Whitney Boole Writer
Whitney Boole is a writer and therapist who believes in our capacity to grow through pain and in the power of stories to help us heal.
With over a decade of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in trauma and a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, 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.
Fiction
FOLLOW THE LIZARD is a 59,000-word middle grade contemporary fantasy that combines the imaginative wonder of The Girl Who Drank the Moon with the heartfelt mystery of The Curse of Eelgrass Bog. It is a standalone novel with series potential.
When twelve-year-old Kennedy’s mother dies, he’s sent to live with a grandfather he’s never met—lonely, angry, and feeling like he doesn’t belong. A strange lizard lures him through a small door in his grandfather’s home, and Kennedy falls through time to a farm in 1989, where a little girl who calls herself the Princess King insists he’s the Knight who has come to save her. In this place, Kennedy is invisible to everyone except the Princess King—because here, he isn’t real at all. He is her imaginary friend. Determined to understand why he has become her imaginary friend—and why he feels so compelled to help her reach the castle—Kennedy uncovers a mystery that will forever change how he understands his family, his grief, and where he belongs.
Film & Television
Third Watch (NBC/WarnerBrosTelevision/John Wells Productions)
Produced episodes: “Thicker Than Water,” “Exposing Faith”
Third Watch Staff Writer
Film Independent Producing Lab Fellow
WGAw member
Nonfiction
You Got This: Healing Through Divorce
A guidebook for empowering people going through divorce. Whitney Boole, LMFT M.A., shares therapeutic tools for healing as well as her own stories from the trenches as a single mom of three who thrived through her own painful divorce.
Essays & Writing
Selected essays about pain, growth, relationships, and being a fellow flawed human.
What Stories Do You Tell Yourself
