About the Author
Sheli Ellsworth holds a master’s degree in psychology used mainly to annoy family and friends. Her first book, The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life: Sometimes I pee when I laugh from BeachHouse Books (2012), is a hysterical and heartwarming observation of life.
Her writing has been published in the Pacific Daily News, the Ventura County Star and the Ventura Breeze newspapers. She is an award winning short story writer. Her fiction appears in the anthologies: Quintessence, Windows, Serendipity and Remembrances. Auto Week, BackHome and Zone4 magazines have also published her humorous stories.
She is a book critic for the Sacramento Book Review, San Francisco Book Review and the Portland Book Review. Her advice column, "Dear Miss Betty—advice for those who need to be slapped," has run in Spotlight on Recovery magazine and the Ventura Breeze. She has written numerous veterinary medical articles for purchaseremedies.com.
In August 2014, Sheli’s second book, Confessions of a Pet Au Pair: The ABCs of pet ailments, a creative nonfiction book written with co-author veterinarian Bill Wafer, was published by BeachHouse Books.
In November 2014, she self-published an interactive children’s picture book, My Winter Holiday by Noah, with co-author Sheldon Brown and illustrator George Robertson. Sheli also illustrated and published the children’s book Henry the Helicopter written by her husband (Jester Press, 2015).
She is planning the release of a collection of short stories titled Ex Parte: Episodes of existential fiction in 2015 (Science and Humanities Press). She currently working on her next children’s book, Ouch!, a story based on Noah and Scamp from her previous book. Noah has developed allergies and is going to have to submit to allergy shots if he wants to keep his dog.