Vera Jane Cook is an award-winning hybrid author of southern, and women's Fiction. Her newest release is Faith Among Friends.
Her first novel, Dancing Backward In Paradise, won an Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and an Indie Excellence Award for notable new fiction. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Dancing Backward in Paradise received 5 Star ForeWord Clarion Reviews, and The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was named a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.
She has written the series The Fourniers and The Darlings. Marybeth, Hollister & Jane is the first book in her next series, A Callicoon Murder Mystery. They will be published over the next two years. She is going to be publishing a new historical fiction series in 2026, The Perfect Heart.
Under her pen name, Olivia Hardy Ray, Ms. Cook writes fantasy and science fiction. She has published five novels in those genres. and under her pen name, she has written the Salem Witch series and the Fox Hollow Road Abduction series.
As Olivia Hardy Ray, her title Nobody's Road will get a sequel, (Pindar Corners) and she will add one last book to her Salem Witch series, The Priests of Ludon.
Her favorite things? Fiction, wine, great food with spice, country walks, music, music, music, dogs, cats, elephants and horses, and people who think first and talk later.
Vera Jane Cook is an award-winning hybrid author of southern, and women's Fiction. Her newest release is Faith Among Friends.
Her first novel, Dancing Backward In Paradise, won an Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and an Indie Excellence Award for notable new fiction. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Dancing Backward in Paradise received 5 Star ForeWord Clarion Reviews, and The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was named a finalist for the...
