Penny Chamberlain is an award winning, best-selling writer who has published one adult novel and three children’s novels. She is retired from a career as a physiotherapist, educator and coordinator of a hospital rehabilitation department. She now happily spends her time writing and has just completed a novel in stories about a bizarre case of mass hysteria in a small farming town. She lives in Victoria, BC with her husband and their pug dog, Ollie.

Author’s Writing Experience  

Published

1 adult novel (Now or Never Publishing), Songs From a Small Town (In a Minor Key)

3 children’s novels (Sono Nis Press), The Olden Days Locket, Chasing the Moon, and Shack Island Summer

Awards

Chocolate Lily Award (BC Readers’ Choice)

Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” Award

Short listed for:

• Monday Magazine Awards – children’s writer

• Victoria Book Prize                                    

• Red Cedar Award 

• Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Diamond Willow Award                 

• Chocolate Lily Award

B.C. Best Sellers List (numerous weeks in the top five – sometimes #1)

Canadian Children’s Booknews summer reading recommendation

featured book for BC Books on BC Ferries

featured in BC BookWorld

 numerous speaking/ reading engagements at schools, libraries, BC Library Conference, historic sites

interviewed about my books in print and television

Juror, Victoria Book Prize

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