Whitney Boole is a therapist, author, and screenwriter who believes strongly that pain fuels growth and that stories have the power to heal.

Whitney is currently seeking representation for her middle grade novel, Follow the Lizard, a standalone with series potential that explores grief, imagination, and intergenerational healing through the eyes of a boy who follows a lizard into a portal—and finds himself on a farm in 1989, visible only to a bold little girl in a tinfoil crown who calls herself the Princess King.

As the story unfolds, Kennedy must uncover why he is there. Though confused by his sudden presence in this world, Kennedy feels strangely purposeful. As the two set off on a strange, and sometimes dangerous quest, he begins to suspect that there is a deeper meaning in his being there—and that helping the Princess King may be the key to saving something inside himself.

The truth about Kennedy’s journey and who the Princess King really is only becomes clear in the story’s final, transformative twist.

With over a decade of experience as a Licensed Therapist specializing in trauma, Whitney brings psychological insight and emotional authenticity to her fiction. Before becoming a therapist, she was a WGAw screenwriter and wrote produced episodes of the NBC/Warner Bros. drama Third Watch. She is also the author of the nonfiction book You Got This: Healing Through Divorce.

Whitney lives in Los Angeles with her three wild children, a French Bulldog named Happy, an ever-growing plant collection, and a deep love for flawed characters and books that make you cry, laugh and heal at the same time.