers: If you'd like to have my column appear in your newspaper, please click here
for more information.
Awards:
In 2005, 2008 and again in 2012, my columns won a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award. The NSNC is the largest organization for columnists in the United States.
In December of 2007 and 2012, I received First Place for "Personal Essay" in the North American Mature Publishers Association's (NAMPA) annual contest. The recent winning column:
"Gracie's Nemesis: The Cat With Chutzpah."
My columns have twice won in the annual competition of the New England Associated Press News Executives Association.
My first published novel Raw Nerves-A Cape Cod Comedic Thriller, was selected by the American Booksellers Association for BookSense. Out of 10,000 novels submitted monthly, only 30 are selected.
The humor column, "Cards, Candy and Coupling" was selected to appear in the best-selling book:
My Funny Valentine: America's Most Hilarious Writers Take On Love, Romance, and Other Complications. To take a look, please click here.
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My novel, Raw Nerves, is now available as a paperback and an e-book. The story's about a neurotic Cape Cod psychiatrist who finally has an unimagined fear;
one of her patients wants her dead.
To view the paperback or e-book on Amazon,
please click here.
"Saralee Perel has crafted a funny, scary, profound thriller that was impossible to put down."
- Michael Palmer, MD, New York Times best selling author of "A HEARTBEAT AWAY". See Michael Palmer's books.
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My novel, Raw Nerves, is now available as a paperback and an e-book. The story's about a neurotic Cape Cod psychiatrist who finally has an unimagined fear;
one of her patients wants her dead.
To view the paperback or e-book on Amazon,
please click here.
"Saralee Perel has crafted a funny, scary, profound thriller that was impossible to put down."
- Michael Palmer, MD, New York Times best selling author of "A HEARTBEAT AWAY". See Michael Palmer's books.
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"The Dog Who Walked Me"
"The Dog Who Walked Me" is my first non-fiction book. NYC literary agent, Bob Mecoy, is now in the exciting process of submitting
my story to publishers.
It's about my dog, Gracie, who became my caregiver after my spinal cord injury,
the unexpected devastating effects on my marriage, and my insane cat who actually kept me sane throughout.
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Thank you to all of the readers
who responded so strongly with tender emotion and laughter to the 3 columns below. These are the columns from which
the story was born:
Amazing Gracie's Devotion
Someone To Watch Over Me
Gracie's Nemesis:
The Cat With Chutzpah
Please click "Like" on my Facebook Fan Page:
Saralee Perel Presents Gracie, My 4-Footed Coach
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I live on Cape Cod with an assortment of wildlife (including my husband, Bob) and a perpetually growing number of family pets.
In 1996, I retired my 22 year psychotherapy practice to follow my dream of becoming a writer.
If you've always wanted to write a novel, try sitting down today and writing one sentence. When you go to bed tonight, don't say, "I only wrote one lousy sentence of a novel." Instead say, "I started my novel today!"
*New England Associated Press News Executives Association
"The Dog Who Walked Me" is my first non-fiction book. NYC literary agent, Bob Mecoy, is now in the exciting process of submitting
my story to publishers.
It's about my dog, Gracie, who became my caregiver after my spinal cord injury,
the unexpected devastating effects on my marriage, and my insane cat who actually kept me sane throughout.
---------------------------------
Thank you to all of the readers
who responded so strongly with tender emotion and laughter to the 3 columns below. These are the columns from which
the story was born:
Amazing Gracie's Devotion
Someone To Watch Over Me
Gracie's Nemesis:
The Cat With Chutzpah
Please click "Like" on my Facebook Fan Page:
Saralee Perel Presents Gracie, My 4-Footed Coach
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I live on Cape Cod with an assortment of wildlife (including my husband, Bob) and a perpetually growing number of family pets.
In 1996, I retired my 22 year psychotherapy practice to follow my dream of becoming a writer.
If you've always wanted to write a novel, try sitting down today and writing one sentence. When you go to bed tonight, don't say, "I only wrote one lousy sentence of a novel." Instead say, "I started my novel today!"
All of Saralee Perel's columns and essays are copyrighted.
You can reach Saralee at: sperel@SaraleePerel.com or via her contact page.
You can reach Saralee at: sperel@SaraleePerel.com or via her contact page.
*New England Associated Press News Executives Association
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