Shirley Reva Vernick grew up in Massena, New York --- the very place where her debut novel THE BLOOD LIE takes place. She now lives with her husband, two daughters, and two frisky dogs in Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition to running a popular storytelling website, storybee.org, Shirley’s writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, national newspapers, and the publications of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Boston Universities.

Books by Shirley Reva Vernick

The Black Butterfly

by Shirley Reva Vernick - Fiction, Holiday, Young Adult 12+

Remember Dippy

by Shirley Reva Vernick - Fiction

Johnny's plans fly out the window when he finds out his single mother is leaving town for the summer. He can live with his Aunt Collette but only on the condition that he "help out with" his autistic older cousin, Remember. Johnny's premonitions of disaster appear at first to come to cringeworthy fruition, but when the two boys save a bully from drowning, salvage the pizzeria guy's romance, and share girl troubles, Johnny ends up having the summer of his life.