Saralee Perel maintained a private psychotherapy practice on Cape Cod for more than 22 years. She retired in 1996 and began to pursue her writing career. Her newspaper column has been published for more than eight years, initially appearing in the Cape Cod Times, and runs nationally, syndicated through the Senior Wire Syndicate. In 2005, her columns won the prestigious National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in the humor category.

In 2004, her novel Raw Nerves was published. It immediately received terrific reviews, and was chosen by BookSense, the largest organization of independent bookstores, as a pick. (View Amazon.com reviews by clicking here.)

Although she insists the main character of her novel, a neurotic therapist with a compulsive eating syndrome, is not autobiographically inspired, readers who know her think she's lying.

Saralee has completed a sequel to Raw Nerves, which is awaiting publication.

Contact Saralee Perel at Saralee@SaraleePerel.com.

or call her at (508) 428-8676.